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Past Shows
IL TRITTICO
9/24
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2/24/2024
Three gripping and beautiful one-act operas written by Giacomo Puccini that includes Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi. The first two operas follow the ...
LE GRAND MACABRE
11/5
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11/23/2023
György Ligeti's opera Le grand macabre portrays a society on the brink of an apocalypse. The story, taken from Michel de Ghelderode's play of the ...
Mozart’s penultimate work is perhaps also his most puzzling one. Tamino’s escape and unconsciousness open up the first act. When he is awoken with the ...
Carmen, a sizzling opera composed by Georges Bizet, is a timeless tale of love, jealousy, and fiery passion. Debuting at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in ...
With its particularly strong and poignant action this grand opéra highlights two Jewish people's outsider status through intrigue, love and oppression. This work, from 1835, ...
Mozart’s penultimate work is perhaps also his most puzzling one. Tamino’s escape and unconsciousness open up the first act. When he is awoken with the ...
Carmen, a sizzling opera composed by Georges Bizet, is a timeless tale of love, jealousy, and fiery passion. Debuting at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in ...
With its particularly strong and poignant action this grand opéra highlights two Jewish people's outsider status through intrigue, love and oppression. This work, from 1835, ...
Mozart’s penultimate work is perhaps also his most puzzling one. Tamino’s escape and unconsciousness open up the first act. When he is awoken with the ...
Carmen, a sizzling opera composed by Georges Bizet, is a timeless tale of love, jealousy, and fiery passion. Debuting at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in ...
With its particularly strong and poignant action this grand opéra highlights two Jewish people's outsider status through intrigue, love and oppression. This work, from 1835, ...
With its particularly strong and poignant action this grand opéra highlights two Jewish people's outsider status through intrigue, love and oppression. This work, from 1835, ...
LIEBESLIEDER
1/24
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1/31/2022
Liebeslieder brings you on a romantic journey of love, loss and hope through the music of Brahms and Schumann. Join the acclaimed singers of New ...
PIQUE DAME
1/23
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1/30/2022
Alexander Puschkins fesselnde Erzählung „Pique Dame“ vereinigt die spannungsvollen Momente einer Gruselgeschichte und eines Krimis und ist poetisch zugleich. In berührender Weise blickt Puschkin in ...
PETER GRIMES
1/26
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1/29/2022
Peter Grimes does not fit. Society have their eye over the shoulder and whisper among themselves his name. Certainly, Grimes committed a crime? He was ...
PIQUE DAME
1/21
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1/27/2022
Alexander Puschkins fesselnde Erzählung „Pique Dame“ vereinigt die spannungsvollen Momente einer Gruselgeschichte und eines Krimis und ist poetisch zugleich. In berührender Weise blickt Puschkin in ...
Overflowing with yearning and heartbreaking melancholy, Massenet’s most romantic tragedy is inspired by a true story of unrequited love. The passionate James Valenti returns to ...
Don Pasquale
10/28
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6/16/2017
The old, wealthy, but miserly bachelor Don Pasquale wants to marry off his nephew Ernesto: to a wealthy woman. Ernesto however prefers the young, destitute ...
ACT I Rome in the year 1800. Republicans pinning their hopes on Napoleon are being subjected to a rule of terror. One of their leaders, ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro - one of the most popular and most frequently performed works at the Vienna State Opera - tells ...
The mandarin proclaims the law: Turandot will only marry the man who can solve three riddles that she poses. But whoever fails must die – ...
In St. Mark’s Gospel, Chapter VI, verse 17 we read: „For Herod had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison ...
ACT 1 In front of Dr. Bartolo’s house. count Almaviva has hired some musicians to serenade his beloved Rosina, Dr. Bartolo’s niece. But Rosina fails ...
La Bohème
11/14
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11/20/2016
In composing La Bohème, Puccini created what is probably the most moving and tender love story in operatic literature. Embedded in the most magnificent melodies, ...
In the work of Edwaard Liang, the clearly defined, almost crystalline geometry of George Balanchine’s neoclassicism meets freely flowing “biological” forms: patterns of bird swarms, ...
