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| Tuesday 16-Mar-10 19:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle Tosca |
Dresden State Opera Staatsopernchor Dresden Norma Fantini, Soprano: Floria Tosca Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lucio Gallo, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Tomislav Lucic, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Dirk Kaftan, Conductor |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Tuesday 16-Mar-10 19:00 Dresden State Opera Performed in Italian with German surtitles The painter Cavaradossi helps the escaped prisoner of state Angelotti. The police chief Scarpia is after Cavaradossi’s capricious sweetheart, the singer Tosca. He brings together her jealousy and tendency to histrionics with his own interests in making her his own, and at the same time clearing his rival Cavaradossi and his political opponent Angelotti out of the way. A diabolical game begins, in which Tosca recognises to late that it is not she who is deceiving Scarpia, but him deceiving her. She betrays Angelotti, who commits suicide. Scarpia promises her a mock execution of Cavaradossi, who helped Angelotti escape. When the time comes for her to pay the price – belonging to him – she kills him. The mock execution turns out to be a deception. Tosca kills herself. Staatsopernchor Dresden Norma Fantini, Soprano: Floria Tosca Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lucio Gallo, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Tomislav Lucic, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Dirk Kaftan, Conductor | ||
| Wednesday 17-Mar-10 17:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle Götterdämmerung |
Dresden State Opera Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Fabio Luisi, Conductor Evelyn Herlitzius, Soprano: Brünhilde Alfons Eberz, Tenor: Siegfried Matthias Henneberg, Baritone: Alberich Markus Butter, Bass: Gunther Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Wednesday 17-Mar-10 17:00 Dresden State Opera The rope which the Norns weave to hold everything together snaps. Siegfried leaves Brünnhilde to do heroic deeds; he places her under the protection of the ring. At the Nibelungs, he succumbs to the perfidious plans of Hagen (Alberich’s son), King Gunther and Gutrune. He betrays Brünnhilde and, with her, his love; he is then killed. Brünnhilde also dies. The Earth and the seat of the gods lie in ashes. Gunther and Hagen fall prey to lust for the ring. The Rhine maidens once again take possession of the ring. Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Fabio Luisi, Conductor Evelyn Herlitzius, Soprano: Brünhilde Alfons Eberz, Tenor: Siegfried Matthias Henneberg, Baritone: Alberich Markus Butter, Bass: Gunther Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen | ||
| Thursday 18-Mar-10 17:00 |
 Oper FrankfurtParsifal |
Oper Frankfurt Sebastian Weigle, Conductor Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Baritone: Amfortas Magnus Baldvinsson, Bass: Titurel Alfred Reiter, Bass: Gurnemanz Frank van Aken, Tenor: Parsifal Lilli Paasikivi, Soprano: Kundry Simon Bailey, Bass: Klingsor |
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| Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Thursday 18-Mar-10 17:00 Oper Frankfurt Parsifal's experiences Kilingsor's world, Flower Maidens, Kundry's love and the name she bestows upon him before he returns years later armed with the initiation requisite, the holy spear. This is followed by Kundry washing his feet, annointing him, Kundry's baptism and the revelation of the Grail before Kundry, whose love Parsifal has rejected for years, sinks dead to the floor. A white dove, accompanied by the harp, flies out of the cupola and hovers over Parsifal's head. He is the new King of the Knights of the Holy Grail. Sung in German. Sebastian Weigle, Conductor Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Baritone: Amfortas Magnus Baldvinsson, Bass: Titurel Alfred Reiter, Bass: Gurnemanz Frank van Aken, Tenor: Parsifal Lilli Paasikivi, Soprano: Kundry Simon Bailey, Bass: Klingsor | ||
| Thursday 18-Mar-10 19:00 |
National Theatre, Munich Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
Bavarian State Opera Christopher Ward, Conductor Alek Shrader, Tenor: Count Almaviva Renato Girolami, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Vesselina Kasarova, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Figaro Bavarian State Opera Chorus Bavarian State Orchestra |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Germany Thursday 18-Mar-10 19:00 Bavarian State Opera 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! In Italian with German surtitles Christopher Ward, Conductor Alek Shrader, Tenor: Count Almaviva Renato Girolami, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Vesselina Kasarova, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Figaro Bavarian State Opera Chorus Bavarian State Orchestra | ||
| Thursday 18-Mar-10 19:30 |
Oper Leipzig The Love for Three Oranges |
Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Leipzig Opera Chorus Roland Kluttig, Conductor |
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| Oper Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Thursday 18-Mar-10 19:30 Sergei Prokofiev's absurd opera "The Love for Three Oranges" will be staged by Wolfgang Engel in a new production at the Oper Leipzig in this season. Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Leipzig Opera Chorus Roland Kluttig, Conductor | ||
| Friday 19-Mar-10 18:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle Der Rosenkavalier |
Dresden State Opera Fabio Luisi, Conductor Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Angela Denoke, Soprano: The Feldmarshallin Kurt Rydl, Bass: Baron Ochs Anke Vondung, Alto: Octavian Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Tenor: Herr von Faninal Cornelia Götz, Soprano: Sophie |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Friday 19-Mar-10 18:00 Dresden State Opera The wife of a field marshal rediscovers her youth in her love for the younger Octavian. But she painfully recognizes that the course of time cannot be stopped. When Octavian is supposed to deliver the Silver Rose as the go-between for fortune hunter Ochs von Lerchenau, the inevitable happens: The go-between and the bride fall in love. Using a theatrical masquerade, Octavian gets rid of his principal. The wife of the field marshal appears to resolve the resulting chaos – and releases Octavian: “I vowed to myself to cherish him in the right way”. Fabio Luisi, Conductor Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Angela Denoke, Soprano: The Feldmarshallin Kurt Rydl, Bass: Baron Ochs Anke Vondung, Alto: Octavian Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Tenor: Herr von Faninal Cornelia Götz, Soprano: Sophie | ||
| Friday 19-Mar-10 19:00 |
Oper Frankfurt Così fan Tutte |
Oper Frankfurt Yuval Zorn, Conductor Christof Loy, Director Juanita Lascarro, Soprano: Fiordiligi Jenny Carlstedt, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Trevor Scheunemann, Bass: Guglielmo Jeremy Ovenden, Tenor: Ferrando |
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| Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Friday 19-Mar-10 19:00 Oper Frankfurt It seems improbable that it is possible to find new aspects in an opera like Così fan tutte today, but that is precisely what Christof Loy managed to achieve in his Frankfurt production. The white, sparse stage design - without any furniture and with only minimal requisites - works like a magnifying glass; focussing the attention entirely on the performers and their reactions to events. A loving look at the two couples unravels, young, inexperienced people who are forced to become more understanding and mature. Everything in this production is felt and developed through the music. Dramatic moments of despair, fun, tomfoolery and a profound look at the being and nature of love. This production was enthusiastically and unanimously praised by the public and press: Christof Loy had clearly hit a nerve with his production of Così fan tutte - for which he was voted Director of the Year and awarded the Faust Prize by the German Bühnenverein. This production now returns to the stage, with some changes to the cast. Sung in Italian with German surtitles. Yuval Zorn, Conductor Christof Loy, Director Juanita Lascarro, Soprano: Fiordiligi Jenny Carlstedt, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Trevor Scheunemann, Bass: Guglielmo Jeremy Ovenden, Tenor: Ferrando | ||
