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© Monika Rittershaus
Barrie Kosky’s mystical and visually striking production sweeps the audience into the enigmatic world of fairy tales – and in doing so tells us more about our times than you’d think. Tsar Dodon is plagued by worries, with his kingdom threatened by enemies... moreabout: The Golden Cockerel
© Wolfgang Ennenbach
Situated stylistically somewhere between chanson, chart-pop and musical cabaret, Pasquale Aleardi and the Phonauts make music with boundless enthusiasm, using a wealth of instruments and inventive effects. Aleardi — known to many as “Kommissar Dupin”... moreabout: Pasquale Aleardi & Die Phonauten: Liebe oder Show
© 2024, Bettina Stöß
If he were to approve this play, he might as well tear down the Bastille – so said King Louis XVI when he was presented with Le mariage de Figaro by the Enlightenment thinker Beaumarchais. Prophetic words just a few years before the French Revolution.... moreabout: Le nozze di Figaro
© 2023, Bettina Stöß
Oscar Wilde’s drama about the biblical princess who has the prophet Jochanaan beheaded so she can kiss his dead mouth unfolds a tableau of human depravity: From murder and necrophilia to sexualised violence, one shocking moment follows another. But it... moreabout: Salome
© Monika Rittershaus
Bored by her passionless marriage to the drab musician Orpheus, Eurydice prefers to amuse herself with Pluto, the lord of the underworld, and is—quite unlike her mythological model—more than happy to let herself be carried off to the realm of the dead.... moreabout: Orpheus in the Underworld
© 2023, Bettina Stöß
E. T. A. Hoffmann called Don Giovanni «the opera of all operas.» The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard even included the piece in his major work, where the title character is described as „the incarnation of the genius of all that is sensual.” Don Giovanni... moreabout: Don Giovanni
© 2014, Bettina Stöß
With Hänsel und Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck created a fairy-tale opera that has captivated children and families for over 100 years, not just during the Advent season. The enduring success of the work is due, in part, to the exciting story of two children... moreabout: Hänsel und Gretel
© ENO, Richard Hubert Smith
«I am the enemy you killed, my friend,» writes an English lieutenant in 1918 on the front in northern France. On the day of the ceasefire, Wilfred Owen falls at the age of 25. The death knell and the peal of peace bells overlap, their echo resonating... moreabout: War Requiem
© Monika Rittershaus
It was in 2017 that the production of Satyagraha by the Komische Oper Berlin premiered to great acclaim. Now we have another chapter in the opera trilogy by Philip Glass, each work focussed on an individual who changed the world. moreabout: Echnaton (Akhnaten)
© 2022, Bettina Stöß
With The Magic Flute, Mozart wanted to write a piece for everyone – the blend of Viennese folk theater, Singspiel, and Italian opera makes it a favourite with audiences to this day. There's something for every taste, from catchy songs and arias to humorous... moreabout: The Magic Flute
© Barbara Braun
‘Ahoy and away!’ Pippi Longstocking is moving into the Villa Villekulla. She plans to wait for her father there, a captain who went missing during their last adventure together on the high seas. The next-door kids Annika and Tommy soon befriend this fearless... moreabout: Pippi Longstocking
© 2024, Marcus Lieberenz
«What is our life? A game! Good and evil are merely dreams, work and honesty just lies,» Hermann fatalistically concludes in Pique Dame, as he faces his end at the gaming table. Based on Pushkin’s novella, Tchaikovsky paints a picture of a world dominated... moreabout: Queen of Spades
© 2018, Marcus Lieberenz
Isolation and loneliness have become part of our collective experience, especially since the coronavirus pandemic. Violetta, the young courtesan, suffers them on her deathbed, forced by societal demand to reject her lover. Verdi’s only opera set in the... moreabout: La traviata
© 2018, Marcus Lieberenz
«Free she was born, free she will die»: To preserve her freedom, Carmen even accepts her own death. With her uncompromising will to autonomy, she shattered the moral conventions of her time. This sets her apart from the many passive, self-sacrificing... moreabout: Carmen
© 2015, Bettina Stöß
In his last opera, which was left unfinished, Puccini explored the aesthetics of the new mass medium of film. Lorenzo Fioroni's production builds a bridge between the oppressed but sensation-seeking Chinese opera-going public and the consumers of the... moreabout: Turandot
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