Massenet's musical rendering of the story of the frivolous and charming Manon, to whom the young nobleman Des Grieux loses his heart, has been one ...
La cenerentola
11/3
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11/10/2016
Rossini's La Cenerentola tells the familiar fairy tale of Cinderella anew. A work full of wit, a wealth of melodies and burlesquesituations....
Alcina
10/20
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10/30/2016
ACT 1? Bradamante is searching for Ruggiero, to whom she is betrothed. She has disguised herself as a soldier and is travelling under the name ...
Armide
10/16
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10/29/2016
The works of Christoph Willibald Gluck were still a popular feature of the programme at the Vienna Court Opera until the end of the 19th ...
Le Corsaire
9/17
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10/17/2016
Since its very first performance 1856 at the Paris Opera, this work has been regarded as one of the most impressive of the narrative ballets ...
Who does not know it? The musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf, by Sergei Prokofiev has enchanted generations of children (and adults)? For the ...
Act 1 Under the leadership of their King Amonasro, the Ethiopians are again threatening the kingdom of Egypt. At the advice of the goddess Isis, ...
Pünktchen lives with her wealthy parent, Mr. and Mrs. Pogge, the cook Berta and the nanny, Miss devotion, in a nice big apartment. Unfortunately Tiny ...
Simon Boccanegra
9/30
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10/6/2016
The corsair Simon Boccanegra has been elected Doge of Genoa thanks to the assistance of Paolo Albiani. He hopes that in this position the patrician ...
act 1 The Tyrolean Mountains The Marquise de Berkenfield and their managers Hortensius be surprised on the day of their flight to Austria from the ...
Lohengrin
9/5
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9/18/2016
With Hungary threatening East Francia after a nine-year truce, King Henry I is visiting all his duchies and counties to assemble a large army. He ...
Madama Butterfly
9/8
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9/14/2016
act 1 Near Nagasaki the lieutenant of the American Navy Pinkerton visited a house which he wants to rent from the owner Goro. Here he ...
ACT 1 A bright and sunny midday in Seville. There is a colourful, lively crowd on the square; nearby is a guardhouse and a cigarette ...
Le Nozze di Figaro
11/27
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6/28/2016
ACT 1 Figaro and Susanna, the countess’s maid, want to get married. Susanna explains to her unsuspecting fiancé why their new bedroom is situated directly ...
Shortly after the world premiere in Florence in 1847, Verdi declared that he liked Macbeth better than any other opera. And what is more: “I ...
La traviata
9/9
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5/23/2016
Scene 1 Violetta Valéry, a radiant and well-to-do Parisian courtesan, who seems to have fully recovered from a serious illness, is giving a festive party ...
ACT I Rome in the year 1800. Republicans pinning their hopes on Napoleon are being subjected to a rule of terror. One of their leaders, ...
La Bohème
11/7
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3/26/2016
Act 1 In the garret: Christmas Eve in the squalid garret in which four young artists live is hardly likely to be different from any ...
Peter Mattei recreates his winning portrayal of the barber in Bartlett Sher’s popular production, which propels the comic action right into the audience. Isabel Leonard ...
Rigoletto
9/4
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1/31/2016
Rigoletto, the first work of "Trilogia popolare" Verdi, was from the beginning a great success: first performed in 1851 in Venice, it brings the great ...
In St. Mark’s Gospel, Chapter VI, verse 17 we read: „For Herod had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison ...
L'elisir d'amore
9/25
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1/13/2016
ACT 1 Adina, a tenant farmer in a rather remote village, is young, rich – and well-read. She is greatly admired by Nemorino, a penniless ...
It is early one morning. The field marshal's wife, neglected by her husband, has spent a night f rapturous passion with her lover Octavian. Without ...
Don Quixote
9/18
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1/5/2016
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ride again! Here they are guided by their creator, Miguel de Cervantes, in person. In this "buddies on the road" ...
The plot of Die Fledermaus is woven around a ball given by Prince Orlofsky. During the first act, a whole host of characters are irresistibly ...