| Friday 19-Mar-10 19:00 |
National Theatre, Munich Le Nozze di Figaro Munich Opera Festival |
Bavarian State Opera Juraj Valcuha, Conductor Michael Volle, Baritone: Count Almaviva Barbara Frittoli, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Kate Lindsey, Soprano: Cherubino Erwin Schrott, Baritone: Figaro Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Susanna Ulrich Ress, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Bavarian State Opera Chorus Bavarian State Orchestra |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Germany Friday 19-Mar-10 19:00 Bavarian State Opera 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. Disguises double and then some -- and even more complications. Everybody wants everyone else - which does not always pan out. Nobody could lust after anyone to more glorious music. Summary: men are different - and so are women! In Italian with German surtitles Juraj Valcuha, Conductor Michael Volle, Baritone: Count Almaviva Barbara Frittoli, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Kate Lindsey, Soprano: Cherubino Erwin Schrott, Baritone: Figaro Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Susanna Ulrich Ress, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Bavarian State Opera Chorus Bavarian State Orchestra | ||
| Friday 19-Mar-10 19:30 |
Oper Leipzig Admetus, King of Thessaly |
Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig |
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| Oper Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Friday 19-Mar-10 19:30 Admetus, King of Thessaly Georg Friedrich Handel's opera seria in three acts "Admetus, King of Thessaly" will be presented in a new production at the Oper Leipzig. Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig | ||
| Saturday 20-Mar-10 19:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle Tosca |
Dresden State Opera Staatsopernchor Dresden Norma Fantini, Soprano: Floria Tosca Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lucio Gallo, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Tomislav Lucic, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Dirk Kaftan, Conductor |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Saturday 20-Mar-10 19:00 Dresden State Opera Performed in Italian with German surtitles The painter Cavaradossi helps the escaped prisoner of state Angelotti. The police chief Scarpia is after Cavaradossi’s capricious sweetheart, the singer Tosca. He brings together her jealousy and tendency to histrionics with his own interests in making her his own, and at the same time clearing his rival Cavaradossi and his political opponent Angelotti out of the way. A diabolical game begins, in which Tosca recognises to late that it is not she who is deceiving Scarpia, but him deceiving her. She betrays Angelotti, who commits suicide. Scarpia promises her a mock execution of Cavaradossi, who helped Angelotti escape. When the time comes for her to pay the price – belonging to him – she kills him. The mock execution turns out to be a deception. Tosca kills herself. Staatsopernchor Dresden Norma Fantini, Soprano: Floria Tosca Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lucio Gallo, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Tomislav Lucic, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Dirk Kaftan, Conductor | ||
| Saturday 20-Mar-10 19:00 |
Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden Carmen |
Berlin State Opera Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Meir Omer Wellber, Conductor Yonghoon Lee, Tenor: Don José Alexander Vinogradov, Bass: Escamillo Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Adriane Queiroz, Soprano: Micaela |
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| Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden, 10117 Berlin, Germany Saturday 20-Mar-10 19:00 Berlin State Opera Performed in French with German surtitles. The protagonists in the productions of the Austrian director Martin Kušej are almost always from a great proximity to death, and characterized by great fearlessness. In "Carmen" there is no turning point to a good end result, and no solution. All protagonists walk on the narrow ridge between life and death, but Carmen knows exactly the principle that there is nothing more than this one life, even more so: they embodied it. Prior to the alternative, to prevent or to die, she sees the death left her face. Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Meir Omer Wellber, Conductor Yonghoon Lee, Tenor: Don José Alexander Vinogradov, Bass: Escamillo Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Adriane Queiroz, Soprano: Micaela | ||
| Saturday 20-Mar-10 19:00 |
Oper Frankfurt Orlando Furioso |
Oper Frankfurt Andrea Marcon, Conductor Daniela Pini, Mezzo-soprano: Alcina Brenda Rae, Soprano: Angelica Florian Plock, Bass: Astolfo |
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| Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Saturday 20-Mar-10 19:00 Oper Frankfurt They all meet on Alcina's magic island: heroes, lovers, happy and rejected people. It seems as if incompatible triangular constellations and motives from Ariostos' epos grow together in Vivaldi's score, creating bewildering and fantastical situations. Orlando, who is not very popular, blows his top: he loves Angelica, who has fallen in love with Medoro and who seeks Alcina's help to get rid of the annoying admirer. Alcina, always looking out for a new man uses her magic to try and bend Ruggiero, Bradamante's bridegroom, to her will. But Bradamante is more powerful than her magic and they all join forces against Alcina. Angelica and Medoro's love for one another is driving Orlando mad, so mad that he smashes a statue, which destroys Alcina's power. Released from his madness he renounces and finds true happiness. The times when Vivaldi was marked down as a purely instrumental composer are over. His 67 operas (written between 1713 and 1741) made this venetian, alongside Alessandro Scarlatti, one of the most fruitful operatic composers of his time. Orlando Furioso marked the exact middle point of Vivaldi's operatic career; fourteen years earlier his first opera, Ottone in villa, was performed for the first time and fourteen years later he died, before his last opera was performed in Vienna. In Orlando Furioso Vivaldi disolved the conventional form of dramma per musica, introducing confusion, intertwined love stories and new musical methods. His musical portraits are believable, profound and - despite the firmly aria forms - always inspired. Orlando Furioso's unconventional dramaturgy and expressive music make it one of Vivaldi's most important operas. Sung in Italian with German surtitles. Andrea Marcon, Conductor Daniela Pini, Mezzo-soprano: Alcina Brenda Rae, Soprano: Angelica Florian Plock, Bass: Astolfo | ||
| Saturday 20-Mar-10 19:00 |
Oper Leipzig The Love for Three Oranges |
Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Leipzig Opera Chorus Roland Kluttig, Conductor |
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| Oper Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Saturday 20-Mar-10 19:00 Sergei Prokofiev's absurd opera "The Love for Three Oranges" will be staged by Wolfgang Engel in a new production at the Oper Leipzig in this season. Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Leipzig Opera Chorus Roland Kluttig, Conductor | ||
| Sunday 21-Mar-10 17:00 |
National Theatre, Munich Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
