Movies: René Pape

  • 2006
    The Magic Flute

    The Magic Flute (2006)

    The Magic Flute

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    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 of the supposedly evil Sarastro. But all is not as it seems....

    The Magic Flute
  • 2019
    Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Salzburg Festival)

    Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Salzburg Festival) (2019)

    Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Salzburg Festival)

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    Power struggles among rival families in 14th-century Genoa, a story of tragic love, a young girl gone missing… Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra combines the perfect ingredients for gripping dramatic opera with a strong political message. On the stage of the ...

    Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Salzburg Festival)
  • 2013
    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    Wagner: Das Rheingold (2013)

    Wagner: Das Rheingold

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    The La Scala Rheingold in May 2010 inaugurated Guy Cassiers Ring-Cycle and introduces a completely new paradigm to this work. While before him Patrice Chéreau had laid his focus on a historical analysis from 1870 to 1930 Germany, Guy Cassiers’ Ring u...

    Wagner: Das Rheingold
  • 2018
    Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

    Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2018)

    Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

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    Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple operatic gesture. Peter Sellars’ production pours oil onto this troubled sea of emotions in an almost demateria...

    Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
  • 2015
    Verdi: Macbeth

    Verdi: Macbeth (2015)

    Verdi: Macbeth

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    Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation in her first Met performances as the malevolent Lady Macbeth, the central character in Verdi’s retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She is joined by Željko Lucic, who brings dramatic intensity and vocal a...

    Verdi: Macbeth
  • 1999
    Tristan und Isolde

    Tristan und Isolde (1999)

    Tristan und Isolde

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    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 illicit romance between a Breton nobleman and the Irish princess betrothed to his uncle and king. The composer’...

    Tristan und Isolde
  • 2010
    Hunter's Bride

    Hunter's Bride (2010)

    Hunter's Bride

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    Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the Napoleonic Wars who each vie for the heart of the same woman....

    Hunter's Bride
  • 2013
    Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra

    Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra (2013)

    Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra

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    Mozart did not write the Requiem as despairing funeral music for his impending death. Rather, the piece proclaims eternal light and redemption. Together with a first-class quartet of soloists, the choirs of the Bavarian and Swedish radios and the dis...

    Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra
  • 1999
    Le nozze di Figaro

    Le nozze di Figaro (1999)

    Le nozze di Figaro

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    Le nozze di Figaro
  • 2013
    Wagner : Parsifal

    Wagner : Parsifal (2013)

    Wagner : Parsifal

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    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 compassion’, who, it has been prophesied, will purify the kingdom?...

    Wagner : Parsifal
  • 2014
    The Metropolitan Opera: Macbeth

    The Metropolitan Opera: Macbeth (2014)

    The Metropolitan Opera: Macbeth

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    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 / 9:55 a.m. PT....

    The Metropolitan Opera: Macbeth
  • 2014
    Tannhäuser

    Tannhäuser (2014)

    Tannhäuser

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    A brand new production of ‘’Tannhäuser’’ at the Staatsoper Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged and choreographed by Sasha Waltz, who has already staged Purcell and Berlioz, Dusapin, Rihm and Hosokawa. Now Sasha Waltz brings to the stage a gr...

    Tannhäuser
  • 2006
    The Magic Flute

    The Magic Flute (2006)

    The Magic Flute

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    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 priest Sarastro. Julie Taymor's abridged, English-language production of the classic Mozart opera....

    The Magic Flute
  • 2020
    Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala

    Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala (2020)

    Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala

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    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 an unprecedented virtual At-Home Gala, featuring more than 40 leading artists performing in a live stream ...

    Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
  • 2016
    Mefistofele

    Mefistofele (2016)

    Mefistofele

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    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 people who look like fugitives from Mad Max and who interact with Mefistofele. The orchestra and choir ...

    Mefistofele
  • 2025
    The Metropolitan Opera: Fidelio

    The Metropolitan Opera: Fidelio (2025)

    The Metropolitan Opera: Fidelio

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    Following a string of awe-inspiring Met performances, soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny....

    The Metropolitan Opera: Fidelio
  • 2021
    Die Zauberflöte aus der Semperoper Dresden

    Die Zauberflöte aus der Semperoper Dresden (2021)

    Die Zauberflöte aus der Semperoper Dresden

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    Die Zauberflöte aus der Semperoper Dresden
  • 2003
    Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio (2003)

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio

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    Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of the nobleman Pizarro. In revenge, Pizarro has secretly imprisoned Florestan in the prison over which Pizarro is governor. The jailer of...

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio
  • 2013
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado (2013)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado

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    Mozart did not write the Requiem as despairing funeral music for his impending death. Rather, the piece proclaims eternal light and redemption. Together with a first-class quartet of soloists, the choirs of the Bavarian and Swedish radios and the dis...

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado
  • 2010
    Strauss R: Elektra

    Strauss R: Elektra (2010)

    Strauss R: Elektra

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    The Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2010. Iréne Theorin stars as Elektra, with Eva-Maria Westbroek as Chrysothemis, Waltraud Meier as Klytämnestra, Robert Gambill as Aegisth, ...

    Strauss R: Elektra