La cenerentola
9/16
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12/29/2015
Act I Don Magnifico, Baron of Montefiascone, lives with his two daughters and his step-daughter in a rather dilapidated mansion. While Clorinda and Thisbe spend ...
The Makropulos Case
12/13
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12/23/2015
The Makropulos Affair is is all about the recipe for a secret potion that will extend the life of one who drinks it. And Emilia ...
Hänsel und Gretel
11/19
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12/4/2015
Leading composer-conductors like Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss were enthusiastic advocates of productions of Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel – Strauss even conducted the ...
Elektra
11/13
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11/25/2015
Background Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, and his wife Clytemnestra have four children: Iphigenia, Electra, Chrysothemis and Orestes. When the Greek fleet is ready to set ...
Werther
11/11
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11/20/2015
In the middle of summer, the widowed magistrate is rehearsing Christmas carols with his young children. Werther, who comes to visit, rhapsodizes on the wonders ...
Anna Bolena
10/9
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10/23/2015
ACT 1 Anne Boleyn has been neglected by her husband, the English King Henry VIII. Sadly she recalls her first experience of true love with ...
The Tempest
10/12
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10/18/2015
Thomas Adès Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, was overthrown by his brother Antonio, who – assisted by the King of Naples – then set ...
Madama Butterfly
10/5
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10/11/2015
An American naval officer and a young geisha fall in love. She gives up everything to be with him but only a short time later, ...
Chowanschtschina
9/20
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9/30/2015
The overture "Dawn on the Moscow River": an era of tumult, everyone in the state is fighting everyone else to gain power At the present ...
Also found in this season again a chamber music series of the Vienna Philharmonic at the Vienna State Opera instead. On ten occasions present members ...
Daland the seafarer’s ship has been blown into a bay by a storm shortly before reaching home. The helmsman left on watch soon falls asleep. ...
The Wiener Staatsoper will open its new season again this year with an Open Door day. Visitors have the chance, to have a look behind ...
Rigoletto
12/20
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6/30/2015
Rigoletto, the first work of "trilogia Popolare" Verdi, from the start was a resounding success: in 1851 premiered in Venice, it brings the great themes ...
This popular comedy in the hilarious and witty production by Günther Rennert is popular with the public the very top. This opera, with its countless ...
L'elisir d'amore
9/19
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5/6/2015
Gaetano Donizetti Adina, Gutspächterin in a rather remote village, is young, rich - and well read. The penniless Nemorino she admires. The fellow wearing a ...
Madama Butterfly
1/30
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4/24/2015
act 1 In the vicinity of Nagasaki of the American Navy Lieutenant Pinkerton visited a cottage he wants to rent from the owner Goro. Here ...
Der Rosenkavalier
11/20
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4/12/2015
Richard Strauss It is early one morning. The field marshal's wife, neglected by her husband, has spent a night of rapturous passion with her lover ...
Schwanensee
9/22
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3/31/2015
On October 15, 1964, the ballet world looked to Vienna. Rudolf Nureyev, the most important dancers of the second half of the 20th century, had, ...
ACT I Rome in the year 1800. Republicans pinning their hopes on Napoleon are being subjected to a rule of terror. One of their leaders, ...
Ballett-Hommage
12/11
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3/26/2015
A tribute to the ballet, performed in various ways: on the one hand purist by Harald Landers brilliant "Etudes" (1948), a crescendo of the academic ...
Don Carlo
9/21
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3/1/2015
If love and high politics mingle, ultimately only human disasters occur. In Giuseppe Verdi's opera based on Friedrich Schiller, the emotional depths and shallows of ...
Simon Boccanegra
1/21
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2/1/2015
"The human heart is a source of eternal suffering", says the well by connoisseurs especially appreciated Simon Boccanegra. How hard is it to combine power ...
Pique Dame
1/16
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1/28/2015
ACT I Governesses are busy looking after the children entrusted to their care. Checkalinsky and Tsurin discuss the behavior of Herman, a morose outsider who ...
Tristan and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) is a musical drama by Richard Wagner, libretto by the composer. It is the masterpiece of German Romanticism, and ...