Bavarian State Opera Christopher Ward, Conductor Alek Shrader, Tenor: Count Almaviva Renato Girolami, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Vesselina Kasarova, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Figaro Bavarian State Opera Chorus Bavarian State Orchestra |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Germany Sunday 21-Mar-10 17:00 Bavarian State Opera 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! In Italian with German surtitles Christopher Ward, Conductor Alek Shrader, Tenor: Count Almaviva Renato Girolami, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Vesselina Kasarova, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Nikolaj Borchev, Baritone: Figaro Bavarian State Opera Chorus Bavarian State Orchestra | ||
| Sunday 21-Mar-10 17:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle Der Rosenkavalier |
Dresden State Opera Fabio Luisi, Conductor Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Angela Denoke, Soprano: The Feldmarshallin Kurt Rydl, Bass: Baron Ochs Anke Vondung, Alto: Octavian Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Tenor: Herr von Faninal Cornelia Götz, Soprano: Sophie |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Sunday 21-Mar-10 17:00 Dresden State Opera The wife of a field marshal rediscovers her youth in her love for the younger Octavian. But she painfully recognizes that the course of time cannot be stopped. When Octavian is supposed to deliver the Silver Rose as the go-between for fortune hunter Ochs von Lerchenau, the inevitable happens: The go-between and the bride fall in love. Using a theatrical masquerade, Octavian gets rid of his principal. The wife of the field marshal appears to resolve the resulting chaos – and releases Octavian: “I vowed to myself to cherish him in the right way”. Fabio Luisi, Conductor Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Angela Denoke, Soprano: The Feldmarshallin Kurt Rydl, Bass: Baron Ochs Anke Vondung, Alto: Octavian Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Tenor: Herr von Faninal Cornelia Götz, Soprano: Sophie | ||
| Sunday 21-Mar-10 17:00 |
Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden Tristan und Isolde |
Berlin State Opera Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Peter Seiffert, Tenor: Tristan René Pape, Bass: King Marke Waltraud Meier, Soprano: Isolde Roman Trekel, Baritone: Kurwenal Reiner Goldberg, Tenor: Melot Ekaterina Gubanova, Mezzo-soprano: Brangäne |
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| Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden, 10117 Berlin, Germany Sunday 21-Mar-10 17:00 Tristan und Isolde Berlin State Opera Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Peter Seiffert, Tenor: Tristan René Pape, Bass: King Marke Waltraud Meier, Soprano: Isolde Roman Trekel, Baritone: Kurwenal Reiner Goldberg, Tenor: Melot Ekaterina Gubanova, Mezzo-soprano: Brangäne | ||
| Sunday 21-Mar-10 17:00 |
Oper Frankfurt Parsifal |
Oper Frankfurt Sebastian Weigle, Conductor Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Baritone: Amfortas Magnus Baldvinsson, Bass: Titurel Alfred Reiter, Bass: Gurnemanz Frank van Aken, Tenor: Parsifal Lilli Paasikivi, Soprano: Kundry Simon Bailey, Bass: Klingsor |
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| Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Sunday 21-Mar-10 17:00 Oper Frankfurt Parsifal's experiences Kilingsor's world, Flower Maidens, Kundry's love and the name she bestows upon him before he returns years later armed with the initiation requisite, the holy spear. This is followed by Kundry washing his feet, annointing him, Kundry's baptism and the revelation of the Grail before Kundry, whose love Parsifal has rejected for years, sinks dead to the floor. A white dove, accompanied by the harp, flies out of the cupola and hovers over Parsifal's head. He is the new King of the Knights of the Holy Grail. Sung in German. Sebastian Weigle, Conductor Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Baritone: Amfortas Magnus Baldvinsson, Bass: Titurel Alfred Reiter, Bass: Gurnemanz Frank van Aken, Tenor: Parsifal Lilli Paasikivi, Soprano: Kundry Simon Bailey, Bass: Klingsor | ||
| Monday 22-Mar-10 19:00 |
Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden Carmen |
Berlin State Opera Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Meir Omer Wellber, Conductor Yonghoon Lee, Tenor: Don José Alexander Vinogradov, Bass: Escamillo Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Adriane Queiroz, Soprano: Micaela |
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| Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden, 10117 Berlin, Germany Monday 22-Mar-10 19:00 Berlin State Opera Performed in French with German surtitles. The protagonists in the productions of the Austrian director Martin Kušej are almost always from a great proximity to death, and characterized by great fearlessness. In "Carmen" there is no turning point to a good end result, and no solution. All protagonists walk on the narrow ridge between life and death, but Carmen knows exactly the principle that there is nothing more than this one life, even more so: they embodied it. Prior to the alternative, to prevent or to die, she sees the death left her face. Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Meir Omer Wellber, Conductor Yonghoon Lee, Tenor: Don José Alexander Vinogradov, Bass: Escamillo Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Adriane Queiroz, Soprano: Micaela | ||
| Monday 22-Mar-10 19:00 |
National Theatre, Munich Le Nozze di Figaro Munich Opera Festival |
Bavarian State Opera Juraj Valcuha, Conductor Michael Volle, Baritone: Count Almaviva Barbara Frittoli, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Kate Lindsey, Soprano: Cherubino Erwin Schrott, Baritone: Figaro Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Susanna Ulrich Ress, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Bavarian State Opera Chorus Bavarian State Orchestra |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Germany Monday 22-Mar-10 19:00 Bavarian State Opera 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. Disguises double and then some -- and even more complications. Everybody wants everyone else - which does not always pan out. Nobody could lust after anyone to more glorious music. Summary: men are different - and so are women! In Italian with German surtitles Juraj Valcuha, Conductor Michael Volle, Baritone: Count Almaviva Barbara Frittoli, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Kate Lindsey, Soprano: Cherubino Erwin Schrott, Baritone: Figaro Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Susanna Ulrich Ress, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Bavarian State Opera Chorus Bavarian State Orchestra | ||
| Tuesday 23-Mar-10 19:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle Die schweigsame Frau |
Dresden State Opera Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Peter Schneider, Conductor Kurt Rydl, Bass: Sir Morosus Ofelia Sala, Soprano: Aminta Markus Butter, Bass: Schneidebart, the barber Oliver Ringelhahn, Tenor: Henry Morosus |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Tuesday 23-Mar-10 19:00 Dresden State Opera In co-production with the Vienna State Opera. Sir Morosus, a retired admiral, suffers from extreme noise sensitivity. He lives as a hermit in his house. His housekeeper and barber are his only contacts. The garrulous housekeeper is getting on his nerves. He throws her out when she vociferously argues with the barber. The barber helps to let the old sea dog become appealed by the thought of marrying a young and quiet woman. Unexpectedly, Henry, the nephew of Sir Morosus, appears. Following the joy of the reunion comes the shock: Henry has brought his colleagues with him – an Italian opera troupe. Morosus disinherits Henry and instructs the barber to look for a bride for him. The intrigue begins because the barber gets an idea that is to be carried out by the members of the troupe. It almost goes almost without saying that Aminta, the prima donna of the opera troupe and the wife of Henry (a fact that is kept secret from Morosus), plays the main role in the comedy that now begins. Morosus’ life is transformed into a noisy hell. In any event, he finds peace again when the intrigue is resolved. Laughing, he forgives everyone because he recognizes the salutary effect of the subterfuge. Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Peter Schneider, Conductor Kurt Rydl, Bass: Sir Morosus Ofelia Sala, Soprano: Aminta Markus Butter, Bass: Schneidebart, the barber Oliver Ringelhahn, Tenor: Henry Morosus | ||
