Repertoire 23/24 - Deutsche Oper Berlin
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Aida
Giuseppe Verdi [1813 – 1901]In Benedikt von Peter’s production of Verdi’s pharaonic opera, exotic Egypt is only visible as a dreamworld depicted on postcards. In this version of the work, which occupies the entire auditorium, the focus is on Radames’s dichotomy between the sobering reality of his everyday activities and his desire to find the woman of his dreams … Conductor: Carlo Montanaro; production: Benedikt von Peter; With Yulia Matochkina, Christina Nilsson / Rebeka Lokar, Jorge Puerta / Alfred Kim a. o. -
Anna Bolena
Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848)Donizetti tells the tragic fate of Henry VIII's unhappy second wife, who ends up under the executioner's axe, with unadorned clarity. And especially in the drawing of the title character, he succeeds in placing virtuoso vocal technique entirely at the service of highly romantic emotional expression ... Conductor: Enrique Mazzola / Daniele Squeo (March); Production: David Alden; With Riccardo Fassi, Federica Lombardi, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya / Jana Kurucová, Padraic Rowan, René Barbera / Xabier Anduaga, Karis Tucker / Arianna Manganello a. o. -
Antikrist
Rued Langgaard (1893 – 1952)Langgaard's monolithic work creates an eschatological mystery play that pays homage to the fin de siècle with music reminiscent of Strauss and Wagner, but which does not deny Hindemith and Schönberg. Ersan Mondtag not only directs ANTIKRIST, but also designs the scenic set in his typical powerful expressionist style ... Conductor: Hermann Bäumer; Director: Ersan Mondtag; With Thomas Lehman, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Valeriia Savinskaia, Irene Roberts, Clemens Bieber, Maire Therese Carmack, Flurina Stucki, AJ Glueckert, Kieran Carrel, Philipp Jekal a. o. -
Beta
Investigative music theatre by Christiane Mudra and Dariya MaminovaTechnical innovations have long since permeated all areas of life. The world premiere BETA illuminates the potential of digital tools, but also the risks posed by non-transparent data sets and the monetisation of private user data. In her composition, Dariya Maminova artfully interweaves genres, mixes live sound with complex sound with complex electronics and plays again and again with the boundaries of our perception of analogue and digitally produced music. Production: Christiane Mudra; Conductor: Elda Laro; With Hye-Young Moon, Oleksandra Diachenko, Youngkwang Oh et al. -
Carmen
Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875)Bizet described his opera as an "operetta with a bad ending" - and rightly so, because what is unique about CARMEN is the mixture of romantic opera, realistic drama and Offenbach operetta. Ole Anders Tandberg's production tells the story in powerful images that constantly alternate between shock, grotesqueness and great emotion ... Conductor: Ben Glassberg; Production: Ole Anders Tandberg; With Aigul Akhmetshina, Maria Motolygina, Matthew Newlin / David Butt Philip, Byung Gil Kim a. o.
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Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci
Pietro Mascagni (1863 – 1945) / Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 – 1919)The two most popular pieces of verismo, which conquered the Italian music world at the end of the 19th century, also form what is probably the most popular double bill in the opera repertoire. The bloody drama of jealousy by Pietro Mascagni's CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and the no less tragic PAGLIACCI by Ruggero Leoncavallo about a travelling troupe of actors and the revenge of the betrayed bajazzo on his wife and lover ... Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni; Staging: David Pountney; With Ildikó Komlósi, Mikhail Pirogov, Ivan Inverardi, Sua Jo a. o. -
Der fliegende Holländer
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)The eerie world of Romanticism with its revenants and ghost ships inspired Wagner to write his first mature work. Christian Spuck tells the story of the "Cursed of the Seas" and the lonely captain's daughter as a dark fairy tale from the memory of Senta's spurned admirer, the hunter Erik ... Conductor: Ivan Repusic / Dominic Limburg [12 Nov]; Production: Christian Spuck; With Tobias Kehrer / Liang Li, Elisabeth Teige / Vida Mikneviciute [12, 24 Nov], Robert Watson, Egils Silins / Jordan Shanahan [2. Nov.] a. o. -
