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Turandot | Giacomo Puccini

A cry echoes through the millennia. It now resounds in Turandot's soul. A woman was once violated, now Princess Turandot has sworn revenge: no man shall ever ...

next performance: Sun 31. Mar. 2024

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Venere e Adone | Salvatore Sciarrino

Sounds from the silence. They come closer, move and dissolve into darkness. Their nature is being and non-being, coming into being and passing away - the same ...

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Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Constance, Blonde and Pedrillo are prisoners of Bassa Selim at the Ottoman court in Istanbul. Belmonte, Constance's groom, plans to free them secretly, but the ...

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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: Tue 08. Apr. 2025

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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: Sun 13. Oct. 2024

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Don Carlos | Giuseppe Verdi

In order to ensure peace between France and Spain, Princess Elisabeth de Valois decides against her great love: instead of Don Carlos, she marries his father, ...

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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 ...

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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: Sat 15. Mar. 2025

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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: Sun 01. Dec. 2024

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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 ...

next performance: Wed 08. Jan. 2025

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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 ...

next performance: Sun 15. Dec. 2024

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THE ART OF Sonya Yoncheva

Sonya Yoncheva will be back at the Hamburg State Opera in a gala concert with the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonardo Sini. The soprano is ...

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Die Fledermaus | Johann Strauß

What happened? Two friends attended a masked ball. At the end of the night, the retiree Eisenstein, aka The Butterfly, played a prank on the notary Dr. Falke, ...

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Jenufa | Leoš Janácek

Drama in the village: Laca disfigures Jenufa's face with a knife out of jealousy. Her fiancé Stewa leaves her, although she is pregnant by him. Jenufa secretly ...

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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 ...

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Il trittico | Giacomo Puccini

Three stories that could not be more different: A comedy of inheritance in 13th century Florence, borrowed from Dante's Divine Comedy, a drama of jealousy in ...

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Lucia di Lammermoor | Gaetano Donizetti

Lucia loves Edgardo, the last heir of the house of Ravenswood, her family’s enemy clan. They are in danger, as Lucia’s dreams reveal: she sees a dead woman, ...

next performance: Sat 06. Apr. 2024

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Peter Grimes | Benjamin Britten

When mistrust and rumors start doing the rounds in a village, it's hard to fight them. Peter Grimes, a fisherman, has to experience this as well. He is said to ...

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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 ...

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La Cenerentola | Gioachino Rossini

Cenerentola is the Italian Cinderella. She lives with her stepfather and her two stepsisters, who make her life difficult. As in a fairy tale, she meets her ...

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Cavalleria rusticana / I Pagliacci | Pietro Mascagni / Ruggero Leoncavallo

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: Fri 29. Mar. 2024

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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 ...

next performance: Sun 14. Apr. 2024

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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 ...

next performance: Fri 19. Apr. 2024

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THE ART OF Jakub Józef Orlinski

Der polnische Countertenor Jakub Jósef Orlinski studierte an der Juilliard School bei Edith Wiens und der Fryderyk-Chopin-Musikuniversität in Warschau bei ...

next performance: Mon 29. Apr. 2024

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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 ...

next performance: Thu 09. May. 2024

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Lady Macbeth von Mzensk | Dmitri Schostakowitsch

A woman becomes a murderess, but still the 26-year-old composer Shostakovich has sympathy for her. Katerina Ismailova - killer and victim at the same time - ...

next performance: Sun 12. May. 2024

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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. ...

next performance: Mon 20. May. 2024

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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: Sun 02. Jun. 2024

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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 ...

next performance: Wed 05. Jun. 2024

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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 ...

next performance: Fri 14. Jun. 2024

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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, ...

next performance: Sun 16. Jun. 2024

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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, ...

next performance: Fri 25. Oct. 2024

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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. – ...

next performance: Sun 10. Nov. 2024

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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 ...

next performance: Sun 24. Nov. 2024

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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: Sat 21. Dec. 2024

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THE ART OF Lise Davidsen

Die gefeierte Sopranistin und Wagner­-Star mit einem ihrer seltenen Gala-­Konzerte, begleitet vom Philharmonischen Staatsorchester Hamburg. Unter dem ...

next performance: Sat 18. Jan. 2025

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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 ...

next performance: Fri 14. Feb. 2025

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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 ...

next performance: Fri 21. Mar. 2025

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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 ...

next performance: Sun 23. Mar. 2025

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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 ...

next performance: Thu 03. Apr. 2025

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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: Fri 18. Apr. 2025

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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: Tue 29. Apr. 2025

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Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde) | Richard Wagner

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: Thu 29. May. 2025

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opera stabile Repertoire

Der Diktator

Eine Zusammenarbeit der Hamburgischen Staatsoper und des Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles Ernst Krenek (1900–1991) Der Diktator op. 49 ...

next performance: Sat 21. Dec. 2024

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Jung Repertoire

Tonangeber

In der Reihe Tonangeber setzen wir in dieser Spielzeit einen Schwerpunkt auf zwei Themen: Oper und Gesang. Mit den Konzerten im Foyer der Staatsoper soll dabei ...

next performance: Wed 12. Jun. 2024

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Wenn mein Mond deine Sonne wäre

Mit Musik aus Sergei Prokofjews „Ein Sommertag“ und Georges Bizets „Jeux d’enfants“ Max hat große Sehnsucht nach seinem Opa, der „nicht mehr alle ...

next performance: Sun 23. Jun. 2024

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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 ...

next performance: Sun 08. Jun. 2025

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