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| Sunday 19-Sep-10 06:00pm |
 National Theatre, MunichDie Zauberflöte |
Bavarian State Opera Alexander Soddy, Conductor August Everding, Director Stephen Milling, Bass: Sarastro Michael Schade, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Kathleen Kim, Soprano: Queen of the Night Genia Kühmeier, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 19-Sep-10 06:00pm Die Zauberflöte Papageno wants Papagena - Tamino his Pamina. But the pathway to love is not a simple one! Everyone has to undergo difficult trials. They even have to decide against murder and suicide, and do without food and drink and sometimes even without speech and song. The things that help them survive danger are a flute and a set of magic bells. The most world-renowned opera in a classically beautiful production, the legacy of stage director August Everding. The snake still breathes "real" fire, the Queen of the Night is still really a "star-flaming" monarch. The stage portrait (by Jürgen Rose) is wondrous fair. The magic of this opera really works here.Alexander Soddy, Conductor August Everding, Director Stephen Milling, Bass: Sarastro Michael Schade, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Kathleen Kim, Soprano: Queen of the Night Genia Kühmeier, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Monday 20-Sep-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Così fan tutte |
Bavarian State Opera Julia Jones, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Miah Persson, Soprano: Fiordiligi Gabriela Scherer, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Levente Molnár, Bass: Guglielmo Rainer Trost, Tenor: Ferrando Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Despina Michael Volle, Baritone: Don Alfonso Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Monday 20-Sep-10 07:00pm That's not how they all do it!! "This" Così is a jewel of the Mozart repertoire at the Bavarian State Opera! Dieter Dorn's production clearly points up the bitter story of two couples beyond their depth in a hazardous game of partner swapping and partner deception.Julia Jones, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Miah Persson, Soprano: Fiordiligi Gabriela Scherer, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Levente Molnár, Bass: Guglielmo Rainer Trost, Tenor: Ferrando Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Despina Michael Volle, Baritone: Don Alfonso Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Thursday 23-Sep-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Zauberflöte |
Bavarian State Opera Alexander Soddy, Conductor August Everding, Director Stephen Milling, Bass: Sarastro Michael Schade, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Kathleen Kim, Soprano: Queen of the Night Genia Kühmeier, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 23-Sep-10 07:00pm Die Zauberflöte Papageno wants Papagena - Tamino his Pamina. But the pathway to love is not a simple one! Everyone has to undergo difficult trials. They even have to decide against murder and suicide, and do without food and drink and sometimes even without speech and song. The things that help them survive danger are a flute and a set of magic bells. The most world-renowned opera in a classically beautiful production, the legacy of stage director August Everding. The snake still breathes "real" fire, the Queen of the Night is still really a "star-flaming" monarch. The stage portrait (by Jürgen Rose) is wondrous fair. The magic of this opera really works here.Alexander Soddy, Conductor August Everding, Director Stephen Milling, Bass: Sarastro Michael Schade, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Kathleen Kim, Soprano: Queen of the Night Genia Kühmeier, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Friday 24-Sep-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Così fan tutte |
Bavarian State Opera Julia Jones, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Miah Persson, Soprano: Fiordiligi Gabriela Scherer, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Levente Molnár, Bass: Guglielmo Rainer Trost, Tenor: Ferrando Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Despina Michael Volle, Baritone: Don Alfonso Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 24-Sep-10 07:00pm That's not how they all do it!! "This" Così is a jewel of the Mozart repertoire at the Bavarian State Opera! Dieter Dorn's production clearly points up the bitter story of two couples beyond their depth in a hazardous game of partner swapping and partner deception.Julia Jones, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Miah Persson, Soprano: Fiordiligi Gabriela Scherer, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Levente Molnár, Bass: Guglielmo Rainer Trost, Tenor: Ferrando Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Despina Michael Volle, Baritone: Don Alfonso Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Saturday 25-Sep-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Zauberflöte |
Bavarian State Opera Alexander Soddy, Conductor August Everding, Director Stephen Milling, Bass: Sarastro Michael Schade, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Kathleen Kim, Soprano: Queen of the Night Genia Kühmeier, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 25-Sep-10 07:00pm Die Zauberflöte Papageno wants Papagena - Tamino his Pamina. But the pathway to love is not a simple one! Everyone has to undergo difficult trials. They even have to decide against murder and suicide, and do without food and drink and sometimes even without speech and song. The things that help them survive danger are a flute and a set of magic bells. The most world-renowned opera in a classically beautiful production, the legacy of stage director August Everding. The snake still breathes "real" fire, the Queen of the Night is still really a "star-flaming" monarch. The stage portrait (by Jürgen Rose) is wondrous fair. The magic of this opera really works here.Alexander Soddy, Conductor August Everding, Director Stephen Milling, Bass: Sarastro Michael Schade, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Kathleen Kim, Soprano: Queen of the Night Genia Kühmeier, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Sunday 26-Sep-10 05:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Le nozze di Figaro |
Bavarian State Opera Constantinos Carydis, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Christian Gerhaher, Baritone: Count Almaviva Erin Wall, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Erraught, Tara, Soprano: Cherubino Matthew Rose, Baritone: Figaro Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Susanna Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Don Basilio Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Don Curzio Alfred Kuhn, Baritone: Antonio Evgeniya Sotnikova, Soprano: Barbarina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 26-Sep-10 05:00pm Le nozze di Figaro When the servants marry, the Count wants to have a little (more) fun in the bargain. He craves the first night with Susanna, the chambermaid. Figaro is not amused. The countess and Susanna make common cause. Double disguises and then some – and even more complications. Everybody wants everyone else – which doesn't always pan out. Nobody could lust after anyone to more glorious music. Summary: men are different – and so are women!Constantinos Carydis, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Christian Gerhaher, Baritone: Count Almaviva Erin Wall, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Erraught, Tara, Soprano: Cherubino Matthew Rose, Baritone: Figaro Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Susanna Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Don Basilio Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Don Curzio Alfred Kuhn, Baritone: Antonio Evgeniya Sotnikova, Soprano: Barbarina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Monday 27-Sep-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Così fan tutte |
Bavarian State Opera Julia Jones, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Miah Persson, Soprano: Fiordiligi Gabriela Scherer, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Levente Molnár, Bass: Guglielmo Rainer Trost, Tenor: Ferrando Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Despina Michael Volle, Baritone: Don Alfonso Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Monday 27-Sep-10 07:00pm That's not how they all do it!! "This" Così is a jewel of the Mozart repertoire at the Bavarian State Opera! Dieter Dorn's production clearly points up the bitter story of two couples beyond their depth in a hazardous game of partner swapping and partner deception.Julia Jones, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Miah Persson, Soprano: Fiordiligi Gabriela Scherer, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Levente Molnár, Bass: Guglielmo Rainer Trost, Tenor: Ferrando Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Despina Michael Volle, Baritone: Don Alfonso Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Tuesday 28-Sep-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Le nozze di Figaro |
Bavarian State Opera Constantinos Carydis, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Christian Gerhaher, Baritone: Count Almaviva Erin Wall, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Erraught, Tara, Soprano: Cherubino Matthew Rose, Baritone: Figaro Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Susanna Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Don Basilio Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Don Curzio Alfred Kuhn, Baritone: Antonio Evgeniya Sotnikova, Soprano: Barbarina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Tuesday 28-Sep-10 07:00pm Le nozze di Figaro When the servants marry, the Count wants to have a little (more) fun in the bargain. He craves the first night with Susanna, the chambermaid. Figaro is not amused. The countess and Susanna make common cause. Double disguises and then some – and even more complications. Everybody wants everyone else – which doesn't always pan out. Nobody could lust after anyone to more glorious music. Summary: men are different – and so are women!Constantinos Carydis, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Christian Gerhaher, Baritone: Count Almaviva Erin Wall, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Erraught, Tara, Soprano: Cherubino Matthew Rose, Baritone: Figaro Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Susanna Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Don Basilio Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Don Curzio Alfred Kuhn, Baritone: Antonio Evgeniya Sotnikova, Soprano: Barbarina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Wednesday 29-Sep-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Zauberflöte |