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)The world of MEISTERSINGER is a closed system not only in the master singers' pedantic and by-the-book guild ironised by Wagner, but also in Nuremberg's urban society as a whole: the new – embodied by outsider Walther von Stolzing – cannot bring about revolutionary change, but rather is incorporated into the system. For their new production, Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock and Sergio Morabito investigate the mechanisms of such a hermetic artistic society. Can art claim artistic liberty in a conservative and dogmatic environment? And what potential does it hold to overthrow the system? ... Conductor: Ulf Schirmer / John Fiore; Staging: Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock, Sergio Morabito; With Johan Reuter / James Rutherford, Albert Pesendorfer, Philipp Jekal, Magnus Vigilius, Ya-Chung Huang, Elena Tsallagova, Kathrin Göring a. o. -
The Snow Queen
Samuel Penderbayne (*1989)Kay has vanished. His personality changed overnight and he became mean and cruel. His best friend Gerda sallies forth in search of him and manages to liberate him from the ice palace of the snow queen. Singers, musicians and one actress narrate Andersen’s fairy tale as a funny, up-tempo road movie … Director: Brigitte Dethier; Mit Sophia Körber, Alexandra Ionis, Martin Gerke, Hanna Binder, Jone Bolibar Núñez, Louise Leverd, Jack Adler-McKean, Henriette Zahn, Daniel Eichholz -
The Magic Flute
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)Mixing Viennese folk theatre, Masonic mystery and fairy tale, this opera is probably the most performed in the German-speaking world and, in Günter Krämer's colourful, highly visual production, a favourite with our audiences ... Conductor: Dominic Limburg / Giulio Cilona; Director: Günter Krämer; With Tobias Kehrer / Patrick Guetti / Ante Jerkunica / Youngkwang Oh, Matthew Newlin / Attilio Glaser / Kieran Carrel, Hye-Young Moon, Sua Jo / Elena Tsallagova / Siobhan Stagg / Lilit Davtyan, Flurina Stucki / Maria Motolygina, Karis Tucker / Annika Schlicht / Arianna Manganello / Irene Roberts, Lauren Decker, Lilit Davtyan / Hyejin Lee / Meechot Marrero / Corinna Ruba, Philipp Jekal / Artur Garbas, Burkhard Ulrich / Gideon Poppe, Ya-Chung Huang a. o. a -
Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)In Mozart's dramma giocoso DON GIOVANNI, a character is up to mischief who seems familiar to us, whom we think we know, and yet who says of himself: "Who I am, you will never know." Director Roland Schwab purposefully made his way through the material, which is overloaded with interpretations, searching for his very own approach, finding the demonic Don Giovanni, one through whose eyes one can plunge into deep black holes one moment, only to succumb to his wit the next ... Conductor: Daniel Cohen; Director: Roland Schwab; With Andrzej Filonczyk, Flurina Stucki / Caitlin Gotimer, Kieran Carrel, Patrick Guetti, Maria Motolygina, Joel Allison, Artur Garbas, Arianna Manganello a. o. -
extended version: The Flying Dutchman
An Ambush from Behind Festival to THE FLYING DUTCHMANAn Ambush from Behind Festival for the FLYING DUTCHMAN with world premieres by Babelfis, Steve Mekoudja et al. -
Fidelio
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)This opera is a monolith: it is considered the freedom opera par excellence and is probably the first-ever specifically German opera in its fusion of rescue opera, humanist oratorio and melodrama. David Hermann focuses on the manipulation mechanisms of power and powerlessness ... Conductor: Stephan Zilias; Director: David Hermann; With Michael Bachtadze, Markus Brück, Valentyn Dytiuk, Flurina Stucki, Tobias Kehrer, Lilit Davtyan, Gideon Poppe a. o. -
gamut inc's Zeroth Law
With and by gamut incThe question of a possible coexistence of man and machine is at the centre of the robot trilogy by the retro-futuristic duo Gamut Inc. After OVER THE EDGE CLUB and ROSSUMS UNIVERSAL ROBOTS, they now transform the Tischlerei into a hybrid soundscape with the third part ZEROTH LAW - The Zeroth Law - together with the RIAS Chamber Choir and the music machines of the legendary robot orchestra founded by Godfried-Willem Raes at the Stichting Logos in Ghent. -
Banquet
