Carmen charms everyone with her dancing and singing - only one of them turns her down: Don José. He, of all people, is supposed to arrest her after an argument ...
next performance: Tue 24. Sep. 2024
The years between the death of Ivan the Terrible and the ascension of the Romanov family to the throne are known in Russia as the “Time of Troubles”. During ...
next performance: Thu 03. Oct. 2024
Scarpia, Rome’s chief of police, desires Tosca. Since her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, is among the government’s political enemies, Scarpia has him ...
next performance: Sun 13. Oct. 2024
"If a stern heart is needed for rule, either take away my rule or give me another heart." With these words, Emperor Titus addresses the gods. He, who floods the ...
next performance: Wed 16. Oct. 2024
In the beginning was a murder. Before, after, and in between: women — Italian, German, French, Spanish women, chambermaids, countesses, peasants, princesses, ...
next performance: Fri 25. Oct. 2024
The war is over, and tragedy takes its course: the mother and her lover murder the father upon his return. The daughter hides her brother, keeping him safe. – ...
next performance: Sun 10. Nov. 2024
"Luisa Miller" is Giuseppe Verdi’s third setting of a play by Friedrich Schiller. “It is a great drama, full of passion and very effective in theatrical ...
next performance: Sun 24. Nov. 2024
“How ice-cold is this little hand” – a hand held by the poet Rodolfo in the darkness of his artists’ commune! The ice-cold hand belongs to the ...
next performance: Sun 01. Dec. 2024
“Don‘t you know the horrible dark place, don’t you know the evil one lives there?” Hastily, their parents set out for the woods to save Hansel and ...
next performance: Sun 15. Dec. 2024
This opera is the world in a theatrical nutshell: it deals with growing older, with trials and tribulations, with intransparent decisions. One person searches ...
next performance: Sat 21. Dec. 2024
Senta's dreams are directed towards the sea: will the man who will free her from her restricted life at home come from there? It begins stormily; Wagner's first ...
next performance: Wed 08. Jan. 2025
Die gefeierte Sopranistin und Wagner-Star mit einem ihrer seltenen Gala-Konzerte, begleitet vom Philharmonischen Staatsorchester Hamburg. Unter dem ...
next performance: Sat 18. Jan. 2025
A coming-of-age story, recurring conflicts with parents, and first love, Manon is a young girl full of hopes, dreams, and an irrepressible desire for life. ...
next performance: Tue 28. Jan. 2025
Opéra Fantastique in five acts Libretto by Jules Barbier Based on the play by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré Edited by Michael Kaye and Jean-Christophe ...
next performance: Fri 14. Feb. 2025
Young Tatyana falls in love with Eugene Onegin, and confesses her love for him, against all convention. When he pretends that marriage is not for him, she weds ...
next performance: Tue 25. Feb. 2025
Don Pasquale, an older, wealthy man with a desire for a young, modest wife, meets the young couple Ernesto and Norina in Donizetti's opera. The only thing ...
next performance: Sat 08. Mar. 2025
Never one to miss an opportunity to make fun of others, the hunchback jester Rigoletto is employed by the Duke of Mantua. His only joy in life is his daughter ...
next performance: Sat 15. Mar. 2025
California in 1850: hundreds of thousands have fallen for the gold rush – and some of them also for the barkeeper Minnie, at whose saloon various fortune ...
next performance: Fri 21. Mar. 2025
Der legendäre walisische Bassbariton präsentiert u.a. Lieder von Schubert, Schumann, Debussy sowie Musik aus seinem Heimatland, begleitet von Harfe und ...
next performance: Sun 23. Mar. 2025
For Leonora, the song of the troubadour Manrico holds the promise and glow of love; Manrico's rival Count Luna perceives in it threat and danger. Verdi's opera ...
next performance: Thu 27. Mar. 2025
Sir John Falstaff is an anarchist who obeys only the reign of his own enjoyment, an egoist who feeds only his power-hunger and his own flesh, and who would ...
next performance: Thu 03. Apr. 2025
Violetta is the most sought-after courtesan of the Parisian demimonde. However, her encounter with Alfredo makes her pleasure-seeking life seem questionable: ...
next performance: Tue 08. Apr. 2025
In his “Parsifal”, Wagner created a complex world of its own. It is complex because it consists of so many heterogeneous elements whose meaning is hard to ...
next performance: Fri 18. Apr. 2025
The outsider Herman loves Liza, who is engaged to Prince Yeletsky. Herman is a passionate gambler: he is desperate to win a fortune and reputation in order to ...
next performance: Tue 29. Apr. 2025
Inspired by his romantic love for Mathilde Wesendonck, Richard Wagner created one of the most beautiful operas in music history. This season, the Hamburg State ...
next performance: Thu 29. May. 2025
Under the face of the wandering moon, spirit and body quarrel in all their greatness and wretchedness until the blood of two bodies flows. Strauss remains close ...
next performance: Sat 07. Jun. 2025
Seeking to test their girlfriends’ fidelity, two men wager that they will remain steadfast. They subject the women to passionate onslaught, and in the end, ...
next performance: Sun 22. Jun. 2025
During times of historical upheaval, the victors are filled with euphoric jubilation while fear spreads on the side of the losers. When cheerfulness grips the ...
next performance: Fri 27. Jun. 2025
Ulf has a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a tadpole in a jar, two euros, four golf balls, a friend and a grandpa. A grandpa is great! But it's unfair that his best friend ...
next performance: Thu 03. Oct. 2024
Eine Zusammenarbeit der Hamburgischen Staatsoper und des Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles Ernst Krenek (1900–1991) Der Diktator op. 49 ...
next performance: Sat 21. Dec. 2024
Everything seems to have been said about them, books have been written, films made, podcasts produced, facts collected upon facts. And yet there remains a void ...
next performance: Sat 26. Apr. 2025
Auf den Stufen des Eingangsfoyers der Hamburgischen Staatsoper können Schulklassen den Musiker*innen ganz genau auf die Finger schauen und mit Hilfe von Emojis ...
next performance: Tue 03. Dec. 2024
Hüpf! Eine kleine Melodie findet ihren Weg in ein sehr eifriges Orchester. Und natürlich wollen alle die Melodie spielen! Darüber bricht ein schlimmer Streit ...
next performance: Sun 08. Jun. 2025
