Performer: Joseph CallejaFrom today| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Wednesday 17-Jul-13 07:00pm |
 National Theatre, MunichRigoletto Munich Opera Festival |
Bavarian State Opera Fabio Luisi, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Franco Vassallo, Baritone: Rigoletto Patricia Petibon, Soprano: Gilda Dimitry Ivashchenko, Bass: Sparafucile Nadia Krasteva, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Wednesday 17-Jul-13 07:00pm The first performance of the first opera in Verdi's legendary "trilogia popolare" at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice was preceded by a tricky battle with the censor. After all, the play by Victor Hugo on which it was based, about the cynical hedonism of an aristocrat, had been a hot potato throughout Europe since 1832, when it was banned immediately after its first performance in Paris. Verdi was interested less in criticism of the ruling classes and more in the tragedy of the court jester whose existence is devastated. The deformed entertainer in a world of men who consume women pulls out all the stops in his sarcasm and yet believes that he will remain unharmed by his public actions if he merely separates them cleanly from his private happiness. But when his daughter, imprisoned in a remote location for her own protection, follows her own longing, she becomes the victim of his double existence. A lonely, pitiable clown? "An amoral petty bourgeois man", thinks Arpad Schilling, "who dreams of innocence. A husband mourning for his wife and filled with a thirst for revenge. A great actor to whom success is more important than his own daughter. The fool of a noble lord who has been cheated by his own happiness. Verdi can do what Shakespeare does: He can tell a story in such a way as to make us shudder."
New productionIn Italian with German surtitles.Fabio Luisi, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Franco Vassallo, Baritone: Rigoletto Patricia Petibon, Soprano: Gilda Dimitry Ivashchenko, Bass: Sparafucile Nadia Krasteva, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena | ||
| Saturday 20-Jul-13 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rigoletto Munich Opera Festival |
Bavarian State Opera Fabio Luisi, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Franco Vassallo, Baritone: Rigoletto Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Gilda Dimitry Ivashchenko, Bass: Sparafucile Nadia Krasteva, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 20-Jul-13 07:00pm The first performance of the first opera in Verdi's legendary "trilogia popolare" at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice was preceded by a tricky battle with the censor. After all, the play by Victor Hugo on which it was based, about the cynical hedonism of an aristocrat, had been a hot potato throughout Europe since 1832, when it was banned immediately after its first performance in Paris. Verdi was interested less in criticism of the ruling classes and more in the tragedy of the court jester whose existence is devastated. The deformed entertainer in a world of men who consume women pulls out all the stops in his sarcasm and yet believes that he will remain unharmed by his public actions if he merely separates them cleanly from his private happiness. But when his daughter, imprisoned in a remote location for her own protection, follows her own longing, she becomes the victim of his double existence. A lonely, pitiable clown? "An amoral petty bourgeois man", thinks Arpad Schilling, "who dreams of innocence. A husband mourning for his wife and filled with a thirst for revenge. A great actor to whom success is more important than his own daughter. The fool of a noble lord who has been cheated by his own happiness. Verdi can do what Shakespeare does: He can tell a story in such a way as to make us shudder."
New productionIn Italian with German surtitles.Fabio Luisi, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Franco Vassallo, Baritone: Rigoletto Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Gilda Dimitry Ivashchenko, Bass: Sparafucile Nadia Krasteva, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena | ||
| Wednesday 24-Jul-13 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rigoletto Munich Opera Festival |
Bavarian State Opera Marco Armiliato, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Franco Vassallo, Baritone: Rigoletto Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Gilda Dimitry Ivashchenko, Bass: Sparafucile Nadia Krasteva, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Wednesday 24-Jul-13 07:00pm The first performance of the first opera in Verdi's legendary "trilogia popolare" at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice was preceded by a tricky battle with the censor. After all, the play by Victor Hugo on which it was based, about the cynical hedonism of an aristocrat, had been a hot potato throughout Europe since 1832, when it was banned immediately after its first performance in Paris. Verdi was interested less in criticism of the ruling classes and more in the tragedy of the court jester whose existence is devastated. The deformed entertainer in a world of men who consume women pulls out all the stops in his sarcasm and yet believes that he will remain unharmed by his public actions if he merely separates them cleanly from his private happiness. But when his daughter, imprisoned in a remote location for her own protection, follows her own longing, she becomes the victim of his double existence. A lonely, pitiable clown? "An amoral petty bourgeois man", thinks Arpad Schilling, "who dreams of innocence. A husband mourning for his wife and filled with a thirst for revenge. A great actor to whom success is more important than his own daughter. The fool of a noble lord who has been cheated by his own happiness. Verdi can do what Shakespeare does: He can tell a story in such a way as to make us shudder."