A music theatre ritualBased on Plato's writing, BANQUET attempts a reinterpretation of ancient Greek social practice and the issues negotiated in it. In a feminist ritual, we want to create communal utopias and proclaim a new age of love by singing, dancing, drinking and discussing together. BANQUET is an invitation to collective intoxication and a musical journey from baroque arias to Wagner and today's club sound. -
Hansel and Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 – 1921)The Grimm fairy tale is well-known, Humperdinck's score oscillates between children's song and late romantic, opulent Wagnerian sound. Andreas Homoki's lovingly child-friendly production of the Christmas opera classic has been in the theatre's repertoire for over 25 years and continues to inspire children, parents and grandparents for the world of musical theatre ... Conductor: Dominic Limburg; Director: Andreas Homoki; With Joel Allison / Samuel Dale Johnson / Thomas Lehman, Maria Motolygina / Ulrike Helzel, Irene Roberts / Karis Tucker, Meechot Marrero / Heidi Stober, Burkhard Ulrich / Patrick Cook, Sua Jo and others. -
The Barber of Seville
Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868)For 200 years Rossini’s BARBIERE has been considered as the epitome of musical comedy. The archetypes of commedia dell’arte are constantly shimmering through the storyline revolving around the resourceful Figaro – an ambiguity that is not lost in Katharina Thalbach’s vibrant and hectic production … Conducted by Giulio Cilona/Lorenzo Passerini; directed by Katharina Thalbach; with Kangyoon Shine Lee / Sunnyboy Dladla / Juan de Dios Mateos, Alexey Zelenkov / Misha Kiria, Arianna Manganello / Cecilia Molinari, Philipp Jekal / Mattia Olivieri / Dean Murphy, Gerard Farreras / Patrick Guetti, Flurina Stucki a. o. -
Il Teorema di Pasolini
Giorgio Battistelli [*1953]In his 1968 film "Teorema", Pasolini formulated a radical reckoning with the bourgeoisie: the upper-middle-class family at the centre of the work is held together only by conventions, and the erotic seductive power of a stranger alone is enough to break apart this ossified system. Battistelli has been fascinated by "Teorema" ever since he first set the material to music for the Munich Biennale in 1992 at Henze's suggestion, at that time as a chamber opera with silent actors. Now, 30 years later, Battistelli is shaping the Pasolini original as a grand opera ... Conductor: Daniel Cohen; Director: Dead Centre; With Ángeles Blancas Gulin, Davide Damiani, Monica Bacelli, Nikolay Borchev, Meechot Marrero, Andrei Danilov -
Il trittico
IL TABARRO - SUOR ANGELICA - GIANNI SCHICCHI: An Opera Triptych by Giacomo PucciniFor his cycle IL TRITTICO, which premiered in 1918, Giacomo Puccini composed three scores that once again bundle what Italian opera could be in those years. His triptych lives from contrasts and reflections between the pieces and ultimately revolves around a single motif: death as the central point of reference in life ... Conductor: John Fiore [30 Sept; 2 Oct; Dec] / Sir Donald Runnicles; Production: Pınar Karabulut; With Misha Kiria, Jonathan Tetelman / Mikhail Pirogov, Carmen Giannattasio / Maria Motolygina, Mané Galoyan / Lilit Davtyan, Violeta Urmana / Lauren Decker, Andrei Danilov a. o. -
Il viaggio a Reims
Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868)Since Rossini's coronation opera was rediscovered in 1984, this performance show of bel canto has gained a firm place in the repertoire. At the same time, the story about the noble spa guests and their failed travel plan is a marvellous piece of absurd theatre, which Jan Bosse has staged as a satire about the "Hospital Europa" ... Conductor: Michele Spotti / Giulio Cilona; Director: Jan Bosse; With Elena Tsallagova / Lilit Davtyan, Elmina Hasan, Hye-Young Moon, Hulkar Sabirova, Mingjie Lei, Omar Mancini, Joel Allison, Artur Garbas, Philipp Jekal, Kyle Miller / Dean Murphy a. o. -
Intermezzo
Richard Strauss [1864 – 1949]New opera material for a new time - this was not only sought by the avant-gardists in the 1920s. Old master Richard Strauss went even further and brought not only a story from the modern world, but also, barely veiled, his own married life to the stage ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles / Dominic Limburg; Production: Tobias Kratzer; With Philipp Jekal, Maria Bengtsson / Flurina Stucki [June], Thomas Blondelle a. o. -
Children' s ballet – Peter Pan
