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: Saturday 07. Sep. 2019
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: Sunday 20. Oct. 2019
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: Sunday 19. Jan. 2020
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: Sunday 08. Mar. 2020
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: Sunday 26. Apr. 2020
Saint François d'Assise | Olivier Messiaen
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: Saturday 16. May. 2020
opera 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: Sunday 03. Nov. 2019
Bella und Blaubart | Isabelle Aboulker
Home alone in a huge mansion – the coast is clear! Anything is allowed, more than you could have ever imagined. There is just one tiny rule: one door among ...
Premiere: Saturday 08. Feb. 2020
Märchen 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: Saturday 02. May. 2020
Die Kuh - doch halt, nein, nein! | Georg Philipp Telemann
This opera by Telemann does not exist – but there is an aria whose title might have been taken from a Heinz Erhardt sketch. Perhaps the development of his ...
Premiere: Friday 19. Jun. 2020