New productionIn Italian with German surtitles.Marco Armiliato, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Franco Vassallo, Baritone: Rigoletto Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano: Gilda Dimitry Ivashchenko, Bass: Sparafucile Nadia Krasteva, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena | ||
| Saturday 12-Oct-13 07:30pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rigoletto |
Bavarian State Opera Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Márton Ágh, Set Designer Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano: Gilda Alisa Kolosova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Oksana Volkova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua George Petean, Baritone: Rigoletto Rafal Siwek, Bass: Sparafucile/Bass: Monterone |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 12-Oct-13 07:30pm The first performance of the first opera in Verdi's legendary "trilogia popolare" at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice was preceded by a tricky battle with the censor. After all, the play by Victor Hugo on which it was based, about the cynical hedonism of an aristocrat, had been a hot potato throughout Europe since 1832, when it was banned immediately after its first performance in Paris. Verdi was interested less in criticism of the ruling classes and more in the tragedy of the court jester whose existence is devastated. The deformed entertainer in a world of men who consume women pulls out all the stops in his sarcasm and yet believes that he will remain unharmed by his public actions if he merely separates them cleanly from his private happiness. But when his daughter, imprisoned in a remote location for her own protection, follows her own longing, she becomes the victim of his double existence. A lonely, pitiable clown? "An amoral petty bourgeois man", thinks Arpad Schilling, "who dreams of innocence. A husband mourning for his wife and filled with a thirst for revenge. A great actor to whom success is more important than his own daughter. The fool of a noble lord who has been cheated by his own happiness. Verdi can do what Shakespeare does: He can tell a story in such a way as to make us shudder."
In Italian with German surtitles New production Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Márton Ágh, Set Designer Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano: Gilda Alisa Kolosova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Oksana Volkova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua George Petean, Baritone: Rigoletto Rafal Siwek, Bass: Sparafucile/Bass: Monterone | ||
| Tuesday 15-Oct-13 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rigoletto |
Bavarian State Opera Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Márton Ágh, Set Designer Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano: Gilda Alisa Kolosova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Oksana Volkova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua George Petean, Baritone: Rigoletto Rafal Siwek, Bass: Sparafucile/Bass: Monterone |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Tuesday 15-Oct-13 07:00pm The first performance of the first opera in Verdi's legendary "trilogia popolare" at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice was preceded by a tricky battle with the censor. After all, the play by Victor Hugo on which it was based, about the cynical hedonism of an aristocrat, had been a hot potato throughout Europe since 1832, when it was banned immediately after its first performance in Paris. Verdi was interested less in criticism of the ruling classes and more in the tragedy of the court jester whose existence is devastated. The deformed entertainer in a world of men who consume women pulls out all the stops in his sarcasm and yet believes that he will remain unharmed by his public actions if he merely separates them cleanly from his private happiness. But when his daughter, imprisoned in a remote location for her own protection, follows her own longing, she becomes the victim of his double existence. A lonely, pitiable clown? "An amoral petty bourgeois man", thinks Arpad Schilling, "who dreams of innocence. A husband mourning for his wife and filled with a thirst for revenge. A great actor to whom success is more important than his own daughter. The fool of a noble lord who has been cheated by his own happiness. Verdi can do what Shakespeare does: He can tell a story in such a way as to make us shudder."