Ballet for children, aged 4 and over, with music by Edvard Grieg, Alexander Konstantinowitsch Glasunow and Herman Severin LøvenskioldPeter Pan, the boy who never grows up, has been playing his games for over 100 years. In this version by the Kinder Ballett Kompanie Berlin, Michael, John and Wendy experience exciting adventures on the island of Neverland together with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. But beware of Captain Hook! ... A choreography by David Simic based on the stories by James Matthew Barrie with music by Edvard Grieg, Herman Severin Løvenskiold and Alexander Glasunow ... The students of the Kinder Ballett Kompanie Berlin dance. -
La bohème
Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)Puccini’s rendition in opera form of »Scenes of Bohemian Life« is the best-known opera portraying the lives of artists and at the same time a depiction of a group of young people drifting through life with no consideration of the consequences. Götz Friedrich’s opulent production reflects the gleam and grime of Belle Époque Paris … Conductor: Giulio Cilona; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Attilio Glaser, Dean Murphy, Thomas Lehman, Gerard Farreras, Sua Jo / Adriana González, Elisa Verzier a.o. -
La Gioconda
Amilcare Ponchielli (1834 – 1886)In the early 1970s, Filippo Sanjust found historical prospectuses of LA GIOCONDA from the time of its premiere around 1876 in a Roman studio. The costume designs had also been preserved and so Sanjust set about reconstructing this production for the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In old Italian perspective painting, the Doge's Palace, the Ca' d'Oro or the Giudecca on the Orfano Canal appear on stage and unfold their maelstrom ... Conductor: John Fiore / Giulio Cilona [24 Feb]; Director: Filippo Sanjust; With Carmen Giannattasio, Marianne Cornetti, Marko Mimica, Judit Kutasi / Teresa Romano, Angelo Villari, Dalibor Jenis a. o. -
La traviata
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)In setting »La Dame aux Camélias« to music, Verdi explored, in a shockingly direct way, two big themes of the 19th century: prostitution and consumption. Götz Friedrich’s production stresses the futility of Violetta Valéry’s attempt to escape her fate … Conductor: Ivan Repušić / Dominic Limburg; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Nina Minasyan / Elbenita Kajtazi / Mané Galoyan, Pene Pati / Attilio Glaser, Gihoon Kim / Thomas Lehman / Markus Brück, Arianna Manganello a.o. -
Le nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)In the historicising sets by Herbert Wernicke, Götz Friedrich's production is still, after 45 years, an ideal platform for the ensemble of the house to present their joy of playing and singing culture ... Conductor: Corrado Rovaris / Giulio Cilona; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Thomas Lehman, Maria Motolygina, Lilit Davtyan, Meechot Marrero / Irene Roberts, Byung Gil Kim / Artur Garbas a.o. -
Lohengrin
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)Soon after the failure of the 1848 revolution, the political refugee Richard Wagner wrote his LOHENGRIN: an opera about a hero who tries in vain to pacify a divided people. Kasper Holten's production deliberately leaves open whether this leader fights by fair means ... Conductor: James Conlon; Director: Kasper Holten; With Ryan Speedo Green, David Butt Philip, Jennifer Davis, Jordan Shanahan, Yulia Matochkina, Dean Murphy a.o. -
Lucia di Lammermoor
Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848)A historicised staging forms the backdrop for Lucia's tragedy, which is negotiated as a pledge of military alliances. Her heart belongs to Edgardo, the mortal enemy of her brother Enrico, who has other plans for his sister. With its nostalgic atmosphere, Filippo Sanjust's production is a classic in the repertoire ... Conductor: Carlo Montanaro / Ivan Repušić; Director: Filippo Sanjust; With Michael Bachtadze / Roman Burdenko / Andrzej Filończyk, Aigul Kishmatullina / Hila Fahima / Adela Zaharia, Ioan Hotea, Ya-Chung Huang / Andrei Danilov / Matthew Newlin, Gerard Farreras / Byung-Gil Kim a. o. -
