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| Friday 24-May-13 07:30pm |
 Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, BerlinThe 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 | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm |
Komische Oper Berlin The Magic Flute |
Komische Oper Berlin Kristiina Poska, Conductor Ulrich Lenz, Stage Director David Cavelius, Chorus director Nicole Chevalier, Soprano: Pamina Peter Sonn, Tenor: Tamino Julia Novikova, Soprano: Queen of the Night |
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| Komische Oper Berlin, Behrenstraße 55-57, Berlin, Germany Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm Kristiina Poska, Conductor Ulrich Lenz, Stage Director David Cavelius, Chorus director Nicole Chevalier, Soprano: Pamina Peter Sonn, Tenor: Tamino Julia Novikova, Soprano: Queen of the Night | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Le Vin Herbé |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm Sung in French with German subtitles.
Frank Martin felt his "Le vin herbé" was a personal key work in which he had found his own voice. Based on the novel "Tristan et Iseut" by Joseph Bedier, he created his chambered profane oratorio to dramatise the two lovers Tristan and Isolde. | ||
| Wednesday 29-May-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Le Vin Herbé |
Staatsoper Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Wednesday 29-May-13 07:30pm Sung in French with German subtitles.
Frank Martin felt his "Le vin herbé" was a personal key work in which he had found his own voice. Based on the novel "Tristan et Iseut" by Joseph Bedier, he created his chambered profane oratorio to dramatise the two lovers Tristan and Isolde. | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Le Vin Herbé |
Staatsoper Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Saturday 1-Jun-13 07:30pm Sung in French with German subtitles.
Frank Martin felt his "Le vin herbé" was a personal key work in which he had found his own voice. Based on the novel "Tristan et Iseut" by Joseph Bedier, he created his chambered profane oratorio to dramatise the two lovers Tristan and Isolde. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Friday 7-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Le Vin Herbé |
Staatsoper Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Friday 7-Jun-13 07:30pm Sung in French with German subtitles.
Frank Martin felt his "Le vin herbé" was a personal key work in which he had found his own voice. Based on the novel "Tristan et Iseut" by Joseph Bedier, he created his chambered profane oratorio to dramatise the two lovers Tristan and Isolde. | ||
| Saturday 8-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 Saturday 8-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 9-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Le Vin Herbé |
Staatsoper Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Sunday 9-Jun-13 07:30pm Sung in French with German subtitles.
Frank Martin felt his "Le vin herbé" was a personal key work in which he had found his own voice. Based on the novel "Tristan et Iseut" by Joseph Bedier, he created his chambered profane oratorio to dramatise the two lovers Tristan and Isolde. | ||
| Thursday 13-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Le Vin Herbé |
Staatsoper Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Thursday 13-Jun-13 07:30pm Sung in French with German subtitles.
Frank Martin felt his "Le vin herbé" was a personal key work in which he had found his own voice. Based on the novel "Tristan et Iseut" by Joseph Bedier, he created his chambered profane oratorio to dramatise the two lovers Tristan and Isolde. | ||
| Saturday 15-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 Saturday 15-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 16-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Fairy Queen |
Staatsoper Berlin Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Sunday 16-Jun-13 07:30pm Caught between Baroque and contemporary music: Helmut Oehring takes Henry Purcell's semi-opera "The Fairy Queen" as a model for his ideas.Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German) Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Fairy Queen |
Staatsoper Berlin Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm Caught between Baroque and contemporary music: Helmut Oehring takes Henry Purcell's semi-opera "The Fairy Queen" as a model for his ideas.Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German) Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Fairy Queen |
Staatsoper Berlin Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm Caught between Baroque and contemporary music: Helmut Oehring takes Henry Purcell's semi-opera "The Fairy Queen" as a model for his ideas.Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German) Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Saturday 22-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Hanjo |
Staatsoper Berlin Günther Albers, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Ingela Bohlin, Soprano: Hanako Ursula Hesse von den Steinen, Mezzo-soprano: Jitsuko Honda Georg Nigl, Baritone: Yoshio Staatskapelle Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Saturday 22-Jun-13 07:30pm Sung in English with German subtitles. Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German). A co-operation with the Ruhrtriennale and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Commissioned by the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
"I've written Hanjo, as if it were a dream. The protagonist, Hanako ,lives in a world of madness, which is beyond our everyday reality, for a long time waiting for the man she loves. When he finally comes back, she no longer recognizes him. The image of this man in her head has become more real than the man who is actually in front of her. " Günther Albers, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Ingela Bohlin, Soprano: Hanako Ursula Hesse von den Steinen, Mezzo-soprano: Jitsuko Honda Georg Nigl, Baritone: Yoshio Staatskapelle Berlin | ||
| Sunday 23-Jun-13 03:00pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Fairy Queen |
Staatsoper Berlin Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Sunday 23-Jun-13 03:00pm Caught between Baroque and contemporary music: Helmut Oehring takes Henry Purcell's semi-opera "The Fairy Queen" as a model for his ideas.Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German) Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Monday 24-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Hanjo |
Staatsoper Berlin Günther Albers, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Ingela Bohlin, Soprano: Hanako Ursula Hesse von den Steinen, Mezzo-soprano: Jitsuko Honda Georg Nigl, Baritone: Yoshio Staatskapelle Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Monday 24-Jun-13 07:30pm Sung in English with German subtitles. Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German). A co-operation with the Ruhrtriennale and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Commissioned by the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
"I've written Hanjo, as if it were a dream. The protagonist, Hanako ,lives in a world of madness, which is beyond our everyday reality, for a long time waiting for the man she loves. When he finally comes back, she no longer recognizes him. The image of this man in her head has become more real than the man who is actually in front of her. " Günther Albers, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Ingela Bohlin, Soprano: Hanako Ursula Hesse von den Steinen, Mezzo-soprano: Jitsuko Honda Georg Nigl, Baritone: Yoshio Staatskapelle Berlin | ||
| Tuesday 25-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Fairy Queen |
Staatsoper Berlin Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Tuesday 25-Jun-13 07:30pm Caught between Baroque and contemporary music: Helmut Oehring takes Henry Purcell's semi-opera "The Fairy Queen" as a model for his ideas.Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German) Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Friday 28-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Fairy Queen |
Staatsoper Berlin Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Friday 28-Jun-13 07:30pm Caught between Baroque and contemporary music: Helmut Oehring takes Henry Purcell's semi-opera "The Fairy Queen" as a model for his ideas.Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German) Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Sunday 30-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Hanjo |
Staatsoper Berlin Günther Albers, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Ingela Bohlin, Soprano: Hanako Ursula Hesse von den Steinen, Mezzo-soprano: Jitsuko Honda Georg Nigl, Baritone: Yoshio Staatskapelle Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Sunday 30-Jun-13 07:30pm Sung in English with German subtitles. Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German). A co-operation with the Ruhrtriennale and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Commissioned by the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
"I've written Hanjo, as if it were a dream. The protagonist, Hanako ,lives in a world of madness, which is beyond our everyday reality, for a long time waiting for the man she loves. When he finally comes back, she no longer recognizes him. The image of this man in her head has become more real than the man who is actually in front of her. " Günther Albers, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Ingela Bohlin, Soprano: Hanako Ursula Hesse von den Steinen, Mezzo-soprano: Jitsuko Honda Georg Nigl, Baritone: Yoshio Staatskapelle Berlin | ||
| Sunday 8-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Nabucco |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Andrea Battistoni, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Jana Kurucová, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Yosep Kang, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Sunday 8-Sep-13 07:30pm In Italian language with German Surtitles.
“Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” – Take flight, thought, on golden wings”. When those words first rang out in the Milan Scala on 9th March 1842, sung by the Hebrew slaves chorus in the third act of NABUCCO, Giuseppe Verdi's new opera, the master was making history. The “Slaves Chorus” was quickly adopted as the unofficial national anthem of a not-yet-unified Italy and the hopes of a generation of opera-goers were suddenly vested in the young composer. The dramatic tale of Israelite subjugation under the Babylonian yoke of King Nebuchadnezzar remains one of Verdi's best-known operas and was last staged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin by Hans Neuenfels 13 years ago. In Verdi's anniversary year the material is now being rendered by Keith Warner, one of the big names in international opera. The Englishman has directed LOHENGRIN at the Bayreuth Festival and THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG at Covent Garden and more recently for the Copenhagen Opera. Set in the same period that the piece was written, a time of transition from feudalism to a bourgeois, industrialising society, Warner's NABUCCO focuses on the opposing natures of two nations – the modern Hebrews, whose culture is informed by a script and by education as a democratic ideal, and the militaristic Babylonians, whose concept of a state is founded in autocratic rule. Image credit: Miklos Szabo Andrea Battistoni, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Jana Kurucová, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Yosep Kang, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria | ||
| Thursday 12-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Nabucco |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Andrea Battistoni, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Jana Kurucová, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Yosep Kang, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Thursday 12-Sep-13 07:30pm In Italian language with German Surtitles.
“Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” – Take flight, thought, on golden wings”. When those words first rang out in the Milan Scala on 9th March 1842, sung by the Hebrew slaves chorus in the third act of NABUCCO, Giuseppe Verdi's new opera, the master was making history. The “Slaves Chorus” was quickly adopted as the unofficial national anthem of a not-yet-unified Italy and the hopes of a generation of opera-goers were suddenly vested in the young composer. The dramatic tale of Israelite subjugation under the Babylonian yoke of King Nebuchadnezzar remains one of Verdi's best-known operas and was last staged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin by Hans Neuenfels 13 years ago. In Verdi's anniversary year the material is now being rendered by Keith Warner, one of the big names in international opera. The Englishman has directed LOHENGRIN at the Bayreuth Festival and THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG at Covent Garden and more recently for the Copenhagen Opera. Set in the same period that the piece was written, a time of transition from feudalism to a bourgeois, industrialising society, Warner's NABUCCO focuses on the opposing natures of two nations – the modern Hebrews, whose culture is informed by a script and by education as a democratic ideal, and the militaristic Babylonians, whose concept of a state is founded in autocratic rule. Image credit: Miklos Szabo Andrea Battistoni, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Jana Kurucová, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Yosep Kang, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria | ||
| Saturday 14-Sep-13 07:00pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Un Ballo in Maschera |
Staatsoper Berlin Massimo Zanetti, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Norma Fantini, Soprano: Amelia Valentina Nafornita, Soprano: Oscar Marina Prudenskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Ulrica Kamen Chanev, Tenor: Riccardo Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Renato Sergio Morabito, Director Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Saturday 14-Sep-13 07:00pm Sung in Italian with German surtitles3:00 h | including 2 intervals Prices 22 to 66 EUR Massimo Zanetti, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Norma Fantini, Soprano: Amelia Valentina Nafornita, Soprano: Oscar Marina Prudenskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Ulrica Kamen Chanev, Tenor: Riccardo Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Renato Sergio Morabito, Director Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden | ||
| Sunday 15-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Nabucco |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Andrea Battistoni, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Jana Kurucová, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Yosep Kang, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Sunday 15-Sep-13 07:30pm In Italian language with German Surtitles.
“Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” – Take flight, thought, on golden wings”. When those words first rang out in the Milan Scala on 9th March 1842, sung by the Hebrew slaves chorus in the third act of NABUCCO, Giuseppe Verdi's new opera, the master was making history. The “Slaves Chorus” was quickly adopted as the unofficial national anthem of a not-yet-unified Italy and the hopes of a generation of opera-goers were suddenly vested in the young composer. The dramatic tale of Israelite subjugation under the Babylonian yoke of King Nebuchadnezzar remains one of Verdi's best-known operas and was last staged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin by Hans Neuenfels 13 years ago. In Verdi's anniversary year the material is now being rendered by Keith Warner, one of the big names in international opera. The Englishman has directed LOHENGRIN at the Bayreuth Festival and THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG at Covent Garden and more recently for the Copenhagen Opera. Set in the same period that the piece was written, a time of transition from feudalism to a bourgeois, industrialising society, Warner's NABUCCO focuses on the opposing natures of two nations – the modern Hebrews, whose culture is informed by a script and by education as a democratic ideal, and the militaristic Babylonians, whose concept of a state is founded in autocratic rule. Image credit: Miklos Szabo Andrea Battistoni, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Jana Kurucová, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Yosep Kang, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria | ||
| Thursday 19-Sep-13 07:00pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Un Ballo in Maschera |
Staatsoper Berlin Massimo Zanetti, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Norma Fantini, Soprano: Amelia Valentina Nafornita, Soprano: Oscar Marina Prudenskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Ulrica Kamen Chanev, Tenor: Riccardo Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Renato Sergio Morabito, Director Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Thursday 19-Sep-13 07:00pm Sung in Italian with German surtitles3:00 h | including 2 intervals Prices 22 to 66 EUR Massimo Zanetti, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Norma Fantini, Soprano: Amelia Valentina Nafornita, Soprano: Oscar Marina Prudenskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Ulrica Kamen Chanev, Tenor: Riccardo Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Renato Sergio Morabito, Director Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden | ||
| Saturday 21-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Das Rheingold |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor Götz Friedrich, Director Peter Sykora, Set Designer Juha Uusitalo, Bass-baritone: Wotan Markus Brück, Bass-baritone: Donner Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Froh Burkhard Ulrich, Tenor: Loge Eric Owens, Bass: Alberich Peter Maus, Tenor: Mime Reinhard Hagen, Bass: Fasolt Albert Pesendorfer, Bass: Fafner Manuela Uhl, Soprano: Erda Doris Soffel, Mezzo-soprano: Fricka |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Saturday 21-Sep-13 07:30pm Image credit: Bettina-Stöß Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor Götz Friedrich, Director Peter Sykora, Set Designer Juha Uusitalo, Bass-baritone: Wotan Markus Brück, Bass-baritone: Donner Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Froh Burkhard Ulrich, Tenor: Loge Eric Owens, Bass: Alberich Peter Maus, Tenor: Mime Reinhard Hagen, Bass: Fasolt Albert Pesendorfer, Bass: Fafner Manuela Uhl, Soprano: Erda Doris Soffel, Mezzo-soprano: Fricka | ||
| Sunday 22-Sep-13 04:00pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Die Walküre |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor Götz Friedrich, Director Peter Sykora, Set Designer Simon O'Neill, Tenor: Siegmund Reinhard Hagen, Bass: Hunding Juha Uusitalo, Bass-baritone: Wotan Eva-Maria Westbroek, Soprano: Sieglinde Evelyn Herlitzius, Soprano: Brünnhilde Doris Soffel, Mezzo-soprano: Fricka |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Sunday 22-Sep-13 04:00pm Image credit: Bettina Stöß Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor Götz Friedrich, Director Peter Sykora, Set Designer Simon O'Neill, Tenor: Siegmund Reinhard Hagen, Bass: Hunding Juha Uusitalo, Bass-baritone: Wotan Eva-Maria Westbroek, Soprano: Sieglinde Evelyn Herlitzius, Soprano: Brünnhilde Doris Soffel, Mezzo-soprano: Fricka | ||
| Sunday 22-Sep-13 06:00pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Un Ballo in Maschera |
Staatsoper Berlin Massimo Zanetti, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Norma Fantini, Soprano: Amelia Valentina Nafornita, Soprano: Oscar Marina Prudenskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Ulrica Kamen Chanev, Tenor: Riccardo Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Renato Sergio Morabito, Director Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Sunday 22-Sep-13 06:00pm Sung in Italian with German surtitles3:00 h | including 2 intervals Prices 22 to 66 EUR Massimo Zanetti, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Norma Fantini, Soprano: Amelia Valentina Nafornita, Soprano: Oscar Marina Prudenskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Ulrica Kamen Chanev, Tenor: Riccardo Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Renato Sergio Morabito, Director Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden | ||
| Thursday 26-Sep-13 07:00pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Un Ballo in Maschera |
Staatsoper Berlin Massimo Zanetti, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Norma Fantini, Soprano: Amelia Valentina Nafornita, Soprano: Oscar Marina Prudenskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Ulrica Kamen Chanev, Tenor: Riccardo Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Renato Sergio Morabito, Director Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Thursday 26-Sep-13 07:00pm Sung in Italian with German surtitles3:00 h | including 2 intervals Prices 22 to 66 EUR Massimo Zanetti, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Norma Fantini, Soprano: Amelia Valentina Nafornita, Soprano: Oscar Marina Prudenskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Ulrica Kamen Chanev, Tenor: Riccardo Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Renato Sergio Morabito, Director Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden | ||
| Friday 27-Sep-13 05:00pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Siegfried |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor Götz Friedrich, Director Peter Sykora, Set Designer Lance Ryan, Tenor: Siegfried Burkhard Ulrich, Tenor: Mime Juha Uusitalo, Bass-baritone: Wanderer Albert Pesendorfer, Bass: Fafner Ewa Wolak, Alto: Erda Susan Bullock, Soprano: Brünnhilde |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Friday 27-Sep-13 05:00pm Image credit: Bettina Stöß Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor Götz Friedrich, Director Peter Sykora, Set Designer Lance Ryan, Tenor: Siegfried Burkhard Ulrich, Tenor: Mime Juha Uusitalo, Bass-baritone: Wanderer Albert Pesendorfer, Bass: Fafner Ewa Wolak, Alto: Erda Susan Bullock, Soprano: Brünnhilde | ||
| Sunday 29-Sep-13 04:00pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Götterdämmerung |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor Götz Friedrich, Director Peter Sykora, Set Designer Lance Ryan, Tenor: Siegfried Markus Brück, Baritone: Gunther Eric Owens, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Heidi Melton, Soprano: Gutrune Anne Sofie von Otter, Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Evelyn Herlitzius, Soprano: Brünhilde |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Sunday 29-Sep-13 04:00pm Image credit: Bettina Stöß Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor Götz Friedrich, Director Peter Sykora, Set Designer Lance Ryan, Tenor: Siegfried Markus Brück, Baritone: Gunther Eric Owens, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Heidi Melton, Soprano: Gutrune Anne Sofie von Otter, Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Evelyn Herlitzius, Soprano: Brünhilde | ||
| Thursday 3-Oct-13 06:00pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Nabucco |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Andrea Battistoni, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Ronnita Miller, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Thursday 3-Oct-13 06:00pm In Italian language with German Surtitles.
“Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” – Take flight, thought, on golden wings”. When those words first rang out in the Milan Scala on 9th March 1842, sung by the Hebrew slaves chorus in the third act of NABUCCO, Giuseppe Verdi's new opera, the master was making history. The “Slaves Chorus” was quickly adopted as the unofficial national anthem of a not-yet-unified Italy and the hopes of a generation of opera-goers were suddenly vested in the young composer. The dramatic tale of Israelite subjugation under the Babylonian yoke of King Nebuchadnezzar remains one of Verdi's best-known operas and was last staged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin by Hans Neuenfels 13 years ago. In Verdi's anniversary year the material is now being rendered by Keith Warner, one of the big names in international opera. The Englishman has directed LOHENGRIN at the Bayreuth Festival and THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG at Covent Garden and more recently for the Copenhagen Opera. Set in the same period that the piece was written, a time of transition from feudalism to a bourgeois, industrialising society, Warner's NABUCCO focuses on the opposing natures of two nations – the modern Hebrews, whose culture is informed by a script and by education as a democratic ideal, and the militaristic Babylonians, whose concept of a state is founded in autocratic rule. Image credit: Miklos Szabo Andrea Battistoni, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Ronnita Miller, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria | ||
| Thursday 3-Oct-13 06:00pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Tsar's Bride |
Staatsoper Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director/Set Designer Olga Peretyatko, Soprano: Marfa Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Dunyasha Saburova Anita Rachvelishvili, Mezzo-soprano: Lyubasha Pavel Cernoch, Tenor: Ivan Sergeyevich Lïkov Stephan Rügamer, Tenor: Yelisey Bomelius Johannes Martin Kränzle, Tenor: Grigory Gryaznoy Tobias Schabel, Bass: Malyuta-Skuratov Anatoly Kocherga, Bass: Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Thursday 3-Oct-13 06:00pm Sung in Russian with German surtitlesA coproduction of Staatsoper Unter den Linden with Teatro alla Scala di Milano Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director/Set Designer Olga Peretyatko, Soprano: Marfa Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Dunyasha Saburova Anita Rachvelishvili, Mezzo-soprano: Lyubasha Pavel Cernoch, Tenor: Ivan Sergeyevich Lïkov Stephan Rügamer, Tenor: Yelisey Bomelius Johannes Martin Kränzle, Tenor: Grigory Gryaznoy Tobias Schabel, Bass: Malyuta-Skuratov Anatoly Kocherga, Bass: Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Friday 4-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Wozzeck |
Staatsoper Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Andrea Breth, Director Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer Waltraud Meier, Mezzo-soprano: Marie Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Florian Hoffmann, Tenor: Andres Graham Clark, Tenor: Captain Štefan Margita, Tenor: Drum major Roman Trekel, Baritone: Wozzeck Pavlo Hunka, Baritone: Doctor Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Friday 4-Oct-13 07:30pm Sung in German with German surtitlesapprox. 1:40 h | no interval Prices: 28 to 84 EUR Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Andrea Breth, Director Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer Waltraud Meier, Mezzo-soprano: Marie Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Florian Hoffmann, Tenor: Andres Graham Clark, Tenor: Captain Štefan Margita, Tenor: Drum major Roman Trekel, Baritone: Wozzeck Pavlo Hunka, Baritone: Doctor Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden | ||
| Saturday 5-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Nabucco |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Andrea Battistoni, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Ronnita Miller, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Saturday 5-Oct-13 07:30pm In Italian language with German Surtitles.
“Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” – Take flight, thought, on golden wings”. When those words first rang out in the Milan Scala on 9th March 1842, sung by the Hebrew slaves chorus in the third act of NABUCCO, Giuseppe Verdi's new opera, the master was making history. The “Slaves Chorus” was quickly adopted as the unofficial national anthem of a not-yet-unified Italy and the hopes of a generation of opera-goers were suddenly vested in the young composer. The dramatic tale of Israelite subjugation under the Babylonian yoke of King Nebuchadnezzar remains one of Verdi's best-known operas and was last staged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin by Hans Neuenfels 13 years ago. In Verdi's anniversary year the material is now being rendered by Keith Warner, one of the big names in international opera. The Englishman has directed LOHENGRIN at the Bayreuth Festival and THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG at Covent Garden and more recently for the Copenhagen Opera. Set in the same period that the piece was written, a time of transition from feudalism to a bourgeois, industrialising society, Warner's NABUCCO focuses on the opposing natures of two nations – the modern Hebrews, whose culture is informed by a script and by education as a democratic ideal, and the militaristic Babylonians, whose concept of a state is founded in autocratic rule. Image credit: Miklos Szabo Andrea Battistoni, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Ronnita Miller, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria | ||
| Sunday 6-Oct-13 03:00pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Wozzeck |
Staatsoper Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Andrea Breth, Director Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer Waltraud Meier, Mezzo-soprano: Marie Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Florian Hoffmann, Tenor: Andres Graham Clark, Tenor: Captain Štefan Margita, Tenor: Drum major Roman Trekel, Baritone: Wozzeck Pavlo Hunka, Baritone: Doctor Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Sunday 6-Oct-13 03:00pm Sung in German with German surtitlesapprox. 1:40 h | no interval Prices: 28 to 84 EUR Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Andrea Breth, Director Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer Waltraud Meier, Mezzo-soprano: Marie Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Florian Hoffmann, Tenor: Andres Graham Clark, Tenor: Captain Štefan Margita, Tenor: Drum major Roman Trekel, Baritone: Wozzeck Pavlo Hunka, Baritone: Doctor Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden | ||
| Sunday 6-Oct-13 06:00pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Macbeth |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Paolo Arrivabeni, Conductor Robert Carsen, Director Radu Boruzescu, Set Designer Fionnuala McCarthy, Soprano: Lady in Waiting Marianne Cornetti, Mezzo-soprano: Lady Macbeth Yosep Kang, Tenor: Macduff Clemens Bieber, Tenor: Malcolm Thomas Johannes Mayer, Baritone: Macbeth Albert Pesendorfer, Bass: Banquo |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Sunday 6-Oct-13 06:00pm In Italian language with German surtitles.
