René Pape Movies

Genre: Music

Cast: Vittorio Grigolo

Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition...

Genre: Music

Cast: René Pape

Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition...

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Cast: René Pape

During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from the clutches...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joseph Kaiser

Elijah Moshinsky's production of Saint-Saëns's "Samson et Dalila", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera 28 September 1998. Plácido...

Genre: Music

Cast: Plácido Domingo

The Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2010. Iréne Theorin stars as...

Genre: Music

Cast: Iréne Theorin

This recording features the opening concert of the Salzburg Festival in 2010, in which the Festival celebrated its 90th anniversary and the 50th...

Genre: Music

Cast: Daniel Barenboim

The people of the Duchy of Brabant are divided by quarrels and political infighting; also, a devious hostile power left over from the region's pagan...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jonas Kaufmann

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of the nobleman Pizarro. In revenge,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Karita Mattila

Met Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts Tony Award winner Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s masterpiece, Die...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Golda Schultz

The Met Opera’s broadcast of Verdi’s Macbeth will be presented live in select cinemas nationwide on Saturday, October 11 at 12:55 p.m. ET...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joseph Calleja

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina. Aided by the lovelorn bird...

Genre: Music

Cast: Christian Gerhaher

The Berlin State Opera is back at its place of origin: Unter den Linden! After extensive renovations, it was reopened with Schumann's scenes from...

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Cast: Roman Trekel

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elena Pankratova

Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation with her riveting performance as the malevolent Lady Macbeth, the central character in Verdi’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Anna Netrebko

Solti’s 100th birthday on October 21, 2012, featuring the World Orchestra for Peace. This unique ensemble owes its existence to the vision of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Angela Gheorghiu

Genre: Music

Cast: Karita Mattila

Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franz Grundheber

The Met assembled an ideal cast for François Girard’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s final masterpiece: Jonas Kaufmann in...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jonas Kaufmann

James Morris leads an all-star cast including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen and René Pape, in this production of Wagner's comic...

Genre: Music

Cast: James Levine

This is an exhilarating experience both visually and aurally. How wonderful that Barenboim is havng such success with Verdi this late in his...

Genre: Music

Cast: Anja Harteros

Met audiences were fascinated by Mariusz Treliński’s gripping, visionary production of Wagner’s epic opera. In the daunting title...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nina Maria Stemme

Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Mussorgsky’s epic masterpiece brilliantly captures the suffering and ambition of the Russian people at...

Genre: Music

Cast: René Pape

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is riveting as the title character of Gounod’s popular opera, seen in this Live in HD presentation of Des McAnuff’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jonas Kaufmann

Tamino, a handsome prince, and Papageno, a bird-catcher, are sent by the Queen of Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from captivity under the high...

Genre: Music

Cast: Matthew Polenzani

Glyndebourne's celebrated production of Nikolaus Lehnhoff's Tristan und Isolde is a supremely intelligent achievement; gravely beautiful, haunting...

Genre: Music

Cast: Robert Gambill

A young man ignorant of everything, including his own name, arrives at the Kingdom of the Holy Grail. Is he the ‘pure fool, enlightened by...

Genre: Music

Cast: Simon O'Neill

Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andreas Schager

Genre: Music

Cast: Roman Trekel

Power struggles among rival families in 14th-century Genoa, a story of tragic love, a young girl gone missing… Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra...

Genre: Music

Cast: Luca Salsi

You will find this Requiem the finest on video. It certainly outshines Bohm's dated approach, and Bernstein's lethargically slow performance. (No...

Genre: Music

Cast: Georg Solti

The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled hanger and the stage is continually occupied with...

Genre: Music

Cast: René Pape

The La Scala Rheingold in May 2010 inaugurated Guy Cassiers Ring-Cycle and introduces a completely new paradigm to this work. While before him...

Genre: Music

Cast: René Pape

Julie Taymor’s kaleidoscopic production returns to select cinemas this holiday season in an encore presentation of the company’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Golda Schultz

A brand new production of ‘’Tannhäuser’’ at the Staatsoper Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged and...

Genre: Music

Cast: René Pape

In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company presented...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ildar Abdrazakov

Inspired by Wagner’s own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is based on Arthurian legend and tells of an...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ben Heppner

Mozart did not write the Requiem as despairing funeral music for his impending death. Rather, the piece proclaims eternal light and redemption....

Genre: Music

Cast: Claudio Abbado

Mozart did not write the Requiem as despairing funeral music for his impending death. Rather, the piece proclaims eternal light and redemption....

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Cast: Anna Prohaska

Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation in her first Met performances as the malevolent Lady Macbeth, the central character in Verdi’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Željko Lučić

Genre: Music

Cast: Nikola Hillebrand

Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Wagner’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Andreas Schager

Spanish opera and theater director Calixto Bieito makes his debut with this grand romantic opera at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, guiding the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Roberto Alagna