| Wednesday 24-Mar-10 19:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle Tosca |
Dresden State Opera Staatsopernchor Dresden Norma Fantini, Soprano: Floria Tosca Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lucio Gallo, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Tomislav Lucic, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Dirk Kaftan, Conductor |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Wednesday 24-Mar-10 19:00 Dresden State Opera Performed in Italian with German surtitles The painter Cavaradossi helps the escaped prisoner of state Angelotti. The police chief Scarpia is after Cavaradossi’s capricious sweetheart, the singer Tosca. He brings together her jealousy and tendency to histrionics with his own interests in making her his own, and at the same time clearing his rival Cavaradossi and his political opponent Angelotti out of the way. A diabolical game begins, in which Tosca recognises to late that it is not she who is deceiving Scarpia, but him deceiving her. She betrays Angelotti, who commits suicide. Scarpia promises her a mock execution of Cavaradossi, who helped Angelotti escape. When the time comes for her to pay the price – belonging to him – she kills him. The mock execution turns out to be a deception. Tosca kills herself. Staatsopernchor Dresden Norma Fantini, Soprano: Floria Tosca Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lucio Gallo, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Tomislav Lucic, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Dirk Kaftan, Conductor | ||
| Thursday 25-Mar-10 19:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle Die schweigsame Frau |
Dresden State Opera Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Peter Schneider, Conductor Kurt Rydl, Bass: Sir Morosus Ofelia Sala, Soprano: Aminta Markus Butter, Bass: Schneidebart, the barber Oliver Ringelhahn, Tenor: Henry Morosus |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Thursday 25-Mar-10 19:00 Dresden State Opera In co-production with the Vienna State Opera. Sir Morosus, a retired admiral, suffers from extreme noise sensitivity. He lives as a hermit in his house. His housekeeper and barber are his only contacts. The garrulous housekeeper is getting on his nerves. He throws her out when she vociferously argues with the barber. The barber helps to let the old sea dog become appealed by the thought of marrying a young and quiet woman. Unexpectedly, Henry, the nephew of Sir Morosus, appears. Following the joy of the reunion comes the shock: Henry has brought his colleagues with him – an Italian opera troupe. Morosus disinherits Henry and instructs the barber to look for a bride for him. The intrigue begins because the barber gets an idea that is to be carried out by the members of the troupe. It almost goes almost without saying that Aminta, the prima donna of the opera troupe and the wife of Henry (a fact that is kept secret from Morosus), plays the main role in the comedy that now begins. Morosus’ life is transformed into a noisy hell. In any event, he finds peace again when the intrigue is resolved. Laughing, he forgives everyone because he recognizes the salutary effect of the subterfuge. Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Peter Schneider, Conductor Kurt Rydl, Bass: Sir Morosus Ofelia Sala, Soprano: Aminta Markus Butter, Bass: Schneidebart, the barber Oliver Ringelhahn, Tenor: Henry Morosus | ||
| Thursday 25-Mar-10 19:30 |
Oper Leipzig Admetus, King of Thessaly |
Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig |
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| Oper Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Thursday 25-Mar-10 19:30 Admetus, King of Thessaly Georg Friedrich Handel's opera seria in three acts "Admetus, King of Thessaly" will be presented in a new production at the Oper Leipzig. Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig | ||
| Friday 26-Mar-10 19:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle Tosca |
Dresden State Opera Staatsopernchor Dresden Norma Fantini, Soprano: Floria Tosca Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lucio Gallo, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Tomislav Lucic, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Dirk Kaftan, Conductor |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Friday 26-Mar-10 19:00 Dresden State Opera Performed in Italian with German surtitles The painter Cavaradossi helps the escaped prisoner of state Angelotti. The police chief Scarpia is after Cavaradossi’s capricious sweetheart, the singer Tosca. He brings together her jealousy and tendency to histrionics with his own interests in making her his own, and at the same time clearing his rival Cavaradossi and his political opponent Angelotti out of the way. A diabolical game begins, in which Tosca recognises to late that it is not she who is deceiving Scarpia, but him deceiving her. She betrays Angelotti, who commits suicide. Scarpia promises her a mock execution of Cavaradossi, who helped Angelotti escape. When the time comes for her to pay the price – belonging to him – she kills him. The mock execution turns out to be a deception. Tosca kills herself. Staatsopernchor Dresden Norma Fantini, Soprano: Floria Tosca Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lucio Gallo, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Tomislav Lucic, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Dirk Kaftan, Conductor | ||
| Friday 26-Mar-10 19:30 |
Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden Eugene Onegin |
Berlin State Opera Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Madame Larina Anna Samuil, Soprano: Tatyana Maria Gortsevskaya, Contralto: Olga Artur Rucinski, Baritone: Eugene Onegin Rolando Villazón, Tenor: Lensky René Pape, Bass: Prince Gremin |
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| Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden, 10117 Berlin, Germany Friday 26-Mar-10 19:30 Berlin State Opera Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Madame Larina Anna Samuil, Soprano: Tatyana Maria Gortsevskaya, Contralto: Olga Artur Rucinski, Baritone: Eugene Onegin Rolando Villazón, Tenor: Lensky René Pape, Bass: Prince Gremin | ||
| Friday 26-Mar-10 19:30 |
Oper Leipzig Carmen |
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| Oper Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Friday 26-Mar-10 19:30 The Oper Leipzig presents one of the most favourite operas "Carmen" - Bizet's masterpiece about love, passion, jealousy and death! The opera is set in Spanish Seville, where the beautiful but also fiery gypsy Carmen falls in love with Don José and woos about the young soldier. Their relationship leads to his rejection of his fiancée, mutiny against his superior, turn to a criminal life, and ultimately, out of jealousy, murder of Carmen. Although he is briefly happy with Carmen, he falls into madness when she turns from him to the bullfighter Escamillo. Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet based on the story by Porsper Merimée, and the libretto was written by Meilhac and Halévy. The Oper Leipzig presents Bizet's opera in the original language with German surtitles in a stage production full of passion - playful and yet a serious story about love! | ||
| Saturday 27-Mar-10 19:00 |
