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| Wednesday 22-May-13 07:30pm |
 Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, BerlinDer Fliegende Hollander |
Staatsoper Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Wednesday 22-May-13 07:30pm Der Fliegende Hollander A stormy sea voyage to Riga and the "Memoirs of the Lord of Schnabelewopski" by Heinrich Heine, inspired the 28-year-old Richard Wagner to write one of his most colorful orchestral operas. Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German).Image credit: (c) Tanja Dorendorf | ||
| Thursday 23-May-13 |
Staatsoper, Vienna Carmen |
Vienna State Opera Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Don José Ludovic Tézier, Baritone: Escamillo Anita Hartig, Soprano: Micaela |
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| Staatsoper, Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria Thursday 23-May-13 Check start time of performance. Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Don José Ludovic Tézier, Baritone: Escamillo Anita Hartig, Soprano: Micaela | ||
| Thursday 23-May-13 07:00pm |
Teatro di San Carlo, Naples Verdi, Rigoletto |
San Carlo Theatre Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor Arnaud Bernard, Director Celso Albelo, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Desirée Rancatore, Soprano: Gilda Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Baritone: Rigoletto Michail Ryssov, Bass: Sparafucile Daniela Innamorati, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Christopher Magiera, Baritone: Marullo |
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| Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, 80132 Naples, Italy Thursday 23-May-13 07:00pm Verdi, Rigoletto Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor Arnaud Bernard, Director Celso Albelo, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Desirée Rancatore, Soprano: Gilda Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Baritone: Rigoletto Michail Ryssov, Bass: Sparafucile Daniela Innamorati, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Christopher Magiera, Baritone: Marullo | ||
| Thursday 23-May-13 07:00pm |
Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris) Giulio Cesare |
Opéra de Paris Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée |
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| Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris), 75009 Paris, France Thursday 23-May-13 07:00pm Never had his melodic genius been more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels, like Cleopatra's arias. Jane Archibald, Karine Deshayes and Laurence Zazzo are the heroes of this vocal festivity. Performed in Italian. Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée | ||
| Thursday 23-May-13 07:00pm |
Howard Assembly Room, Leeds Albert Herring |
Opera North Josephine Barstow, Soprano: Lady Billows Alexander Sprague, Tenor: Albert Herring Mary Hegarty, Soprano: Miss Wordsworth Joe Shovelton, Tenor: Mr Upfold Justin Doyle, Conductor Giles Havergal, Director |
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| Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, Leeds Grand Theatre, , 46 New Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NU, United Kingdom Thursday 23-May-13 07:00pm Josephine Barstow, Soprano: Lady Billows Alexander Sprague, Tenor: Albert Herring Mary Hegarty, Soprano: Miss Wordsworth Joe Shovelton, Tenor: Mr Upfold Justin Doyle, Conductor Giles Havergal, Director | ||
| Thursday 23-May-13 07:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Thursday 23-May-13 07:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Friday 24-May-13 07:00pm |
Howard Assembly Room, Leeds Albert Herring |
Opera North Josephine Barstow, Soprano: Lady Billows Alexander Sprague, Tenor: Albert Herring Mary Hegarty, Soprano: Miss Wordsworth Joe Shovelton, Tenor: Mr Upfold Justin Doyle, Conductor Giles Havergal, Director |
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| Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, Leeds Grand Theatre, , 46 New Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NU, United Kingdom Friday 24-May-13 07:00pm Josephine Barstow, Soprano: Lady Billows Alexander Sprague, Tenor: Albert Herring Mary Hegarty, Soprano: Miss Wordsworth Joe Shovelton, Tenor: Mr Upfold Justin Doyle, Conductor Giles Havergal, Director | ||
| Friday 24-May-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Magic Flute |
Staatsoper Berlin Alexander Soddy, Conductor August Everding, Director Fred Berndt, Set Designer Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Pavol Breslik, Tenor: Tamino Adriane Queiroz, Soprano: Pamina Roman Trekel, Baritone: Papageno Narine Yeghiyan, Soprano: Papagena Anna Maria Siminska, Soprano: Queen of the Night René Pape, Bass: Sarastro Arttu Kataja, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Michael Smallwood, Tenor: Monostatos Paul O'Neill, Tenor Michael Kraus, Baritone Carola Höhn, Soprano Rowan Hellier, Mezzo-soprano Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano Kyungho Kim, Tenor Alin Anca, Bass Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Friday 24-May-13 07:30pm Karl Friedrich Schinkel's fascinating stage design for the appearance of the Queen of the Night, with a starry dome and a narrow crescent, has become famous. The designs of the architectural genius of "The Magic Flute" from the year 1816 are the basis of this staging by August Everding.Image credit: © Monika Rittershaus Alexander Soddy, Conductor August Everding, Director Fred Berndt, Set Designer Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Pavol Breslik, Tenor: Tamino Adriane Queiroz, Soprano: Pamina Roman Trekel, Baritone: Papageno Narine Yeghiyan, Soprano: Papagena Anna Maria Siminska, Soprano: Queen of the Night René Pape, Bass: Sarastro Arttu Kataja, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) Michael Smallwood, Tenor: Monostatos Paul O'Neill, Tenor Michael Kraus, Baritone Carola Höhn, Soprano Rowan Hellier, Mezzo-soprano Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano Kyungho Kim, Tenor Alin Anca, Bass Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Friday 24-May-13 07:30pm |
The London Coliseum La Bohème |
English National Opera Jonathan Miller, Director Natascha Metherell, Revival Director Isabella Bywater, Set Designer Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Rodolfo Kate Valentine, Soprano: Mimì Richard Burkhard, Baritone: Marcello Angel Blue, Soprano: Musetta Andrew Craig Brown, Bass: Colline Duncan Rock, Baritone: Schaunard Simon Butteriss, Bass: Benoît |
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| The London Coliseum, St. Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4ES, United Kingdom Friday 24-May-13 07:30pm Puccini’s gift for writing emotional music is brought to the fore in La bohème’s tale of doomed love in poverty-stricken Paris. One of the world’s most recognised and widely performed operas, it focuses on two central relationships: that of the poet Rodolfo, who falls in love with the pretty but consumptive seamstress Mimì; and the painter Marcello, who has a glamorous and popular on-off mistress, Musetta.
