Opera Repertoire
Ariadne auf Naxos | Richard Strauss
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 ...
no further performances this season
Nabucco | Giuseppe Verdi
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
Katja Kabanova | Leoš Janácek
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 | Giuseppe Verdi
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
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, ...
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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 ...
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Pelléas et Mélisande | Claude Debussy
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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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 ...
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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 ...
next performance: Saturday 04. Jan. 2020
Die tote Stadt | Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Cocooned in the past, the widower Paul has withdrawn from life.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 ...
no further performances this season
La Cenerentola (Cinderella) | Gioachino Rossini
"La Cenerentola" is Rossini’s version of "Cinderella" and one of the world’s most beautiful bel canto operas. The libretto was written ...
next performance: Thursday 19. Dec. 2019
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 ...
next performance: Sunday 22. Dec. 2019
Orphée et Eurydice | Christoph Willibald Gluck
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: Tuesday 21. Jan. 2020
Lulu | Alban Berg
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 ...
next performance: Sunday 02. Feb. 2020
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: ...
next performance: Thursday 06. Feb. 2020
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 ...
next performance: Wednesday 12. Feb. 2020
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 ...
next performance: Saturday 15. Feb. 2020
Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) | Richard Wagner
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: Tuesday 18. Feb. 2020
Alcina | Georg Friedrich Händel
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
Messa da Requiem | Giuseppe Verdi
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
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 ...
next performance: Wednesday 18. Mar. 2020
Simon Boccanegra | Giuseppe Verdi
“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
Carmen | Georges Bizet
“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
Parsifal | Richard Wagner
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
Fidelio | Ludwig van Beethoven
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
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 ...
next performance: Saturday 16. May. 2020
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 ...
next performance: Friday 22. May. 2020
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 ...
next performance: Saturday 06. Jun. 2020
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Moscow, Cheryomushki | Dmitri Schostakowitsch
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 ...
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