Die Zauberflöte
12/25
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1/11/2015
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's famous opera offers a range of interpretive perspectives: it can be understood as a fairy-tale magic game or as a mystical symbol ...
Der Nussknacker
12/22
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1/9/2015
"The Nutcracker" is probably the most frequently performed works of ballet literature. Become a key experience for generations of ballet visitors, it returns in a ...
This was a children’s book loved by generations: Mira Lobe’s Das Städtchen Drumherum affectionately and magnanimously focuses on the concept of conflict resolution that works ...
Die Fledermaus
12/31
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1/5/2015
With the bat, the waltz king created a masterpiece that has since been outdone within the genus "operetta": A brilliant music, coupled with a snappy ...
Le Nozze di Figaro
11/16
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11/25/2014
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro - one of the most popular and most frequently performed works at the Vienna State Opera - tells ...
The Cunning Little Vixen is a beautiful musical fairy tale - an opera that is suitable for all....
Romeo und Julia
11/1
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11/13/2014
John Cranko's version of Sergei Prokofiev in the thirties of the 20th century for the ballet stage set to music Shakespearean tragedy originated in 1962 ...
La Bohème
10/29
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11/7/2014
With La Bohème Puccini is probably the most moving and tender love story of operatic literature succeeded. Nestled in the wonderful melodies, the story of ...
Tannhäuser
10/22
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11/2/2014
Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, or Tannhäuser for short, is a Richard Wagner opera in three acts. The libretto was written by the composer ...
Ariadne auf Naxos
10/12
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10/23/2014
A wonderful comedy in which an exceptionally wealthy, but unsophisticated patron expresses the bizarre wish to have an opera performed simultaneously with a singspiel. After ...
Roberto Devereux
10/9
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10/17/2014
For a long time this opera from Gaetano Donizetti, which was unjustly neglected and written at a high point for him, shows: Wonderful melodic ideas, ...
A magnifique musique "And:" One should not think that in such a small head, so put something big "- the entzu?ckte consent of the Elector ...
As part of the Matinee Composed of, the Opera and the staging concept are presented, offered examples of music and artist interviews conducted with participants ...
In a restaurant on a swipe station in Amiens to enjoy the rich Guillot de Morfontaine and the tax farmers Brétigny with three girlfriends Pousette, ...
act I Feierabend in an American camp of miners. Nick, the bartender opens the serving, the workers return from their day's work and wait for ...
This opera - the composer's second last work - was written around 1900. Musically it is related both to the Czech national school and in ...
Overall, it is in this dark romantic opera around the cursed, damned to Untotheit figure of the Flying Dutchman, Wagner's fourth opera. However, she is ...
The Vienna State Opera also opened this year its new season with an open day. Visitors have the opportunity to take a detailed look behind ...
Götterdämmerung
6/8
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6/29/2014
Three Norns weaving the rope of destiny, describing past, present and future: silly ego robbery of gold of the Rhine, the curse of the ring, ...
The fourth Nureyev designed by Manuel Legris for the Vienna State Ballet Gala will be dedicated to a very special selection of program and international ...
Rome around 1800. The city groaning under a regime of terror. The revolutionary-minded painter Mario Cavaradossi is responsible, in the Church of Sant'Andrea della Valle ...
Siegfried
6/5
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6/25/2014
1. Lift Siegfried in MIME, the blacksmith, grew up in the forest. When he investigates his parents, MIME tells him of Siegfried's mother, who died ...
Die Walküre
5/15
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6/22/2014
1 Act The Wälsung Siegmund reached fleeing pursuers, severely exhausted the Hunding's dwelling place. His wife, Sieglinde, receives the hero and gives him to drink. ...
Ariadne auf Naxos
4/15
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6/20/2014
The livery of the richest man in Vienna is busy trying to set up the stage for a scheduled show at the Palace of their ...
Das Rheingold
5/30
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6/19/2014
In the depths of the Rhine, the three rhinemaidens guard the gold. The dwarf Alberich, the Lord of the Nibelungs, watched them and tried to ...
