
Barrie Kosky
2025 2021Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel0/102021HDPushkin folk tale as comedic opera whose sultry elements expand an Oriental influence. Korsakov portrays the story of Tsar Nicholas II, punished for...
2023Royal Opera House 2023/24: Das Rheingold
Royal Opera House 2023/24: Das Rheingold0/102023HDWhen a precious hoard of gold is stolen from the river Rhine, it unleashes a chain of destructive events, pitting gods and mortals against one...
2024Strauss: Die Fledermaus
Strauss: Die Fledermaus0/102024HDBarrie Kosky gives the “operetta of all operettas” a new look and devotes himself to its morbid side. The setting is Vienna, city of the...
2020Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019
Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 20196/102020HDOffenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of...
2017Mussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair (Komische Oper Berlin)
Mussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair (Komische Oper Berlin)0/102017HDA devil is at work in the Ukrainian village of Sorochintsy, terrifying residents and travellers alike. Among them a farmer whose daughter is not...
2018Carmen
Carmen8/102018HDThis ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly physical production, originally created for Frankfurt Opera....
2011Kiss Me, Kate
Kiss Me, Kate6/102011HDThe story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the conflict on and off-stage between...
2018Semele
Semele0/102018HDSemele was written in 1743, by an already mature Handel, after his opera serias were becoming less well received than they had once been. The big...
2016Saul
Saul0/102016HDGlyndebourne's Saul stole the summer and had critics raving. The Guardian (****) applauded virtuoso stagecraft from director Barrie Kosky in his...
2019Carmen - Royal Opera House
Carmen - Royal Opera House0/102019HDBizet's greatest opera tells the story of the enigmatic and seductive Carmen and the dangerous passions of Don José. Live stream performance...
2020Pelléas et Mélisande - KOB
Pelléas et Mélisande - KOB0/102020HDBarrie Kosky peers into the abyss of the human soul and tackles one of the most important Symbolist masterpieces in the operatic repertoire.
2022Leos Janácek - Kát'a Kabanová
Leos Janácek - Kát'a Kabanová0/102022HDJanáček's three-act opera Katya Kabanova, staged by Barrie Kosky and staged at the Felsenreitschule by Czech conductor Jakub...
2021Don Giovanni - Aus der Wiener Staatsoper, Dezember 2021
2021Le Coq d'Or - Opéra National de Lyon
Le Coq d'Or - Opéra National de Lyon0/102021HDLying in bed, Tsar Dodon dreams of retirement. The problem is, people keep invading his country. His astrologer offers him a golden cockerel with...
2018Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele0/102018HDThe high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meistersinger is a triumph: a...
2019Offenbach, compositeur de génie
2016The Tales of Hoffmann
The Tales of Hoffmann0/102016HDIn a poet's feverish imagination, the staging of Don Giovanni sets him off on a frenzied journey into nightmarish worlds. Can Mozart himself offer...
2016Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Komische Oper Berlin)
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Komische Oper Berlin)0/102016HDLive performance from the Komische Oper Berlin, February 15 2016.
2015Der Feurige Engel - Bayerische Staatsoper
Der Feurige Engel - Bayerische Staatsoper0/102015HDA couple and their hallucinatory journey to the dark side of passion. Renata is driven by a longing for the consummate sexual encounter. Since her...
2015Moses und Aron - KOB
Moses und Aron - KOB0/102015HDMoses relies on his eloquent brother’s help to translate the abstract idea of God into understandable images. But don't his persuasive words...