Carmen | Georges Bizet

Carmen charms everyone with her dancing and singing - only one of them turns her down: Don José. He, of all people, is supposed to arrest her after an argument ...

Boris Godunov | Modest P. Mussorgsky

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 ...

Tosca | Giacomo Puccini

Scarpia, Rome’s chief of police, desires Tosca. Since her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, is among the government’s political enemies, Scarpia has him ...

La clemenza di Tito | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Power and domination, love, betrayal - and forgiveness? The themes of this opera are universal and more topical than ever, even if the work is set in ancient ...

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, ...

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. – ...

Luisa Miller | Giuseppe Verdi

"Luisa Miller" is Giuseppe Verdi’s third setting of a play by Friedrich Schiller. “It is a great drama, full of passion and very effective in theatrical ...

La Bohème | Giacomo Puccini

“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 ...

Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) | Engelbert Humperdinck

“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 ...

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

This opera is the world in a theatrical nutshell: it deals with growing older, with trials and tribulations, with intransparent decisions. One person searches ...

Der fliegende Holländer | Richard Wagner

Senta's dreams are directed towards the sea: will the man who will free her from her restricted life at home come from there? It begins stormily; Wagner's first ...

THE ART OF Lisette Oropesa

Under the title THE ART OF, the solo evenings focus on experiencing the vocal artistry of exceptional international stars of the opera world in its purest form ...

Manon | Jules Massenet

A coming-of-age story, recurring conflicts with parents, and first love, Manon is a young girl full of hopes, dreams, and an irrepressible desire for life. ...

„Muss denn in diesem Land immer alles politisch sein?“

In a dialog with musicologist Holger Noltze and non-fiction author Inge Kloepfer, Kent Nagano looks back on his successful time as General Music Director of the ...

Ariadne auf Naxos (concerted) | 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 ...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Jacques Offenbach

Opéra Fantastique in five acts Libretto by Jules Barbier Based on the play by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré Edited by Michael Kaye and Jean-Christophe ...

Eugene Onegin | Peter I. Tschaikowsky

Young Tatyana falls in love with Eugene Onegin, and confesses her love for him, against all convention. When he pretends that marriage is not for him, she weds ...

Mitridate, re di Ponto (concerted)

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 ...

Eugen Onegin (concerted)

Young Tatyana falls in love with Eugene Onegin, and confesses her love for him, against all convention. When he pretends that marriage is not for him, she weds ...

Don Pasquale | Gaetano Donizetti

Don Pasquale, an older, wealthy man with a desire for a young, modest wife, meets the young couple Ernesto and Norina in Donizetti's opera. The only thing ...

Don Pasquale (concerted) | Gaetano Donizetti

Don Pasquale, ein älterer, wohlhabender Mann mit dem Wunsch nach einer jungen bescheidenen Ehefrau, trifft in Donizettis Oper auf das junge Paar Ernesto und ...

Rigoletto | Giuseppe Verdi

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 ...

La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West) | Giacomo Puccini

California in 1850: hundreds of thousands have fallen for the gold rush – and some of them also for the barkeeper Minnie, at whose saloon various fortune ...

THE ART OF Sir Bryn Terfel

Der legendäre walisische Bassbariton präsentiert u.a. Lieder von Schubert, Schumann, Debussy sowie Musik aus seinem Heimatland, begleitet von Harfe und ...

Il trovatore | Giuseppe Verdi

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 ...

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 ...

La Traviata | Giuseppe Verdi

Violetta is the most sought-after courtesan of the Parisian demimonde. However, her encounter with Alfredo makes her pleasure-seeking life seem questionable: ...

Parsifal | Richard Wagner

Achim Freyer's visually powerful realization of Richard Wagner's stage festival play Parsifal is itself a fascinating synthesis of the arts. The director, stage ...

Pique Dame | Peter I. Tschaikowsky

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 ...

Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde) | Richard Wagner

In Wagner's interpretation, the medieval myth about the tragic love between the Irish king's daughter Isolde and Tristan, King Mark's henchman, to whom Isolde ...

Salome | Richard Strauss

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 ...

Così fan tutte | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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, ...

Le Nozze di Figaro | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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 ...

HOUSE WARMING CONCERT

Every piece, every cast and every artistic intervention in this inaugural concert - presented by Ina Müller - tells us something about the artistic minds of ...

?Alleine!

I can do it on my own! Kindergarten children can already do quite a lot. But sometimes that can be scary. Sophiemarie Won, who will be the director of the ...

L'elisir d'amore | Gaetano Donizetti

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 ...

Lohengrin | Richard Wagner

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 ...

Madama Butterfly | Giacomo Puccini

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 ...

Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna | Gordon Kampe

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 ...

Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank | Grigori Frid

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 ...

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Tonangeber

Auf den Stufen des Eingangsfoyers der Hamburgischen Staatsoper können Schulklassen den Musiker*innen ganz genau auf die Finger schauen und mit Hilfe von Emojis ...

Die verlorene Melodie

Hüpf! Eine kleine Melodie findet ihren Weg in ein sehr eifriges Orchester. Und natürlich wollen alle die Melodie spielen! Darüber bricht ein schlimmer Streit ...

Schulkonzert

Club Zone | Für alle zwischen 12 und 15 Jahren

Für unser neues Format CLICK in – CLUB ZONE verwandelt sich die opera stabile erstmals in einen Club. Hier können sich alle zwischen 12 und 15 Jahren ...