Bavarian State Opera Alexander Soddy, Conductor August Everding, Director Stephen Milling, Bass: Sarastro Michael Schade, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Kathleen Kim, Soprano: Queen of the Night Genia Kühmeier, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Wednesday 29-Sep-10 07:00pm Die Zauberflöte Papageno wants Papagena - Tamino his Pamina. But the pathway to love is not a simple one! Everyone has to undergo difficult trials. They even have to decide against murder and suicide, and do without food and drink and sometimes even without speech and song. The things that help them survive danger are a flute and a set of magic bells. The most world-renowned opera in a classically beautiful production, the legacy of stage director August Everding. The snake still breathes "real" fire, the Queen of the Night is still really a "star-flaming" monarch. The stage portrait (by Jürgen Rose) is wondrous fair. The magic of this opera really works here.Alexander Soddy, Conductor August Everding, Director Stephen Milling, Bass: Sarastro Michael Schade, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Kathleen Kim, Soprano: Queen of the Night Genia Kühmeier, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Thursday 30-Sep-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Così fan tutte |
Bavarian State Opera Julia Jones, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Miah Persson, Soprano: Fiordiligi Gabriela Scherer, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Levente Molnár, Bass: Guglielmo Rainer Trost, Tenor: Ferrando Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Despina Michael Volle, Baritone: Don Alfonso Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 30-Sep-10 07:00pm That's not how they all do it!! "This" Così is a jewel of the Mozart repertoire at the Bavarian State Opera! Dieter Dorn's production clearly points up the bitter story of two couples beyond their depth in a hazardous game of partner swapping and partner deception.Julia Jones, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Miah Persson, Soprano: Fiordiligi Gabriela Scherer, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Levente Molnár, Bass: Guglielmo Rainer Trost, Tenor: Ferrando Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Despina Michael Volle, Baritone: Don Alfonso Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Friday 1-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Le nozze di Figaro |
Bavarian State Opera Constantinos Carydis, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Christian Gerhaher, Baritone: Count Almaviva Erin Wall, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Erraught, Tara, Soprano: Cherubino Matthew Rose, Baritone: Figaro Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Susanna Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Don Basilio Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Don Curzio Alfred Kuhn, Baritone: Antonio Evgeniya Sotnikova, Soprano: Barbarina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 1-Oct-10 07:00pm Le nozze di Figaro When the servants marry, the Count wants to have a little (more) fun in the bargain. He craves the first night with Susanna, the chambermaid. Figaro is not amused. The countess and Susanna make common cause. Double disguises and then some – and even more complications. Everybody wants everyone else – which doesn't always pan out. Nobody could lust after anyone to more glorious music. Summary: men are different – and so are women!Constantinos Carydis, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Christian Gerhaher, Baritone: Count Almaviva Erin Wall, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Erraught, Tara, Soprano: Cherubino Matthew Rose, Baritone: Figaro Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Susanna Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Don Basilio Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Don Curzio Alfred Kuhn, Baritone: Antonio Evgeniya Sotnikova, Soprano: Barbarina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Saturday 2-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Il barbiere di Siviglia |
Bavarian State Opera Christopher Ward, Conductor Ferruccio Soleri, Director Maurizio Muraro, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Maite Beaumont, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Levente Molnár, Baritone: Figaro Burak Bilgili, Bass: Basilio John Chest, Bass: Fiorello Rüdiger Trebes, Bass: Ambrogio Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Soprano: Berta (Marcellina) Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 2-Oct-10 07:00pm Il barbiere di Siviglia Love, mischief and lies: those were the ingredients Rossini combined in his masterpiece! The story of the most famous hairdresser of all times: Figaro – a sharp-edged razor wielder who can get anyone in a lather … You simply have to witness the incredible rapidity of this music, the brilliant solo numbers and the infectious ensembles. The opera with the most hit tunes!Christopher Ward, Conductor Ferruccio Soleri, Director Maurizio Muraro, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Maite Beaumont, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Levente Molnár, Baritone: Figaro Burak Bilgili, Bass: Basilio John Chest, Bass: Fiorello Rüdiger Trebes, Bass: Ambrogio Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Soprano: Berta (Marcellina) Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Sunday 3-Oct-10 04:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Le nozze di Figaro |
Bavarian State Opera Constantinos Carydis, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Christian Gerhaher, Baritone: Count Almaviva Erin Wall, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Erraught, Tara, Soprano: Cherubino Matthew Rose, Baritone: Figaro Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Susanna Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Don Basilio Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Don Curzio Alfred Kuhn, Baritone: Antonio Evgeniya Sotnikova, Soprano: Barbarina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 3-Oct-10 04:00pm Le nozze di Figaro When the servants marry, the Count wants to have a little (more) fun in the bargain. He craves the first night with Susanna, the chambermaid. Figaro is not amused. The countess and Susanna make common cause. Double disguises and then some – and even more complications. Everybody wants everyone else – which doesn't always pan out. Nobody could lust after anyone to more glorious music. Summary: men are different – and so are women!Constantinos Carydis, Conductor Dieter Dorn, Director Christian Gerhaher, Baritone: Count Almaviva Erin Wall, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Erraught, Tara, Soprano: Cherubino Matthew Rose, Baritone: Figaro Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Susanna Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Don Basilio Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Don Curzio Alfred Kuhn, Baritone: Antonio Evgeniya Sotnikova, Soprano: Barbarina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Tuesday 5-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Il barbiere di Siviglia |
Bavarian State Opera Christopher Ward, Conductor Ferruccio Soleri, Director Maurizio Muraro, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Maite Beaumont, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Levente Molnár, Baritone: Figaro Burak Bilgili, Bass: Basilio John Chest, Bass: Fiorello Rüdiger Trebes, Bass: Ambrogio Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Soprano: Berta (Marcellina) Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Tuesday 5-Oct-10 07:00pm Il barbiere di Siviglia Love, mischief and lies: those were the ingredients Rossini combined in his masterpiece! The story of the most famous hairdresser of all times: Figaro – a sharp-edged razor wielder who can get anyone in a lather … You simply have to witness the incredible rapidity of this music, the brilliant solo numbers and the infectious ensembles. The opera with the most hit tunes!Christopher Ward, Conductor Ferruccio Soleri, Director Maurizio Muraro, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Maite Beaumont, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Levente Molnár, Baritone: Figaro Burak Bilgili, Bass: Basilio John Chest, Bass: Fiorello Rüdiger Trebes, Bass: Ambrogio Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Soprano: Berta (Marcellina) Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Thursday 7-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Medea in Corinto |
Bavarian State Opera Ivor Bolton, Conductor Hans Neuenfels, Director Alastair Miles, Bass: Creonte Alek Shrader, Tenor: Egeo Iano Tamar, Soprano: Medea Ramón Vargas, Tenor: Giasone Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Creusa Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: Evandro Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Tideo Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 7-Oct-10 07:00pm The deed is incomprehensible to this day: because her husband Jason wants to leave her for Kreusa the daughter of the Corinthian King, the sorceress Medea totally loses all mental and physical control and murders her own children in a frantic act of inhuman vengeance. Since ancient times, the Medea story has been a topos of boundless maternal cruelty, in which love turns to violence, and the rules that bind humans together are abrogated. With her magical and demonic powers and her clairvoyant knowledge Medea is a character who sparks primal fears and thus deserves to be shut out of human society.
With Medea in Corinto, arguably the most important Italian opera composer between Mozart and Rossini, Giovanni Simone Mayr, landed one of his biggest hits in Naples in 1813 – but actually this composer came from near Ingolstadt in Bavaria, transformed himself from Johann Simon to Giovanni Simone in his adopted country of Italy and also became one of the most significant composition teachers of his time. And the music for this downright impossible and unorthodox operatic character – after having been rarely performed for almost 200 years – has now slowly regained its rights, even if its story continues to be massively unsettling.