Madame Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)Puccini‘s »Japanese tragedy« is more than simply one of the supremely emotional works of musical theatre; it is also unsparingly critical of imperialism as a system. 15-year-old Cio-Cio-San falls victim to a callous patriarchy and a chauvinism that runs rough-shod over the values of other cultures ... Conductor: Ivan Francesco Ciampa / Yi-Chen Lin; Director: Pier Luigi Samaritani; With Elena Stikhina / Asmik Grigorian, Karis Tucker / Irene Roberts, Rodrigo Porras Garulo / Jonathan Tetelman / Joshua Guerrero, Markus Brück / Dong-Hwan Lee, Burkhard Ulrich / Gideon Poppe a.o. -
St Matthew Passion
Johann Sebastian Bach [1685 – 1750]The reports of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in the Bibles are among the foundations of European culture. Bach created a musical ritual for the believing congregation of his time with "Matthew Passion". But what does the Passion mean for a diverse society in which the Christian religion is increasingly losing relevance? What do its central motifs mean - betrayal, hatred, fear of death, trust, love and forgiveness - performed in a secular opera house? How much distance is created? And what kind of community can be experienced in a performance in which the audience and Berlin amateur choruses are also invited to sing along? ... Conductor: Alessandro De Marchi; Director: Benedikt von Peter; With Kieran Carrel, Padraic Rowan, Michael Bachtadze, Artur Garbas, Siobhan Stagg, Annika Schlicht, Joel Allison a. o. -
Nabucco
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)Keith Warner's production of Verdi's first successful opera emphasises the basic idea of reconciliation with which the work concludes: Under the wise King Nabucco, the Hebrew people of the Scriptures and the Babylonian warriors may hope for a peaceful future ... Conductor: Giampaolo Bisanti; Director: Keith Warner; With Amartuvshin Enkhbat, José Simerilla Romero, Roberto Tagliavini, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Rihab Chaieb a. o. -
Nixon in China
John Adams [*1947]Two of the most powerful men in the world shake hands - and the world watches: With their opera about the state visit of American President Richard Nixon to Mao Tse-tung in 1972, composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman brought contemporary history to the stage ... Conductor: Daniel Carter; Production: Hauen und Stechen; With Kyle Miller, Thomas Lehman, Seth Carico, , Ya-Chung Huang, Heidi Stober, Hye-Young Moon a. o. -
Parsifal
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)In the story about the "pure fool", Philipp Stölzl places questions about the fanaticism of hermetic religious communities at the centre of his interpretation: an anti-Enlightenment world view, belief in miracles, the violent exclusion of outsiders are themes that he shapes in tableaux vivants as a time travel through two millennia... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Philipp Stölzl; With Jordan Shanahan, Günther Groissböck, Klaus Florian Vogt, Joachim Goltz, Irene Roberts a. o. -
Pikowaja Dama - Queen of Spades
Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893)Tchaikovsky's second most popular opera today, after EUGEN ONEGIN, inspires above all by its sheer size: in PIQUE DAME the mood skilfully changes from large, representative choral and ensemble opera to psychological chamber play scenes. The glamour of a sophisticated elite meets the misery of the proletariat ... Conductor: Sebastian Weigle; Director: Sam Brown; With Martin Muehle, Sondra Radvanovsky / Maria Motolygina, Doris Soffel / Nicole Piccolomini, Lucio Gallo, Thomas Lehman / Dean Murphy, Karis Tucker a. o. -
Playground Festival 2023
Whether techno is played on acoustic instruments, experimental instrumentations are used or styles such as rock, indie, pop and electronic music are merged with relish. After the Tischlerei and Kulissenmagazin were the floors last year, this year's festival will take place on the main stage. The festival is an invitation to the open and a platform for artists who expand the term "jazz" to a very inspiring and broader definition than is traditionally the case.
Three hot acts bring handmade, rousing dancefloor sound and show that electronic music and classical-acoustic instruments, club culture and opera go together. Among them are Brandt Brauer Frick, who have been making their mark on the scene with their fusion of electronic dance music, jazz and contemporary-classical music since their founding in 2008. The duo Ameli Paul is known for its fusion of infectious beats, dreamy soundscapes and mesmerising tunes. So secure your tickets quickly and: Put on your dancing shoes!
