Opera
Die Nase | Dmitri Schostakowitsch
One morning, the barber Yakovlevich finds a nose in his breakfast sandwich. At the same time, the assessor Kovalyov looks in the mirror – and finds that his ...
Premiere: Sat 07. Sep. 2019 | no further performances this season
Don Giovanni | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In the beginning was a murder. Before, after, and in between: women — Italian, German, French, Spanish women, chambermaids, countesses, peasants, princesses, ...
Premiere: Sun 20. Oct. 2019 | no further performances this season
Falstaff | Giuseppe Verdi
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 ...
Premiere: Sun 19. Jan. 2020 | no further performances this season
Norma | Vincenzo Bellini
In the darkness of a forest, a priestess entreats the goddess of the moon for peace. There is war everywhere: between men and women, father and daughter, a ...
Premiere: Sun 08. Mar. 2020 | no further performances this season
Elektra | Richard Strauss
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. – ...
Premiere: Sat 02. May. 2020 | no further performances this seasonMärchen im Grand-Hotel | Paul Abraham
In order to save her father’s film production company from dire financial straits, Marylou has a brilliant, groundbreaking idea. She wants to produce the ...
Premiere: Sat 02. May. 2020 | no further performances this seasonSaint François d'Assise | Olivier Messiaen
A work that is only written once in a hundred years: With Saint Francois d'Assise, Olivier Messiaen created an exceptional work that touches the roots of human ...
Premiere: Sat 16. May. 2020 | no further performances this seasonDie Kuh - doch halt, nein, nein! | Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann was, along with Johann Sebastian Bach, the most important German Baroque composer, and for over 45 years he left his mark on Hamburg's ...
Premiere: Fri 19. Jun. 2020 | no further performances this seasonopera stabile
IchundIch | Johannes Harneit
After Hitler seized power, the poet Else Lasker-Schüler fled to Zurich and lived in Jerusalem from 1939 until her death in 1945. Her eloquent and bitterly ...
World Premiere: Sun 03. Nov. 2019 | no further performances this season
The Two Fiddlers | Peter Maxwell Davies
We are in a forest. It is quiet, with a scent of moss and earthworms, and moths flutter through the night. From afar, we hear music, a wedding song – or is it ...
Premiere: Sat 08. Feb. 2020 | no further performances this season