Witches prophesy that Macbeth will become King of Scotland. Not he, but Banquo, will however be the progenitor of future kings. Driven by the relentless greed for power of wife, murdering the king and numerous atrocities enable him to take possession of the crown and ascend the throne of Scotland. In the pursuit of this goal, he destroys everything in his way. Inevitably, the price for this is madness: Lady Macbeth cannot free herself from the blood of the murdered King Duncan – the tyrant himself cannot escape the sinister prophecy of the witches. »The subject of the opera is neither political nor religious: it is fantastic« – Giuseppe Verdi's appraisal of what is surely William Shakespeare's most sinister strongly suggests its relegation to the genre of the »romantic opera«. Witches, ghosts, apparitions, all uncanny, scenes dominated by chanting, can in fact be understood as externally depicting the inner states of the protagonists: owing to the fundamentally romantic orientation MACBETH is far more an invitation to psychological analysis than were many of the preceding works, from NABUCCO via ERNANI to ATTILA. In his efforts to reflect Shakespeare's model, Verdi did not allow himself or his librettists, Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei, any venialities. Determined »to achieve something more than the ordinary«, the composer was implacable in his demands. He thus succeeded in creating musically developed personalities as never before seen, and he distanced himself from the conventions of traditional Italian opera to a degree unparalleled. The subtlety of human characterisation, which enables even the most harmless figure to literally walk over dead bodies without inhibition in order to seize power and cling to this power - mostly achieved by wrongful means - lays the groundwork in MACBETH for the modern psychological opera far more frequently associated with the Wagnerian music drama. Image credit: Bettina Stöß Paolo Arrivabeni, Conductor Robert Carsen, Director Radu Boruzescu, Set Designer Fionnuala McCarthy, Soprano: Lady in Waiting Marianne Cornetti, Mezzo-soprano: Lady Macbeth Yosep Kang, Tenor: Macduff Clemens Bieber, Tenor: Malcolm Thomas Johannes Mayer, Baritone: Macbeth Albert Pesendorfer, Bass: Banquo | ||
| Monday 7-Oct-13 07:00pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Un Ballo in Maschera |
Staatsoper Berlin Massimo Zanetti, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Norma Fantini, Soprano: Amelia Valentina Nafornita, Soprano: Oscar Mariana Pentcheva, Contralto: Ulrica Kamen Chanev, Tenor: Riccardo Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Renato Sergio Morabito, Director Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Monday 7-Oct-13 07:00pm Sung in Italian with German surtitles3:00 h | including 2 intervals Prices 22 to 66 EUR Massimo Zanetti, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Norma Fantini, Soprano: Amelia Valentina Nafornita, Soprano: Oscar Mariana Pentcheva, Contralto: Ulrica Kamen Chanev, Tenor: Riccardo Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Renato Sergio Morabito, Director Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden | ||
| Tuesday 8-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Nabucco |
Deutsche Oper Berlin William Spaulding, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Ronnita Miller, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Tuesday 8-Oct-13 07:30pm In Italian language with German Surtitles.
“Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” – Take flight, thought, on golden wings”. When those words first rang out in the Milan Scala on 9th March 1842, sung by the Hebrew slaves chorus in the third act of NABUCCO, Giuseppe Verdi's new opera, the master was making history. The “Slaves Chorus” was quickly adopted as the unofficial national anthem of a not-yet-unified Italy and the hopes of a generation of opera-goers were suddenly vested in the young composer. The dramatic tale of Israelite subjugation under the Babylonian yoke of King Nebuchadnezzar remains one of Verdi's best-known operas and was last staged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin by Hans Neuenfels 13 years ago. In Verdi's anniversary year the material is now being rendered by Keith Warner, one of the big names in international opera. The Englishman has directed LOHENGRIN at the Bayreuth Festival and THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG at Covent Garden and more recently for the Copenhagen Opera. Set in the same period that the piece was written, a time of transition from feudalism to a bourgeois, industrialising society, Warner's NABUCCO focuses on the opposing natures of two nations – the modern Hebrews, whose culture is informed by a script and by education as a democratic ideal, and the militaristic Babylonians, whose concept of a state is founded in autocratic rule. Image credit: Miklos Szabo William Spaulding, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Ronnita Miller, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria | ||
| Tuesday 8-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Tsar's Bride |
Staatsoper Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director/Set Designer Olga Peretyatko, Soprano: Marfa Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Dunyasha Saburova Anita Rachvelishvili, Mezzo-soprano: Lyubasha Pavel Cernoch, Tenor: Ivan Sergeyevich Lïkov Stephan Rügamer, Tenor: Yelisey Bomelius Johannes Martin Kränzle, Tenor: Grigory Gryaznoy Tobias Schabel, Bass: Malyuta-Skuratov Anatoly Kocherga, Bass: Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Tuesday 8-Oct-13 07:30pm Sung in Russian with German surtitlesA coproduction of Staatsoper Unter den Linden with Teatro alla Scala di Milano Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director/Set Designer Olga Peretyatko, Soprano: Marfa Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Dunyasha Saburova Anita Rachvelishvili, Mezzo-soprano: Lyubasha Pavel Cernoch, Tenor: Ivan Sergeyevich Lïkov Stephan Rügamer, Tenor: Yelisey Bomelius Johannes Martin Kränzle, Tenor: Grigory Gryaznoy Tobias Schabel, Bass: Malyuta-Skuratov Anatoly Kocherga, Bass: Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Wednesday 9-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Wozzeck |
Staatsoper Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Andrea Breth, Director Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer Waltraud Meier, Mezzo-soprano: Marie Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Florian Hoffmann, Tenor: Andres Graham Clark, Tenor: Captain Štefan Margita, Tenor: Drum major Roman Trekel, Baritone: Wozzeck Pavlo Hunka, Baritone: Doctor Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Wednesday 9-Oct-13 07:30pm Sung in German with German surtitlesapprox. 1:40 h | no interval Prices: 28 to 84 EUR Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Andrea Breth, Director Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer Waltraud Meier, Mezzo-soprano: Marie Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Florian Hoffmann, Tenor: Andres Graham Clark, Tenor: Captain Štefan Margita, Tenor: Drum major Roman Trekel, Baritone: Wozzeck Pavlo Hunka, Baritone: Doctor Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden | ||
| Wednesday 9-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin The Magic Flute |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Ivan Repusic, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Andreas Reinhardt, Set Designer Siobhan Stagg, Soprano: Pamina Hulkar Sabirova, Soprano: Queen of the Night Yosep Kang, Tenor: Tamino John Chest, Baritone: Papageno Albert Pesendorfer, Bass: Sarastro Alexandra Hutton, Soprano: Papagena Burkhard Ulrich, Tenor: Monostatos Stephen Bronk, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Wednesday 9-Oct-13 07:30pm In German with German surtitles.
