Giuseppe Verdi [1813 – 1901]

In Benedikt von Peter’s production of Verdi’s pharaonic opera, exotic Egypt is only visible as a dreamworld depicted on postcards. In this version of the work, which occupies the entire auditorium, the focus is on Radames’s dichotomy between the sobering reality of his everyday activities and his desire to find the woman of his dreams … Conductor: Carlo Montanaro; production: Benedikt von Peter; With Yulia Matochkina, Sondra Radvanovsky, Jorge Puerta a. o.

Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848)

Donizetti tells the tragic fate of Henry VIII's unhappy second wife, who ends up under the executioner's axe, with unadorned clarity. And especially in the drawing of the title character, he succeeds in placing virtuoso vocal technique entirely at the service of highly romantic emotional expression ... Conductor: Enrique Mazzola / Daniele Squeo (March); Production: David Alden; With Riccardo Fassi, Federica Lombardi, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya / Jana Kurucová, Padraic Rowan, René Barbera / Xabier Anduaga, Karis Tucker / Arianna Manganello a. o.

Rued Langgaard (1893 – 1952)

Langgaard's monolithic work creates an eschatological mystery play that pays homage to the fin de siècle with music reminiscent of Strauss and Wagner, but which does not deny Hindemith and Schönberg. Ersan Mondtag not only directs ANTIKRIST, but also designs the scenic set in his typical powerful expressionist style ... Conductor: Hermann Bäumer; Director: Ersan Mondtag; With Thomas Lehman, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Valeriia Savinskaia, Irene Roberts, Clemens Bieber, Maire Therese Carmack, Flurina Stucki, AJ Glueckert, Kieran Carrel, Philipp Jekal a. o.

Investigative music theatre by Christiane Mudra and Dariya Maminova

Technical innovations have long since permeated all areas of life. The world premiere BETA illuminates the potential of digital tools, but also the risks posed by non-transparent data sets and the monetisation of private user data. In her composition, Dariya Maminova artfully interweaves genres, mixes live sound with complex sound with complex electronics and plays again and again with the boundaries of our perception of analogue and digitally produced music. Production: Christiane Mudra; With Hye-Young Moon, Youngkwang Oh

Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875)

Bizet described his opera as an "operetta with a bad ending" - and rightly so, because what is unique about CARMEN is the mixture of romantic opera, realistic drama and Offenbach operetta. Ole Anders Tandberg's production tells the story in powerful images that constantly alternate between shock, grotesqueness and great emotion ... Conductor: Ben Glassberg; Production: Ole Anders Tandberg; With Aigul Akhmetshina, Maria Motolygina, Matthew Newlin / David Butt Philip, Byung Gil Kim a. o.

Pietro Mascagni (1863 – 1945) / Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 – 1919)

The two most popular pieces of verismo, which conquered the Italian music world at the end of the 19th century, also form what is probably the most popular double bill in the opera repertoire. The bloody drama of jealousy by Pietro Mascagni's CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and the no less tragic PAGLIACCI by Ruggero Leoncavallo about a travelling troupe of actors and the revenge of the betrayed bajazzo on his wife and lover ... Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni; Staging: David Pountney; With Ildikó Komlósi, Mikhail Pirogov, Ivan Inverardi, Sua Jo a. o.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

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: Ivan Repusic / Dominic Limburg [12 Nov]; Production: Christian Spuck; With Tobias Kehrer / Patrick Guetti, Elisabeth Teige / Vida Mikneviciute [12, 24 Nov], Robert Watson, Michael Volle / Noel Bouley [24 Nov] a. o.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

A group of people meet a concert grand piano on an empty stage, a note is struck, and slowly a world of fantasy, longing and intoxication unfolds, captivating everyone and causing them to merge into a community. This is how DAS RHEINGOLD begins, directed by Stefan Herheim ... Conductor: Nicholas Carter [Cycle 1] / Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Stefan Herheim; With Iain Paterson, Thomas Lehman, Thomas Blondelle, Jordan Shanahan, Ya-Chung Huang, Albert Pesendorfer, Tobias Kehrer, Annika Schlicht, Flurina Stucki u. a.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