National Theatre, Munich Don Giovanni |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Erwin Schrott, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Alex Esposito, Bass: Leporello Levente Molnar, Baritone: Masetto Erin Wall, Soprano: Donna Anna Giuseppe Filianoti, Tenor: Don Ottavio Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Germany Saturday 27-Mar-10 19:00 Bavarian State Opera Dramma giocoso in two acts 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. In Italian with German surtitles Kent Nagano, Conductor Erwin Schrott, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Alex Esposito, Bass: Leporello Levente Molnar, Baritone: Masetto Erin Wall, Soprano: Donna Anna Giuseppe Filianoti, Tenor: Don Ottavio Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Saturday 27-Mar-10 19:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle Die schweigsame Frau |
Dresden State Opera Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Peter Schneider, Conductor Kurt Rydl, Bass: Sir Morosus Ofelia Sala, Soprano: Aminta Markus Butter, Bass: Schneidebart, the barber Oliver Ringelhahn, Tenor: Henry Morosus |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Saturday 27-Mar-10 19:00 Dresden State Opera In co-production with the Vienna State Opera. Sir Morosus, a retired admiral, suffers from extreme noise sensitivity. He lives as a hermit in his house. His housekeeper and barber are his only contacts. The garrulous housekeeper is getting on his nerves. He throws her out when she vociferously argues with the barber. The barber helps to let the old sea dog become appealed by the thought of marrying a young and quiet woman. Unexpectedly, Henry, the nephew of Sir Morosus, appears. Following the joy of the reunion comes the shock: Henry has brought his colleagues with him – an Italian opera troupe. Morosus disinherits Henry and instructs the barber to look for a bride for him. The intrigue begins because the barber gets an idea that is to be carried out by the members of the troupe. It almost goes almost without saying that Aminta, the prima donna of the opera troupe and the wife of Henry (a fact that is kept secret from Morosus), plays the main role in the comedy that now begins. Morosus’ life is transformed into a noisy hell. In any event, he finds peace again when the intrigue is resolved. Laughing, he forgives everyone because he recognizes the salutary effect of the subterfuge. Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Peter Schneider, Conductor Kurt Rydl, Bass: Sir Morosus Ofelia Sala, Soprano: Aminta Markus Butter, Bass: Schneidebart, the barber Oliver Ringelhahn, Tenor: Henry Morosus | ||
| Saturday 27-Mar-10 19:00 |
Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden Simon Boccanegra |
Berlin State Opera Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Plácido Domingo, Tenor: Simon Boccanegra Anja Harteros, Soprano: Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) Kwangchul Youn, Bass: Jacopo Fiesco Fabio Sartori, Tenor: Gabriele Adorno Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Baritone: Paolo Albani Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden, 10117 Berlin, Germany Saturday 27-Mar-10 19:00 Berlin State Opera Performed in Italian with German surtitles. Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Plácido Domingo, Tenor: Simon Boccanegra Anja Harteros, Soprano: Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) Kwangchul Youn, Bass: Jacopo Fiesco Fabio Sartori, Tenor: Gabriele Adorno Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Baritone: Paolo Albani Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Saturday 27-Mar-10 19:00 |
Oper Frankfurt Così fan Tutte |
Oper Frankfurt Yuval Zorn, Conductor Christof Loy, Director Juanita Lascarro, Soprano: Fiordiligi Jenny Carlstedt, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Trevor Scheunemann, Bass: Guglielmo Jeremy Ovenden, Tenor: Ferrando |
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| Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Saturday 27-Mar-10 19:00 Oper Frankfurt It seems improbable that it is possible to find new aspects in an opera like Così fan tutte today, but that is precisely what Christof Loy managed to achieve in his Frankfurt production. The white, sparse stage design - without any furniture and with only minimal requisites - works like a magnifying glass; focussing the attention entirely on the performers and their reactions to events. A loving look at the two couples unravels, young, inexperienced people who are forced to become more understanding and mature. Everything in this production is felt and developed through the music. Dramatic moments of despair, fun, tomfoolery and a profound look at the being and nature of love. This production was enthusiastically and unanimously praised by the public and press: Christof Loy had clearly hit a nerve with his production of Così fan tutte - for which he was voted Director of the Year and awarded the Faust Prize by the German Bühnenverein. This production now returns to the stage, with some changes to the cast. Sung in Italian with German surtitles. Yuval Zorn, Conductor Christof Loy, Director Juanita Lascarro, Soprano: Fiordiligi Jenny Carlstedt, Mezzo-soprano: Dorabella Trevor Scheunemann, Bass: Guglielmo Jeremy Ovenden, Tenor: Ferrando | ||
| Sunday 28-Mar-10 17:00 |
Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden Tristan und Isolde |
Berlin State Opera Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Peter Seiffert, Tenor: Tristan René Pape, Bass: King Marke Waltraud Meier, Soprano: Isolde Roman Trekel, Baritone: Kurwenal Reiner Goldberg, Tenor: Melot Ekaterina Gubanova, Mezzo-soprano: Brangäne |
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| Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden, 10117 Berlin, Germany Sunday 28-Mar-10 17:00 Tristan und Isolde Berlin State Opera Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Peter Seiffert, Tenor: Tristan René Pape, Bass: King Marke Waltraud Meier, Soprano: Isolde Roman Trekel, Baritone: Kurwenal Reiner Goldberg, Tenor: Melot Ekaterina Gubanova, Mezzo-soprano: Brangäne | ||
| Sunday 28-Mar-10 18:00 |
Oper Leipzig Carmina Burana |
Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Rudolf Piehlmeyer, Conductor |
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| Oper Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Sunday 28-Mar-10 18:00 After its fulminant performance at the Open-Air-Gala in June 2009, Carl Orffs scenic cantata "Carmina Burana" will be performed in concert form at the Oper Leipzig. Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Rudolf Piehlmeyer, Conductor | ||
| Sunday 28-Mar-10 18:00 |
Oper Frankfurt Daphne |
Oper Frankfurt Sebastian Weigle, Conductor Matthew Best, Bass: Peneios Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Soprano: Gaea Maria Bengtsson, Soprano: Daphne Daniel Behle, Tenor: Leukippos Lance Ryan, Tenor: Apollo |
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| Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Sunday 28-Mar-10 18:00 Oper Frankfurt A pastoral tragedy in dark times. While Karl Böhm, to whom Strauss dedicated this opera, conducted the final rehearsals at the Semperoper in Dresden german troops were occupying the Sudentenland. It was the ninth and last world premiere of a Strauss opera in the opera house that was completely destroyed in 1945. But the smell of war was already in the air in 1938. At the end of Daphne a miracle takes place: the title figure transforms herself into a part of nature. As her name implies, she mutates into a laurel. After much too-ing and fro-ing between Strauss and his librettist Joseph Gregor they found the solution: Salvation is: »everything disturbing must go - the tree alone, it sings!« With Daphne, the mythological fisherman's (daughter of River Penios) daughter, begins, so may one believe, the start of the modern history of opera. In 1597 Jacopo Peri, with Rinuccini's libretto, created this first work of a new and promising form of artistry. The old mythological legend about the beautiful woman who couldn't, and did not want to, love a man, has inspired many over the centuries. Ovid's Metamorphosisses are a reworking of this ancient material. Plutarch's version brought the childhood friend and love smitten king's son Leukippos into play, and Strauss advances the tale further into an allegory of surpressed human nature. Strauss keeps the musical spheres of the woman and her suitor far apart from one another. Lyrical, chamber music like tones contrast dazzlingly with dionysian orchestral passages. Sung in German. Sebastian Weigle, Conductor Matthew Best, Bass: Peneios Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Soprano: Gaea Maria Bengtsson, Soprano: Daphne Daniel Behle, Tenor: Leukippos Lance Ryan, Tenor: Apollo | ||