Jonathan Miller’s production for ENO has quickly become a company classic and here receives its second revival since its 2009 premiere. Inspired by Brassaï’s photographs of the Paris Left Bank in the 1930s, Miller modernises the original bohemian setting to evoke the stark poverty of the day, creating a highly effective contemporary resonance, citing the film Withnail and I as an inspiration. Playing Mimì is Kate Valentine, who in recent seasons has played the Countess in Fiona Shaw’s production of The Marriage of Figaro and an ‘excellent’ (The Times) Helena in Christopher Alden’s Olivier Award-nominated A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Gwyn Hughes Jones returns to the role of Rodolfo following his great success in ENO’s 2010 production, and recent acclaimed Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly.Jonathan Miller, Director Natascha Metherell, Revival Director Isabella Bywater, Set Designer Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Rodolfo Kate Valentine, Soprano: Mimì Richard Burkhard, Baritone: Marcello Angel Blue, Soprano: Musetta Andrew Craig Brown, Bass: Colline Duncan Rock, Baritone: Schaunard Simon Butteriss, Bass: Benoît | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Don Carlo |
Royal Opera Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor Nicholas Hytner, Director Jonas Kaufmann, Tenor: Don Carlos Anja Harteros, Soprano: Elisabeth of Valois, Queen of Spain Mariusz Kwiecien, Baritone: Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Mezzo-soprano: Princess Eboli Ferruccio Furlanetto, Bass: Philippe II, King of Spain Eric Halfvarson, Bass: Grand Inquisitor |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Saturday 25-May-13 Sung in Italian. Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor Nicholas Hytner, Director Jonas Kaufmann, Tenor: Don Carlos Anja Harteros, Soprano: Elisabeth of Valois, Queen of Spain Mariusz Kwiecien, Baritone: Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Mezzo-soprano: Princess Eboli Ferruccio Furlanetto, Bass: Philippe II, King of Spain Eric Halfvarson, Bass: Grand Inquisitor | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 06:00pm |
Opéra Bastille, Paris Götterdämmerung |
Opéra de Paris Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Torsten Kerl, Tenor: Siegfried Yevgeny Nikitin, Baritone: Gunther Peter Sidhom, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Janice Baird, Soprano: Brünhilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Edith Haller, Soprano: Third Norn/Soprano: Gutrune Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Second Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Caroline Stein, Soprano: Woglinde Louise Callinan, Soprano: Wellgunde |
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| Opéra Bastille, Paris, 120 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France Saturday 25-May-13 06:00pm Amongst the most monumental works in the history of music, The Twilight of the Gods presents us with Siegfried and Brünhilde’s march towards death, sweeping away with them the gods and the entire world of old; a parable for humanity sustained by sublime musical and theatrical inspiration. Performed in German. Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Torsten Kerl, Tenor: Siegfried Yevgeny Nikitin, Baritone: Gunther Peter Sidhom, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Janice Baird, Soprano: Brünhilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Edith Haller, Soprano: Third Norn/Soprano: Gutrune Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Second Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Caroline Stein, Soprano: Woglinde Louise Callinan, Soprano: Wellgunde | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 06:00pm |
The Norwegian Opera and Ballet, Oslo Salome |
Norwegian National Opera John Helmer Fiore, Conductor Stefan Herheim, Director Thor Inge Falch, Tenor: Herod Thomas Hall, Baritone: Jochanaan Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs, Soprano: Salome |
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| The Norwegian Opera and Ballet, Oslo, Kirsten Flagstads pl. 1, N-0150 Oslo, Oslo, Norway Saturday 25-May-13 06:00pm John Helmer Fiore, Conductor Stefan Herheim, Director Thor Inge Falch, Tenor: Herod Thomas Hall, Baritone: Jochanaan Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs, Soprano: Salome | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 06:00pm |
Teatro di San Carlo, Naples Verdi, Rigoletto |
San Carlo Theatre Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor Arnaud Bernard, Director Celso Albelo, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Desirée Rancatore, Soprano: Gilda Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Baritone: Rigoletto Michail Ryssov, Bass: Sparafucile Daniela Innamorati, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Christopher Magiera, Baritone: Marullo |
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| Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, 80132 Naples, Italy Saturday 25-May-13 06:00pm Verdi, Rigoletto Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor Arnaud Bernard, Director Celso Albelo, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Desirée Rancatore, Soprano: Gilda Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Baritone: Rigoletto Michail Ryssov, Bass: Sparafucile Daniela Innamorati, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Christopher Magiera, Baritone: Marullo | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 07:00pm |
Howard Assembly Room, Leeds Albert Herring |
Opera North Josephine Barstow, Soprano: Lady Billows Alexander Sprague, Tenor: Albert Herring Mary Hegarty, Soprano: Miss Wordsworth Joe Shovelton, Tenor: Mr Upfold Justin Doyle, Conductor Giles Havergal, Director |
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| Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, Leeds Grand Theatre, , 46 New Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NU, United Kingdom Saturday 25-May-13 07:00pm Josephine Barstow, Soprano: Lady Billows Alexander Sprague, Tenor: Albert Herring Mary Hegarty, Soprano: Miss Wordsworth Joe Shovelton, Tenor: Mr Upfold Justin Doyle, Conductor Giles Havergal, Director | ||
| Sunday 26-May-13 |
Staatsoper, Vienna Carmen |
Vienna State Opera Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Don José Ludovic Tézier, Baritone: Escamillo Anita Hartig, Soprano: Micaela |