In Italian with German surtitles New production Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Márton Ágh, Set Designer Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano: Gilda Alisa Kolosova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Oksana Volkova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua George Petean, Baritone: Rigoletto Rafal Siwek, Bass: Sparafucile/Bass: Monterone | ||
| Friday 18-Oct-13 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rigoletto |
Bavarian State Opera Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Márton Ágh, Set Designer Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano: Gilda Alisa Kolosova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Oksana Volkova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua George Petean, Baritone: Rigoletto Rafal Siwek, Bass: Sparafucile/Bass: Monterone |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 18-Oct-13 07:00pm The first performance of the first opera in Verdi's legendary "trilogia popolare" at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice was preceded by a tricky battle with the censor. After all, the play by Victor Hugo on which it was based, about the cynical hedonism of an aristocrat, had been a hot potato throughout Europe since 1832, when it was banned immediately after its first performance in Paris. Verdi was interested less in criticism of the ruling classes and more in the tragedy of the court jester whose existence is devastated. The deformed entertainer in a world of men who consume women pulls out all the stops in his sarcasm and yet believes that he will remain unharmed by his public actions if he merely separates them cleanly from his private happiness. But when his daughter, imprisoned in a remote location for her own protection, follows her own longing, she becomes the victim of his double existence. A lonely, pitiable clown? "An amoral petty bourgeois man", thinks Arpad Schilling, "who dreams of innocence. A husband mourning for his wife and filled with a thirst for revenge. A great actor to whom success is more important than his own daughter. The fool of a noble lord who has been cheated by his own happiness. Verdi can do what Shakespeare does: He can tell a story in such a way as to make us shudder."
In Italian with German surtitles New production Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Márton Ágh, Set Designer Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano: Gilda Alisa Kolosova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Oksana Volkova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua George Petean, Baritone: Rigoletto Rafal Siwek, Bass: Sparafucile/Bass: Monterone | ||
| Tuesday 14-Jan-14 07:30pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY La Bohème |
Metropolitan Opera Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Mimì Irina Lungu, Soprano: Musetta Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Rodolfo Alexei Markov, Baritone: Marcello |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Tuesday 14-Jan-14 07:30pm Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Mimì Irina Lungu, Soprano: Musetta Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Rodolfo Alexei Markov, Baritone: Marcello | ||
| Saturday 18-Jan-14 08:30pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY La Bohème |
Metropolitan Opera Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Mimì Irina Lungu, Soprano: Musetta Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Rodolfo Alexei Markov, Baritone: Marcello |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Saturday 18-Jan-14 08:30pm Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Mimì Irina Lungu, Soprano: Musetta Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Rodolfo Alexei Markov, Baritone: Marcello | ||
| Wednesday 22-Jan-14 07:30pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY La Bohème |
Metropolitan Opera Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Mimì Irina Lungu, Soprano: Musetta Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Rodolfo Alexei Markov, Baritone: Marcello |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Wednesday 22-Jan-14 07:30pm Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Mimì Irina Lungu, Soprano: Musetta Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Rodolfo Alexei Markov, Baritone: Marcello | ||
| Saturday 25-Jan-14 08:00pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY La Bohème |
Metropolitan Opera Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Mimì Irina Lungu, Soprano: Musetta Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Rodolfo Alexei Markov, Baritone: Marcello |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Saturday 25-Jan-14 08:00pm Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Mimì Irina Lungu, Soprano: Musetta Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Rodolfo Alexei Markov, Baritone: Marcello | ||
| Thursday 30-Jan-14 08:00pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY La Bohème |
Metropolitan Opera Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Mimì Irina Lungu, Soprano: Musetta Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Rodolfo Alexei Markov, Baritone: Marcello |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Thursday 30-Jan-14 08:00pm Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Maija Kovalevska, Soprano: Mimì Irina Lungu, Soprano: Musetta Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Rodolfo Alexei Markov, Baritone: Marcello | ||
| Saturday 8-Feb-14 06:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Tales of Hoffmann |
Bavarian State Opera Constantin Trinks, Conductor Richard Jones, Director Giles Cadle, Set Designer Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Antonia Rachele Gilmore, Soprano: Olympia Brenda Rae, Soprano: Giulietta Tara Erraught, Mezzo-soprano: Nicklausse/Mezzo-soprano: The Muse Kevin Conners, Tenor: Andreas/Cochenille/Pitichinaccio /Frantz/Tenor: Cochenille Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Hoffmann Dean Power, Tenor: Nathaniel Christian Rieger, Bass: Schlemil Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Spalanzani Laurent Naouri, Baritone: Lindorff/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto |
 Wilfried Hösl.jpg "Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl") | ||
| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 8-Feb-14 06:00pm The protagonist of the opera is E.T.A. Hoffmann, the prototype of the German romantic period artist: his life is an artwork, his lower depths, his doubts, his grand inspirations – his crises. And all of these are connected with: women. Hoffmann in the opera tells of three types of woman in his tales, the “lifeless doll with a heart of ice”, the “virtuoso”, ill and destined to die, as well as the “shameless courtesan”.