| Sunday 28-Mar-10 19:00 |
National Theatre, Munich Dialogues des Carmélites |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Alain Vernhes, Baritone: Marquis de la Force Susan Gritton, Soprano: Blanche de la Force Bernard Richter, Tenor: Chevalier de la Force Felicity Palmer, Contralto: Madame de Croissy, the prioress Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Madame Lidoine, the new prioress Susanne Resmark, Mezzo-soprano: Mother Marie |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Germany Sunday 28-Mar-10 19:00 Bavarian State Opera In his 1953 opera Dialogues des Carmélites, French composer Francis Poulenc sets revolution and religion on a collision course: young Blanche de la Force, haunted from birth by panic attacks, seeks refuge in the isolation of a convent, where she hopes to overcome her torturous fear of life. Her entry into the Order of the Carmelites and her conversations with the other nuns strengthen her and her faith, but the fear remains. The French Revolution does not stop at the walls of the convent and prohibits the nuns from carrying out the rules of their order. They rise in opposition, even accepting a martyr’s death rather than give in. All except Blanche – she flees again, terrified of death. The steadfastness with which the sisters face their martyrdom rescues Blanche from her anxiety. Fearlessly, she follows them to the gallows. In French with German surtitles Kent Nagano, Conductor Alain Vernhes, Baritone: Marquis de la Force Susan Gritton, Soprano: Blanche de la Force Bernard Richter, Tenor: Chevalier de la Force Felicity Palmer, Contralto: Madame de Croissy, the prioress Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Madame Lidoine, the new prioress Susanne Resmark, Mezzo-soprano: Mother Marie | ||
| Tuesday 30-Mar-10 18:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle Der Rosenkavalier |
Dresden State Opera Fabio Luisi, Conductor Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Angela Denoke, Soprano: The Feldmarshallin Kurt Rydl, Bass: Baron Ochs Anke Vondung, Alto: Octavian Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Tenor: Herr von Faninal Cornelia Götz, Soprano: Sophie |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Tuesday 30-Mar-10 18:00 Dresden State Opera The wife of a field marshal rediscovers her youth in her love for the younger Octavian. But she painfully recognizes that the course of time cannot be stopped. When Octavian is supposed to deliver the Silver Rose as the go-between for fortune hunter Ochs von Lerchenau, the inevitable happens: The go-between and the bride fall in love. Using a theatrical masquerade, Octavian gets rid of his principal. The wife of the field marshal appears to resolve the resulting chaos – and releases Octavian: “I vowed to myself to cherish him in the right way”. Fabio Luisi, Conductor Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Angela Denoke, Soprano: The Feldmarshallin Kurt Rydl, Bass: Baron Ochs Anke Vondung, Alto: Octavian Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Tenor: Herr von Faninal Cornelia Götz, Soprano: Sophie | ||
| Tuesday 30-Mar-10 19:00 |
National Theatre, Munich Don Giovanni |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Erwin Schrott, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Alex Esposito, Bass: Leporello Levente Molnar, Baritone: Masetto Erin Wall, Soprano: Donna Anna Giuseppe Filianoti, Tenor: Don Ottavio Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Germany Tuesday 30-Mar-10 19:00 Bavarian State Opera Dramma giocoso in two acts 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. In Italian with German surtitles Kent Nagano, Conductor Erwin Schrott, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Alex Esposito, Bass: Leporello Levente Molnar, Baritone: Masetto Erin Wall, Soprano: Donna Anna Giuseppe Filianoti, Tenor: Don Ottavio Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Tuesday 30-Mar-10 19:30 |
Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden Simon Boccanegra |
Berlin State Opera Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Plácido Domingo, Tenor: Simon Boccanegra Anja Harteros, Soprano: Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) Kwangchul Youn, Bass: Jacopo Fiesco Fabio Sartori, Tenor: Gabriele Adorno Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Baritone: Paolo Albani Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden, 10117 Berlin, Germany Tuesday 30-Mar-10 19:30 Berlin State Opera Performed in Italian with German surtitles. Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Plácido Domingo, Tenor: Simon Boccanegra Anja Harteros, Soprano: Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) Kwangchul Youn, Bass: Jacopo Fiesco Fabio Sartori, Tenor: Gabriele Adorno Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Baritone: Paolo Albani Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Wednesday 31-Mar-10 19:00 |
Oper Frankfurt Orlando Furioso |
Oper Frankfurt Andrea Marcon, Conductor Daniela Pini, Mezzo-soprano: Alcina Brenda Rae, Soprano: Angelica Florian Plock, Bass: Astolfo |
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| Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Wednesday 31-Mar-10 19:00 Oper Frankfurt They all meet on Alcina's magic island: heroes, lovers, happy and rejected people. It seems as if incompatible triangular constellations and motives from Ariostos' epos grow together in Vivaldi's score, creating bewildering and fantastical situations. Orlando, who is not very popular, blows his top: he loves Angelica, who has fallen in love with Medoro and who seeks Alcina's help to get rid of the annoying admirer. Alcina, always looking out for a new man uses her magic to try and bend Ruggiero, Bradamante's bridegroom, to her will. But Bradamante is more powerful than her magic and they all join forces against Alcina. Angelica and Medoro's love for one another is driving Orlando mad, so mad that he smashes a statue, which destroys Alcina's power. Released from his madness he renounces and finds true happiness. The times when Vivaldi was marked down as a purely instrumental composer are over. His 67 operas (written between 1713 and 1741) made this venetian, alongside Alessandro Scarlatti, one of the most fruitful operatic composers of his time. Orlando Furioso marked the exact middle point of Vivaldi's operatic career; fourteen years earlier his first opera, Ottone in villa, was performed for the first time and fourteen years later he died, before his last opera was performed in Vienna. In Orlando Furioso Vivaldi disolved the conventional form of dramma per musica, introducing confusion, intertwined love stories and new musical methods. His musical portraits are believable, profound and - despite the firmly aria forms - always inspired. Orlando Furioso's unconventional dramaturgy and expressive music make it one of Vivaldi's most important operas. Sung in Italian with German surtitles. Andrea Marcon, Conductor Daniela Pini, Mezzo-soprano: Alcina Brenda Rae, Soprano: Angelica Florian Plock, Bass: Astolfo | ||
| Thursday 1-Apr-10 19:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle La Bohème |