New productionIvor Bolton, Conductor Hans Neuenfels, Director Alastair Miles, Bass: Creonte Alek Shrader, Tenor: Egeo Iano Tamar, Soprano: Medea Ramón Vargas, Tenor: Giasone Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Creusa Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: Evandro Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Tideo Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Saturday 9-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Il barbiere di Siviglia |
Bavarian State Opera Christopher Ward, Conductor Ferruccio Soleri, Director Maurizio Muraro, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Maite Beaumont, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Levente Molnár, Baritone: Figaro Burak Bilgili, Bass: Basilio John Chest, Bass: Fiorello Rüdiger Trebes, Bass: Ambrogio Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Soprano: Berta (Marcellina) Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 9-Oct-10 07:00pm Il barbiere di Siviglia Love, mischief and lies: those were the ingredients Rossini combined in his masterpiece! The story of the most famous hairdresser of all times: Figaro – a sharp-edged razor wielder who can get anyone in a lather … You simply have to witness the incredible rapidity of this music, the brilliant solo numbers and the infectious ensembles. The opera with the most hit tunes!Christopher Ward, Conductor Ferruccio Soleri, Director Maurizio Muraro, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Maite Beaumont, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Levente Molnár, Baritone: Figaro Burak Bilgili, Bass: Basilio John Chest, Bass: Fiorello Rüdiger Trebes, Bass: Ambrogio Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Soprano: Berta (Marcellina) Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Sunday 10-Oct-10 06:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Medea in Corinto |
Bavarian State Opera Ivor Bolton, Conductor Hans Neuenfels, Director Alastair Miles, Bass: Creonte Alek Shrader, Tenor: Egeo Iano Tamar, Soprano: Medea Ramón Vargas, Tenor: Giasone Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Creusa Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: Evandro Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Tideo Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 10-Oct-10 06:00pm The deed is incomprehensible to this day: because her husband Jason wants to leave her for Kreusa the daughter of the Corinthian King, the sorceress Medea totally loses all mental and physical control and murders her own children in a frantic act of inhuman vengeance. Since ancient times, the Medea story has been a topos of boundless maternal cruelty, in which love turns to violence, and the rules that bind humans together are abrogated. With her magical and demonic powers and her clairvoyant knowledge Medea is a character who sparks primal fears and thus deserves to be shut out of human society.
With Medea in Corinto, arguably the most important Italian opera composer between Mozart and Rossini, Giovanni Simone Mayr, landed one of his biggest hits in Naples in 1813 – but actually this composer came from near Ingolstadt in Bavaria, transformed himself from Johann Simon to Giovanni Simone in his adopted country of Italy and also became one of the most significant composition teachers of his time. And the music for this downright impossible and unorthodox operatic character – after having been rarely performed for almost 200 years – has now slowly regained its rights, even if its story continues to be massively unsettling.
New productionIvor Bolton, Conductor Hans Neuenfels, Director Alastair Miles, Bass: Creonte Alek Shrader, Tenor: Egeo Iano Tamar, Soprano: Medea Ramón Vargas, Tenor: Giasone Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Creusa Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: Evandro Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Tideo Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Thursday 14-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Il barbiere di Siviglia |
Bavarian State Opera Christopher Ward, Conductor Ferruccio Soleri, Director Maurizio Muraro, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Maite Beaumont, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Levente Molnár, Baritone: Figaro Burak Bilgili, Bass: Basilio John Chest, Bass: Fiorello Rüdiger Trebes, Bass: Ambrogio Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Soprano: Berta (Marcellina) Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 14-Oct-10 07:00pm Il barbiere di Siviglia Love, mischief and lies: those were the ingredients Rossini combined in his masterpiece! The story of the most famous hairdresser of all times: Figaro – a sharp-edged razor wielder who can get anyone in a lather … You simply have to witness the incredible rapidity of this music, the brilliant solo numbers and the infectious ensembles. The opera with the most hit tunes!Christopher Ward, Conductor Ferruccio Soleri, Director Maurizio Muraro, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Maite Beaumont, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Levente Molnár, Baritone: Figaro Burak Bilgili, Bass: Basilio John Chest, Bass: Fiorello Rüdiger Trebes, Bass: Ambrogio Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Soprano: Berta (Marcellina) Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Friday 15-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Medea in Corinto |
Bavarian State Opera Ivor Bolton, Conductor Hans Neuenfels, Director Alastair Miles, Bass: Creonte Alek Shrader, Tenor: Egeo Iano Tamar, Soprano: Medea Ramón Vargas, Tenor: Giasone Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Creusa Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: Evandro Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Tideo Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 15-Oct-10 07:00pm The deed is incomprehensible to this day: because her husband Jason wants to leave her for Kreusa the daughter of the Corinthian King, the sorceress Medea totally loses all mental and physical control and murders her own children in a frantic act of inhuman vengeance. Since ancient times, the Medea story has been a topos of boundless maternal cruelty, in which love turns to violence, and the rules that bind humans together are abrogated. With her magical and demonic powers and her clairvoyant knowledge Medea is a character who sparks primal fears and thus deserves to be shut out of human society.
With Medea in Corinto, arguably the most important Italian opera composer between Mozart and Rossini, Giovanni Simone Mayr, landed one of his biggest hits in Naples in 1813 – but actually this composer came from near Ingolstadt in Bavaria, transformed himself from Johann Simon to Giovanni Simone in his adopted country of Italy and also became one of the most significant composition teachers of his time. And the music for this downright impossible and unorthodox operatic character – after having been rarely performed for almost 200 years – has now slowly regained its rights, even if its story continues to be massively unsettling.
New productionIvor Bolton, Conductor Hans Neuenfels, Director Alastair Miles, Bass: Creonte Alek Shrader, Tenor: Egeo Iano Tamar, Soprano: Medea Ramón Vargas, Tenor: Giasone Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Creusa Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: Evandro Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Tideo Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Sunday 17-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich La Traviata |
Bavarian State Opera Carlo Montanaro, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Anja Harteros, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Angela Brower, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Eric Cutler, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol John Chest, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 17-Oct-10 07:00pm Men don't fall in love with courtesans! That's the opinion of Alfredo's father after his son moves in with the mortally ill Violetta Valéry. In her love for Alfredo Violetta even agrees. She leaves him, dies poor, ill – still dreaming of the happiness of true love. One of Verdi's most beloved operas continues to hold the mirror up to society and its hypocritical morality. An exemplary production! See it!Carlo Montanaro, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Anja Harteros, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Angela Brower, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Eric Cutler, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol John Chest, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Tuesday 19-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Medea in Corinto |
Bavarian State Opera Ivor Bolton, Conductor Hans Neuenfels, Director Alastair Miles, Bass: Creonte Alek Shrader, Tenor: Egeo Iano Tamar, Soprano: Medea Ramón Vargas, Tenor: Giasone Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Creusa Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: Evandro Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Tideo Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Tuesday 19-Oct-10 07:00pm The deed is incomprehensible to this day: because her husband Jason wants to leave her for Kreusa the daughter of the Corinthian King, the sorceress Medea totally loses all mental and physical control and murders her own children in a frantic act of inhuman vengeance. Since ancient times, the Medea story has been a topos of boundless maternal cruelty, in which love turns to violence, and the rules that bind humans together are abrogated. With her magical and demonic powers and her clairvoyant knowledge Medea is a character who sparks primal fears and thus deserves to be shut out of human society.