Jacques Offenbach’s opera fantastique, premièred in 1881, is based on the play of the same name by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, who drew from the biographies and works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Adelbert von Chamisso and Alfred de Musset to create their own artist’s drama. It is not a literature opera – the protagonists from different romantic tales are connected to one another by a fictitious Hoffmann – but rather more of a message to the writer, telling him to make art his matter of the heart, or perhaps even open up his heart with brutal frankness. Based on the edition by Michael Kaye and Jean-Christophe Keck, © Schott Music International In French with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Constantin Trinks, Conductor Richard Jones, Director Giles Cadle, Set Designer Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Antonia Rachele Gilmore, Soprano: Olympia Brenda Rae, Soprano: Giulietta Tara Erraught, Mezzo-soprano: Nicklausse/Mezzo-soprano: The Muse Kevin Conners, Tenor: Andreas/Cochenille/Pitichinaccio /Frantz/Tenor: Cochenille Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Hoffmann Dean Power, Tenor: Nathaniel Christian Rieger, Bass: Schlemil Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Spalanzani Laurent Naouri, Baritone: Lindorff/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto | ||
| Tuesday 11-Feb-14 06:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Tales of Hoffmann |
Bavarian State Opera Constantin Trinks, Conductor Richard Jones, Director Giles Cadle, Set Designer Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Antonia Rachele Gilmore, Soprano: Olympia Brenda Rae, Soprano: Giulietta Tara Erraught, Mezzo-soprano: Nicklausse/Mezzo-soprano: The Muse Kevin Conners, Tenor: Andreas/Cochenille/Pitichinaccio /Frantz/Tenor: Cochenille Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Hoffmann Dean Power, Tenor: Nathaniel Christian Rieger, Bass: Schlemil Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Spalanzani Laurent Naouri, Baritone: Lindorff/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Tuesday 11-Feb-14 06:00pm The protagonist of the opera is E.T.A. Hoffmann, the prototype of the German romantic period artist: his life is an artwork, his lower depths, his doubts, his grand inspirations – his crises. And all of these are connected with: women. Hoffmann in the opera tells of three types of woman in his tales, the “lifeless doll with a heart of ice”, the “virtuoso”, ill and destined to die, as well as the “shameless courtesan”.