Die Zauberflöte
11/17
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6/17/2014
Mozart’s penultimate work is perhaps also his most puzzling one. Tamino’s escape and unconsciousness open up the first act. When he is awoken with the ...
L'elisir d'amore
11/8
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6/14/2014
Adina, estate tenants in a rather isolated village, is young, rich - and well read. She admires the penniless Nemorino. She wears a touching version ...
With the production of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann he debuted - extremely successful - at the Vienna State Opera at that time in Vienna little-known ...
La cenerentola
12/23
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6/2/2014
1 Act In a somewhat neglected Castle, Don Magnifico, Baron of Montefiascone, lives with two daughters and a stepdaughter. While Clorinda and synopsis are nothing ...
La traviata
9/3
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5/25/2014
1. Image Violetta Valéry, radiant heart of Paris Demimonde, is after an illness again seemingly recovered - in their home a feast where many men ...
Tito sacrifices his love to the will of the people. He separates from his lover, the Jewess of Berenice, and is ready to take a ...
1 Act Isolated, plagued by death longings, the aging Faust cursed all that, what he had previously ignored: luck, patience, faith, knowledge, fame and love. ...
Andrea Chénier
5/3
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5/9/2014
It is possible the young poet Andrea Chénier by his honest commitment to freedom and humanity, become suspicious in any political system: at a party ...
Pollicino
12/18
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5/8/2014
Hans Werner Henze's Pollicino, practically already a popular classic is a very special gift to the young visitors and visitors of the House: the opera ...
1 Part Jerusalem: There is war between Assyria and Israel. Nabucco, King of the Assyrians, has occupied Jerusalem, and the last survivors of the Israelites, ...
Der Rosenkavalier
10/20
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4/30/2014
The Feldmarschallin neglected by her husband uses the morning exchanging caresses with her lover, the young count Oktavian. Since her cousin, Baron Ochs of Lerchenau ...
Lohengrin
4/12
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4/28/2014
Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner. Performed in German with Japanese subtitles....
Schwanensee
3/16
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4/26/2014
On October 15, 1964, the ballet world in Vienna looked. Rudolf Nurejew, the most important dancer of the second half of the 20th century, had, ...
Parsifal
4/17
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4/24/2014
The Grail King Amfortas went out to fight against Klingsor. He had who applied for admission into the Grail community and for even castrated themselves, ...
Madama Butterfly
11/11
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4/14/2014
1 Act Near the city of Nagasaki, the Lieutenant of the American marine Pinkerton visited a House that he wants to rent of owned Goro. ...
Masterpieces of the 20th century "made in France": Serge Lifar, an icon of the French Ballet, operates through its created in 1943 for the Paris ...
Rigoletto
4/1
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4/10/2014
1. Image Hall in the Palace of the Duke: with his court, the young, Bohemian Duke of Mantua commits a sumptuous feast. Just telling of ...
The young Count Almaviva from Seville is immortal in Dr. Bartolos Ward, Rosina falls in love with. Under the name of Lindoro, succeeds the girl ...
The soldier Wozzeck has an illegitimate child with Marie. To give her money, he regularly shaves the captain, cuts mating for a major, and will ...
La Bohème
12/4
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3/29/2014
1 Act In the attic: Christmas Eve in the miserable attic inhabited by four young artists will differ little from other evenings: Marcel is working ...
Eugen Onegin
3/7
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3/14/2014
1 Act On the estate of the Larins in the Russian province is harvest time. The widowed landowner and the old nurse chat during the ...
In the 18th century, the French language had no greater champion than Adrienne Lecouvreur. Queen among tragic actresses in the eyes of a besotted Voltaire, ...
Dornröschen
2/17
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3/5/2014
Prolog: Die Taufe König Florestan und seine Königin haben zur Feier der Taufe von Prinzessin Aurora alle Feen als Patinnen eingeladen. Nur auf die Fee ...
Ballett-Hommage
12/15
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2/14/2014
A tribute to the ballet, presented in various ways: on the one hand purist by Harald Landers brilliant Etudes (1948), a crescendo of the academic ...
"Herod had be be because of herodias, the wife of his brother of Philip, who he had taken to wife namely arrest John, tie and ...