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| Staatsoper, Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria Sunday 26-May-13 Check start time of performance. Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Don José Ludovic Tézier, Baritone: Escamillo Anita Hartig, Soprano: Micaela | ||
| Sunday 26-May-13 02:30pm |
Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris) Giulio Cesare |
Opéra de Paris Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée |
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| Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris), 75009 Paris, France Sunday 26-May-13 02:30pm Never had his melodic genius been more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels, like Cleopatra's arias. Jane Archibald, Karine Deshayes and Laurence Zazzo are the heroes of this vocal festivity. Performed in Italian. Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée | ||
| Sunday 26-May-13 03:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Sunday 26-May-13 03:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Tuesday 28-May-13 07:00pm |
Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris) Giulio Cesare |
Opéra de Paris Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée |
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| Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris), 75009 Paris, France Tuesday 28-May-13 07:00pm Never had his melodic genius been more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels, like Cleopatra's arias. Jane Archibald, Karine Deshayes and Laurence Zazzo are the heroes of this vocal festivity. Performed in Italian. Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée | ||
| Tuesday 28-May-13 07:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Tuesday 28-May-13 07:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Tuesday 28-May-13 07:15pm |
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Madam Butterfly |
Welsh National Opera Cheryl Barker, Soprano: Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Pinkerton Claire Bradshaw, Mezzo-soprano: Suzuki Julian Close, Bass: The Bonze |
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| Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Bute Place, Cardiff, Cardiff CF10 5AL, United Kingdom Tuesday 28-May-13 07:15pm Madam Butterfly Cheryl Barker, Soprano: Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Pinkerton Claire Bradshaw, Mezzo-soprano: Suzuki Julian Close, Bass: The Bonze | ||
| Thursday 30-May-13 |
Staatsoper, Vienna Carmen |
Vienna State Opera Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Don José Ludovic Tézier, Baritone: Escamillo Anita Hartig, Soprano: Micaela |
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| Staatsoper, Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria Thursday 30-May-13 Check start time of performance. Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Don José Ludovic Tézier, Baritone: Escamillo Anita Hartig, Soprano: Micaela | ||
| Thursday 30-May-13 06:00pm |
Opéra Bastille, Paris Götterdämmerung |
Opéra de Paris Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Torsten Kerl, Tenor: Siegfried Yevgeny Nikitin, Baritone: Gunther Peter Sidhom, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Petra Lang, Soprano: Brünhilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Edith Haller, Soprano: Third Norn/Soprano: Gutrune Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Second Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Caroline Stein, Soprano: Woglinde Louise Callinan, Soprano: Wellgunde |
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| Opéra Bastille, Paris, 120 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France Thursday 30-May-13 06:00pm Amongst the most monumental works in the history of music, The Twilight of the Gods presents us with Siegfried and Brünhilde’s march towards death, sweeping away with them the gods and the entire world of old; a parable for humanity sustained by sublime musical and theatrical inspiration. Performed in German. Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Torsten Kerl, Tenor: Siegfried Yevgeny Nikitin, Baritone: Gunther Peter Sidhom, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Petra Lang, Soprano: Brünhilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Edith Haller, Soprano: Third Norn/Soprano: Gutrune Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Second Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Caroline Stein, Soprano: Woglinde Louise Callinan, Soprano: Wellgunde | ||
| Thursday 30-May-13 07:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Thursday 30-May-13 07:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 07:00pm |
Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris) Giulio Cesare |
Opéra de Paris Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée |
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| Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris), 75009 Paris, France Friday 31-May-13 07:00pm Never had his melodic genius been more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels, like Cleopatra's arias. Jane Archibald, Karine Deshayes and Laurence Zazzo are the heroes of this vocal festivity. Performed in Italian. Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 07:30pm |
The London Coliseum La Bohème |
English National Opera Jonathan Miller, Director Natascha Metherell, Revival Director Isabella Bywater, Set Designer Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Rodolfo Kate Valentine, Soprano: Mimì Richard Burkhard, Baritone: Marcello Angel Blue, Soprano: Musetta Andrew Craig Brown, Bass: Colline Duncan Rock, Baritone: Schaunard Simon Butteriss, Bass: Benoît |
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| The London Coliseum, St. Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4ES, United Kingdom Friday 31-May-13 07:30pm Puccini’s gift for writing emotional music is brought to the fore in La bohème’s tale of doomed love in poverty-stricken Paris. One of the world’s most recognised and widely performed operas, it focuses on two central relationships: that of the poet Rodolfo, who falls in love with the pretty but consumptive seamstress Mimì; and the painter Marcello, who has a glamorous and popular on-off mistress, Musetta.