Jacques Offenbach’s opera fantastique, premièred in 1881, is based on the play of the same name by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, who drew from the biographies and works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Adelbert von Chamisso and Alfred de Musset to create their own artist’s drama. It is not a literature opera – the protagonists from different romantic tales are connected to one another by a fictitious Hoffmann – but rather more of a message to the writer, telling him to make art his matter of the heart, or perhaps even open up his heart with brutal frankness. Based on the edition by Michael Kaye and Jean-Christophe Keck, © Schott Music International In French with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Constantin Trinks, Conductor Richard Jones, Director Giles Cadle, Set Designer Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Antonia Rachele Gilmore, Soprano: Olympia Brenda Rae, Soprano: Giulietta Tara Erraught, Mezzo-soprano: Nicklausse/Mezzo-soprano: The Muse Kevin Conners, Tenor: Andreas/Cochenille/Pitichinaccio /Frantz/Tenor: Cochenille Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Hoffmann Dean Power, Tenor: Nathaniel Christian Rieger, Bass: Schlemil Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Spalanzani Laurent Naouri, Baritone: Lindorff/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto | ||
| Friday 14-Feb-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Tales of Hoffmann |
Bavarian State Opera Constantin Trinks, Conductor Richard Jones, Director Giles Cadle, Set Designer Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Antonia Rachele Gilmore, Soprano: Olympia Brenda Rae, Soprano: Giulietta Tara Erraught, Mezzo-soprano: Nicklausse/Mezzo-soprano: The Muse Kevin Conners, Tenor: Andreas/Cochenille/Pitichinaccio /Frantz/Tenor: Cochenille Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Hoffmann Dean Power, Tenor: Nathaniel Christian Rieger, Bass: Schlemil Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Spalanzani Laurent Naouri, Baritone: Lindorff/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 14-Feb-14 07:00pm The protagonist of the opera is E.T.A. Hoffmann, the prototype of the German romantic period artist: his life is an artwork, his lower depths, his doubts, his grand inspirations – his crises. And all of these are connected with: women. Hoffmann in the opera tells of three types of woman in his tales, the “lifeless doll with a heart of ice”, the “virtuoso”, ill and destined to die, as well as the “shameless courtesan”.
Jacques Offenbach’s opera fantastique, premièred in 1881, is based on the play of the same name by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, who drew from the biographies and works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Adelbert von Chamisso and Alfred de Musset to create their own artist’s drama. It is not a literature opera – the protagonists from different romantic tales are connected to one another by a fictitious Hoffmann – but rather more of a message to the writer, telling him to make art his matter of the heart, or perhaps even open up his heart with brutal frankness. Based on the edition by Michael Kaye and Jean-Christophe Keck, © Schott Music International In French with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Constantin Trinks, Conductor Richard Jones, Director Giles Cadle, Set Designer Eri Nakamura, Soprano: Antonia Rachele Gilmore, Soprano: Olympia Brenda Rae, Soprano: Giulietta Tara Erraught, Mezzo-soprano: Nicklausse/Mezzo-soprano: The Muse Kevin Conners, Tenor: Andreas/Cochenille/Pitichinaccio /Frantz/Tenor: Cochenille Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Hoffmann Dean Power, Tenor: Nathaniel Christian Rieger, Bass: Schlemil Ulrich Ress, Tenor: Spalanzani Laurent Naouri, Baritone: Lindorff/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto | ||
| Friday 4-Apr-14 07:00pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Faust |
Royal Opera Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Friday 4-Apr-14 07:00pm Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel | ||
| Monday 7-Apr-14 07:00pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Faust |
Royal Opera Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Monday 7-Apr-14 07:00pm Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel | ||
| Friday 11-Apr-14 07:00pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Faust |
Royal Opera Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Friday 11-Apr-14 07:00pm Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel | ||
| Monday 14-Apr-14 07:00pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Faust |
Royal Opera Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Monday 14-Apr-14 07:00pm Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel | ||
| Thursday 17-Apr-14 07:00pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Faust |
Royal Opera Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Thursday 17-Apr-14 07:00pm Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel | ||
| Tuesday 22-Apr-14 07:00pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Faust |
Royal Opera Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Tuesday 22-Apr-14 07:00pm Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel | ||
| Friday 25-Apr-14 07:00pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Faust |
Royal Opera Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Friday 25-Apr-14 07:00pm Maurizio Benini, Conductor David McVicar, Director Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Faust Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Marguerite Bryn Terfel, Bass: Méphistophélès Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Valentin Renata Pokupic, Mezzo-soprano: Siébel | ||
| Saturday 3-May-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rigoletto |
Bavarian State Opera Marco Armiliato, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Márton Ágh, Set Designer Erin Morley, Soprano: Gilda Oksana Volkova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Franco Vassallo, Baritone: Rigoletto Rafal Siwek, Bass: Sparafucile/Bass: Monterone |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 3-May-14 07:00pm The first performance of the first opera in Verdi's legendary "trilogia popolare" at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice was preceded by a tricky battle with the censor. After all, the play by Victor Hugo on which it was based, about the cynical hedonism of an aristocrat, had been a hot potato throughout Europe since 1832, when it was banned immediately after its first performance in Paris. Verdi was interested less in criticism of the ruling classes and more in the tragedy of the court jester whose existence is devastated. The deformed entertainer in a world of men who consume women pulls out all the stops in his sarcasm and yet believes that he will remain unharmed by his public actions if he merely separates them cleanly from his private happiness. But when his daughter, imprisoned in a remote location for her own protection, follows her own longing, she becomes the victim of his double existence. A lonely, pitiable clown? "An amoral petty bourgeois man", thinks Arpad Schilling, "who dreams of innocence. A husband mourning for his wife and filled with a thirst for revenge. A great actor to whom success is more important than his own daughter. The fool of a noble lord who has been cheated by his own happiness. Verdi can do what Shakespeare does: He can tell a story in such a way as to make us shudder."
