Opera
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 ...
Premiere: Sat 16. Sep. 2017 | no further performances this season
Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (Die Heimkehr des Odysseus) | Claudio Monteverdi
10 years of war. 10 years of odyssey. Darkness. Ulysses returns to his Penelope in the guise of an unkempt ancient beggar. Among all her suitors, only he can ...
Premiere: Sun 29. Oct. 2017 | no further performances this season
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 ...
Premiere: Sun 28. Jan. 2018 | no further performances this season
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 ...
Premiere: Sun 11. Mar. 2018 | no further performances this season
Frankenstein | Jan Dvorák
Created from nothing. Ugly and in need of love. Unique. Strange. Rejected. Lonely. Hurt. Angry. Murdering, so that somebody should feel its pain. – In 1818, ...
World Premiere: Sun 20. May. 2018 | no further performances this season
BENJAMIN | Peter Ruzicka
Walter Benjamin was a German philosopher and cultural scientist. A Jew and Marxist, his path through the 20th century was irregular and meandering. The figures ...
World Premiere: Sun 03. Jun. 2018 | no further performances this season
opera stabile
Die arabische Prinzessin (The Arab Princess) | Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
Konzeption und musikalische Einrichtung Anna-Sophie Brüning, Text von Paula Fünfeck nach einem arabischen Märchen Once upon a time, there was ...
Premiere: Sat 10. Feb. 2018 | no further performances this season
I.th.Ak.A. | Samuel Penderbayne
Ulysses in search of his island. Crossing the border between sea and land and setting foot on Ithaka is to restore his freedom, to liberate him from chaos, ...
World Premiere: Fri 06. Apr. 2018 | no further performances this season
Das Floß | Anastasija Kadiša, Alexander Chernyshkov, Andreas Eduardo Frank
A ship at sea, the captain gone, no land in sight – the passengers left to their own devices. Thus begins a tale which turns into two stories, due to opposite ...
World Premiere: Fri 04. May. 2018 | no further performances this season
Miriways | Georg Philipp Telemann
This opera, first performed at Hamburg’s Opera on Gänsemarkt in 1728, has a model in actual history: Mir Wais was an Afghan ruler who conquered Persia in ...
Premiere: Fri 29. Jun. 2018 | no further performances this season