Jonathan Miller’s production for ENO has quickly become a company classic and here receives its second revival since its 2009 premiere. Inspired by Brassaï’s photographs of the Paris Left Bank in the 1930s, Miller modernises the original bohemian setting to evoke the stark poverty of the day, creating a highly effective contemporary resonance, citing the film Withnail and I as an inspiration. Playing Mimì is Kate Valentine, who in recent seasons has played the Countess in Fiona Shaw’s production of The Marriage of Figaro and an ‘excellent’ (The Times) Helena in Christopher Alden’s Olivier Award-nominated A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Gwyn Hughes Jones returns to the role of Rodolfo following his great success in ENO’s 2010 production, and recent acclaimed Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly.Jonathan Miller, Director Natascha Metherell, Revival Director Isabella Bywater, Set Designer Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Rodolfo Kate Valentine, Soprano: Mimì Richard Burkhard, Baritone: Marcello Angel Blue, Soprano: Musetta Andrew Craig Brown, Bass: Colline Duncan Rock, Baritone: Schaunard Simon Butteriss, Bass: Benoît | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Theater Bonn Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
Theater Bonn Robin Engelen, Conductor Philipp Himmelmann, Director Johannes Leiacker, Set Designer Gesine Völlm, Costume Designer Ulrich Zippelius, Choirmaster Tamas Tarjányi, Tenor: Count Almaviva Martin Tzonev, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Susanne Blattert, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Kathrin Leidig, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Aris Argiris, Baritone: Figaro Giorgos Kanaris, Baritone: Figaro Ramaz Chikviladze, Bass: Don Basilio Beethoven Orchester Bonn |
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| Theater Bonn, Opernhaus/Werkstatt, , Am Boeselagerhof 1, , 53111 Bonn, Bonn, Germany Saturday 1-Jun-13 07:30pm Il Barbiere di Siviglia Robin Engelen, Conductor Philipp Himmelmann, Director Johannes Leiacker, Set Designer Gesine Völlm, Costume Designer Ulrich Zippelius, Choirmaster Tamas Tarjányi, Tenor: Count Almaviva Martin Tzonev, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Susanne Blattert, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Kathrin Leidig, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Aris Argiris, Baritone: Figaro Giorgos Kanaris, Baritone: Figaro Ramaz Chikviladze, Bass: Don Basilio Beethoven Orchester Bonn | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 |
Staatsoper, Vienna Carmen |
Vienna State Opera Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Don José Ludovic Tézier, Baritone: Escamillo Anita Hartig, Soprano: Micaela |
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| Staatsoper, Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria Sunday 2-Jun-13 Check start time of performance. Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Don José Ludovic Tézier, Baritone: Escamillo Anita Hartig, Soprano: Micaela | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 02:30pm |
Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris) Giulio Cesare |
Opéra de Paris Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée |
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| Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris), 75009 Paris, France Sunday 2-Jun-13 02:30pm Never had his melodic genius been more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels, like Cleopatra's arias. Jane Archibald, Karine Deshayes and Laurence Zazzo are the heroes of this vocal festivity. Performed in Italian. Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 03:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Sunday 2-Jun-13 03:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 04:00pm |
Theater Bonn Tristan und Isolde |
Theater Bonn Stefan Blunier, Conductor Vera Nemirova, Director Klaus Noack, Set Designer/Costume Designer Sibylle Wagner, Choirmaster Robert Gambill, Tenor: Tristan Kurt Gysen, Bass: King Marke Dara Hobbs, Soprano: Isolde Mark Morouse, Baritone: Kurwenal Giorgos Kanaris, Tenor: Melot Daniela Denschlag, Mezzo-soprano: Brangäne Tamas Tarjányi, Tenor: Shepherd/Tenor: Young seaman Sven Bakin, Baritone: Helmsman Beethoven Orchester Bonn |
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| Theater Bonn, Opernhaus/Werkstatt, , Am Boeselagerhof 1, , 53111 Bonn, Bonn, Germany Sunday 2-Jun-13 04:00pm Tristan und Isolde Stefan Blunier, Conductor Vera Nemirova, Director Klaus Noack, Set Designer/Costume Designer Sibylle Wagner, Choirmaster Robert Gambill, Tenor: Tristan Kurt Gysen, Bass: King Marke Dara Hobbs, Soprano: Isolde Mark Morouse, Baritone: Kurwenal Giorgos Kanaris, Tenor: Melot Daniela Denschlag, Mezzo-soprano: Brangäne Tamas Tarjányi, Tenor: Shepherd/Tenor: Young seaman Sven Bakin, Baritone: Helmsman Beethoven Orchester Bonn | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 04:00pm |
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Madam Butterfly |
Welsh National Opera Cheryl Barker, Soprano: Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Pinkerton Claire Bradshaw, Mezzo-soprano: Suzuki Julian Close, Bass: The Bonze |
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| Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Bute Place, Cardiff, Cardiff CF10 5AL, United Kingdom Sunday 2-Jun-13 04:00pm Madam Butterfly Cheryl Barker, Soprano: Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Pinkerton Claire Bradshaw, Mezzo-soprano: Suzuki Julian Close, Bass: The Bonze | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin La Traviata |