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Playground Festival 2024
Whether techno is played on acoustic instruments, experimental instrumentations are used or styles such as rock, indie, pop and electronic music are merged with relish. Expereince the main acts Ströme, Aggregat, AFAR and toechter and the Special Opening Ac by VERONIKA FERRARI UND DIE FLAMMEN.
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Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)In his opera about the hunchbacked court jester, Verdi took the tension between the improbabilities of the plot and the emotional overwhelming power of musical theatre to extremes. Jan Bosse's production tells the tragedy of a man who fails to separate private life and public action ... Conductor: Sesto Quatrini; Director: Jan Bosse; With Andrei Danilov, Roman Burdenko, Julia Muzychenko / Aigul Kishmatullina, Patrick Guetti, Nicole Piccolomini a.o. -
Shall I Build a Dam?
Kai Kobayashi [*1991]This is the first time that composer Kai Kobayashi, who has been delving into music theatre for many years, and choreographer and performer, Simone Aughterlony, are working together. Their staged project describes a path of inner development and transformation that becomes visible and audible as a spatial process ... With Noa Frenkel, Ensemble KNM Berlin -
Stabat Mater
Arvo Pärt [*1935], Misha Cvijović [*1984]The "Stabat Mater" is one of the most frequently set religious texts in the West. Based on the story of Mary's mourning for the crucified Jesus, young people search for their way in a world full of war and violence ... With Meechot Marrero, Oleksandra Diachenko, Chance Jonas O'Toole, young ensemble Junge Deutsche Oper and RambaZamba Theatre and others. -
Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)Wagner's opera about the Minnesinger torn between earthly and heavenly love is one of the works that has shaped the artistic identity of the house over decades - not least because of the famous Pilgrims' Chorus, which is the showpiece of our chorus. In Kirsten Harms' colourful production, which evokes the imagery of the Middle Ages, the members of the chorus appear effectively not only as penitents but also as a magnificently decked-out court company ... Conductor: Pietari Inkinen; Director: Kirsten Harms; With Tobias Kehrer, Clay Hilley, Samuel Hasselhorn, Elisabeth Teige a. o. -
Tosca
Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)This TOSCA production is deserved of listed status after a performance history stretching back over half a century. Not that the atmospheric sets depicting the original locations in Rome - a timeless backdrop for great musical theatre - have lost any of their charm in over 400 performances of the work ... Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni / Matteo Beltrami; Director: Boleslaw Barlog; With Carmen Giannattasio / Elena Stikhina / Camilla Nylund, Martin Muehle / Vittorio Grigolo, Ludovic Tézier / Gevorg Hakobyan / Daniel Luis de Vicente a.o. -
Tristan and Isolde
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)Musically highly romantic and crossing the threshold to modernity, Wagner lets his couple run with existential inexorability into a hopeless dilemma. Disturbing and fascinating in its uncompromising portrayal of obsessive love, this work - based on a myth - has become a myth itself ... Conductor: Juraj Valčuha; Director: Graham Vick; With Michael Weinius, Günther Groissböck / Albert Pesendorfer, Ricarda Merbeth, Leonardo Lee, Jörg Schörner, Irene Roberts / Annika Schlicht a. o. -
Turandot
Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)In his last, unfinished opera Puccini addressed the aesthetic of cinema, the new medium for mass consumption. In his version of the work Lorenzo Fioroni makes a connection between the repressed, yet sensationalist Chinese opera people and the consumers of modern media content … Conductor: John Fiore / Giulio Cilona; Director: Lorenzo Fioroni; With Catherine Foster / Ewa Plonka, Clemens Bieber, Martin Muehle / Jorge Puerta, Maria Motolygina / Sua Jo, Joel Allison / Samuel Dale Johnson, Gideon Poppe / Andrew Dickinson, Ya-Chung Huang a. o. -
Written on Skin
George Benjamin [*1960]Based on a text from medieval sources, author Martin Crimp, composer George Benjamin and director Katie Mitchell succeeded with WRITTEN ON SKIN 2012 in creating a sensational parable about identity, love and the power of literature and art ... Conductor: Marc Albrecht / Felix Mildenberger [15 Feb.]; Director: Katie Mitchell; With Mark Stone, Vera-Lotte Boecker, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Anna Werle, Chance Jonas-O'Toole a. o.