After the reign of the gods has reached its radiant zenith at the end of the RHEINGOLD with the entry into Valhalla Castle, the signs in the WALKÜRE are stormy: the people are frozen in greed for power, mistrust and possessiveness, the gods confine themselves only to monitoring compliance with the old laws instead of questioning their meaning ... Conductor: Nicholas Carter [Cycle 1] / Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Stefan Herheim; With Michael König, Tobias Kehrer, Derek Welton, Elisabeth Teige, Annika Schlicht, Ricarda Merbeth a. o. a.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

In the final part of the tetralogy, the theatrical devices that dominate Stefan Herheim's version of the RING also come together for the grand finale: the concert grand piano, where the play once began, is just as present as the white cloth, which, among other things, mutates into the shroud of the murdered hero. And, of course, the suitcases are also present, which in the course of the tetralogy have repeatedly created new landscapes and play situations. In the end, this world sinks, only to be reborn in the next play ... Conductor: Nicholas Carter [Cycle 1] / Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Stefan Herheim; With Clay Hilley, Thomas Lehman, Jordan Shanahan, Albert Pesendorfer, Ricarda Merbeth, Felicia Moore, Annika Schlicht a. o.

Richard Wagner [1813 – 1883]

Wagner described his SIEGFRIED as a "heroic comedy" which, in its balance between comic and tragic elements, remains the challenge for its directors to this day. For Herheim, it is the act of the play that joins the opposites into a whole. The boundaries between animal and human become as blurred as those between the characters and their creator... Conductor: Nicholas Carter [Cycle 1] / Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Stefan Herheim; With Clay Hilley, Ya-Chung Huang, Iain Paterson, Jordan Shanahan, Tobias Kehrer, Lindsay Ammann, Elisabeth Teige et al.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

The world of MEISTERSINGER is a closed system not only in the master singers' pedantic and by-the-book guild ironised by Wagner, but also in Nuremberg's urban society as a whole: the new – embodied by outsider Walther von Stolzing – cannot bring about revolutionary change, but rather is incorporated into the system. For their new production, Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock and Sergio Morabito investigate the mechanisms of such a hermetic artistic society. Can art claim artistic liberty in a conservative and dogmatic environment? And what potential does it hold to overthrow the system? ... Conductor: Ulf Schirmer; Staging: Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock, Sergio Morabito; With Johan Reuter, Albert Pesendorfer, Philipp Jekal, Magnus Vigilius, Ya-Chung Huang, Elena Tsallagova, Annika Schlicht a. o.

Samuel Penderbayne (*1989)

Kay has vanished. His personality changed overnight and he became mean and cruel. His best friend Gerda sallies forth in search of him and manages to liberate him from the ice palace of the snow queen. Singers, musicians and one actress narrate Andersen’s fairy tale as a funny, up-tempo road movie … Director: Brigitte Dethier; Mit Sophia Körber, Alexandra Ionis, Martin Gerke, Hanna Binder, Jone Bolibar Núñez, Louise Leverd, Jack Adler-McKean, Henriette Zahn, Daniel Eichholz

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

Mixing Viennese folk theatre, Masonic mystery and fairy tale, this opera is probably the most performed in the German-speaking world and, in Günter Krämer's colourful, highly visual production, a favourite with our audiences ... Conductor: Dominic Limburg / Giulio Cilona; Director: Günter Krämer; With Tobias Kehrer / Patrick Guetti / Ante Jerkunica, Matthew Newlin / Attilio Glaser / Kieran Carrel, Hye-Young Moon, Sua Jo / Siobhan Stagg / Lilit Davtyan, Flurina Stucki / Maria Motolygina, Karis Tucker / Annika Schlicht / Arianna Manganello / Irene Roberts, Lauren Decker, Lilit Davtyan / Hyejin Lee / Meechot Marrero, Philipp Jekal / Artur Garbas, Burkhard Ulrich / Gideon Poppe, Ya-Chung Huang a. o. a

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

In Mozart's dramma giocoso DON GIOVANNI, a character is up to mischief who seems familiar to us, whom we think we know, and yet who says of himself: "Who I am, you will never know." Director Roland Schwab purposefully made his way through the material, which is overloaded with interpretations, searching for his very own approach, finding the demonic Don Giovanni, one through whose eyes one can plunge into deep black holes one moment, only to succumb to his wit the next ... Conductor: Daniel Cohen; Director: Roland Schwab; With Davide Luciano, Flurina Stucki, Matthew Newlin, Patrick Guetti, Maria Motolygina, Joel Allison, Artur Garbas, Lilit Davtyan a. o.