With Medea in Corinto, arguably the most important Italian opera composer between Mozart and Rossini, Giovanni Simone Mayr, landed one of his biggest hits in Naples in 1813 – but actually this composer came from near Ingolstadt in Bavaria, transformed himself from Johann Simon to Giovanni Simone in his adopted country of Italy and also became one of the most significant composition teachers of his time. And the music for this downright impossible and unorthodox operatic character – after having been rarely performed for almost 200 years – has now slowly regained its rights, even if its story continues to be massively unsettling.
New productionIvor Bolton, Conductor Hans Neuenfels, Director Alastair Miles, Bass: Creonte Alek Shrader, Tenor: Egeo Iano Tamar, Soprano: Medea Ramón Vargas, Tenor: Giasone Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Creusa Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: Evandro Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Tideo Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Thursday 21-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich La Traviata |
Bavarian State Opera Carlo Montanaro, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Anja Harteros, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Angela Brower, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Eric Cutler, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol John Chest, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 21-Oct-10 07:00pm Men don't fall in love with courtesans! That's the opinion of Alfredo's father after his son moves in with the mortally ill Violetta Valéry. In her love for Alfredo Violetta even agrees. She leaves him, dies poor, ill – still dreaming of the happiness of true love. One of Verdi's most beloved operas continues to hold the mirror up to society and its hypocritical morality. An exemplary production! See it!Carlo Montanaro, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Anja Harteros, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Angela Brower, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Eric Cutler, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol John Chest, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Saturday 23-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rusalka |
Bavarian State Opera Tomas Hanus, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor: Prince Nina Stemme, Soprano: Rusalka Günther Groissböck, Bass-baritone: The Water Sprite, Rusalka's father Janina Baechle, Mezzo-soprano: Jezibaba, the Witch Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Gamekeeper Erraught, Tara, Mezzo-soprano: Kitchen Boy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 23-Oct-10 07:00pm Rusalka feels trapped in a world from which there is no escape. She is ready to put her immortality on the line in return for a human soul, so she can gain the love of a handsome prince. But she must pay for it with her voice. Muted and liberated from her dark world, she is forced to watch as the prince rejects her in favor of a foreign princess – dooming them both. She cannot live, she cannot die, yet nevertheless at the end, she helps the prince find his death with a “rescuing” kiss.
In their opera Rusalka, which premièred in 1901, Antonin Dvořák and his librettist Jaroslav Kvapil mixed the Slavic myth of the undead vengeful woman from the water with such storybook characters as Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s Undine and Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid. The fascinating musical worlds, the lyrical and highly dramatic moments came together to make Rusalka one of the most successful Czech operas ever written.Tomas Hanus, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor: Prince Nina Stemme, Soprano: Rusalka Günther Groissböck, Bass-baritone: The Water Sprite, Rusalka's father Janina Baechle, Mezzo-soprano: Jezibaba, the Witch Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Gamekeeper Erraught, Tara, Mezzo-soprano: Kitchen Boy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Sunday 24-Oct-10 06:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich La Traviata |
Bavarian State Opera Carlo Montanaro, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Anja Harteros, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Angela Brower, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Eric Cutler, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol John Chest, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 24-Oct-10 06:00pm Men don't fall in love with courtesans! That's the opinion of Alfredo's father after his son moves in with the mortally ill Violetta Valéry. In her love for Alfredo Violetta even agrees. She leaves him, dies poor, ill – still dreaming of the happiness of true love. One of Verdi's most beloved operas continues to hold the mirror up to society and its hypocritical morality. An exemplary production! See it!Carlo Montanaro, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Anja Harteros, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Angela Brower, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Eric Cutler, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol John Chest, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Tuesday 26-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rusalka |
Bavarian State Opera Tomas Hanus, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor: Prince Nina Stemme, Soprano: Rusalka Günther Groissböck, Bass-baritone: The Water Sprite, Rusalka's father Janina Baechle, Mezzo-soprano: Jezibaba, the Witch Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Gamekeeper Erraught, Tara, Mezzo-soprano: Kitchen Boy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Tuesday 26-Oct-10 07:00pm Rusalka feels trapped in a world from which there is no escape. She is ready to put her immortality on the line in return for a human soul, so she can gain the love of a handsome prince. But she must pay for it with her voice. Muted and liberated from her dark world, she is forced to watch as the prince rejects her in favor of a foreign princess – dooming them both. She cannot live, she cannot die, yet nevertheless at the end, she helps the prince find his death with a “rescuing” kiss.
In their opera Rusalka, which premièred in 1901, Antonin Dvořák and his librettist Jaroslav Kvapil mixed the Slavic myth of the undead vengeful woman from the water with such storybook characters as Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s Undine and Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid. The fascinating musical worlds, the lyrical and highly dramatic moments came together to make Rusalka one of the most successful Czech operas ever written.Tomas Hanus, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor: Prince Nina Stemme, Soprano: Rusalka Günther Groissböck, Bass-baritone: The Water Sprite, Rusalka's father Janina Baechle, Mezzo-soprano: Jezibaba, the Witch Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Gamekeeper Erraught, Tara, Mezzo-soprano: Kitchen Boy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Wednesday 27-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich La Traviata |
Bavarian State Opera Carlo Montanaro, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Anja Harteros, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Angela Brower, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Eric Cutler, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol John Chest, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Wednesday 27-Oct-10 07:00pm Men don't fall in love with courtesans! That's the opinion of Alfredo's father after his son moves in with the mortally ill Violetta Valéry. In her love for Alfredo Violetta even agrees. She leaves him, dies poor, ill – still dreaming of the happiness of true love. One of Verdi's most beloved operas continues to hold the mirror up to society and its hypocritical morality. An exemplary production! See it!Carlo Montanaro, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Anja Harteros, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Angela Brower, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Eric Cutler, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Andrzej Dobber, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol John Chest, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Thursday 28-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rusalka |
Bavarian State Opera Tomas Hanus, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor: Prince Nina Stemme, Soprano: Rusalka Günther Groissböck, Bass-baritone: The Water Sprite, Rusalka's father Janina Baechle, Mezzo-soprano: Jezibaba, the Witch Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Gamekeeper Erraught, Tara, Mezzo-soprano: Kitchen Boy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 28-Oct-10 07:00pm Rusalka feels trapped in a world from which there is no escape. She is ready to put her immortality on the line in return for a human soul, so she can gain the love of a handsome prince. But she must pay for it with her voice. Muted and liberated from her dark world, she is forced to watch as the prince rejects her in favor of a foreign princess – dooming them both. She cannot live, she cannot die, yet nevertheless at the end, she helps the prince find his death with a “rescuing” kiss.
