Opera Repertoire
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 ...
no further performances this season
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 ...
no further performances this season
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: Thu 22. May. 2025
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 ...
no further performances this season
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, ...
no further performances this season
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. – ...
no further performances this season
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 ...
no further performances this season
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 ...
no further performances this season
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 ...
no further performances this season
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 28. Dec. 2024
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
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
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: Tue 28. Jan. 2025
„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 ...
next performance: Fri 31. Jan. 2025
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
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: Tue 25. Feb. 2025
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: Sat 08. Mar. 2025
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
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
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
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 ...
next performance: Thu 27. Mar. 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
next performance: Sat 07. Jun. 2025
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 22. Jun. 2025
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: Fri 27. Jun. 2025
opera stabile Repertoire
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 ...
no further performances this season
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 ...
next performance: Sat 26. Apr. 2025
Jung Repertoire
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 ...
next performance: Fri 20. Jun. 2025
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