Prince Tamino is menaced by a wild dragon. At the last moment he is saved by three mysterious women, who have been sent by the Queen of the Night. When the bird catcher Papageno appears and boasts of his heroic deed as dragon slayer, the three ladies punish him. They present the Prince with a picture of Pamina, the Queen's daughter, who has been imprisoned by Sarastro, Regent of the Sun Temple. Tamino falls in love with her. The Queen appears in person and orders him to join forces with Papageno to save Pamina. They give Tamino a magic flute for protection and the reluctant Pagageno receives a glockenspiel of magical chimes. Led by three boys, the two heroes begin their journey to Sarastro's castle. Tamino is twice prevented from entering by the gatekeepers. At the third attempt they inform him that Sarastro is nothing like the cruel tyrant that the Queen of the Night has made him out to be. Papageno finds Pamina and tries to escape with her. He is able to stall her guard Monostatos with the help of the chimes, but the appearance of Sarastro puts an end to all attempts to flee. Papageno, Pamina and Tamino are compelled to stay in Sarastro's temple and submit to a series of life-threatening trials. First of all they have to learn to be silent, which is especially difficult for Papageno. When an old woman passes, Papageno cannot restrain himself and asks her what her name is. She disappears in a clap of thunder. Papageno consoles himself with the food that is so miraculously served to them. Tamino keeps silent, playing on his flute. Pamina appears, in deep despair that Tamino is no longer talking to her. Her mother has already entreated her in vain to murder Sarastro. When she decides to end her life the three boys seize her dagger and lead her to Tamino. Protected by the flute, both of them pass the ordeals of fire and water, and have now successfully completed all the trials. Meanwhile Papageno, in his great loneliness, conjures up the old woman again and promises to marry her, »if there's nothing better to be had«. All of a sudden she is transformed into a beautiful young girl, but their time has not yet come and she is taken from him again. In his despair he decides to end his life, but the three boys remind him of the magic chimes. Their tinkling brings back Papagena, and the reunion sets them both dreaming of a happy future together. The other pair is happy, too: Tamino and Pamina are inducted into the Society of the Enlightened, which celebrates the ideals of Nature, Wisdom and Reason. Only for the Queen of the Night does the story take a turn for the worse: when she attempts to enter the temple along with her entourage she is devoured by the spirits of darkness. Mozart's MAGIC FLUTE is the most frequently performed opera in the German-speaking world. This variegated masterpiece straddling Viennese popular theatre, fairytale, myth and the mystery of freemasonry is a puzzle even today: did Mozart and his librettist Schikaneder switch horses in mid-stream, changing allegiance from the Queen of the Night to Sarastro? Should one not distrust the holier-than-thou world of the priests and an ideology that divides the world into good and evil? Are there not traces, even, of discrepancies between text and music, as many a Mozart expert has suggested? Whatever the facts of the matter, it is the music that smooths the contradictions of the plot, elevating them to a worldly realism. The music does not denounce the characters but rather confers on the conflicts an existential dimension. Without this dimension the opera would come over as an irrational fairytale. Image credit: Bernd Uhlig Ivan Repusic, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Andreas Reinhardt, Set Designer Siobhan Stagg, Soprano: Pamina Hulkar Sabirova, Soprano: Queen of the Night Yosep Kang, Tenor: Tamino John Chest, Baritone: Papageno Albert Pesendorfer, Bass: Sarastro Alexandra Hutton, Soprano: Papagena Burkhard Ulrich, Tenor: Monostatos Stephen Bronk, Bass: Speaker (der Sprecher) | ||
| Thursday 10-Oct-13 07:00pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Un Ballo in Maschera |
Staatsoper Berlin Massimo Zanetti, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Norma Fantini, Soprano: Amelia Valentina Nafornita, Soprano: Oscar Mariana Pentcheva, Contralto: Ulrica Kamen Chanev, Tenor: Riccardo Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Renato Sergio Morabito, Director Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Thursday 10-Oct-13 07:00pm Sung in Italian with German surtitles3:00 h | including 2 intervals Prices 22 to 66 EUR Massimo Zanetti, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Norma Fantini, Soprano: Amelia Valentina Nafornita, Soprano: Oscar Mariana Pentcheva, Contralto: Ulrica Kamen Chanev, Tenor: Riccardo Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Renato Sergio Morabito, Director Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden | ||
| Friday 11-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin The Barber of Seville |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Guillermo Garcia Calvo, Conductor Katharina Thalbach, Director Momme Röhrbein, Set Designer Annalisa Stroppa, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Alvaro Zambrano, Tenor: Count Almaviva Étienne Dupuis, Baritone: Figaro Tiziano Bracci, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Hulkar Sabirova, Soprano: Berta (Marcellina) Andrew Harris, Bass: Don Basilio Davide Luciano, Baritone: Fiorello |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Friday 11-Oct-13 07:30pm In Italian language with German surtitles.