Staatsoper Berlin Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Peter Mussbach, Director Erich Wonder, Set Designer Anna Samuil, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Rowan Hellier, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Francesco Demuro, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Kyungho Kim, Tenor: Gaston Arttu Kataja, Bass: Baron Douphol Alin Anca, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Jan Martinik, Bass: Dr Grenville Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Sunday 2-Jun-13 07:30pm "A contemporary theme. Another would not have done it, because of the customs, because of the time, and because of thousands of other qualms about it... I do it with the greatest pleasure. "(Giuseppe Verdi)La traviata - the "fallen woman" - the theme of utopia of love and the failure of this utopia to the limits of society's values. Love and death are the two key terms of the plot, which centres around Violetta and her tragic fate, their love, in sacrifice, and her ultimate death.Sung in Italian with German surtitlesImage credit: © Ruth Walz Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Peter Mussbach, Director Erich Wonder, Set Designer Anna Samuil, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Rowan Hellier, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Francesco Demuro, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Kyungho Kim, Tenor: Gaston Arttu Kataja, Bass: Baron Douphol Alin Anca, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Jan Martinik, Bass: Dr Grenville Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Rusalka |
Zurich Opera Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Conductor Matthias Hartmann, Director Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Set Designer Ekaterina Scherbachenko, Soprano: Rusalka Pavel Cernoch, Tenor: Prince Liliana Nikiteanu, Alto: Jezibaba, the Witch Christof Fischesser, Bass: Vodnik, the water goblin Michelle Breedt, Mezzo-soprano: Foreign Princess |
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| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Sunday 2-Jun-13 08:00pm In Czech with German and English surtitles.Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Conductor Matthias Hartmann, Director Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Set Designer Ekaterina Scherbachenko, Soprano: Rusalka Pavel Cernoch, Tenor: Prince Liliana Nikiteanu, Alto: Jezibaba, the Witch Christof Fischesser, Bass: Vodnik, the water goblin Michelle Breedt, Mezzo-soprano: Foreign Princess | ||
| Monday 3-Jun-13 06:00pm |
Opéra Bastille, Paris Götterdämmerung |
Opéra de Paris Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Torsten Kerl, Tenor: Siegfried Yevgeny Nikitin, Baritone: Gunther Peter Sidhom, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Petra Lang, Soprano: Brünhilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Edith Haller, Soprano: Third Norn/Soprano: Gutrune Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Second Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Caroline Stein, Soprano: Woglinde Louise Callinan, Soprano: Wellgunde |
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| Opéra Bastille, Paris, 120 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France Monday 3-Jun-13 06:00pm Amongst the most monumental works in the history of music, The Twilight of the Gods presents us with Siegfried and Brünhilde’s march towards death, sweeping away with them the gods and the entire world of old; a parable for humanity sustained by sublime musical and theatrical inspiration. Performed in German. Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Torsten Kerl, Tenor: Siegfried Yevgeny Nikitin, Baritone: Gunther Peter Sidhom, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Petra Lang, Soprano: Brünhilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Edith Haller, Soprano: Third Norn/Soprano: Gutrune Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Second Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Caroline Stein, Soprano: Woglinde Louise Callinan, Soprano: Wellgunde | ||
| Monday 3-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Teatro Real, Madrid Wozzeck |
Madrid Opera Sylvain Cambreling, Conductor Christoph Marthaler, Director Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Wozzeck Jon Villars, Tenor: Drum major Roger Padullés, Tenor: Andres Gerhard Siegel, Tenor: Captain Franz Hawlata, Bass: Doctor Nadja Michael, Soprano: Marie Katarina Bradić, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Francisco Vas, Tenor: Madman |
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| Teatro Real, Madrid, Madrid 28013, Spain Monday 3-Jun-13 08:00pm Sylvain Cambreling, Conductor Christoph Marthaler, Director Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Wozzeck Jon Villars, Tenor: Drum major Roger Padullés, Tenor: Andres Gerhard Siegel, Tenor: Captain Franz Hawlata, Bass: Doctor Nadja Michael, Soprano: Marie Katarina Bradić, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Francisco Vas, Tenor: Madman | ||
| Tuesday 4-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Latvian National Opera, Riga Das Rheingold Riga Opera Festival |
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| Latvian National Opera, Riga, Riga LV-1050, Latvia Tuesday 4-Jun-13 07:00pm The dwarf Alberich renounces love and steals the gold guarded by the maidens of the Rhine. He forges a magic ring from the gold, but it soon becomes the object of desire by Wotan, ruler of the gods, who wants to save his wife’s sister from the giants. The infuriated Alberich lays a curse on his lost treasure – anyone who possesses it will eventually meet their doom…
“The characters in this play about the Ring take every means to obtain power and the right to construct a reality which seems meaningful to them. Even the ruler of the gods, the creator of all that is real and the guardian of its order, finds himself entrapped in the artificiality of his own reality. Throughout the play, moments of strength and beauty, truth and genuineness are exposed as sorry efforts of his conceitedness. The gods have never been so committed to humanity and the humans have never been more at the mercy of the gods – ever since the day they fabricated the theatrical arena in which they continually display and invent themselves,” says stage director Stefan Herheim of the production’s concept.Image credit: (c) Andris Krieviņš | ||
| Tuesday 4-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris) Giulio Cesare |
Opéra de Paris Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée |
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| Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris), 75009 Paris, France Tuesday 4-Jun-13 07:00pm Never had his melodic genius been more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels, like Cleopatra's arias. Jane Archibald, Karine Deshayes and Laurence Zazzo are the heroes of this vocal festivity. Performed in Italian. Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée | ||
