Ulrich Reß
Also Known As: Ulrich Ress
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Department: Acting
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Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
Overview: Recorded at Bayerische Staatsoper on March 3-9, 2016.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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The Flying Dutchman
Overview: Adaptation of 'The Flying Dutchman', recorded at the Bavarian State Opera.
Genres: TV Movie Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-02-13
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Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-06-04
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Janáček: From the House of the Dead
Overview: Stage director Frank Castorf “might have been born to direct From the House of the Dead” (Opera Today). His gritty, visually striking adaptation brings bold modern and postmodern touches to Janáček’s masterwork without ever overshadowing the intense forward momentum of the music, conducted to dramatic perfection by Simone Young and sung by an all-star cast in Munich. Janáček adapted Dostoevsky for this powerfully compelling opera set in a Siberian prison camp, full of starkly contrasting moods and motifs, unusual in its episodic structure. The last opera Janáček ever composed, its third act was on his desk when he died in 1928; attempts by his students to “complete” his orchestration have largely fallen away over the decades in favor of the original version. Despite the grimness of the setting and the brutality of several characters, the composer’s compassion shines through in tender moments, movingly illustrating his motto for the work: “in every creature, a spark of God.”
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-01
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Die Teufel von Loudun - Bayerische Staatsoper
Overview: Penderecki's Opera of an entire convent, in the small French village of Loudun, apparently possessed by the devil.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-27
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Hoffmanns Erzählungen
Overview: Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach that combines three short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann into a haunting whole: a melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer. One of the questions this opera poses for any director is how to link the 'tales' of Hoffmann's three lost loves together and knit them satisfactorily into the Prologue and Epilogue. In this production, Richard Jones solves the puzzle by turning it into an autobiographical journey which ends with a grand meet-up of all the characters Hoffmann has encountered: for once, Hoffmann is not presented as a rollicking kind of drunken story-spinner, but rather a sad-eyed, sobered-up depressive, who reaches for the bottle only because his disastrous love life has gone wrong yet again.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-30
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Mussorgsky: Khovanschina
Overview: One of Modest Mussorgsky's great talents was his unique ability to transpose words, psychological states, and even physical movements, into music. Kent Nagano rises magnificently to the challenges presented by this score. And Dmitri Tcherniakov's fascinating production emphasizes the timeless quality of this sombre tale of intrigue and power struggles reminiscent of a Greek tragedy, reflecting Mussorgsky's own maxim: "The past in the present - that is my task."
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-10
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Pfitzner: Palestrina
Overview: Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage. In Munich, the city in which it was premiered in 1917, director Christian Stückle, conductor Simone Young, and the Bavarian State Opera met those challenges with stunning success.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-07-14
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Dvorak: Rusalka
Overview: A legend of mermaids, mere mortals, and sylvan glades. Be transported to a mystical world of water sprites, witches, and wood nymphs. In exchange for love, Rusalka will relinquish not only her mermaid magic, but also her voice.
Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2012-03-27
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Puccini Manon Lescaut
Overview: The French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Dialogues des Carmelites
Overview: The first ever performances in Munich, this production was entrusted to Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose worldwide reputation is underpinned by productions like Eugene Onegin and Macbeth at the Paris Opera and Don Giovanni at Aix-en- Provence. The superb international cast includes a fine Blanche de la Force in Susan Gritton and an excellent Madame de Croissy by Sylvie Brunet, who was favourably compared to Rita Gorr in the press.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-31
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Rusalka - Bayerische Staatsoper
Overview: Rusalka is not a happily tragic fairy tale. Rusalka’s lake is a dark, damp cellar, where she is imprisoned with her sisters by her abusive father. But once she finally escapes, she is thrown mute and alone into an equally brutal world where she is utterly unequipped to survive, and he increasingly looks like a protector.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-26
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Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Overview: The revolutionary tribunal has sentenced Andrea Chénier to death and no one can avert his fate. Shortly before his execution, Chénier is visited by his lover Maddalena, who has decided to die at the poet's side. “Our death is the triumph of love”, the lovers promise each other in their last words. The French Revolution, which was initially demanded by the people, turns out to be a machine of terror after 1789: spies of the regime pursue the citizens, show trials serve as a deterrent and the guillotine ensures that the sentences are carried out. Although the wanted Chénier could flee Paris, he decides against it. He wants to know who is behind the letters that are secretly delivered to him. Here, in the shadow of the reign of terror, love triumphs: Chénier and Maddalena find each other, swear eternal love and are faithful to each other until their last breath together.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-04
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Tristan und Isolde
Overview: Peter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interpretation. At the opening of the Munich Opera Festival 1998, Tristan und Isolde was staged in what is now the ninth new production at the Bavarian State Opera since its world première. Director Peter Konwitschny worked together with stage and costume designer Johannes Leiacker a team already well known in Munich for its much-respected Parsifal. Zubin Mehta conducted, shortly before being called to be General Music Director at the Bavarian State Opera. The title parts were interpreted by the American tenor Jon Frederic West, widely known for his Wagner-roles and Waltraud Meier, one of the greatest Isoldes of our time.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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