Bayerische Staatsoper Recording

  • Prokofiev: War and Peace
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    $34.99

    A colossal work that defies all boundaries: Prokofiev's monumental setting of Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace. The story, set during Napoleon's Russian campaign between 1809 and 1812, is condensed by the composer into a...


    Format: DVD with CD

    Release Date: June 20, 2025

  • Prokofiev: War and Peace
    Pre-order

    $34.99

    A colossal work that defies all boundaries: Prokofiev's monumental setting of Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace. The story, set during Napoleon's Russian campaign between 1809 and 1812, is condensed by the composer into a...


    Format: Blu-Ray

    Release Date: June 20, 2025

  • Strauss II: Die Fledermaus

    $44.99

    Johann Strau's Die Fledermaus (The Bat) has been part of the Bayerische Staatsoper's repertoire since 1895 and has always been performed there by star-studded casts. In December 2023, the curtain rose on a spectacular new...


    Format: Blu-Ray

    Release Date: October 18, 2024

  • Strauss II: Die Fledermaus

    $44.99

    Johann Strau�'s Die Fledermaus (The Bat) has been part of the Bayerische Staatsoper's repertoire since 1895 and has always been performed there by star-studded casts. In December 2023, the curtain rose on a spectacular new...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: October 18, 2024

  • Mendelssohn: Elias / Sawallisch, Bavarian State Orchestra

    $35.99

    The live recording of Elias (Elijah) is the first historic release from the archive on the Bayerische Staatsoper Recordings label . It is historic in many respects; not only with regard to the almost four...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 15, 2023

  • Giordano: Andrea Chénier / Jonas Kaufmann, Bavarian State Opera

    $44.99

    First performed in 1896, Andrea Chénier is rightly regarded as one of the key works of verismo. With his melodrama about the historical poet André Chénier during the upheavals of the French Revolution, the composer...


    Format: Blu-Ray, DVD

    Release Date: August 18, 2023

  • Voyager / Munich Opera Horns

    $21.99

    In 2023 the Bayerisches Staatsorchester is marking the five-hundredth anniversary of its formation with a series of releases by a number of its outstanding ensembles, all of which document the versatility of the orchestra and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 16, 2023

  • Original Grooves - Percussion from the Bayerische Staatsorchester / Opercussion

    $21.99

    In 2023, the Bayerisches Staatsorchester celebrates its 500th birthday with a selection of releases featuring outstanding musical collectives which showcase the stunning breadth of the orchestra and its members. Kicking off the series are the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 14, 2023

  • Stravinsky: Mavra & Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bayerische Staatsoper

    $44.99

    Along with the young singers of the Opernstudio der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Director and Grimme Award winner Axel Ranisch presents an unusual approach to two rarely performed works: In Peter I. Tchaikovsky’s last opera Iolanta, a...


    Format: DVD, Blu-Ray

    Release Date: December 02, 2022

  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 - Dean: Testament / Jurowski, Bavarian State Orchestra

    $22.99

    Those present at the Munich Nationaltheater for the 1st Academy Concert of the 20/21 season, will remember it as a special moment. Subsequent to concert venues being forced to close in March 2020, this was...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 15, 2022

  • Korngold: Die tote Stadt / Kaufmann, Petersen, Petrenko, Bayerisches Staatsorchester

    $44.99

    Winner of a 2022 Gramophone Award! The premiere of Korngold's Die tote Stadt at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2019 was praised both by press and audiences. Marlis Petersen (Marie/Marietta) and Jonas Kaufmann (Paul) sang the main...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: August 06, 2021

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 7 / Petrenko, Bayerisches Staatsorchester
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    Winner of a 2022 Gramophone Award for Best Orchestral Recording! If one sought a musical manifestation of all the painful experiences and tragic failures of European history in the early 20th century, it would be impossible...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 28, 2021

  • Korngold: Die tote Stadt / Kaufmann, Petersen, Petrenko, Bayerisches Staatsorchester [Blu-ray]

    $44.99

    Also available on standard DVD The premiere of Korngold's Die tote Stadt at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2019 was praised both by press and audiences. Marlis Petersen (Marie/Marietta) and Jonas Kaufmann (Paul) sang the main...


    Format: Blu-Ray

    Release Date: August 06, 2021

  • Abrahamsen: The Snow Queen / Hannigan, Meister, Bavarian State Opera

    $44.99

    Winner of a 2022 Gramophone Award! The Snow Queen is Hans Abrahamsen’s first opera, composed to a self-penned libretto, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s eponymous fairy tale. Following an in-depth study of the topic of snow...


    Format: DVD, Blu-Ray

    Release Date: January 14, 2022

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