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 ...
Premiere: Sat 16. Sep. 2023 | next performance: Thu 03. Oct. 2024
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 ...
Premiere: Sun 29. Oct. 2023 | next performance: Sat 07. Jun. 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 ...
Premiere: Sun 17. Mar. 2024 | next performance: Thu 27. Mar. 2025
"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 ...
Premiere: Sun 28. Apr. 2024
Why love ugliness? Why praise naturalness? Why entreat heaven to be allowed to experience pain? – Between dream worlds and faith, half of this world and half ...
Premiere: Sun 02. Jun. 2024
The Carmina Burana with its mighty Fortuna choirs is one of the most famous musical works, but is rarely performed as a trittico teatrale with its two sister ...
Premiere: Sat 21. Sep. 2024
"The success was tremendous and unprecedented! Critics, artists, amateurs and music lovers were intoxicated ... The auditorium roared apart, loudly proclaiming ...
Premiere: Sun 17. Nov. 2024
"It is a simple and tremendous problem of life: that of fidelity", is how Hugo von Hofmannsthal described the core of their third opera together, Ariadne auf ...
Premiere: Sun 26. Jan. 2025
What happens when, in times of war and destruction, even your own family becomes a battlefield and mistrust, desire and betrayal break out? The cruel, ingenious ...
Premiere: Sun 23. Feb. 2025
Maria and Elisabetta: two queens fight for power and love. Between them stands Count Leicester, Elisabetta's lover, who is attracted to Maria. The two women ...
Premiere: Sun 16. Mar. 2025
Dr. Kieron is a brilliant scientist, respected and feared by his colleagues. But what nobody suspects is that every night he is haunted in his dreams by three ...
Premiere: Sun 18. May. 2025
At the zenith of his career as a board member of a major corporation, disaster suddenly befalls the former working-class son William Mallory. He crashes over a ...
Premiere: Sat 24. May. 2025
Everyone knows the Hallelujah from Handel's oratorio The Messiah, perhaps without knowing where it comes from. Along with Bach and Telemann, Handel was the most ...
Premiere: Sat 04. Nov. 2023 | no further performances this season
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 ...
Premiere: Sat 25. Nov. 2023 | next performance: Sat 26. Apr. 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 ...
Premiere: Sat 24. Feb. 2024 | next performance: Mon 29. Apr. 2024
A title character named "Chives," love entanglements between aristocrats and greengrocers, baronesses and mistresses, a restaurant called "Zum smuchenden Hund," ...
Premiere: Fri 05. Jul. 2024
Words of a despot. Collected in times of peace, set to music in times of war: "The wall no longer exists. It has been destroyed. +++ Russia is a friendly ...
Premiere: Sat 25. Jan. 2025