This turbulent tale has an aged curmudgeon intent on marrying his own ward in order to get his hands on her inheritance. He does everything he can to prevent the attractive Rosina from having contact with the outside world - and possible young lovers. Little does he know that Count Almaviva has long since fallen in love with her. By enlisting the help of the engaging, energetic barber Figaro his plan is not only to get the better of the old man and win Rosina over but also to ensure that the young woman loves him for his own sake and not for his title and fortune. No easy task for Figaro, who is pitted against a number of opponents. But in the end love conquers all and the precautions taken in the elaborate venture turns out to have been for nothing. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732 – 1799) invented the cunning, scheming barber and made him the central figure in a trilogy of comedies, the first two parts of which – LE BARBIER DE SEVILLE OU LA PRECAUTION INUTILE (1775) and LA FOLLE JOURNEE OU LE MARIAGE DE FIGARO (1778) - are now world famous. The third part of the trilogy, L’AUTRE TARTUFFE OU LA MERE COUPABLE, which appeared in 1792, did not enjoy the success of its predecessors, conceivably due to the chaos of the French Revolution. Although the revolutionary potential of the work is best communicated by Mozart's brilliant score in the second part of the trilogy (DIE HOCHZEIT DES FIGARO,1786), the barber of the first part is likewise possessed of a lack of respect, making him predestined to head the cast of a comic opera. Giovanni Paisiello's music in the 1782 production of BARBIERE brought him wide acclaim and set a high standard for Rossini to follow as the latter went about reworking the material into a new comic opera. 34 years after Paisiello's success Rossini pulled off what remains perhaps the wittiest and peppiest opera buffa in the history of opera. “It was Rossini through and through, his music at its loveliest in BARBIER VON SEVILLA. Those who despise Italian music and hasten to openly revile it will one day receive their just punishment in hell, perhaps condemned to listen for eternity to Sebastian Bach's fugues.” (Heinrich Heine) Image credit: Bettina-Stöß Guillermo Garcia Calvo, Conductor Katharina Thalbach, Director Momme Röhrbein, Set Designer Annalisa Stroppa, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Alvaro Zambrano, Tenor: Count Almaviva Étienne Dupuis, Baritone: Figaro Tiziano Bracci, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Hulkar Sabirova, Soprano: Berta (Marcellina) Andrew Harris, Bass: Don Basilio Davide Luciano, Baritone: Fiorello | ||
| Saturday 12-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Wozzeck |
Staatsoper Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Andrea Breth, Director Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer Waltraud Meier, Mezzo-soprano: Marie Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Florian Hoffmann, Tenor: Andres Graham Clark, Tenor: Captain Štefan Margita, Tenor: Drum major Roman Trekel, Baritone: Wozzeck Pavlo Hunka, Baritone: Doctor Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Saturday 12-Oct-13 07:30pm Sung in German with German surtitlesapprox. 1:40 h | no interval Prices: 28 to 84 EUR Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Andrea Breth, Director Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer Waltraud Meier, Mezzo-soprano: Marie Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Florian Hoffmann, Tenor: Andres Graham Clark, Tenor: Captain Štefan Margita, Tenor: Drum major Roman Trekel, Baritone: Wozzeck Pavlo Hunka, Baritone: Doctor Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden | ||
| Saturday 12-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Macbeth |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Paolo Arrivabeni, Conductor Robert Carsen, Director Radu Boruzescu, Set Designer Fionnuala McCarthy, Soprano: Lady in Waiting Marianne Cornetti, Mezzo-soprano: Lady Macbeth Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Macduff Clemens Bieber, Tenor: Malcolm Thomas Johannes Mayer, Baritone: Macbeth Albert Pesendorfer, Bass: Banquo |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Saturday 12-Oct-13 07:30pm In Italian language with German surtitles.
Witches prophesy that Macbeth will become King of Scotland. Not he, but Banquo, will however be the progenitor of future kings. Driven by the relentless greed for power of wife, murdering the king and numerous atrocities enable him to take possession of the crown and ascend the throne of Scotland. In the pursuit of this goal, he destroys everything in his way. Inevitably, the price for this is madness: Lady Macbeth cannot free herself from the blood of the murdered King Duncan – the tyrant himself cannot escape the sinister prophecy of the witches. »The subject of the opera is neither political nor religious: it is fantastic« – Giuseppe Verdi's appraisal of what is surely William Shakespeare's most sinister strongly suggests its relegation to the genre of the »romantic opera«. Witches, ghosts, apparitions, all uncanny, scenes dominated by chanting, can in fact be understood as externally depicting the inner states of the protagonists: owing to the fundamentally romantic orientation MACBETH is far more an invitation to psychological analysis than were many of the preceding works, from NABUCCO via ERNANI to ATTILA. In his efforts to reflect Shakespeare's model, Verdi did not allow himself or his librettists, Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei, any venialities. Determined »to achieve something more than the ordinary«, the composer was implacable in his demands. He thus succeeded in creating musically developed personalities as never before seen, and he distanced himself from the conventions of traditional Italian opera to a degree unparalleled. The subtlety of human characterisation, which enables even the most harmless figure to literally walk over dead bodies without inhibition in order to seize power and cling to this power - mostly achieved by wrongful means - lays the groundwork in MACBETH for the modern psychological opera far more frequently associated with the Wagnerian music drama. Image credit: Bettina Stöß Paolo Arrivabeni, Conductor Robert Carsen, Director Radu Boruzescu, Set Designer Fionnuala McCarthy, Soprano: Lady in Waiting Marianne Cornetti, Mezzo-soprano: Lady Macbeth Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Macduff Clemens Bieber, Tenor: Malcolm Thomas Johannes Mayer, Baritone: Macbeth Albert Pesendorfer, Bass: Banquo | ||
| Sunday 13-Oct-13 06:00pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Nabucco |
Deutsche Oper Berlin William Spaulding, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Ronnita Miller, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Sunday 13-Oct-13 06:00pm In Italian language with German Surtitles.
“Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” – Take flight, thought, on golden wings”. When those words first rang out in the Milan Scala on 9th March 1842, sung by the Hebrew slaves chorus in the third act of NABUCCO, Giuseppe Verdi's new opera, the master was making history. The “Slaves Chorus” was quickly adopted as the unofficial national anthem of a not-yet-unified Italy and the hopes of a generation of opera-goers were suddenly vested in the young composer. The dramatic tale of Israelite subjugation under the Babylonian yoke of King Nebuchadnezzar remains one of Verdi's best-known operas and was last staged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin by Hans Neuenfels 13 years ago. In Verdi's anniversary year the material is now being rendered by Keith Warner, one of the big names in international opera. The Englishman has directed LOHENGRIN at the Bayreuth Festival and THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG at Covent Garden and more recently for the Copenhagen Opera. Set in the same period that the piece was written, a time of transition from feudalism to a bourgeois, industrialising society, Warner's NABUCCO focuses on the opposing natures of two nations – the modern Hebrews, whose culture is informed by a script and by education as a democratic ideal, and the militaristic Babylonians, whose concept of a state is founded in autocratic rule. Image credit: Miklos Szabo William Spaulding, Conductor Keith Warner, Director Tilo Steffens, Set Designer Anna Smirnova, Mezzo-soprano: Abigaille Ronnita Miller, Mezzo-soprano: Fenena Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Ismaele Johan Reuter, Baritone: Nabucco Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Zaccaria | ||
| Sunday 13-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Tsar's Bride |
Staatsoper Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director/Set Designer Olga Peretyatko, Soprano: Marfa Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Dunyasha Saburova Anita Rachvelishvili, Mezzo-soprano: Lyubasha Pavel Cernoch, Tenor: Ivan Sergeyevich Lïkov Stephan Rügamer, Tenor: Yelisey Bomelius Johannes Martin Kränzle, Tenor: Grigory Gryaznoy Tobias Schabel, Bass: Malyuta-Skuratov Anatoly Kocherga, Bass: Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Sunday 13-Oct-13 07:30pm Sung in Russian with German surtitlesA coproduction of Staatsoper Unter den Linden with Teatro alla Scala di Milano Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director/Set Designer Olga Peretyatko, Soprano: Marfa Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Dunyasha Saburova Anita Rachvelishvili, Mezzo-soprano: Lyubasha Pavel Cernoch, Tenor: Ivan Sergeyevich Lïkov Stephan Rügamer, Tenor: Yelisey Bomelius Johannes Martin Kränzle, Tenor: Grigory Gryaznoy Tobias Schabel, Bass: Malyuta-Skuratov Anatoly Kocherga, Bass: Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin Staatskapelle Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Thursday 17-Oct-13 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin The Barber of Seville |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Guillermo Garcia Calvo, Conductor Katharina Thalbach, Director Momme Röhrbein, Set Designer Annalisa Stroppa, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Alvaro Zambrano, Tenor: Count Almaviva Étienne Dupuis, Baritone: Figaro Tiziano Bracci, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Hulkar Sabirova, Soprano: Berta (Marcellina) Andrew Harris, Bass: Don Basilio Davide Luciano, Baritone: Fiorello |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Thursday 17-Oct-13 07:30pm In Italian language with German surtitles.
This turbulent tale has an aged curmudgeon intent on marrying his own ward in order to get his hands on her inheritance. He does everything he can to prevent the attractive Rosina from having contact with the outside world - and possible young lovers. Little does he know that Count Almaviva has long since fallen in love with her. By enlisting the help of the engaging, energetic barber Figaro his plan is not only to get the better of the old man and win Rosina over but also to ensure that the young woman loves him for his own sake and not for his title and fortune. No easy task for Figaro, who is pitted against a number of opponents. But in the end love conquers all and the precautions taken in the elaborate venture turns out to have been for nothing. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732 – 1799) invented the cunning, scheming barber and made him the central figure in a trilogy of comedies, the first two parts of which – LE BARBIER DE SEVILLE OU LA PRECAUTION INUTILE (1775) and LA FOLLE JOURNEE OU LE MARIAGE DE FIGARO (1778) - are now world famous. The third part of the trilogy, L’AUTRE TARTUFFE OU LA MERE COUPABLE, which appeared in 1792, did not enjoy the success of its predecessors, conceivably due to the chaos of the French Revolution. Although the revolutionary potential of the work is best communicated by Mozart's brilliant score in the second part of the trilogy (DIE HOCHZEIT DES FIGARO,1786), the barber of the first part is likewise possessed of a lack of respect, making him predestined to head the cast of a comic opera. Giovanni Paisiello's music in the 1782 production of BARBIERE brought him wide acclaim and set a high standard for Rossini to follow as the latter went about reworking the material into a new comic opera. 34 years after Paisiello's success Rossini pulled off what remains perhaps the wittiest and peppiest opera buffa in the history of opera. “It was Rossini through and through, his music at its loveliest in BARBIER VON SEVILLA. Those who despise Italian music and hasten to openly revile it will one day receive their just punishment in hell, perhaps condemned to listen for eternity to Sebastian Bach's fugues.” (Heinrich Heine) Image credit: Bettina-Stöß Guillermo Garcia Calvo, Conductor Katharina Thalbach, Director Momme Röhrbein, Set Designer Annalisa Stroppa, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Alvaro Zambrano, Tenor: Count Almaviva Étienne Dupuis, Baritone: Figaro Tiziano Bracci, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Hulkar Sabirova, Soprano: Berta (Marcellina) Andrew Harris, Bass: Don Basilio Davide Luciano, Baritone: Fiorello | ||