Rusalka Antonin Dvorák Director Richard Jones' reading of Dvo?ak's best-known opera is rugged and human: the water-nymph Rusalka who aspires to become human learns about ...
Cavalleria rusticana Lola, the former lover of Turridu, married the Fuhrmann Alfio. Turiddu tries to comfort affiliated with Santuzza. After only a short time, he ...
Boris Godunow
1/23
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1/31/2014
Before the Moscow Virgin monastery, the people with lashes is forced to woo Boris Godunow, to make the choice to the Tsar. After the assassination ...
Don Giovanni
1/11
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1/21/2014
Act I Don Giovanni has gone secretly to the house of the Commendatore's daughter Donna Anna. In the meantime, his servant Leporello must stand guard ...
Così fan tutte
1/13
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1/20/2014
Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo discuss with the lebenserfahrenen Don Alfonso on the loyalty of women. The two young men are the steadfastness of their two ...
1 ACT Figaro, the adroit servant of Count Almaviva, is betrothed to Susanna, the maid of the Countess Almaviva. The commanded by the Count for ...
Der Nussknacker
12/18
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1/6/2014
I. ACT 1. Image On the road On 24 December 1900. A happy crowd of people commits the feast of Christmas. 2. Image In the ...
Die Fledermaus
12/31
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1/5/2014
That ranks Handlung sich um den Ball beim Prinzen Orlowsky. Zu ihm were im 1. Akt mit Ausnahme des handelnden Alfreds, all persons, in Rosa ...
Fidelio
12/19
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12/29/2013
History The Governor of a Spanish history, Don Pizarro, leads a regiment of horror in his institution. Innocent people become political victims of his brutal ...
Tristan und Isolde
9/21
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12/21/2013
1. LIFT: The Irish Princess Isolde is of Tristan to Cornwall, put there with his uncle, the weary King brand, to be married. Her faithful ...
I. AKT 1. Szene: Der Hof einer Wirtschaft in der Nähe von Paris Im Hof der Wirtschaft herrscht reges Treiben. Unter den Anwesenden befinden sich ...
Tanzperspektiven
11/2
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12/3/2013
Four choreographers of today - the Briton David Dawson, American Helen Pickett, the German Patrick de Bana and the Frenchman Jean-Christophe Maillot - four different ...
Peter Grimes
11/23
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12/1/2013
As reviewed by Benjamin Britten, it is the story of an outsider, who suffers from pressure from society and ultimately breaks her. Peter Grimes, located ...
The Swedish King Gustaf III. enjoys great popularity, the majority of the nobility as well as the people. Only the count Horn, Warting and their ...
1. Akt Die Tiroler Berge Die Marquise de Berkenfield und ihr Verwalter Hortensius werden am Tag ihrer Flucht nach Österreich von der Ankunft eines französischen ...
Anna Bolena
10/25
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11/3/2013
In April 2011, the Vienna State Opera was Anna Bolena Bel Canto jewel premiered in 1830 to the highly acclaimed premiere. Now this production of ...
Don Carlo (ital.)
10/13
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10/19/2013
In the monastery of San Yuste, Emperor Karl v, the most powerful ruler in the world, once resigned the insignia of his power to to ...
1 Act The Ethiopians threaten the Egyptian Empire under the leadership of their King Amonasro anew. On the advice of the goddess ISIS, Radames to ...
La fanciulla del west Giacomo Puccini During the gold rush in California in 1849, everything was expensive - but human life was cheap. Minnie, living ...
Simon Boccanegra
9/27
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10/4/2013
Prolog Simon Boccanegra, a former pirate and victorious Admiral of the Genoese fleet, had seduced Maria, the daughter of the prestigious patrician Fiesco. From this ...
During a Tempest, Otello, the colourful Commander of the Venetian fleet, returns as Victor over the Turks in Cyprus. Jago, his Ensign, seeks revenge, because ...
Carmen, a young and beautiful worker of the cigarette factory of Seville is swarmed by all men. But she liked to win, who do not ...
Tristan and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) is a musical drama by Richard Wagner, libretto by the composer. It is the masterpiece of German Romanticism, and ...