Dresden State Opera Staatsopernchor Dresden Jacques Delacôte, Conductor Kyung-Hae Kang, Soprano: Mimì Romy Petrick, Soprano: Musetta Dimitri Pittas, Tenor: Rodolfo Christoph Pohl, Tenor: Marcello |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Thursday 1-Apr-10 19:00 Dresden State Opera Performed in Italian with German surtitles The first encounter between Mimi and Rodolfo brings warmth to the ice-cold Christmas Eve. Yet, in the middle of the background of the joie de vivre life as a Paris artist, their blossoming love is smirched by death from the very start. With his beggarly life, Rodolfo knows that he has nothing to offer to Mimi, who is suffering from lung disease. They decide to break up. When they meet again, Rodolfo and his friends are able to fulfil a last wish for her. Staatsopernchor Dresden Jacques Delacôte, Conductor Kyung-Hae Kang, Soprano: Mimì Romy Petrick, Soprano: Musetta Dimitri Pittas, Tenor: Rodolfo Christoph Pohl, Tenor: Marcello | ||
| Thursday 1-Apr-10 19:00 |
National Theatre, Munich Dialogues des Carmélites |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Alain Vernhes, Baritone: Marquis de la Force Susan Gritton, Soprano: Blanche de la Force Bernard Richter, Tenor: Chevalier de la Force Felicity Palmer, Contralto: Madame de Croissy, the prioress Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Madame Lidoine, the new prioress Susanne Resmark, Mezzo-soprano: Mother Marie |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Germany Thursday 1-Apr-10 19:00 Bavarian State Opera In his 1953 opera Dialogues des Carmélites, French composer Francis Poulenc sets revolution and religion on a collision course: young Blanche de la Force, haunted from birth by panic attacks, seeks refuge in the isolation of a convent, where she hopes to overcome her torturous fear of life. Her entry into the Order of the Carmelites and her conversations with the other nuns strengthen her and her faith, but the fear remains. The French Revolution does not stop at the walls of the convent and prohibits the nuns from carrying out the rules of their order. They rise in opposition, even accepting a martyr’s death rather than give in. All except Blanche – she flees again, terrified of death. The steadfastness with which the sisters face their martyrdom rescues Blanche from her anxiety. Fearlessly, she follows them to the gallows. In French with German surtitles Kent Nagano, Conductor Alain Vernhes, Baritone: Marquis de la Force Susan Gritton, Soprano: Blanche de la Force Bernard Richter, Tenor: Chevalier de la Force Felicity Palmer, Contralto: Madame de Croissy, the prioress Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Madame Lidoine, the new prioress Susanne Resmark, Mezzo-soprano: Mother Marie | ||
| Thursday 1-Apr-10 19:30 |
Oper Frankfurt Daphne |
Oper Frankfurt Sebastian Weigle, Conductor Matthew Best, Bass: Peneios Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Soprano: Gaea Maria Bengtsson, Soprano: Daphne Daniel Behle, Tenor: Leukippos Lance Ryan, Tenor: Apollo |
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| Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Thursday 1-Apr-10 19:30 Oper Frankfurt A pastoral tragedy in dark times. While Karl Böhm, to whom Strauss dedicated this opera, conducted the final rehearsals at the Semperoper in Dresden german troops were occupying the Sudentenland. It was the ninth and last world premiere of a Strauss opera in the opera house that was completely destroyed in 1945. But the smell of war was already in the air in 1938. At the end of Daphne a miracle takes place: the title figure transforms herself into a part of nature. As her name implies, she mutates into a laurel. After much too-ing and fro-ing between Strauss and his librettist Joseph Gregor they found the solution: Salvation is: »everything disturbing must go - the tree alone, it sings!« With Daphne, the mythological fisherman's (daughter of River Penios) daughter, begins, so may one believe, the start of the modern history of opera. In 1597 Jacopo Peri, with Rinuccini's libretto, created this first work of a new and promising form of artistry. The old mythological legend about the beautiful woman who couldn't, and did not want to, love a man, has inspired many over the centuries. Ovid's Metamorphosisses are a reworking of this ancient material. Plutarch's version brought the childhood friend and love smitten king's son Leukippos into play, and Strauss advances the tale further into an allegory of surpressed human nature. Strauss keeps the musical spheres of the woman and her suitor far apart from one another. Lyrical, chamber music like tones contrast dazzlingly with dionysian orchestral passages. Sung in German. Sebastian Weigle, Conductor Matthew Best, Bass: Peneios Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Soprano: Gaea Maria Bengtsson, Soprano: Daphne Daniel Behle, Tenor: Leukippos Lance Ryan, Tenor: Apollo | ||
| Friday 2-Apr-10 17:00 |
Oper Frankfurt Parsifal |
Oper Frankfurt Sebastian Weigle, Conductor Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Baritone: Amfortas Magnus Baldvinsson, Bass: Titurel Alfred Reiter, Bass: Gurnemanz Frank van Aken, Tenor: Parsifal Lilli Paasikivi, Soprano: Kundry Simon Bailey, Bass: Klingsor |
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| Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Friday 2-Apr-10 17:00 Oper Frankfurt Parsifal's experiences Kilingsor's world, Flower Maidens, Kundry's love and the name she bestows upon him before he returns years later armed with the initiation requisite, the holy spear. This is followed by Kundry washing his feet, annointing him, Kundry's baptism and the revelation of the Grail before Kundry, whose love Parsifal has rejected for years, sinks dead to the floor. A white dove, accompanied by the harp, flies out of the cupola and hovers over Parsifal's head. He is the new King of the Knights of the Holy Grail. Sung in German. Sebastian Weigle, Conductor Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Baritone: Amfortas Magnus Baldvinsson, Bass: Titurel Alfred Reiter, Bass: Gurnemanz Frank van Aken, Tenor: Parsifal Lilli Paasikivi, Soprano: Kundry Simon Bailey, Bass: Klingsor | ||
| Friday 2-Apr-10 17:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle Parsifal |
Dresden State Opera Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Asher Fisch, Conductor Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Tenor: Amfortas Jacques-Greg Belobo, Bass: Titurel Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Bass: Gurnemanz Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor: Parsifal Egils Silins, Baritone: Klingsor Evelyn Herlitzius, Soprano: Kundry |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Friday 2-Apr-10 17:00 Dresden State Opera Gralsburg castle is situated on Monsalvat mountain. The knights of Gralsburg protect the sacred Grail, which the former Gralsburg knight Klingsor wants to make his own. The Grail has long since lost its magic powers. Its protector, the chief Gralsburg knight Amfortas, has forfeited his knowledge of the way of life as a result of his passion for the attractive lady Kundry. And Klingsor’s spear has given him a wound that does not heal. Only a pure simpleton enlightened by compassion is capable of redeeming Amfortas and revitalizing the power of the grail to assist innocently beset people throughout the world. Parsifal succeeds in doing this after he becomes enlightened by compassion due to the knowledge of the way of life after an encounter with the enticing Kundry. Hope once again enters the world. Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor Dresden Asher Fisch, Conductor Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Tenor: Amfortas Jacques-Greg Belobo, Bass: Titurel Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Bass: Gurnemanz Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor: Parsifal Egils Silins, Baritone: Klingsor Evelyn Herlitzius, Soprano: Kundry | ||
| Friday 2-Apr-10 17:00 |
Oper Leipzig Rienzi |
Michael Jurowski, Conductor |