In their opera Rusalka, which premièred in 1901, Antonin Dvořák and his librettist Jaroslav Kvapil mixed the Slavic myth of the undead vengeful woman from the water with such storybook characters as Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s Undine and Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid. The fascinating musical worlds, the lyrical and highly dramatic moments came together to make Rusalka one of the most successful Czech operas ever written.Tomas Hanus, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor: Prince Nina Stemme, Soprano: Rusalka Günther Groissböck, Bass-baritone: The Water Sprite, Rusalka's father Janina Baechle, Mezzo-soprano: Jezibaba, the Witch Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Gamekeeper Erraught, Tara, Mezzo-soprano: Kitchen Boy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Friday 29-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Jenufa |
Bavarian State Opera Tomas Hanus, Conductor Barbara Frey, Director Diane Pilcher, Contralto: Grandmother Buryjovka Štefan Margita, Tenor: Laca Joseph Kaiser, Tenor: Steva Buryja Gabriele Schnaut, Mezzo-soprano: Kostelnička Angela Denoke, Soprano: Jenůfa Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Mayor Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Mayor's wife Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Karolka Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 29-Oct-10 07:00pm Jenufa A young woman is passionately in love with one of two rival half brothers. She becomes pregnant out of wedlock, whereupon he abandons her. The other one would be willing to take her, but he doesn’t want the offspring of a brother he has always envied. The young woman’s stepmother, who looks after her as if she were her own flesh and blood, sees only one way out of this predicament: after a secret childbirth she drowns the newborn baby in the freezing river. When spring arrives, a wedding is in the offing, but then the ice melts and reveals all the shattered hopes of the previous summer. Believing to have wanted nothing but the best for the girl, misguided by her own disappointments and under the influence of her inflexible morals, the sextoness had irreversibly intruded in the destiny of her stepdaughter Jenůfa, assuming a huge burden of guilt. Leoš Janáček tells this story straightforwardly and devoid of illusion, yet not without giving us a great musical promise of some small happiness.Tomas Hanus, Conductor Barbara Frey, Director Diane Pilcher, Contralto: Grandmother Buryjovka Štefan Margita, Tenor: Laca Joseph Kaiser, Tenor: Steva Buryja Gabriele Schnaut, Mezzo-soprano: Kostelnička Angela Denoke, Soprano: Jenůfa Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Mayor Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Mayor's wife Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Karolka Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Sunday 31-Oct-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rusalka |
Bavarian State Opera Tomas Hanus, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor: Prince Nina Stemme, Soprano: Rusalka Günther Groissböck, Bass-baritone: The Water Sprite, Rusalka's father Janina Baechle, Mezzo-soprano: Jezibaba, the Witch Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Gamekeeper Erraught, Tara, Mezzo-soprano: Kitchen Boy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 31-Oct-10 07:00pm Rusalka feels trapped in a world from which there is no escape. She is ready to put her immortality on the line in return for a human soul, so she can gain the love of a handsome prince. But she must pay for it with her voice. Muted and liberated from her dark world, she is forced to watch as the prince rejects her in favor of a foreign princess – dooming them both. She cannot live, she cannot die, yet nevertheless at the end, she helps the prince find his death with a “rescuing” kiss.
In their opera Rusalka, which premièred in 1901, Antonin Dvořák and his librettist Jaroslav Kvapil mixed the Slavic myth of the undead vengeful woman from the water with such storybook characters as Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s Undine and Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid. The fascinating musical worlds, the lyrical and highly dramatic moments came together to make Rusalka one of the most successful Czech operas ever written.Tomas Hanus, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor: Prince Nina Stemme, Soprano: Rusalka Günther Groissböck, Bass-baritone: The Water Sprite, Rusalka's father Janina Baechle, Mezzo-soprano: Jezibaba, the Witch Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Gamekeeper Erraught, Tara, Mezzo-soprano: Kitchen Boy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Wednesday 3-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Jenufa |
Bavarian State Opera Tomas Hanus, Conductor Barbara Frey, Director Diane Pilcher, Contralto: Grandmother Buryjovka Štefan Margita, Tenor: Laca Joseph Kaiser, Tenor: Steva Buryja Gabriele Schnaut, Mezzo-soprano: Kostelnička Angela Denoke, Soprano: Jenůfa Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Mayor Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Mayor's wife Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Karolka Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Wednesday 3-Nov-10 07:00pm Jenufa A young woman is passionately in love with one of two rival half brothers. She becomes pregnant out of wedlock, whereupon he abandons her. The other one would be willing to take her, but he doesn’t want the offspring of a brother he has always envied. The young woman’s stepmother, who looks after her as if she were her own flesh and blood, sees only one way out of this predicament: after a secret childbirth she drowns the newborn baby in the freezing river. When spring arrives, a wedding is in the offing, but then the ice melts and reveals all the shattered hopes of the previous summer. Believing to have wanted nothing but the best for the girl, misguided by her own disappointments and under the influence of her inflexible morals, the sextoness had irreversibly intruded in the destiny of her stepdaughter Jenůfa, assuming a huge burden of guilt. Leoš Janáček tells this story straightforwardly and devoid of illusion, yet not without giving us a great musical promise of some small happiness.Tomas Hanus, Conductor Barbara Frey, Director Diane Pilcher, Contralto: Grandmother Buryjovka Štefan Margita, Tenor: Laca Joseph Kaiser, Tenor: Steva Buryja Gabriele Schnaut, Mezzo-soprano: Kostelnička Angela Denoke, Soprano: Jenůfa Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Mayor Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Mayor's wife Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Karolka Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Thursday 4-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rusalka |
Bavarian State Opera Tomas Hanus, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor: Prince Nina Stemme, Soprano: Rusalka Günther Groissböck, Bass-baritone: The Water Sprite, Rusalka's father Janina Baechle, Mezzo-soprano: Jezibaba, the Witch Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Gamekeeper Erraught, Tara, Mezzo-soprano: Kitchen Boy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 4-Nov-10 07:00pm Rusalka feels trapped in a world from which there is no escape. She is ready to put her immortality on the line in return for a human soul, so she can gain the love of a handsome prince. But she must pay for it with her voice. Muted and liberated from her dark world, she is forced to watch as the prince rejects her in favor of a foreign princess – dooming them both. She cannot live, she cannot die, yet nevertheless at the end, she helps the prince find his death with a “rescuing” kiss.
In their opera Rusalka, which premièred in 1901, Antonin Dvořák and his librettist Jaroslav Kvapil mixed the Slavic myth of the undead vengeful woman from the water with such storybook characters as Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s Undine and Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid. The fascinating musical worlds, the lyrical and highly dramatic moments came together to make Rusalka one of the most successful Czech operas ever written.Tomas Hanus, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor: Prince Nina Stemme, Soprano: Rusalka Günther Groissböck, Bass-baritone: The Water Sprite, Rusalka's father Janina Baechle, Mezzo-soprano: Jezibaba, the Witch Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Gamekeeper Erraught, Tara, Mezzo-soprano: Kitchen Boy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Saturday 6-Nov-10 07:30pm |
National Theatre, Munich Jenufa |
Bavarian State Opera Tomas Hanus, Conductor Barbara Frey, Director Diane Pilcher, Contralto: Grandmother Buryjovka Štefan Margita, Tenor: Laca Joseph Kaiser, Tenor: Steva Buryja Gabriele Schnaut, Mezzo-soprano: Kostelnička Angela Denoke, Soprano: Jenůfa Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Mayor Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Mayor's wife Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Karolka Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 6-Nov-10 07:30pm Jenufa A young woman is passionately in love with one of two rival half brothers. She becomes pregnant out of wedlock, whereupon he abandons her. The other one would be willing to take her, but he doesn’t want the offspring of a brother he has always envied. The young woman’s stepmother, who looks after her as if she were her own flesh and blood, sees only one way out of this predicament: after a secret childbirth she drowns the newborn baby in the freezing river. When spring arrives, a wedding is in the offing, but then the ice melts and reveals all the shattered hopes of the previous summer. Believing to have wanted nothing but the best for the girl, misguided by her own disappointments and under the influence of her inflexible morals, the sextoness had irreversibly intruded in the destiny of her stepdaughter Jenůfa, assuming a huge burden of guilt. Leoš Janáček tells this story straightforwardly and devoid of illusion, yet not without giving us a great musical promise of some small happiness.Tomas Hanus, Conductor Barbara Frey, Director Diane Pilcher, Contralto: Grandmother Buryjovka Štefan Margita, Tenor: Laca Joseph Kaiser, Tenor: Steva Buryja Gabriele Schnaut, Mezzo-soprano: Kostelnička Angela Denoke, Soprano: Jenůfa Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Mayor Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Mayor's wife Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Karolka Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Sunday 7-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Aida |
