Opera
Trionfi | Carl Orff
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 | no further performances this season
Der Freischütz | Carl Maria von Weber
"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 | next performance: Thu 23. Apr. 2026
Ariadne auf Naxos | Richard Strauss
"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 | next performance: Sun 16. Nov. 2025
Mitridate, re di Ponto | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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 | no further performances this season
Maria Stuarda | Gaetano Donizetti
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 | next performance: Sun 15. Feb. 2026
Die dunkle Seite des Mondes | Unsuk Chin
Dr. Kieron, a brilliant physicist, revered and feared by his colleagues, dives into the shady demimonde at night, in a restless search for human happiness. In ...
World Premiere: Sun 18. May. 2025 | no further performances this season
Die Illusionen des William Mallory | Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier
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 ...
World Premiere: Sat 24. May. 2025 | no further performances this season
Das Paradies und die Peri | Robert Schumann
“WELCOME TO US! GREET US!” - HOW ART AND WE OURSELVES COULD FIND A ROLE IN OUR CRISIS-RIDDEN WORLD The Peri - an angelic mythical creature. Fallen from ...
Premiere: Sat 27. Sep. 2025
Ruslan und Ljudmila | Michail Glinka
A REDISCOVERY - NATIONAL EPIC OR FAIRYTALE OPERA ABOUT THE FIGHT AGAINST EVIL? Who is good and who is evil in this fairytale opera - and why? The nucleus of ...
Premiere: Sun 09. Nov. 2025
Monster´s Paradise | Olga Neuwirth / Elfriede Jelinek
PREMIERE - WHO WILL SAVE US FROM THE DESPOTS? A LUDICROUS SATIRE ON THE STATE OF THE PRESENT: OF GIANT MONSTERS AND POLITICAL TYRANTS A new work on the pulse ...
Premiere: Sun 01. Feb. 2026
Die grosse Stille | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
IN FARAWAY PLACES - REDISCOVERING MOZART'S MUSIC Culture is meaningful. Culture not only keeps us busy - and thus structures our everyday lives - it seems to ...
Premiere: Sun 15. Mar. 2026
Women's love and death | Robert Schumann / Bela Bartok / Alexander Zemlinsky
THREE MASTERPIECES - TWO CENTURIES - ONE NARRATIVE WOMEN'S LOVE AND LIFE Eight songs for voice and piano op. 42 (1840) Composition: Robert ...
Premiere: Sun 12. Apr. 2026
Il barbiere di Siviglia | Gioachino Rossini
COMEDY, CRISES AND COLORATURA IN A MASTERPIECE FOR ALL TIMES How do I become what I am not? Since its premiere in 1816, Gioachino Rossini's masterpiece Il ...
Premiere: Sun 17. May. 2026
opera stabile
Dollhouse | Clemens K. Thomas
A voice, a room, a girl shortly before her 16th birthday. A pile of discarded dolls. Then voice messages from outside, the shrill laughs of a sitcom, the ...
Premiere: Fri 29. Nov. 2024 | no further performances this season
Die Kreide im Mund des Wolfs | Gordon Kampe
Im Anfang war das Wort? Wie schnell beweisen blutige Taten das Gegenteil des Gesagten. Nach Bernhard Langs Playing Trump 2021 begibt sich erneut ein ...
World Premiere: Sat 25. Jan. 2025 | no further performances this season
Die Gänsemagd | Iris Ter Schiphorst
Iris ter Schiphorst's opera for children was premiered in Vienna in 2010. Together with her librettist Helga Utz, the Hamburg-born composer created a touching ...
Premiere: Sun 28. Sep. 2025
Die Unruhenden | Gustav Mahler
CHRISTOPH MARTHALER MEETS GUSTAV MAHLER - TWO GRAND MASTERS RETURN TO THE STAATSOPER HAMBURG Gustav Mahler - star conductor, visionary composer, Hamburg ...
Premiere: Thu 15. Jan. 2026
Stockhausen for children: Michael's journey | Karlheinz Stockhausen
A FANTASTIC JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FOR PEOPLE FROM 6 TO 110 YEARS OLD Karlheinz Stockhausen's seven-part cycle Licht, composed between 1977 and 2005, which ...
Premiere: Sat 11. Apr. 2026
Jung
Frühlings Erwachen | Ludger Vollmer
Why are we here? Are we loved? Have children someday? Graduate from school? And will there still be someone to remember us in 100 years' time? A group of young ...
Premiere: Thu 19. Jun. 2025 | no further performances this season