An Ambush from Behind Festival to THE FLYING DUTCHMAN

An Ambush from Behind Festival for the FLYING DUTCHMAN with world premieres by Babelfis, Steve Mekoudja et al.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)

This opera is a monolith: it is considered the freedom opera par excellence and is probably the first-ever specifically German opera in its fusion of rescue opera, humanist oratorio and melodrama. David Hermann focuses on the manipulation mechanisms of power and powerlessness ... Conductor: Stephan Zilias; Director: David Hermann; With Philipp Jekal, Markus Brück, Valentyn Dytiuk, Flurina Stucki, Tobias Kehrer, Lilit Davtyan, Gideon Poppe a. o.

With and by gamut inc

The question of a possible coexistence of man and machine is at the centre of the robot trilogy by the retro-futuristic duo Gamut Inc. After OVER THE EDGE CLUB and ROSSUMS UNIVERSAL ROBOTS, they now transform the Tischlerei into a hybrid soundscape with the third part ZEROTH LAW - The Zeroth Law - together with the RIAS Chamber Choir and the music machines of the legendary robot orchestra founded by Godfried-Willem Raes at the Stichting Logos in Ghent.

A Search for Utopias

Based on Plato's writing, BANQUET attempts a reinterpretation of ancient Greek social practice and the issues negotiated in it. In a feminist ritual, we want to create communal utopias and proclaim a new age of love by singing, dancing, drinking and discussing together. BANQUET is an invitation to collective intoxication and a musical journey from baroque arias to Wagner and today's club sound.

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 – 1921)

The Grimm fairy tale is well-known, Humperdinck's score oscillates between nursery rhyme and late romantic, opulent Wagnerian sound. Andreas Homoki's lovingly child-friendly production of the Christmas opera classic has been in the repertoire of the theatre for almost 25 years and continues to inspire children, parents and grandparents for the world of musical theatre ... Conductor: Dominic Limburg; Director: Andreas Homoki; With Samuel Dale Johnson / Joel Allison, Maria Motolygina / Ulrike Helzel, Irene Roberts / Karis Tucker, Meechot Marrero / Alexandra Hutton, Burkhard Ulrich / Patrick Cook, Sua Jo a. o.

Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868)

For 200 years Rossini’s BARBIERE has been considered as the epitome of musical comedy. The archetypes of commedia dell’arte are constantly shimmering through the storyline revolving around the resourceful Figaro – an ambiguity that is not lost in Katharina Thalbach’s vibrant and hectic production … Conducted by Giulio Cilona/Lorenzo Passerini; directed by Katharina Thalbach; with Kangyoon Shine Lee / Juan de Dios Mateos, Alexey Zelenkov / Misha Kiria, Arianna Manganello / Cecilia Molinari / Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Philipp Jekal / Mattia Olivieri, Gerard Farreras / Patrick Guetti, Flurina Stucki a. o.

Giorgio Battistelli [*1953]

In his 1968 film "Teorema", Pasolini formulated a radical reckoning with the bourgeoisie: the upper-middle-class family at the centre of the work is held together only by conventions, and the erotic seductive power of a stranger alone is enough to break apart this ossified system. Battistelli has been fascinated by "Teorema" ever since he first set the material to music for the Munich Biennale in 1992 at Henze's suggestion, at that time as a chamber opera with silent actors. Now, 30 years later, Battistelli is shaping the Pasolini original as a grand opera ... Conductor: Daniel Cohen; Director: Dead Centre; With Ángeles Blancas Gulin, Davide Damiani, Monica Bacelli, Nikolay Borchev, Meechot Marrero, Andrei Danilov