Bavarian State Opera Paolo Carignani, Conductor Christof Nel, Director Luciana D'Intino, Mezzo-soprano: Amneris Micaela Carosi, Soprano: Aida Carlo Ventre, Tenor: Radamès Anatoli Kotscherga, Bass: Ramfis Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Amonasro Steven Humes, Bass: King of Egypt Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: A messenger Angela Brower, Soprano: Priestess Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 7-Nov-10 07:00pm A work that gravitates back and forth between the grandest of grand opera and intimate drama. Over and over again, we hear the sound of singing behind walls. Don’t these walls also have ears? The pharaoh’s daughter Amneris is to marry. She has been offered to the officer Radames as a reward for his victory in battle over the enemy. Whom would Aida love if she were not a war prisoner? … The effect of state power and war on human relationships.Paolo Carignani, Conductor Christof Nel, Director Luciana D'Intino, Mezzo-soprano: Amneris Micaela Carosi, Soprano: Aida Carlo Ventre, Tenor: Radamès Anatoli Kotscherga, Bass: Ramfis Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Amonasro Steven Humes, Bass: King of Egypt Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: A messenger Angela Brower, Soprano: Priestess Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Monday 8-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Jenufa |
Bavarian State Opera Tomas Hanus, Conductor Barbara Frey, Director Diane Pilcher, Contralto: Grandmother Buryjovka Štefan Margita, Tenor: Laca Joseph Kaiser, Tenor: Steva Buryja Gabriele Schnaut, Mezzo-soprano: Kostelnička Angela Denoke, Soprano: Jenůfa Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Mayor Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Mayor's wife Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Karolka Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Monday 8-Nov-10 07:00pm Jenufa A young woman is passionately in love with one of two rival half brothers. She becomes pregnant out of wedlock, whereupon he abandons her. The other one would be willing to take her, but he doesn’t want the offspring of a brother he has always envied. The young woman’s stepmother, who looks after her as if she were her own flesh and blood, sees only one way out of this predicament: after a secret childbirth she drowns the newborn baby in the freezing river. When spring arrives, a wedding is in the offing, but then the ice melts and reveals all the shattered hopes of the previous summer. Believing to have wanted nothing but the best for the girl, misguided by her own disappointments and under the influence of her inflexible morals, the sextoness had irreversibly intruded in the destiny of her stepdaughter Jenůfa, assuming a huge burden of guilt. Leoš Janáček tells this story straightforwardly and devoid of illusion, yet not without giving us a great musical promise of some small happiness.Tomas Hanus, Conductor Barbara Frey, Director Diane Pilcher, Contralto: Grandmother Buryjovka Štefan Margita, Tenor: Laca Joseph Kaiser, Tenor: Steva Buryja Gabriele Schnaut, Mezzo-soprano: Kostelnička Angela Denoke, Soprano: Jenůfa Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Mayor Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Mayor's wife Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Karolka Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Friday 12-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Aida |
Bavarian State Opera Paolo Carignani, Conductor Christof Nel, Director Luciana D'Intino, Mezzo-soprano: Amneris Micaela Carosi, Soprano: Aida Carlo Ventre, Tenor: Radamès Anatoli Kotscherga, Bass: Ramfis Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Amonasro Steven Humes, Bass: King of Egypt Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: A messenger Angela Brower, Soprano: Priestess Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 12-Nov-10 07:00pm A work that gravitates back and forth between the grandest of grand opera and intimate drama. Over and over again, we hear the sound of singing behind walls. Don’t these walls also have ears? The pharaoh’s daughter Amneris is to marry. She has been offered to the officer Radames as a reward for his victory in battle over the enemy. Whom would Aida love if she were not a war prisoner? … The effect of state power and war on human relationships.Paolo Carignani, Conductor Christof Nel, Director Luciana D'Intino, Mezzo-soprano: Amneris Micaela Carosi, Soprano: Aida Carlo Ventre, Tenor: Radamès Anatoli Kotscherga, Bass: Ramfis Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Amonasro Steven Humes, Bass: King of Egypt Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: A messenger Angela Brower, Soprano: Priestess Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Saturday 13-Nov-10 08:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Entführung aus dem Serail |
Bavarian State Opera Johannes Debus, Conductor Martin Duncan, Director Elena Mosuc, Soprano: Konstanze Anna Prohaska, Soprano: Blondchen Alek Shrader, Tenor: Belmonte Štefan Kocán, Baritone: Osmin Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 13-Nov-10 08:00pm Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Harem), K384 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791))  A European woman in the hands of Muslim fundamentalists. A western rescue mission goes awry. Execution by the special unit is a foregone conclusion. But: vengeance is nothing - forgiveness everything! Unfortunately only a very few have the greatness of heart to exercise it. Mozart's contribution to the clash of civilizations and a not-to-be-underestimated comedy for music.Johannes Debus, Conductor Martin Duncan, Director Elena Mosuc, Soprano: Konstanze Anna Prohaska, Soprano: Blondchen Alek Shrader, Tenor: Belmonte Štefan Kocán, Baritone: Osmin Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Sunday 14-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Don Giovanni |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Stephan Kimmig, Director Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Anna Samuil, Soprano: Donna Anna Charles Castronovo, Tenor: Don Ottavio Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Lorenzo Regazzo, Baritone: Leporello Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 14-Nov-10 07:00pm Don Giovanni – stylized by both his contemporaries and posterity in every nuance between admiration and condemnation: as a sensuous debaucher, an unfeeling cynic, a death-dealing demon, an egotist impelled by his urges, a sad angel or the proud embodiment of human self-realization.
This barely comprehensible hero plays with everyone around him and acts in accordance with just one rule: long live liberty! He seduces countless women, whose lives afterwards are never the same as they were before. He murders the father of one of his conquests, when the older man gets in his way: the painful collateral damage of a compulsive quest for whatever might promise vitality?
Three women and two men join forces to pursue this man, who may have released different impulses in each one of them: thirst for vengeance, desire, curiosity for the unknown, the lust for subjugation or the altruistic desire to redeem him. The closer they get to him, the more his contours dissipate. The desire to unmask him becomes an obsession to punish and destroy him. This is finally carried out by a higher power, so that his pursuers keep running into one another.
Lorenzo da Ponte converted the morality play about a “punished dissolute” into a libretto for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was his music that gave the work a Janus-like countenance: a psychologically fine-tuned drama and concurrently a theatrical work that sets the final machinery of hell in motion. A dramma giocoso – a comical drama – and yet, first and foremost, a nocturnal play, in which the lust for life and the joy of life have to erupt, because death, solitude and emptiness wait on the other side.Kent Nagano, Conductor Stephan Kimmig, Director Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Anna Samuil, Soprano: Donna Anna Charles Castronovo, Tenor: Don Ottavio Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Lorenzo Regazzo, Baritone: Leporello Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Monday 15-Nov-10 07:30pm |
National Theatre, Munich Aida |
Bavarian State Opera Paolo Carignani, Conductor Christof Nel, Director Luciana D'Intino, Mezzo-soprano: Amneris Micaela Carosi, Soprano: Aida Carlo Ventre, Tenor: Radamès Anatoli Kotscherga, Bass: Ramfis Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Amonasro Steven Humes, Bass: King of Egypt Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: A messenger Angela Brower, Soprano: Priestess Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Monday 15-Nov-10 07:30pm A work that gravitates back and forth between the grandest of grand opera and intimate drama. Over and over again, we hear the sound of singing behind walls. Don’t these walls also have ears? The pharaoh’s daughter Amneris is to marry. She has been offered to the officer Radames as a reward for his victory in battle over the enemy. Whom would Aida love if she were not a war prisoner? … The effect of state power and war on human relationships.Paolo Carignani, Conductor Christof Nel, Director Luciana D'Intino, Mezzo-soprano: Amneris Micaela Carosi, Soprano: Aida Carlo Ventre, Tenor: Radamès Anatoli Kotscherga, Bass: Ramfis Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Amonasro Steven Humes, Bass: King of Egypt Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: A messenger Angela Brower, Soprano: Priestess Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Tuesday 16-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Entführung aus dem Serail |
Bavarian State Opera Johannes Debus, Conductor Martin Duncan, Director Elena Mosuc, Soprano: Konstanze Anna Prohaska, Soprano: Blondchen Alek Shrader, Tenor: Belmonte Štefan Kocán, Baritone: Osmin Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Tuesday 16-Nov-10 07:00pm Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Harem), K384 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)) A European woman in the hands of Muslim fundamentalists. A western rescue mission goes awry. Execution by the special unit is a foregone conclusion. But: vengeance is nothing - forgiveness everything! Unfortunately only a very few have the greatness of heart to exercise it. Mozart's contribution to the clash of civilizations and a not-to-be-underestimated comedy for music.Johannes Debus, Conductor Martin Duncan, Director Elena Mosuc, Soprano: Konstanze Anna Prohaska, Soprano: Blondchen Alek Shrader, Tenor: Belmonte Štefan Kocán, Baritone: Osmin Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Wednesday 17-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Don Giovanni |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Stephan Kimmig, Director Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Anna Samuil, Soprano: Donna Anna Charles Castronovo, Tenor: Don Ottavio Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Lorenzo Regazzo, Baritone: Leporello Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Wednesday 17-Nov-10 07:00pm Don Giovanni – stylized by both his contemporaries and posterity in every nuance between admiration and condemnation: as a sensuous debaucher, an unfeeling cynic, a death-dealing demon, an egotist impelled by his urges, a sad angel or the proud embodiment of human self-realization.