Already for the third time in the era of Manuel Legris as Director of the Vienna State Ballet, one decides "Nureyev Gala" the Ballet season ...
Roméo et Juliette
6/21
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6/28/2013
Roméo, a member of the family of the Montagues, warring with the Capulets attended a celebration of the Capulets in secret disguise. There, he meets ...
Capriccio
6/20
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6/27/2013
Love the composer or love the poet? The gorgeous countess Madeleine is courted by both a writer and a composer as her home fills with ...
Le Nozze di Figaro
10/10
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6/25/2013
Figaro, the applied servant of Count Almaviva, is engaged to Susanna, the maid of the Countess. This love is disturbed by the clumsy advances of ...
Die Walküre
5/15
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6/23/2013
Siegmund reached the Hundings abode, fleeing pursuers, severely exhausted. His wife, Sieglinde, receives the hero and gives him to drink. As Hunding returns home Siegmund ...
Don Quixote
5/25
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6/19/2013
The centuries-long dialogue between the Spanish folk dance and the dance of high culture was established, culminating in the ballet Don Quixote premiered 1869 in ...
The young Count Almaviva from Seville is immortal in Rosina, ward of Dr. Bartolos falls in love with the. Under the name of Lindoro manages ...
Rome around 1800. The city groaning under a regime of terror. The revolutionary-minded painter Mario Cavaradossi is charged in the Church of Sant'Andrea della Valle ...
La Cenerentola
1/26
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6/11/2013
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was ...
Carmen, a young and beautiful worker of the cigarette factory of Seville is overwhelms by all men. But it you liked to win the who ...
Andrea Chénier
5/16
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5/24/2013
It is possible the young poet Andrea Chénier by his honest dedication to freedom and humanity, to suspiciously in any political system: at a party ...
Three Norns spin on the rope of fate, describe past, present and future: silly ego robbery of gold of the Rhine, the curse of the ...
With Siegfried, the greatest hero of the entire four-part Nibelungen action takes the stage: the Nibelungen ring, he wins the supreme power, he defeated the ...
La traviata
11/10
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5/17/2013
La Traviata (Italian for "the of the way lost") by Giuseppe Verdi and Francesco Maria Piave (libretto) based on the novel the Lady of the ...
In the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhine maidens guard the gold. Alberich, the Lord of the Nibelung who tries in vain to win ...
“A ship with scarlet sails and black mast, and on the bridge a ghostly figure, the ship’s captain.” Thus is the Flying Dutchman described in ...
Pollicino
4/28
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5/8/2013
Hans Werner Henze's Pollicino, practically already a popular classic is a very special gift to the young visitors and visitors of the House: the opera ...
Die Zauberflöte
12/30
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5/6/2013
Pursued by a huge snake, the young Prince Tamino sees already his end nearby. At the moment in which he unconscious collapses, three mysterious women ...
La Bohème
12/4
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4/29/2013
With La Bohème, Puccini the probably most and tender love story in the Opera literature is managed. Embedded in the most glorious melodies the history ...
Eugen Onegin
4/12
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4/22/2013
The first is considered a masterpiece of Russian literature. With it, Pushkin initiated the period of large, realistic and poetic novel. For the first time ...
Peter Konwitschny production shows the five-Act French original version originally desired by Giuseppe Verdi Don Carlos....
Rigoletto
4/8
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4/14/2013
Rigoletto is among the most tragic operas of the entire musical theatre with safety: the injustice is rare, with people's fortunes and partially self-inflicted acts ...
Total involves in this dark romantic opera about the cursed, damned to the Untotheit figure of the Flying Dutchman by Wagner's fourth opera. However she ...
La Sylphide
4/1
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4/7/2013
The cosmos of the Romantic ballet, whose initial work to view the Sylphide premiered 1832 in Paris is, as is its continuing validity in the ...
Wagner bezeichnete sein letztes Bühnenwerk als Bühnenweihfestspiel. Mit diesem Musikdrama wollte er, wie er selbst gemeint hatte, "den Kern der Religion retten". In musikalischer Hinsicht ...