| Wednesday 5-Jun-13 07:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Wednesday 5-Jun-13 07:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Wednesday 5-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin La Traviata |
Staatsoper Berlin Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Peter Mussbach, Director Erich Wonder, Set Designer Anna Samuil, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Rowan Hellier, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Francesco Demuro, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Kyungho Kim, Tenor: Gaston Arttu Kataja, Bass: Baron Douphol Alin Anca, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Jan Martinik, Bass: Dr Grenville Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Wednesday 5-Jun-13 07:30pm "A contemporary theme. Another would not have done it, because of the customs, because of the time, and because of thousands of other qualms about it... I do it with the greatest pleasure. "(Giuseppe Verdi)La traviata - the "fallen woman" - the theme of utopia of love and the failure of this utopia to the limits of society's values. Love and death are the two key terms of the plot, which centres around Violetta and her tragic fate, their love, in sacrifice, and her ultimate death.Sung in Italian with German surtitlesImage credit: © Ruth Walz Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Peter Mussbach, Director Erich Wonder, Set Designer Anna Samuil, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Rowan Hellier, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Francesco Demuro, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Kyungho Kim, Tenor: Gaston Arttu Kataja, Bass: Baron Douphol Alin Anca, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Jan Martinik, Bass: Dr Grenville Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin | ||
| Wednesday 5-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Teatro Real, Madrid Wozzeck |
Madrid Opera Sylvain Cambreling, Conductor Christoph Marthaler, Director Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Wozzeck Jon Villars, Tenor: Drum major Roger Padullés, Tenor: Andres Gerhard Siegel, Tenor: Captain Franz Hawlata, Bass: Doctor Nadja Michael, Soprano: Marie Katarina Bradić, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Francisco Vas, Tenor: Madman |
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| Teatro Real, Madrid, Madrid 28013, Spain Wednesday 5-Jun-13 08:00pm Sylvain Cambreling, Conductor Christoph Marthaler, Director Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Wozzeck Jon Villars, Tenor: Drum major Roger Padullés, Tenor: Andres Gerhard Siegel, Tenor: Captain Franz Hawlata, Bass: Doctor Nadja Michael, Soprano: Marie Katarina Bradić, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Francisco Vas, Tenor: Madman | ||
| Thursday 6-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris) Giulio Cesare |
Opéra de Paris Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée |
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| Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris), 75009 Paris, France Thursday 6-Jun-13 07:00pm Never had his melodic genius been more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels, like Cleopatra's arias. Jane Archibald, Karine Deshayes and Laurence Zazzo are the heroes of this vocal festivity. Performed in Italian. Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée | ||
| Thursday 6-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Rusalka |
Zurich Opera Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Conductor Matthias Hartmann, Director Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Set Designer Ekaterina Scherbachenko, Soprano: Rusalka Pavel Cernoch, Tenor: Prince Liliana Nikiteanu, Alto: Jezibaba, the Witch Christof Fischesser, Bass: Vodnik, the water goblin Michelle Breedt, Mezzo-soprano: Foreign Princess |
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| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Thursday 6-Jun-13 07:00pm In Czech with German and English surtitles.Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Conductor Matthias Hartmann, Director Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Set Designer Ekaterina Scherbachenko, Soprano: Rusalka Pavel Cernoch, Tenor: Prince Liliana Nikiteanu, Alto: Jezibaba, the Witch Christof Fischesser, Bass: Vodnik, the water goblin Michelle Breedt, Mezzo-soprano: Foreign Princess | ||
| Thursday 6-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Theater Bonn La Traviata |
Theater Bonn Hendrik Vestmann, Conductor Christopher Sprenger, Conductor Andreas Homoki, Director Frank Philipp Schlössmann, Set Designer Gabriele Jaenecke, Costume Designer Sibylle Wagner, Choirmaster Sigrún Palmadóttir, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Susanne Blattert, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Anjara I Bartz, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Mirko Roschkowski, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Aris Argiris, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Mark Morouse, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Martin Tzonev, Bass: Dr Grenville Egbert Herold, Bass: Dr Grenville Mark Rosenthal, Tenor: Gaston Aram Mikayelyan, Tenor: Gaston Stefan Baumgärtel, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Johannes Marx, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Ulrike Gmeiner, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Beethoven Orchester Bonn |
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| Theater Bonn, Opernhaus/Werkstatt, , Am Boeselagerhof 1, , 53111 Bonn, Bonn, Germany Thursday 6-Jun-13 07:30pm Hendrik Vestmann, Conductor Christopher Sprenger, Conductor Andreas Homoki, Director Frank Philipp Schlössmann, Set Designer Gabriele Jaenecke, Costume Designer Sibylle Wagner, Choirmaster Sigrún Palmadóttir, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Susanne Blattert, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Anjara I Bartz, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Mirko Roschkowski, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Aris Argiris, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Mark Morouse, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Martin Tzonev, Bass: Dr Grenville Egbert Herold, Bass: Dr Grenville Mark Rosenthal, Tenor: Gaston Aram Mikayelyan, Tenor: Gaston Stefan Baumgärtel, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Johannes Marx, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Ulrike Gmeiner, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Beethoven Orchester Bonn | ||