In Italian with German surtitles New production Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Marco Armiliato, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Márton Ágh, Set Designer Erin Morley, Soprano: Gilda Oksana Volkova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Franco Vassallo, Baritone: Rigoletto Rafal Siwek, Bass: Sparafucile/Bass: Monterone | ||
| Tuesday 6-May-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rigoletto |
Bavarian State Opera Marco Armiliato, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Márton Ágh, Set Designer Erin Morley, Soprano: Gilda Oksana Volkova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Franco Vassallo, Baritone: Rigoletto Rafal Siwek, Bass: Sparafucile/Bass: Monterone |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Tuesday 6-May-14 07:00pm The first performance of the first opera in Verdi's legendary "trilogia popolare" at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice was preceded by a tricky battle with the censor. After all, the play by Victor Hugo on which it was based, about the cynical hedonism of an aristocrat, had been a hot potato throughout Europe since 1832, when it was banned immediately after its first performance in Paris. Verdi was interested less in criticism of the ruling classes and more in the tragedy of the court jester whose existence is devastated. The deformed entertainer in a world of men who consume women pulls out all the stops in his sarcasm and yet believes that he will remain unharmed by his public actions if he merely separates them cleanly from his private happiness. But when his daughter, imprisoned in a remote location for her own protection, follows her own longing, she becomes the victim of his double existence. A lonely, pitiable clown? "An amoral petty bourgeois man", thinks Arpad Schilling, "who dreams of innocence. A husband mourning for his wife and filled with a thirst for revenge. A great actor to whom success is more important than his own daughter. The fool of a noble lord who has been cheated by his own happiness. Verdi can do what Shakespeare does: He can tell a story in such a way as to make us shudder."
In Italian with German surtitles New production Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Marco Armiliato, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Márton Ágh, Set Designer Erin Morley, Soprano: Gilda Oksana Volkova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Franco Vassallo, Baritone: Rigoletto Rafal Siwek, Bass: Sparafucile/Bass: Monterone | ||
| Friday 9-May-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Rigoletto |
Bavarian State Opera Marco Armiliato, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Márton Ágh, Set Designer Erin Morley, Soprano: Gilda Oksana Volkova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Franco Vassallo, Baritone: Rigoletto Rafal Siwek, Bass: Sparafucile/Bass: Monterone |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 9-May-14 07:00pm The first performance of the first opera in Verdi's legendary "trilogia popolare" at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice was preceded by a tricky battle with the censor. After all, the play by Victor Hugo on which it was based, about the cynical hedonism of an aristocrat, had been a hot potato throughout Europe since 1832, when it was banned immediately after its first performance in Paris. Verdi was interested less in criticism of the ruling classes and more in the tragedy of the court jester whose existence is devastated. The deformed entertainer in a world of men who consume women pulls out all the stops in his sarcasm and yet believes that he will remain unharmed by his public actions if he merely separates them cleanly from his private happiness. But when his daughter, imprisoned in a remote location for her own protection, follows her own longing, she becomes the victim of his double existence. A lonely, pitiable clown? "An amoral petty bourgeois man", thinks Arpad Schilling, "who dreams of innocence. A husband mourning for his wife and filled with a thirst for revenge. A great actor to whom success is more important than his own daughter. The fool of a noble lord who has been cheated by his own happiness. Verdi can do what Shakespeare does: He can tell a story in such a way as to make us shudder."