This barely comprehensible hero plays with everyone around him and acts in accordance with just one rule: long live liberty! He seduces countless women, whose lives afterwards are never the same as they were before. He murders the father of one of his conquests, when the older man gets in his way: the painful collateral damage of a compulsive quest for whatever might promise vitality?
Three women and two men join forces to pursue this man, who may have released different impulses in each one of them: thirst for vengeance, desire, curiosity for the unknown, the lust for subjugation or the altruistic desire to redeem him. The closer they get to him, the more his contours dissipate. The desire to unmask him becomes an obsession to punish and destroy him. This is finally carried out by a higher power, so that his pursuers keep running into one another.
Lorenzo da Ponte converted the morality play about a “punished dissolute” into a libretto for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was his music that gave the work a Janus-like countenance: a psychologically fine-tuned drama and concurrently a theatrical work that sets the final machinery of hell in motion. A dramma giocoso – a comical drama – and yet, first and foremost, a nocturnal play, in which the lust for life and the joy of life have to erupt, because death, solitude and emptiness wait on the other side.Kent Nagano, Conductor Stephan Kimmig, Director Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Anna Samuil, Soprano: Donna Anna Charles Castronovo, Tenor: Don Ottavio Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Lorenzo Regazzo, Baritone: Leporello Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Friday 19-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Aida |
Bavarian State Opera Paolo Carignani, Conductor Christof Nel, Director Luciana D'Intino, Mezzo-soprano: Amneris Micaela Carosi, Soprano: Aida Carlo Ventre, Tenor: Radamès Anatoli Kotscherga, Bass: Ramfis Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Amonasro Steven Humes, Bass: King of Egypt Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: A messenger Angela Brower, Soprano: Priestess Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 19-Nov-10 07:00pm A work that gravitates back and forth between the grandest of grand opera and intimate drama. Over and over again, we hear the sound of singing behind walls. Don’t these walls also have ears? The pharaoh’s daughter Amneris is to marry. She has been offered to the officer Radames as a reward for his victory in battle over the enemy. Whom would Aida love if she were not a war prisoner? … The effect of state power and war on human relationships.Paolo Carignani, Conductor Christof Nel, Director Luciana D'Intino, Mezzo-soprano: Amneris Micaela Carosi, Soprano: Aida Carlo Ventre, Tenor: Radamès Anatoli Kotscherga, Bass: Ramfis Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Amonasro Steven Humes, Bass: King of Egypt Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: A messenger Angela Brower, Soprano: Priestess Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Saturday 20-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Don Giovanni |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Stephan Kimmig, Director Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Anna Samuil, Soprano: Donna Anna Charles Castronovo, Tenor: Don Ottavio Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Lorenzo Regazzo, Baritone: Leporello Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 20-Nov-10 07:00pm Don Giovanni – stylized by both his contemporaries and posterity in every nuance between admiration and condemnation: as a sensuous debaucher, an unfeeling cynic, a death-dealing demon, an egotist impelled by his urges, a sad angel or the proud embodiment of human self-realization.
This barely comprehensible hero plays with everyone around him and acts in accordance with just one rule: long live liberty! He seduces countless women, whose lives afterwards are never the same as they were before. He murders the father of one of his conquests, when the older man gets in his way: the painful collateral damage of a compulsive quest for whatever might promise vitality?
Three women and two men join forces to pursue this man, who may have released different impulses in each one of them: thirst for vengeance, desire, curiosity for the unknown, the lust for subjugation or the altruistic desire to redeem him. The closer they get to him, the more his contours dissipate. The desire to unmask him becomes an obsession to punish and destroy him. This is finally carried out by a higher power, so that his pursuers keep running into one another.
Lorenzo da Ponte converted the morality play about a “punished dissolute” into a libretto for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was his music that gave the work a Janus-like countenance: a psychologically fine-tuned drama and concurrently a theatrical work that sets the final machinery of hell in motion. A dramma giocoso – a comical drama – and yet, first and foremost, a nocturnal play, in which the lust for life and the joy of life have to erupt, because death, solitude and emptiness wait on the other side.Kent Nagano, Conductor Stephan Kimmig, Director Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Anna Samuil, Soprano: Donna Anna Charles Castronovo, Tenor: Don Ottavio Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Lorenzo Regazzo, Baritone: Leporello Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Tuesday 23-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Aida |
Bavarian State Opera Paolo Carignani, Conductor Christof Nel, Director Luciana D'Intino, Mezzo-soprano: Amneris Micaela Carosi, Soprano: Aida Carlo Ventre, Tenor: Radamès Anatoli Kotscherga, Bass: Ramfis Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Amonasro Steven Humes, Bass: King of Egypt Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: A messenger Angela Brower, Soprano: Priestess Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Tuesday 23-Nov-10 07:00pm A work that gravitates back and forth between the grandest of grand opera and intimate drama. Over and over again, we hear the sound of singing behind walls. Don’t these walls also have ears? The pharaoh’s daughter Amneris is to marry. She has been offered to the officer Radames as a reward for his victory in battle over the enemy. Whom would Aida love if she were not a war prisoner? … The effect of state power and war on human relationships.Paolo Carignani, Conductor Christof Nel, Director Luciana D'Intino, Mezzo-soprano: Amneris Micaela Carosi, Soprano: Aida Carlo Ventre, Tenor: Radamès Anatoli Kotscherga, Bass: Ramfis Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Amonasro Steven Humes, Bass: King of Egypt Kenneth Roberson, Tenor: A messenger Angela Brower, Soprano: Priestess Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Wednesday 24-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Don Giovanni |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Stephan Kimmig, Director Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Anna Samuil, Soprano: Donna Anna Charles Castronovo, Tenor: Don Ottavio Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Lorenzo Regazzo, Baritone: Leporello Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Wednesday 24-Nov-10 07:00pm Don Giovanni – stylized by both his contemporaries and posterity in every nuance between admiration and condemnation: as a sensuous debaucher, an unfeeling cynic, a death-dealing demon, an egotist impelled by his urges, a sad angel or the proud embodiment of human self-realization.
This barely comprehensible hero plays with everyone around him and acts in accordance with just one rule: long live liberty! He seduces countless women, whose lives afterwards are never the same as they were before. He murders the father of one of his conquests, when the older man gets in his way: the painful collateral damage of a compulsive quest for whatever might promise vitality?
Three women and two men join forces to pursue this man, who may have released different impulses in each one of them: thirst for vengeance, desire, curiosity for the unknown, the lust for subjugation or the altruistic desire to redeem him. The closer they get to him, the more his contours dissipate. The desire to unmask him becomes an obsession to punish and destroy him. This is finally carried out by a higher power, so that his pursuers keep running into one another.