| Friday 7-Jun-13 05:00pm |
New Palace Sanssouci: Palace Theatre, Potsdam Peter's Wedding: Premiere Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival |
Isabel Ostermann, Director Werner Ehrhardt, Conductor Thomas Thaarup, Librettist L'Arte del Mondo Tobias Westman, Tenor: Peter Hannah Husahr, Soprano: Grethe Eva-Lotta Ohlsson, Soprano: Anna Johan Rydh, Baritone: Halvor |
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| New Palace Sanssouci: Palace Theatre, Potsdam, Sanssouci Park, Am Neuen Palais, 14469 Potsdam, Germany Friday 7-Jun-13 05:00pm Peter's Wedding: Premiere Sung in Danish with German supertitles Since he was Prince Henry’s Hofkapellmeister (court conductor) in Rheinsberg, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz was a highly esteemed person in Prussia’s musical scene. Having been appointed royal Kapellmeister (conductor) he moved to Copenhagen in 1787. His inspiring work and his achievements in terms of musically educating the people cannot be valued highly enough. As a "song man of the people" he wanted to speak to the people with an art that takes the art out of art. With his musical comedy "Peters Bryllup" (Peter’s Wedding) he succeeded to the extent that the Danes fully adopted his tunes as their own and the term "national" Danish music was used for the very first time. Thomas Thaarup’s scenes depicting the lives of simple farmers and seamen offer slices of realism despite the idyllic setting. Topics such as the trade in slaves and the abolishment of serfdom were quite explosive. At Palace Theatre Sanssouci L’ARTE DEL MONDO return the delightful piece to the stage for the first time ever as part of their "Opera from the world’s archives" season which was initiated by Bayer Kultur. Coproduction with L’ARTE DEL MONDO and Bayer Kultur, supported by the Capital City Potsdam, the State of Brandenburg, the Artfoundation NRW and the Ministry of Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sports of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia; in cooperation with Copenhagen Opera Festival
Tickets 65,- / 40,- / 27,-* / 16,-* Isabel Ostermann, Director Werner Ehrhardt, Conductor Thomas Thaarup, Librettist L'Arte del Mondo Tobias Westman, Tenor: Peter Hannah Husahr, Soprano: Grethe Eva-Lotta Ohlsson, Soprano: Anna Johan Rydh, Baritone: Halvor | ||
| Friday 7-Jun-13 06:00pm |
Opéra Bastille, Paris Götterdämmerung |
Opéra de Paris Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Torsten Kerl, Tenor: Siegfried Yevgeny Nikitin, Baritone: Gunther Peter Sidhom, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Petra Lang, Soprano: Brünhilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Edith Haller, Soprano: Third Norn/Soprano: Gutrune Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Second Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Caroline Stein, Soprano: Woglinde Louise Callinan, Soprano: Wellgunde |
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| Opéra Bastille, Paris, 120 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France Friday 7-Jun-13 06:00pm Amongst the most monumental works in the history of music, The Twilight of the Gods presents us with Siegfried and Brünhilde’s march towards death, sweeping away with them the gods and the entire world of old; a parable for humanity sustained by sublime musical and theatrical inspiration. Performed in German. Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Torsten Kerl, Tenor: Siegfried Yevgeny Nikitin, Baritone: Gunther Peter Sidhom, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Petra Lang, Soprano: Brünhilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Edith Haller, Soprano: Third Norn/Soprano: Gutrune Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Second Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Caroline Stein, Soprano: Woglinde Louise Callinan, Soprano: Wellgunde | ||
| Friday 7-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Oper Halle Almira, Königin von Kastilien HWV 1 (Premiere) Händel Festival Halle |
Oper Halle Andreas Spering, Conductor Yeree Suh, Soprano: Edilia TBC, Soprano: Almira Roland Schubert, Bass: Consalvo Melanie Hirsch, Soprano: Bellante Christian Zenker, Tenor: Osman Michael Smallwood, Tenor: Fernando Ki-Hyun Park, Bass: Raymondo Händelfestspielorchester Halle |
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| Oper Halle, Universitätsring 24, Halle, Germany Friday 7-Jun-13 07:00pm Almira, Königin von Kastilien HWV 1 (Premiere) Andreas Spering, Conductor Yeree Suh, Soprano: Edilia TBC, Soprano: Almira Roland Schubert, Bass: Consalvo Melanie Hirsch, Soprano: Bellante Christian Zenker, Tenor: Osman Michael Smallwood, Tenor: Fernando Ki-Hyun Park, Bass: Raymondo Händelfestspielorchester Halle | ||
| Friday 7-Jun-13 07:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Friday 7-Jun-13 07:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Friday 7-Jun-13 07:30pm |
The London Coliseum La Bohème |
English National Opera Jonathan Miller, Director Natascha Metherell, Revival Director Isabella Bywater, Set Designer Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Rodolfo Kate Valentine, Soprano: Mimì Richard Burkhard, Baritone: Marcello Angel Blue, Soprano: Musetta Andrew Craig Brown, Bass: Colline Duncan Rock, Baritone: Schaunard Simon Butteriss, Bass: Benoît |
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| The London Coliseum, St. Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4ES, United Kingdom Friday 7-Jun-13 07:30pm Puccini’s gift for writing emotional music is brought to the fore in La bohème’s tale of doomed love in poverty-stricken Paris. One of the world’s most recognised and widely performed operas, it focuses on two central relationships: that of the poet Rodolfo, who falls in love with the pretty but consumptive seamstress Mimì; and the painter Marcello, who has a glamorous and popular on-off mistress, Musetta.
