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 ...
no further performances this seasonSounds 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 ...
no further performances this seasonConstance, 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 ...
no further performances this seasonVioletta 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. 2025Scarpia, 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. 2024In 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, ...
no further performances this seasonFlorestan has been unjustly incarcerated for “fighting for the truth”. The governor of the state prisons, Pizarro, is responsible and therefore needs to ...
no further performances this seasonNever 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“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. 2024Senta'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“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. 2024Sonya 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 ...
no further performances this seasonWhat 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, ...
no further performances this seasonDrama 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 ...
no further performances this seasonNagasaki, 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 ...
no further performances this seasonThree 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 ...
no further performances this seasonLucia 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, ...
no further performances this seasonWhen 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 ...
no further performances this seasonIn 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 ...
no further performances this seasonCenerentola 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 ...
no further performances this seasonCAVALLERIA 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 ...
no further performances this seasonYoung 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. 2025Don 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. 2025Der polnische Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński studierte an der Juilliard School bei Edith Wiens und der Fryderyk-Chopin-Musikuniversität in Warschau ...
no further performances this seasonDuring 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. 2025A 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 - ...
no further performances this seasonA 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. 2025Tristano 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 ...
no further performances this seasonCocooned 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 seasonCarmen 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: Tue 24. Sep. 2024Seeking 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. 2025In 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. 2024The 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"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. 2024This 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. 2024Die gefeierte Sopranistin und Wagner-Star mit einem ihrer seltenen Gala-Konzerte, begleitet vom Philharmonischen Staatsorchester Hamburg. Unter dem ...
next performance: Sat 18. Jan. 2025Eine Zusammenarbeit der Hamburgischen Staatsoper und des Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles Ernst Krenek (1900–1991) Der Diktator op. 49 ...
next performance: Fri 31. Jan. 2025Opéra 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. 2025California 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. 2025Der 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. 2025Sir 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. 2025In 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. 2025The 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. 2025Inspired 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. 2025Auf 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: Tue 03. Dec. 2024Mit Musik aus Sergei Prokofjews „Ein Sommertag“ und Georges Bizets „Jeux d’enfants“ Max hat große Sehnsucht nach seinem Opa, der „nicht mehr alle ...
no further performances this seasonHüpf! 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