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Due to the change in regulations, additional tickets are available for the 46th Hamburg Ballet Days. We ask you to purchase tickets primarily online or at our box office. General ticket sales for the 21/22 season will begin four weeks prior to the performance date until further notice, as long as no schedule deviations are being announced. Attendance at performances is subject to restrictions for the safety of our patrons. Everything you need to know about tickets and attending performances.

Season opening with stars

Olga Peretyatko and Benjamin Bernheim in Les Contes d'Hoffmann

The Hamburg State Opera opens its season with Jacques Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" on Sept. 4, 2021. In Daniele Finzi Pasca's new production, you will experience, among others, Olga Peretyatko, former Opera Studio member and now one of the world's most sought-after sopranos, in all four female roles, as well as Benjamin Bernheim, "the most beautiful tenor voice since Luciano Pavarotti" (SZ), as Hoffmann. GMD Kent Nagano conducts the Philharmonic State Orchestra. Tickets and more...

On August 14 and 15, 2021

Rathausmarkt Open-Air 1 & 2

The concert season opens as usual with the "Rathausmarkt Open-Air", conducted by GMD Kent Nagano. New: The open-air event directly in front of Hamburg's magnificent landmark will take place twice on each of two days - tickets required! On Aug. 14 with a symphonic prelude at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. and on Aug. 15, 2021 with a tribute to Jacques Offenbach at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Online until September 11, 2021

New production Lucia di Lammermoor

Exclusively at the end of this season, the Hamburg State Opera is showing a current new production that has never been performed with a live audience: The premiere recording of "Lucia di Lammermoor" in Amélie Niermeyer's production is available for free on OperaVision.eu until 12:00 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2021. Experience, among others, Venera Gimadieva as the title heroine as well as Francesco Demuro as Edgardo and Christoph Pohl as Enrico. Donizetti's opera will then be back on the schedule in October 2021 and January 2022.

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The season 2021|22

Six new productions - "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" from September 4, 2021, "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" from October, 17 2021, "Elektra" from November 28, 2021, "Turandot" from March 13, 2022, "Tannhäuser" from April 24, 2022, and "Don Pasquale" from May 29, 2022, as well as three world premieres - "Playing Trump" from August 20, 2021, "Unser kleines Scheißkaff" from January 21, 2022, "La Luna" from June 24, 2022 and the German premiere of "Bella Blaubart" on February 12, 2022 as well as 23 works from the rich repertoire are on the program of the Hamburg State Opera. Browse through the season brochure or the online schedule.