Wozzeck is a simple soldier trying to survive in an unjust world. His captain exploits him, he is the subject of scientific experiments conducted by ...
Tanzperspektiven
2/20
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3/26/2013
Four choreographers of the present - the Briton David Dawson, the American Helen Pickett, the German Patrick de Bana and the Frenchman Jean-Christophe Maillot - ...
The Ethiopians, led by their King Amonasro, threaten the Egyptian Empire to the new. The young General of Radames at the head of the Egyptian ...
Masterpieces of the 20th century "made in France": Serge Lifar, an icon of the French Ballet operates through his created in 1943 for the Paris ...
Don Giovanni
10/11
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3/10/2013
Widely regarded as the greatest opera ever composed, Don Giovanni tells of the devious schemes and hijinks of history’s most beguiling scoundrel, Don Juan. Mozart’s ...
L'elisir d'amore
10/6
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3/8/2013
The elixir of love was created by Donizetti in incredible record time of just two weeks: the result is one of the heart-erwärmendsten and at ...
Simon Boccanegra
11/7
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2/28/2013
The pirate of Simone Boccanegra can choose using peons to the Doge of Genoa. He believes that in this position of the patrician Jacopo Fiesco ...
Despite their selfishness, their apparent brutality and spoiled Verzogenheit, which ultimately others entail the death, the youthful and love-needy Princess attracted the sympathy of the ...
Since 1974 at the London Royal Ballet its premiere the "Manon" of British playwright of the dance is Sir Kenneth MacMillan as one of the ...
The Swedish King Gustaf III. enjoys great popularity, the majority of the nobility as well as the people. Only the count Horn, Warting and their ...
Pique Dame
1/19
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1/30/2013
"I find myself in a terrible error or pique Dame is the culmination of my life's work really!" Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky...
With this work, Verdi founded his world fame. The prisoners chorus from the third act has remained a hit to this day. But the rest ...
Jean-Pierre Ponnelles masterful staging of this brilliant comedy of Rossini's is a musical and scenic experience at the highest level!...
Die Fledermaus
12/31
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1/6/2013
With the bat, the waltz King has created a masterpiece that has not since then was surpassed within the genus "Operetta": A brilliant music coupled ...
Ariadne auf Naxos
12/19
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1/2/2013
The richest man in Vienna wants to pamper the guests of a Soiree in his palace by an especially generous offer: first a sumptuous meal, ...
Der Nussknacker
10/7
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12/28/2012
I. ACT 1. Image On the road On 24 December 1900. A happy crowd of people commits the feast of Christmas. 2. Image In the ...
"Otello cannot do anything with the peace." Therefore, he leaves a to j. intrigue. He believes to be stronger. "The murder of Desdemona, Otello then ...
La sonnambula
12/8
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12/20/2012
Despite his short life, the young dead genius of Vincenzo Bellini has created some immortal Opera jewels. La sonnambula is a precious, woven from seemingly ...
For the third time, the Ballet School of the Vienna State Opera in the A1 children's Opera tent of the Vienna State Opera dance demonstrations, ...
Young Knight Walther von Stolzing has settled in Nuremberg and fell immediately on the first day in Eva, the daughter of his host of Veit ...
Alceste
11/12
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11/26/2012
Simplicity, truth and naturalness: these, according to Gluck, are the eternal attributes of beauty and the ultimate goal to which he aspired. "Alceste must not ...
Everyday life in the Kingdom of sleep country is peaceful. A prerequisite for a good citizen is a good alptraumloser sleep, King is the one ...
Romeo und Julia
10/31
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11/6/2012
John Crankos version by Sergej Prokofiev Shakespeare tragedy vertonter in the thirties of the 20th century for the Ballet stage was built in 1962 for ...
An evening dedicated to the America's contribution to the dance of the 20th century. George Balanchines two works "Stravinsky Violin Concerto" and "theme and variations" ...
La Clemenza di Tito
10/18
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10/28/2012
Mozart wrote this music theatre work in the year of his death in 1791. When a fixed Opera commissioned was given to the coronation of ...