Jonathan Miller’s production for ENO has quickly become a company classic and here receives its second revival since its 2009 premiere. Inspired by Brassaï’s photographs of the Paris Left Bank in the 1930s, Miller modernises the original bohemian setting to evoke the stark poverty of the day, creating a highly effective contemporary resonance, citing the film Withnail and I as an inspiration. Playing Mimì is Kate Valentine, who in recent seasons has played the Countess in Fiona Shaw’s production of The Marriage of Figaro and an ‘excellent’ (The Times) Helena in Christopher Alden’s Olivier Award-nominated A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Gwyn Hughes Jones returns to the role of Rodolfo following his great success in ENO’s 2010 production, and recent acclaimed Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly.Jonathan Miller, Director Natascha Metherell, Revival Director Isabella Bywater, Set Designer Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Rodolfo Kate Valentine, Soprano: Mimì Richard Burkhard, Baritone: Marcello Angel Blue, Soprano: Musetta Andrew Craig Brown, Bass: Colline Duncan Rock, Baritone: Schaunard Simon Butteriss, Bass: Benoît | ||
| Saturday 8-Jun-13 05:00pm |
New Palace Sanssouci: Palace Theatre, Potsdam Peter's Wedding Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival |
Thomas Thaarup, Librettist Tobias Westman, Tenor: Peter Hannah Husahr, Soprano: Grethe Eva-Lotta Ohlsson, Soprano: Anna Johan Rydh, Baritone: Halvor L'Arte del Mondo Werner Ehrhardt, Conductor Isabel Ostermann, Director |
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| New Palace Sanssouci: Palace Theatre, Potsdam, Sanssouci Park, Am Neuen Palais, 14469 Potsdam, Germany Saturday 8-Jun-13 05:00pm Sung in Danish with German supertitles Since he was Prince Henry’s Hofkapellmeister (court conductor) in Rheinsberg, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz was a highly esteemed person in Prussia’s musical scene. Having been appointed royal Kapellmeister (conductor) he moved to Copenhagen in 1787. His inspiring work and his achievements in terms of musically educating the people cannot be valued highly enough. As a "song man of the people" he wanted to speak to the people with an art that takes the art out of art. With his musical comedy "Peters Bryllup" (Peter’s Wedding) he succeeded to the extent that the Danes fully adopted his tunes as their own and the term "national" Danish music was used for the very first time. Thomas Thaarup’s scenes depicting the lives of simple farmers and seamen offer slices of realism despite the idyllic setting. Topics such as the trade in slaves and the abolishment of serfdom were quite explosive. At Palace Theatre Sanssouci L’ARTE DEL MONDO return the delightful piece to the stage for the first time ever as part of their "Opera from the world’s archives" season which was initiated by Bayer Kultur. Coproduction with L’ARTE DEL MONDO and Bayer Kultur, supported by the Capital City Potsdam, the State of Brandenburg, the Artfoundation NRW and the Ministry of Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sports of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia; in cooperation with Copenhagen Opera Festival
Tickets 65,- / 40,- / 27,-* / 16,-* Thomas Thaarup, Librettist Tobias Westman, Tenor: Peter Hannah Husahr, Soprano: Grethe Eva-Lotta Ohlsson, Soprano: Anna Johan Rydh, Baritone: Halvor L'Arte del Mondo Werner Ehrhardt, Conductor Isabel Ostermann, Director | ||
| Saturday 8-Jun-13 05:10pm |
Glyndebourne Opera House Le nozze di Figaro Glyndebourne |
Glyndebourne Opera Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Grandage, Director Christopher Oram, Set Designer Adam Plachetka, Bass-baritone: Figaro Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Susanna Amanda Majeski, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Joshua Hopkins, Baritone: Count Almaviva Luciano di Pasquale, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Anne Mason, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Lydia Teuscher, Soprano: Cherubino Timothy Robinson, Tenor: Don Basilio |
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| Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne BN8 5UU, United Kingdom Saturday 8-Jun-13 05:10pm Le nozze di Figaro Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Grandage, Director Christopher Oram, Set Designer Adam Plachetka, Bass-baritone: Figaro Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Susanna Amanda Majeski, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Joshua Hopkins, Baritone: Count Almaviva Luciano di Pasquale, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Anne Mason, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Lydia Teuscher, Soprano: Cherubino Timothy Robinson, Tenor: Don Basilio | ||
