A nouveau-riche Viennese is planning a performance of the tragedy “Ariadne auf Naxos”, which he has commissioned as part of a grand party he is planning at ...
next performance: Saturday 24. Oct. 2020
Jerusalem has been occupied, the Jewish temple destroyed, the Hebrew nation abducted to enemy Babylon. In its Babylonian exile, the Jewish people’s struggle ...
no further performances this season
A small town on the Volga becomes a prison for Katja Kabanova: here she lives in a world full of dependencies and unfulfilled longing. Her mother-in-law’s ...
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Otello is the very cause of his own madness. He must fend off envy, enmity and threats – were he sane, this would be easy. He has made his way to the top of ...
next performance: Thursday 12. Mar. 2020
Seeking to test their girlfriends’ fidelity, two men wager that they will remain steadfast. They subject the women to passionate onslaught, and in the end, ...
next performance: Thursday 24. Sep. 2020
During times of historical upheaval, the victors are filled with euphoric jubilation while fear spreads on the side of the losers. When cheerfulness grips the ...
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Near a well in the forest, Golaud meets Mélisande. They get married and return to his family’s castle. There, Mélisande meets Pelléas, ...
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“Don‘t you know the horrible dark place, don’t you know the evil one lives there?” Hastily, their parents set out for the woods to save Hansel and ...
next performance: Wednesday 23. Dec. 2020
“How ice-cold is this little hand” – a hand held by the poet Rodolfo in the darkness of his artists’ commune! The ice-cold hand belongs to the ...
next performance: Thursday 26. Nov. 2020
Cocooned in the past, the widower Paul has withdrawn from life. His inner emptiness prevents any feelings. Only an open confrontation with his trauma revives ...
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"La Cenerentola" is Rossini’s version of "Cinderella" and one of the world’s most beautiful bel canto operas. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, ...
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Elsa of Brabant is suspected of having killed her younger brother Gottfried in the forest. This accusation is put forward by Friedrich of Telramund, Count of ...
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Eurydice is dead, a fact the man and artist Orpheus cannot accept. He demands her return. Indeed, the beauty of art and its power to transcend and destroy ...
next performance: Thursday 12. Nov. 2020
Anyone who loves Lulu is killed by that love. To men, Lulu is the instrument satisfying their sexual desires, yet irritatingly, she remains autonomous and ...
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Violetta is the most sought-after courtesan of the Parisian demimonde. However, her encounter with Alfredo makes her pleasure-seeking life seem questionable: ...
next performance: Thursday 11. Mar. 2021
This opera is the world in a theatrical nutshell: it deals with growing older, with trials and tribulations, with intransparent decisions. One person searches ...
next performance: Thursday 20. Feb. 2020
Nagasaki, Japan, ca. 1900: Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the American navy, has fallen in love with Cio-Cio-San, also known as “Butterfly”. The Japanese ritual ...
next performance: Wednesday 19. Feb. 2020
Fortunately, this work is not only performed every seven years: Richard Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer is about a mariner damned to sail the seas until ...
next performance: Friday 21. Feb. 2020
The sorceress Alcina lives a wondrous life on her island: she attracts men, seduces them, and when she tires of them, she turns them into animals, plants or ...
next performance: Sunday 23. Feb. 2020
Libera me. Save me. Liberate me, Lord, from eternal death. The individual wails, faced with the balance of his life. Abysses of nothingness. Verdi’s ...
next performance: Tuesday 10. Mar. 2020
Scarpia, Rome’s chief of police, desires Tosca. Since her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, is among the government’s political enemies, Scarpia has him ...
next performance: Wednesday 18. Mar. 2020
“The human heart is a source of eternal suffering,” thus a line from this Verdi opera, held in particularly high regard by cognoscenti. The fact that it ...
next performance: Sunday 22. Mar. 2020
“L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” – “Love is a wild bird”: in her famous Habanera, Carmen sings about the fickleness of this strongest of feelings. ...
next performance: Wednesday 01. Apr. 2020
In his “Parsifal”, Wagner created a complex world of its own. It is complex because it consists of so many heterogeneous elements whose meaning is hard to ...
next performance: Sunday 12. Apr. 2020
Florestan has been unjustly incarcerated for “fighting for the truth”. The governor of the state prisons, Pizarro, is responsible and therefore needs to ...
next performance: Tuesday 28. Apr. 2020
Tristano e Isotta – Tristan and Isolde set an example: Nemorino has the evident idea to boost the feelings of his beloved Adina with a love potion. The ...
next performance: Saturday 16. May. 2020
The outsider Herman loves Liza, who is engaged to Prince Yeletsky. Herman is a passionate gambler: he is desperate to win a fortune and reputation in order to ...
next performance: Friday 22. May. 2020
Never one to miss an opportunity to make fun of others, the hunchback jester Rigoletto is employed by the Duke of Mantua. His only joy in life is his daughter ...
next performance: Saturday 06. Jun. 2020
Inspired by his romantic love for Mathilde Wesendonck, Richard Wagner created one of the most beautiful operas in music history. This season, the Hamburg State ...
next performance: Thursday 17. Sep. 2020
King Gustavo loves Amelia, the wife of his loyal friend and Secretary Renato Count Anckarström. Even though Amelia reciprocates his feelings, the two of them ...
next performance: Thursday 29. Oct. 2020
The opera “Aida”, one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most well-known works, is set in the land of the Pharaohs. Aida, the beautiful daughter of the Ethiopian king, ...
next performance: Saturday 09. Jan. 2021
What does a novelist do when he can’t think of a story? Hoping for inspiration, he studies the people around him. And the people around him are ensnared in ...
next performance: Tuesday 26. Jan. 2021
Jacques Offenbach’s stage work includes 102 scores – his opéra bouffe “La Belle Hélène” is one of his greatest successes. Unhappy in her marriage to ...
next performance: Saturday 20. Feb. 2021
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA Turiddu and Santuzza are a couple; he has promised to marry her. However, when Turiddu meets up with his old love Lola again, he hardly ...
next performance: Tuesday 09. Mar. 2021
Lady Macbeth has almost reached her goal: having incited her husband to murder King Duncan, she has become queen at Macbeth’s side. Her happiness, however, is ...
next performance: Wednesday 17. Mar. 2021
Is there any place more idyllic than a high-rise quarter, freshly built? Locked doors, corrupt civil servants, homelessness hovering like the sword of Damocles ...
no further performances this season