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| Oper Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Friday 2-Apr-10 17:00 Tragical Opera in Five Acts. Texts by Richard Wagner after the novel "Rienzi or The Last of the Tribunes" by Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton. Michael Jurowski, Conductor | ||
| Friday 2-Apr-10 19:30 |
Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden Eugene Onegin |
Berlin State Opera Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Madame Larina Anna Samuil, Soprano: Tatyana Maria Gortsevskaya, Contralto: Olga Artur Rucinski, Baritone: Eugene Onegin Rolando Villazón, Tenor: Lensky René Pape, Bass: Prince Gremin |
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| Berlin State Opera, Unter den Linden, 10117 Berlin, Germany Friday 2-Apr-10 19:30 Berlin State Opera Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Madame Larina Anna Samuil, Soprano: Tatyana Maria Gortsevskaya, Contralto: Olga Artur Rucinski, Baritone: Eugene Onegin Rolando Villazón, Tenor: Lensky René Pape, Bass: Prince Gremin | ||
| Saturday 3-Apr-10 19:00 |
Oper Leipzig Don Giovanni |
Sébastien Rouland, Conductor Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Leipzig Opera Chorus |
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| Oper Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Saturday 3-Apr-10 19:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts famous opera "Don Giovanni" will be performed in a new production by the Oper Leipzig!Don Giovanni, the legendary nobleman and the most accomplished seducer of all time, loves women. Not just one woman, on the contrary, he loves all women, regardless of their social standing or whether they are already spoken for.... The Oper Leipzig presents Mozart's most famous opera in a new production by the legendary filmdirector Werner Schroeter - "Der Rosenkönig", "Palermo oder Wolfburg" Sébastien Rouland, Conductor Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Leipzig Opera Chorus | ||
| Saturday 3-Apr-10 19:00 |
National Theatre, Munich Don Giovanni |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Erwin Schrott, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Alex Esposito, Bass: Leporello Levente Molnar, Baritone: Masetto Erin Wall, Soprano: Donna Anna Giuseppe Filianoti, Tenor: Don Ottavio Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Germany Saturday 3-Apr-10 19:00 Bavarian State Opera Dramma giocoso in two acts 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. In Italian with German surtitles Kent Nagano, Conductor Erwin Schrott, Baritone: Don Giovanni Phillip Ens, Bass: The Commendatore Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Donna Elvira Alex Esposito, Bass: Leporello Levente Molnar, Baritone: Masetto Erin Wall, Soprano: Donna Anna Giuseppe Filianoti, Tenor: Don Ottavio Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Zerlina Bavarian State Orchestra Bavarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Saturday 3-Apr-10 19:30 |
Oper Frankfurt L'Oracolo / Le Villi |
Oper Frankfurt Stefan Solyom, Conductor Ashley Holland, Baritone Bastiaan Everink, Baritone Barbara Zechmeister, Soprano |
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| Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Saturday 3-Apr-10 19:30 L'Oracolo / Le Villi Oper Frankfurt Nobody knew Giacomo Puccini. The young music student's first opera was entered in a competiton but did not win. Nonetheless it was performed and really made people sit up and listen. Le Villi was to launch Puccini on his path to world fame. Today almost nobody knows anything about Leoni. While living in London this italian wrote his one act L'oracolo for the baritone Antonio Scotti, who enjoyed worldwide success with the opera for two decades. The work was not performed again after Scotti's death and Leoni was forgotten. Both composers were confronted by the same phenomenon: Belcanto opera was passé, the whole genre was threatened. The acceleration of life was unstoppable; opera had to reinvent itself if it wanted to keep pace. It followed a path which, in hindsight, proved to be a dangerous one: cinema was to come into competition for its audiences. While Le Villi is an early flowering of this development L'Oracolo is almost a late bloomer. In Puccini's work Anna, a girl from the Black Forest who has died of grief, joins the other »Villis« (spirits of betrothed maidens deserted by their lovers) seeking to take revenge on her unfaithful beloved Roberto. An emotive opera which touches the audience. Leoni sets in his crimi in San Francisco's china town. The action is fast and furious, almost cinematographic: no scene lasts longer than three minutes. Drama rules the moment. Both works exploit curiousity about exotica and local colour, be it the Black Forest or a chinese enclave in America. The sadness about the threat to this art form, which after 300 hundred years appeared to be in deep crisis, is hidden in both works which are full of the desire to prevent its demise. This desire remains undiminished today: reason enough to bring both operas - the early work of a master and the success of a forgotten composer - onto the stage once more. Sung in Italian with German surtitles. Stefan Solyom, Conductor Ashley Holland, Baritone Bastiaan Everink, Baritone Barbara Zechmeister, Soprano | ||
| Sunday 4-Apr-10 18:00 |
National Theatre, Munich Palestrina |
Bavarian State Opera Asher Fisch, Conductor Victor von Halem, Bass: Pope Pius IV Michael Volle, Baritone: Giovanni Morone John Daszak, Tenor: Bernardo Novagerio Roland Bracht, Bass: Cardinal Christoph Madruscht Thomas Johannes Mayer, Baritone: Carlo Borromeo Bavarian State Opera Chorus Bavarian State Orchestra |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Germany Sunday 4-Apr-10 18:00 Bavarian State Opera The great musician Palestrina is pressured from two sides: his young pupil finds his compositions old-fashioned, music history seems to have passed him by – and the grand Cardinal Borromeo attempts to force him to write a mass, in which his art will reunite Christianity in the throes of a radical schism. Palestrina tries to elude all these demands, but for all of this: his bold venture proves a grand success. In a single night, he composes a truly celestial mass. The music seems to have emanated from another world. And Pfitzner’s “Palestrina” score - given its world première in Munich in 1917 - provides one final opportunity for the mystery of the autonomous, brilliant artist to come to life in the grand, unbroken romantic tradition of the 19th century. In German with German surtitles Asher Fisch, Conductor Victor von Halem, Bass: Pope Pius IV Michael Volle, Baritone: Giovanni Morone John Daszak, Tenor: Bernardo Novagerio Roland Bracht, Bass: Cardinal Christoph Madruscht Thomas Johannes Mayer, Baritone: Carlo Borromeo Bavarian State Opera Chorus Bavarian State Orchestra | ||
| Sunday 4-Apr-10 19:00 |
Dresden Staatskapelle La Bohème |
Dresden State Opera Staatsopernchor Dresden Jacques Delacôte, Conductor Kyung-Hae Kang, Soprano: Mimì Romy Petrick, Soprano: Musetta Dimitri Pittas, Tenor: Rodolfo Christoph Pohl, Tenor: Marcello |
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| Dresden Staatskapelle, D 01067 Dresden, Germany Sunday 4-Apr-10 19:00 Dresden State Opera Performed in Italian with German surtitles The first encounter between Mimi and Rodolfo brings warmth to the ice-cold Christmas Eve. Yet, in the middle of the background of the joie de vivre life as a Paris artist, their blossoming love is smirched by death from the very start. With his beggarly life, Rodolfo knows that he has nothing to offer to Mimi, who is suffering from lung disease. They decide to break up. When they meet again, Rodolfo and his friends are able to fulfil a last wish for her. Staatsopernchor Dresden Jacques Delacôte, Conductor Kyung-Hae Kang, Soprano: Mimì Romy Petrick, Soprano: Musetta Dimitri Pittas, Tenor: Rodolfo Christoph Pohl, Tenor: Marcello | ||
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