Opera Repertoire
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 ...
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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: ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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THE ART OF Jakub Józef Orlinski
Der polnische Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński studierte an der Juilliard School bei Edith Wiens und der Fryderyk-Chopin-Musikuniversität in Warschau ...
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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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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 - ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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