IL TABARRO - SUOR ANGELICA - GIANNI SCHICCHI: An Opera Triptych by Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini composed three scores for his cycle IL TRITTICO, first performed in 1918, which once again bundle what Italian opera could be in those years. His triptych lives from contrasts and reflections between the pieces and ultimately revolves around a single motif: death as the central point of reference in life ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles / John Fiore [Dec.]; Production: Pınar Karabulut; With Misha Kiria, Jonathan Tetelman / Mikhail Pirogov, Carmen Giannattasio, Mané Galoyan / Maria Motolygina, Violeta Urmana / Annika Schlicht, Andrei Danilov a. o.

Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868)

Since Rossini's coronation opera was rediscovered in 1984, this performance show of bel canto has gained a firm place in the repertoire. At the same time, the story about the noble spa guests and their failed travel plan is a marvellous piece of absurd theatre, which Jan Bosse has staged as a satire about the "Hospital Europa" ... Conductor: Michele Spotti / Giulio Cilona; Director: Jan Bosse; With Elena Tsallagova / Lilit Davtyan, Elmina Hasan, Hye-Young Moon, Hulkar Sabirova, Mingjie Lei, Omar Mancini, Joel Allison, Artur Garbas, Philipp Jekal, Kyle Miller / Dean Murphy a. o.

Richard Strauss [1864 – 1949]

New opera material for a new time - this was not only sought by the avant-gardists in the 1920s. Old master Richard Strauss went even further and brought not only a story from the modern world, but also, barely veiled, his own married life to the stage ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles / Dominic Limburg; Production: Tobias Kratzer; With Thomas Johannes Mayer, Maria Bengtsson / Flurina Stucki [June], Thomas Blondelle a. o.

Ballet for children, aged 4 and over, with music by Edvard Grieg, Alexander Konstantinowitsch Glasunow and Herman Severin Løvenskiold

Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up, has been playing his games for over 100 years. In this version by the Kinder Ballett Kompanie Berlin, Michael, John and Wendy experience exciting adventures on the island of Neverland together with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. But beware of Captain Hook! ... A choreography by David Simic based on the stories by James Matthew Barrie with music by Edvard Grieg, Herman Severin Løvenskiold and Alexander Glasunow ... The students of the Kinder Ballett Kompanie Berlin dance.

Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)

Puccini’s rendition in opera form of »Scenes of Bohemian Life« is the best-known opera portraying the lives of artists and at the same time a depiction of a group of young people drifting through life with no consideration of the consequences. Götz Friedrich’s opulent production reflects the gleam and grime of Belle Époque Paris … Conductor: Giulio Cilona; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Attilio Glaser, Dean Murphy, Thomas Lehman, Gerard Farreras, Sua Jo, Elisa Verzier a.o.

Amilcare Ponchielli (1834 – 1886)

In the early 1970s, Filippo Sanjust found historical prospectuses of LA GIOCONDA from the time of its premiere around 1876 in a Roman studio. The costume designs had also been preserved and so Sanjust set about reconstructing this production for the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In old Italian perspective painting, the Doge's Palace, the Ca' d'Oro or the Giudecca on the Orfano Canal appear on stage and unfold their maelstrom ... Conductor: John Fiore / Giulio Cilona [24 Feb]; Director: Filippo Sanjust; With Carmen Giannattasio, Marianne Cornetti, Marko Mimica, Judit Kutasi / Annika Schlicht, Joseph Calleja, Noel Bouley a. o.