In Italian with German surtitles New production Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Marco Armiliato, Conductor Árpád Schilling, Director Márton Ágh, Set Designer Erin Morley, Soprano: Gilda Oksana Volkova, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Joseph Calleja, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Franco Vassallo, Baritone: Rigoletto Rafal Siwek, Bass: Sparafucile/Bass: Monterone | ||
| Thursday 12-Jun-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Madama Butterfly |
Bavarian State Opera Daniele Rustioni, Conductor Wolf Busse, Director Otto Stich, Set Designer Ana Maria Martinez, Soprano: Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Suzuki Alexander Kaimbacher, Tenor: Goro Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Pinkerton Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Prince Yamadori Markus Eiche, Baritone: Sharpless Goran Juric, Bass: The Bonze |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 12-Jun-14 07:00pm Daniele Rustioni, Conductor Wolf Busse, Director Otto Stich, Set Designer Ana Maria Martinez, Soprano: Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Suzuki Alexander Kaimbacher, Tenor: Goro Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Pinkerton Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Prince Yamadori Markus Eiche, Baritone: Sharpless Goran Juric, Bass: The Bonze | ||
| Saturday 14-Jun-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Madama Butterfly |
Bavarian State Opera Daniele Rustioni, Conductor Wolf Busse, Director Otto Stich, Set Designer Ana Maria Martinez, Soprano: Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Suzuki Alexander Kaimbacher, Tenor: Goro Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Pinkerton Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Prince Yamadori Markus Eiche, Baritone: Sharpless Goran Juric, Bass: The Bonze |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 14-Jun-14 07:00pm Daniele Rustioni, Conductor Wolf Busse, Director Otto Stich, Set Designer Ana Maria Martinez, Soprano: Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Suzuki Alexander Kaimbacher, Tenor: Goro Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Pinkerton Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Prince Yamadori Markus Eiche, Baritone: Sharpless Goran Juric, Bass: The Bonze | ||
| Thursday 19-Jun-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Madama Butterfly |
Bavarian State Opera Daniele Rustioni, Conductor Wolf Busse, Director Otto Stich, Set Designer Ana Maria Martinez, Soprano: Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Suzuki Alexander Kaimbacher, Tenor: Goro Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Pinkerton Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Prince Yamadori Markus Eiche, Baritone: Sharpless Goran Juric, Bass: The Bonze |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 19-Jun-14 07:00pm Daniele Rustioni, Conductor Wolf Busse, Director Otto Stich, Set Designer Ana Maria Martinez, Soprano: Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Suzuki Alexander Kaimbacher, Tenor: Goro Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Pinkerton Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Prince Yamadori Markus Eiche, Baritone: Sharpless Goran Juric, Bass: The Bonze | ||
| Friday 27-Jun-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Macbeth |
Bavarian State Opera Paolo Carignani, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Lady Macbeth Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Macduff Dean Power, Tenor: Malcolm Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Macbeth Ildar Abdrazakov, Bass: Banquo |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 27-Jun-14 07:00pm In honeyed tones, Lord and Lady Macbeth reveal their passionate and bizarre emotions to us. But behind this beauty there lurks an abyss, which Verdi unveils with one of the cruelest dramas in the history of world literature. In their struggle to seize power and retain it once it has been usurped, Macbeth and his lady commit one murder after another. The unwavering nature of their desire imbues their love with a radicality that would have been unthinkable on the operatic stage before this work. “The subject matter of this opera is neither political nor religious: it is fantastic,” wrote Verdi and brought Shakespeare’s play closer to a more “romantic” reading. In actual fact, the witches, ghosts and apparitions, the eerie elements, which dominate the musical and dramatic flow, in short the whole world of this opera can be regarded as an outward image of its protagonists’ inner state.