Lorenzo da Ponte converted the morality play about a “punished dissolute” into a libretto for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was his music that gave the work a Janus-like countenance: a psychologically fine-tuned drama and concurrently a theatrical work that sets the final machinery of hell in motion. A dramma giocoso – a comical drama – and yet, first and foremost, a nocturnal play, in which the lust for life and the joy of life have to erupt, because death, solitude and emptiness wait on the other side.Kent Nagano, Conductor Stephan Kimmig, Director Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Anna Samuil, Soprano: Donna Anna Charles Castronovo, Tenor: Don Ottavio Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Lorenzo Regazzo, Baritone: Leporello Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Saturday 27-Nov-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Don Giovanni |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Stephan Kimmig, Director Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Anna Samuil, Soprano: Donna Anna Charles Castronovo, Tenor: Don Ottavio Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Lorenzo Regazzo, Baritone: Leporello Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 27-Nov-10 07:00pm Don Giovanni – stylized by both his contemporaries and posterity in every nuance between admiration and condemnation: as a sensuous debaucher, an unfeeling cynic, a death-dealing demon, an egotist impelled by his urges, a sad angel or the proud embodiment of human self-realization.
This barely comprehensible hero plays with everyone around him and acts in accordance with just one rule: long live liberty! He seduces countless women, whose lives afterwards are never the same as they were before. He murders the father of one of his conquests, when the older man gets in his way: the painful collateral damage of a compulsive quest for whatever might promise vitality?
Three women and two men join forces to pursue this man, who may have released different impulses in each one of them: thirst for vengeance, desire, curiosity for the unknown, the lust for subjugation or the altruistic desire to redeem him. The closer they get to him, the more his contours dissipate. The desire to unmask him becomes an obsession to punish and destroy him. This is finally carried out by a higher power, so that his pursuers keep running into one another.
Lorenzo da Ponte converted the morality play about a “punished dissolute” into a libretto for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was his music that gave the work a Janus-like countenance: a psychologically fine-tuned drama and concurrently a theatrical work that sets the final machinery of hell in motion. A dramma giocoso – a comical drama – and yet, first and foremost, a nocturnal play, in which the lust for life and the joy of life have to erupt, because death, solitude and emptiness wait on the other side.Kent Nagano, Conductor Stephan Kimmig, Director Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Anna Samuil, Soprano: Donna Anna Charles Castronovo, Tenor: Don Ottavio Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Lorenzo Regazzo, Baritone: Leporello Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Thursday 2-Dec-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Zauberflöte |
Bavarian State Opera Alain Altinoglu, Conductor August Everding, Director Franz-Josef Selig, Bass: Sarastro Alek Shrader, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Ekaterina Lekhina, Soprano: Queen of the Night Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 2-Dec-10 07:00pm Die Zauberflöte Papageno wants Papagena - Tamino his Pamina. But the pathway to love is not a simple one! Everyone has to undergo difficult trials. They even have to decide against murder and suicide, and do without food and drink and sometimes even without speech and song. The things that help them survive danger are a flute and a set of magic bells. The most world-renowned opera in a classically beautiful production, the legacy of stage director August Everding. The snake still breathes "real" fire, the Queen of the Night is still really a "star-flaming" monarch. The stage portrait (by Jürgen Rose) is wondrous fair. The magic of this opera really works here.Alain Altinoglu, Conductor August Everding, Director Franz-Josef Selig, Bass: Sarastro Alek Shrader, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Ekaterina Lekhina, Soprano: Queen of the Night Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Saturday 4-Dec-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Zauberflöte |
Bavarian State Opera Alain Altinoglu, Conductor August Everding, Director Franz-Josef Selig, Bass: Sarastro Alek Shrader, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Ekaterina Lekhina, Soprano: Queen of the Night Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 4-Dec-10 07:00pm Die Zauberflöte Papageno wants Papagena - Tamino his Pamina. But the pathway to love is not a simple one! Everyone has to undergo difficult trials. They even have to decide against murder and suicide, and do without food and drink and sometimes even without speech and song. The things that help them survive danger are a flute and a set of magic bells. The most world-renowned opera in a classically beautiful production, the legacy of stage director August Everding. The snake still breathes "real" fire, the Queen of the Night is still really a "star-flaming" monarch. The stage portrait (by Jürgen Rose) is wondrous fair. The magic of this opera really works here.Alain Altinoglu, Conductor August Everding, Director Franz-Josef Selig, Bass: Sarastro Alek Shrader, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Ekaterina Lekhina, Soprano: Queen of the Night Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Sunday 5-Dec-10 03:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Hänsel und Gretel |
Bavarian State Opera Johannes Debus, Conductor Herbert List, Director Levente Molnár, Baritone: Peter / Father Irmgard Vilsmaier, Soprano: Gertrude / Mother Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Hänsel Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Gretel Erraught, Tara, Soprano: Sandman Evgeniya Sotnikova, Soprano: Dew Fairy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 5-Dec-10 03:00pm Hänsel und Gretel Well-known, well-loved – a popular favorite: the best of all story-book operas! Parents in poverty – children in mortal peril! Gingerbread house, evening prayer, the witch riding her broomstick! The classic of the Christmas season – between folk song and chorale. The first opera for the kids – a beloved work for the young at heart, and – a musical quiz for Wagnerians. Anyone who underestimates this work is making a big mistake!Johannes Debus, Conductor Herbert List, Director Levente Molnár, Baritone: Peter / Father Irmgard Vilsmaier, Soprano: Gertrude / Mother Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Hänsel Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Gretel Erraught, Tara, Soprano: Sandman Evgeniya Sotnikova, Soprano: Dew Fairy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Sunday 5-Dec-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Hänsel und Gretel |
Bavarian State Opera Johannes Debus, Conductor Herbert List, Director Levente Molnár, Baritone: Peter / Father Irmgard Vilsmaier, Soprano: Gertrude / Mother Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Hänsel Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Gretel Erraught, Tara, Soprano: Sandman Evgeniya Sotnikova, Soprano: Dew Fairy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 5-Dec-10 07:00pm Hänsel und Gretel Well-known, well-loved – a popular favorite: the best of all story-book operas! Parents in poverty – children in mortal peril! Gingerbread house, evening prayer, the witch riding her broomstick! The classic of the Christmas season – between folk song and chorale. The first opera for the kids – a beloved work for the young at heart, and – a musical quiz for Wagnerians. Anyone who underestimates this work is making a big mistake!Johannes Debus, Conductor Herbert List, Director Levente Molnár, Baritone: Peter / Father Irmgard Vilsmaier, Soprano: Gertrude / Mother Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Hänsel Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Gretel Erraught, Tara, Soprano: Sandman Evgeniya Sotnikova, Soprano: Dew Fairy Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Tuesday 7-Dec-10 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Zauberflöte |
Bavarian State Opera Alain Altinoglu, Conductor August Everding, Director Franz-Josef Selig, Bass: Sarastro Alek Shrader, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Ekaterina Lekhina, Soprano: Queen of the Night Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Tuesday 7-Dec-10 07:00pm Die Zauberflöte Papageno wants Papagena - Tamino his Pamina. But the pathway to love is not a simple one! Everyone has to undergo difficult trials. They even have to decide against murder and suicide, and do without food and drink and sometimes even without speech and song. The things that help them survive danger are a flute and a set of magic bells. The most world-renowned opera in a classically beautiful production, the legacy of stage director August Everding. The snake still breathes "real" fire, the Queen of the Night is still really a "star-flaming" monarch. The stage portrait (by Jürgen Rose) is wondrous fair. The magic of this opera really works here.Alain Altinoglu, Conductor August Everding, Director Franz-Josef Selig, Bass: Sarastro Alek Shrader, Tenor: Tamino Christian Rieger, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Ekaterina Lekhina, Soprano: Queen of the Night Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Pamina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Papageno Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Monostatos Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