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)

In setting »La Dame aux Camélias« to music, Verdi explored, in a shockingly direct way, two big themes of the 19th century: prostitution and consumption. Götz Friedrich’s production stresses the futility of Violetta Valéry’s attempt to escape her fate … Conductor: Ivan Repušić / Dominic Limburg; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Aida Garifullina / Mané Galoyan, Pene Pati / Pavol Breslik, Thomas Lehman / Markus Brück, Arianna Manganello a.o.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

In the historicising sets by Herbert Wernicke, Götz Friedrich's production is still, after 35 years, an ideal platform for the ensemble of the house to present their joy of playing and singing culture ... Conductor: Corrado Rovaris / Giulio Cilona; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Thomas Lehman, Maria Motolygina, Elisa Verzier, Meechot Marrero, Artur Garbas a.o.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

Soon after the failure of the 1848 revolution, the political refugee Richard Wagner wrote his LOHENGRIN: an opera about a hero who tries in vain to pacify a divided people. Kasper Holten's production deliberately leaves open whether this leader fights by fair means ... Conductor: James Conlon; Director: Kasper Holten; With Ryan Speedo Green, David Butt Philip, Jennifer Davis, Jordan Shanahan, Yulia Matochkina, Dean Murphy a.o.

Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848)

A historicised staging forms the backdrop for Lucia's tragedy, which is negotiated as a pledge of military alliances. Her heart belongs to Edgardo, the mortal enemy of her brother Enrico, who has other plans for his sister. With its nostalgic atmosphere, Filippo Sanjust's production is a classic in the repertoire ... Conductor: Carlo Montanaro / Ivan Repušić; Director: Filippo Sanjust; With Thomas Lehman / Andrzej Filończyk, Aigul Kishmatullina / Adela Zaharia, Ioan Hotea, Andrei Danilov / Matthew Newlin, Gerard Farreras / Byung-Gil Kim a. o.

Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)

Puccini‘s »Japanese tragedy« is more than simply one of the supremely emotional works of musical theatre; it is also unsparingly critical of imperialism as a system. 15-year-old Cio-Cio-San falls victim to a callous patriarchy and a chauvinism that runs rough-shod over the values of other cultures ... Conductor: Ivan Francesco Ciampa / Yi-Chen Lin; Director: Pier Luigi Samaritani; With Elena Stikhina / Asmik Grigorian, Karis Tucker / Irene Roberts, Rodrigo Porras Garulo / Jonathan Tetelman / Joshua Guerrero, Markus Brück / Dong-Hwan Lee, Burkhard Ulrich / Gideon Poppe a.o.

Johann Sebastian Bach [1685 – 1750]

The reports of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in the Bibles are among the foundations of European culture. Bach created a musical ritual for the believing congregation of his time with "Matthew Passion". But what does the Passion mean for a diverse society in which the Christian religion is increasingly losing relevance? What do its central motifs mean - betrayal, hatred, fear of death, trust, love and forgiveness - performed in a secular opera house? How much distance is created? And what kind of community can be experienced in a performance in which the audience and Berlin amateur choruses are also invited to sing along? ... Conductor: Alessandro De Marchi; Director: Benedikt von Peter; With Kieran Carrel, Padraic Rowan, Michael Bachtadze, Artur Garbas, Siobhan Stagg, Annika Schlicht, Joel Allison a. o.

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)

Keith Warner's production of Verdi's first successful opera emphasises the basic idea of reconciliation with which the work concludes: Under the wise King Nabucco, the Hebrew people of the Scriptures and the Babylonian warriors may hope for a peaceful future ... Conductor: Giampaolo Bisanti; Director: Keith Warner; With Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Jorge Puerta, Roberto Tagliavini, Ekaterina Sementschuk, Irene Roberts a. o.

John Adams [*1947]

Two of the most powerful men in the world shake hands - and the world watches: With their opera about the state visit of American President Richard Nixon to Mao Tse-tung in 1972, composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman brought contemporary history to the stage ... Conductor: Daniel Carter; Production: Hauen und Stechen; With Kyle Miller, Thomas Lehman, Seth Carico, , Ya-Chung Huang, Heidi Stober, Hye-Young Moon a. o.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

In the story about the "pure fool", Philipp Stölzl places questions about the fanaticism of hermetic religious communities at the centre of his interpretation: an anti-Enlightenment world view, belief in miracles, the violent exclusion of outsiders are themes that he shapes in tableaux vivants as a time travel through two millennia... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Philipp Stölzl; With Jordan Shanahan, Günther Groissböck, Klaus Florian Vogt, Joachim Goltz, Irene Roberts a. o.

Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893)

Tchaikovsky's second most popular opera today, after EUGEN ONEGIN, inspires above all by its sheer size: in PIQUE DAME the mood skilfully changes from large, representative choral and ensemble opera to psychological chamber play scenes. The glamour of a sophisticated elite meets the misery of the proletariat ... Conductor: Sebastian Weigle; Director: Sam Brown; With Martin Muehle, Sondra Radvanovsky, Hanna Schwarz, Lucio Gallo, Thomas Lehman / Dean Murphy, Annika Schlicht / Karis Tucker a. o.

Whether techno is played on acoustic instruments, experimental instrumentations are used or styles such as rock, indie, pop and electronic music are merged with relish. After the Tischlerei and Kulissenmagazin were the floors last year, this year's festival will take place on the main stage. The festival is an invitation to the open and a platform for artists who expand the term "jazz" to a very inspiring and broader definition than is traditionally the case.

Three hot acts bring handmade, rousing dancefloor sound and show that electronic music and classical-acoustic instruments, club culture and opera go together. Among them are Brandt Brauer Frick, who have been making their mark on the scene with their fusion of electronic dance music, jazz and contemporary-classical music since their founding in 2008. The duo Ameli Paul is known for its fusion of infectious beats, dreamy soundscapes and mesmerising tunes. So secure your tickets quickly and: Put on your dancing shoes!

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)

In his opera about the hunchbacked court jester, Verdi took the tension between the improbabilities of the plot and the emotional overwhelming power of musical theatre to extremes. Jan Bosse's production tells the tragedy of a man who fails to separate private life and public action ... Conductor: Sesto Quatrini; Director: Jan Bosse; With Andrei Danilov, Roman Burdenko, Julia Muzychenko / Aigul Kishmatullina, Patrick Guetti, Annika Schlicht a.o.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

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: Pietari Inkinen; Director: Kirsten Harms; With Tobias Kehrer, Clay Hilley, Samuel Hasselhorn, Elisabeth Teige a. o.

Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)

This TOSCA production is deserved of listed status after a performance history stretching back over half a century. Not that the atmospheric sets depicting the original locations in Rome - a timeless backdrop for great musical theatre - have lost any of their charm in over 400 performances of the work ... Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni / Andrea Battistoni; Director: Boleslaw Barlog; With Carmen Giannattasio / Elena Stikhina / Camilla Nylund, Martin Muehle / Vittorio Grigolo, Ludovic Tézier / Gevorg Hakobyan / Erwin Schrott a.o.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

Musically highly romantic and crossing the threshold to modernity, Wagner lets his couple run with existential inexorability into a hopeless dilemma. Disturbing and fascinating in its uncompromising portrayal of obsessive love, this work - based on a myth - has become a myth itself ... Conductor: Juraj Valčuha; Director: Graham Vick; With Michael Weinius, Günther Groissböck, Tamara Wilson, Leonardo Lee, Jörg Schörner, Annika Schlicht a. o.

Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)

In his last, unfinished opera Puccini addressed the aesthetic of cinema, the new medium for mass consumption. In his version of the work Lorenzo Fioroni makes a connection between the repressed, yet sensationalist Chinese opera people and the consumers of modern media content … Conductor: John Fiore / Giulio Cilona; Director: Lorenzo Fioroni; With Catherine Foster / Ewa Plonka, Clemens Bieber, Martin Muehle / Jorge Puerta, Maria Motolygina / Sua Jo, Joel Allison / Samuel Dale Johnson, Gideon Poppe / Andrew Dickinson, Ya-Chung Huang a. o.

George Benjamin [*1960]

Based on a text from medieval sources, author Martin Crimp, composer George Benjamin and director Katie Mitchell succeeded with WRITTEN ON SKIN 2012 in creating a sensational parable about identity, love and the power of literature and art ... Conductor: Marc Albrecht; Director: Katie Mitchell; With Mark Stone, Vera-Lotte Boecker, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Irene Roberts, Chance Jonas-O'Toole a. o.