Browse: DVD Video, Michael Volle (baritone)
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
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Michael Volle (Hans Sachs), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther von Stolzing), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Beckmesser), Anne Schwanewilms (Eva), Daniel Behle (David), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Magdalene), Günther Groissböck (Pogner)
Bayreuth Festival, Philippe Jordan, Barrie Kosky
In Barrie Kosky’s spirited but uneven 2017 staging of Wagner’s comedy there are splurges of ideas…The performances of the cast are of a high standard dramatically and mostly musically. Volle... — More…
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Isabel Rey (Mélisande), Rodney Gilfry (Pelléas), Michael Volle (Golaud), László Polgár (Arkel), Cornelia Kallisch (Geneviève), Eva Liebau (Le petit Yniold)
Zusatzchor Opernhaus Zürich & Orchester der Oper Zürich, Franz Welser-Möst
When he sings he opens a formidable treasure chest of intelligent artistry. The voice is resonant, flexible and smooth, wide in range, and he applies it with deep, searching thoughtfulness to... — More…
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Rodney Gilfry (Pelléas), Isabel Rey (Mélisande), Michael Volle (Golaud), László Polgár (Arkel) & Cornelia Kallisch (Geneviève)
Zurich Opera House, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) & Sven-Eric Bechtolf (stage director)
3 Modern Operas
Alfred Muff (Wesener), Laura Aikin (Marie), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Charlotte), Tomasz Konieczny (Stolzius), Renée Morloc (Stolzius’s mother), Gabriela Benacková (Countess de la Roche), Matthias Klink (The Young Count), Daniel Brenna (Desportes), Boaz Daniel (Eisenhardt) & Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke...
Strauss, J, II: Simplicius
Michael Volle (The hermit), Martin Zysset (Simplicius), Elizabeth Magnuson (Hildegarde) & Piotr Beczala (Arnim von Grübben)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Zurich Opera House, Franz Welser-Möst
Beethoven: Symphonies 7/8/9
Live from Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2012
Christiane Karg (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano), Michael Schade (tenor), Michael Volle (baritone)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Deborah Voigt (Tove), Mihoko Fujimura (Wood-Dove), Stig Andersen (Waldemar), Herwig Pecoraro (Jester) & Michael Volle (Peasant/Speaker)
NDR Chor, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Chor-und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
The core of this superbly well-balanced reading is as passionately dramatic an account of the 'Song of the Wood Dove' as you could hope to hear, with mezzo Mihoko Fujimura marvellously incisive... — More…
Berg: Lulu
Agneta Eichenholz (Lulu), Michael Volle (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), Klaus Florian Vogt (Alwa), Jennifer Larmore (Countess Geschwitz), Philip Langridge (Prince/Manservant/Marquis), Heather Shipp (Dresser/Schoolboy/Groom), Will Hartmann (Painter/Policeman/Negro), Jeremy White (Banker/Professor)
Orchestra...
Pappano has a firm grip of every nuance of the music, from the gossamer-like delicacy after the dialogue at the end of Act II to the various moments of wrenching, disturbing power. — More…
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Franz Hawlata (Hans Sachs), Michael Volle (Beckmesser), Michaela Kaune (Eva), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther Von Stolzing), Norbert Ernst (David), Carola Guber (Magdalene), Artur Korn (Pogner)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Sebastian Weigle, Katharina Wagner
Katharina Wagner at first presents Walther von Stolzing as a paint-spraying performance artist and Beckmesser as a retentive, Reclam-photocopying pedant...This nicely observed updating would... — More…
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Michael Volle (Hans Sachs), Roberto Sacca (Walther Von Stolzing), Anna Gabler (Eva), Peter Sonn (David), Georg Zeppenfeld (Veit Pogner), Monika Bohinec (Magdalene), Markus Werba (Sixtus Beckmesser)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniele Gatti
Volle's Sachs is no Romantic existentialist lovelorn poet, Werba's Beckmesser no persecuted Jewish caricature...Gatti seeks to match Herheim's production with initially chamber-like sonorities... — More…