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22, 29 March; 1 April 2025

Elektra

In the permanent memory of her father's murder, Elektra tyrannises life at court and falls into a veritable frenzy of revenge. To give his opera the force of Attic tragedy, Strauss exploited the possibilities of the orchestra to the extreme and demands nothing less than the maximum of drama from his heroine ... Conductor: Thomas Søndergard; Director: Kirsten Harms; With Doris Soffel, Elena Pankratova, Camilla Nylund, Burkhard Ulrich, Tobias Kehrer a. o.
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5, 13 April 2025

Tannhäuser

Wagner's opera about the Minnesinger torn between earthly and heavenly love is one of the works that has shaped the artistic identity of the house over decades - not least because of the famous Pilgrims' Chorus, which is the showpiece of our chorus. In Kirsten Harms' colourful production, which evokes the imagery of the Middle Ages, the members of the chorus appear effectively not only as penitents but also as a magnificently decked-out court company ... Conductor: John Fiore; Director: Kirsten Harms; With Tobias Kehrer, Klaus Florian Vogt, Samuel Hasselhorn, Elisabeth Teige a. o.
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12, 19, 27 April 2025

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Wagner's only cheerful opera, in its summer-night drunken play about delusion and reality, love, ageing and the practice of art, is the work in which everything revolves around the theme of life under the sign of music ... Conductor: Ulf Schirmer; Production: Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock, Sergio Morabito; With Thomas J. Mayer, Albert Pesendorfer, Philipp Jekal, Magnus Vigilius, Chance Jonas-O'Toole, Elena Tsallagova, Annika Schlicht a. o.
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21, 26 April 2025

Der fliegende Holländer

The eerie world of Romanticism with its revenants and ghost ships inspired Wagner to write his first mature work. Christian Spuck tells the story of the "Cursed of the Seas" and the lonely captain's daughter as a dark fairy tale from the memory of Senta's spurned admirer, the hunter Erik ... Conductor: Giulio Cilona; Production: Christian Spuck; With Patrick Guetti, Flurina Stucki, Kieran Carrel, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Andrei Danilov, Derek Welton / Joachim Goltz a. o.
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Ticket sales for both cycles from 16 May to 31 May 2026 will begin on 1 February 2025

Der Ring des Nibelungen

In May 2026, you can experience two cycles of the RING DES NIBELUNGEN in Stefan Herheim's production with artists such as Ya-Chung Huang (Mime), Iain Paterson and Thomas J. Mayer (Wotan), Annika Schlicht (Fricka), Michael Sumuel (Alberich), Matthew Newlin (Siegmund), Elisabeth Teige (Sieglinde, Brünnhilde), Clay Hilley (Siegfried), Trine Møller and Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde) and Albert Pesendorfer (Hagen / Fasolt). These eight performances also mark the farewell of our General Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles... The performances of the first cycle from 16 to 25 May are available individually; the performances of the second cycle from 26 to 31 May are only available as a four-performance package.
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‘Best Director’ – OPER! AWARDS 2025

Congratulations to Tobias Kratzer

We are delighted that Tobias Kratzer was honoured as ‘Best Director’ at the 2025 OPER! AWARDS on 21 February 2025 at the Théâtre La Monnaie in Brussels. Our warmest congratulations! The award also expressly refers to his production of Richard Strauss' INTERMEZZO, which he created together with Sir Donald Runnicles and Philipp Jekal as the court conductor Storch and Maria Bengtsson as his wife Christine at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in spring 2024. ‘As a director, he's on a roll. All four of his opera productions in 2024 have been hits. (...) At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, he discovers the distressed woman behind the Xanthippe in Richard Strauss' Intermezzo. He succeeds in doing so in a surprising, clever, multi-layered way, convincing with details, humour and precise characterisation. The award for best director therefore goes to the future artistic director of the Hamburg State Opera: Tobias Kratzer.’ INTERMEZZO will be performed again on 13, 16 and 23 March 2025.
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Intermezzo
on LOHENGRIN – 6, 11, 20 April 2025

Jordan Shanahan … My private place of peace

‘The place where I feel most serene and content is the Rose Garden overlooking the old centre of Bern and with fantastic rooftop views across to the Alps. It’s more than just a park to me; it’s a source of inspiration and somewhere I can pause and reflect ... I often come here, sometimes on my own to go over a role, sometimes with my son, who’s mad about the big playground. While he’s doing his thing I’m sitting on a bench or on the grass, mugging up on a part.’ Telramund also opened up Jordan Shanahan in the Rose Garden in Bern. For a baritone, Telramund is ‘one of the most difficult roles‘ because ’Wagner has cast the character's restlessness in music that hardly knows moments of pause.’ Read Shanahan's thoughts on Telramund in the blog and see him perform as Telramund in April, alongside Attilio Glaser, Flurina Stucki and Nina Stemme in Wagner's LOHENGRIN.
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Lohengrin
on LOHENGRIN – 6, 11, 20 April 2025

Seven questions for ... Nina Stemme

‘I always look for a human element in the character I’m playing, even if the first impression is of a cold or unscrupulous person. Ortrud has depth. Far from being one-dimensionally bad, she’s a woman who’s come down in the world and is trying to hang on to power. There are times when I even pity her. Then again, the music doesn’t let you get too positive in your portrayal of her. Wagner’s very clear in his composition that Ortrud is a destructive quantity,’ says Nina Stemme about Ortrud in Wagner's LOHENGRIN. In April, the Swedish soprano, who is well known to you from countless roles here at the opera house, will present herself in this role for the first time. Read about ‘power, manipulation and musical extremes’ in the blog or experience Nina Stemme alongside Attilio Glaser, Flurina Stucki and Jordan Shanahan in Wagner's LOHENGRIN.
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Jules Massenet: Hérodiade

Few female figures have inspired the art of the late 19th century as enduringly as the Judean princess Salome. In France in particular, writers, painters and composers were fascinated by this material and its blend of Orientalism and decadence, of eroticism and opulence. Jules Massenet also took up the story, although at the centre of his HÉRODIADE is not, as it was a quarter of a century later for Richard Strauss, the royal child-woman Salome, but her mother Herodias, the wife of King Herod. And while Strauss would later push open the door to the 20th century with his first operatic success, in Massenet's work, 19th-century grand opera celebrates one of its last triumphs, complete with pathos, posturing and a Hollywood-style script. Under the direction of Enrique Mazzola, you can hear Etienne Dupuis, Clémentine Margaine, Nicole Car and Matthew Polenzani, among others.
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The Antichrist makes his entrance into a godless world. Sent by Lucifer into the world, he adopts many guises. Mankind is tested and tempted by pride, lust, lies, despondency and hatred in an “all-against-all altercation”. Langgaard’s opera is suffused with fin de siècle atmosphere and pessimism, denouncing the vices of the modern age: egotism, arrogance, frivolity. Langgaard, though, was also an optimist, convinced of the transformative power of art and the importance of music as a thread connecting people to the godhead. ANTIKRIST has now been released on DVD and Blu-ray. Conducted by Stephan Zilias, the production by Ersan Mondtag features Thomas Lehman, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Valeriia Savinskaia, Irene Roberts, Clemens Bieber, Maire Therese Carmack, Flurina Stucki, AJ Glueckert, Andrew Dickinson and Joel Allison. This DVD was awarded the ‘Diamant d'Opéra’ by ‘Opéra Magazine’ in December 2024.
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