In Italian with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Paolo Carignani, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Lady Macbeth Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Macduff Dean Power, Tenor: Malcolm Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Macbeth Ildar Abdrazakov, Bass: Banquo | ||
| Tuesday 1-Jul-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Macbeth |
Bavarian State Opera Paolo Carignani, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Lady Macbeth Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Macduff Dean Power, Tenor: Malcolm Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Macbeth Ildar Abdrazakov, Bass: Banquo |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Tuesday 1-Jul-14 07:00pm In honeyed tones, Lord and Lady Macbeth reveal their passionate and bizarre emotions to us. But behind this beauty there lurks an abyss, which Verdi unveils with one of the cruelest dramas in the history of world literature. In their struggle to seize power and retain it once it has been usurped, Macbeth and his lady commit one murder after another. The unwavering nature of their desire imbues their love with a radicality that would have been unthinkable on the operatic stage before this work. “The subject matter of this opera is neither political nor religious: it is fantastic,” wrote Verdi and brought Shakespeare’s play closer to a more “romantic” reading. In actual fact, the witches, ghosts and apparitions, the eerie elements, which dominate the musical and dramatic flow, in short the whole world of this opera can be regarded as an outward image of its protagonists’ inner state.
In Italian with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Paolo Carignani, Conductor Martin Kusej, Director Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer Anna Netrebko, Soprano: Lady Macbeth Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Macduff Dean Power, Tenor: Malcolm Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Macbeth Ildar Abdrazakov, Bass: Banquo | ||
| Friday 4-Jul-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich La Traviata |
Bavarian State Opera Paolo Carignani, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Andreas Reinhardt, Set Designer Diana Damrau, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Silvia Hauer, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Marquis d'Obigny Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 4-Jul-14 07:00pm Men don't fall in love with courtesans! That's the opinion of Alfredo's father after his son moves in with the mortally ill Violetta Valéry. In her love for Alfredo Violetta even agrees. She leaves him, dies poor, ill – still dreaming of the happiness of true love. One of Verdi's most beloved operas continues to hold the mirror up to society and its hypocritical morality. An exemplary production! See it!
In Italian with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Paolo Carignani, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Andreas Reinhardt, Set Designer Diana Damrau, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Silvia Hauer, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Marquis d'Obigny Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville | ||
| Monday 7-Jul-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich La Traviata |
Bavarian State Opera Paolo Carignani, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Andreas Reinhardt, Set Designer Diana Damrau, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Silvia Hauer, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Marquis d'Obigny Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Monday 7-Jul-14 07:00pm Men don't fall in love with courtesans! That's the opinion of Alfredo's father after his son moves in with the mortally ill Violetta Valéry. In her love for Alfredo Violetta even agrees. She leaves him, dies poor, ill – still dreaming of the happiness of true love. One of Verdi's most beloved operas continues to hold the mirror up to society and its hypocritical morality. An exemplary production! See it!
In Italian with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Paolo Carignani, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Andreas Reinhardt, Set Designer Diana Damrau, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Silvia Hauer, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Marquis d'Obigny Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville | ||
| Thursday 10-Jul-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich La Traviata |
Bavarian State Opera Paolo Carignani, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Andreas Reinhardt, Set Designer Diana Damrau, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Silvia Hauer, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Marquis d'Obigny Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 10-Jul-14 07:00pm Men don't fall in love with courtesans! That's the opinion of Alfredo's father after his son moves in with the mortally ill Violetta Valéry. In her love for Alfredo Violetta even agrees. She leaves him, dies poor, ill – still dreaming of the happiness of true love. One of Verdi's most beloved operas continues to hold the mirror up to society and its hypocritical morality. An exemplary production! See it!
In Italian with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Paolo Carignani, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Andreas Reinhardt, Set Designer Diana Damrau, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Silvia Hauer, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Joseph Calleja, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Gaston Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Marquis d'Obigny Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Christian Rieger, Bass: Baron Douphol Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Dr Grenville | ||
