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Vienna State Opera, Main Stage
1 Feb 2025, Sat
•
7 PM
The young Prince Tamino is commissioned by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina - with whom he falls in love at the sight of a portrait - from the hands of Sarastro.
Composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cast:
Franz Welser-Möst,
Georg Zeppenfeld,
.... + 4
Die Zauberflöte
Premiere of this production:
30 September 1791,
Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna
The opera begins with the overture, which Mozart composed last.
Act 1
Scene 1: A rough, rocky landscape
Tamino, a handsome prince lost in a distant land, is pursued by a serpent and asks the gods to save him (aria: "Zu Hilfe! Zu Hilfe!" segued into trio: "Stirb, Ungeheuer, durch uns're Macht!"). He faints, and three ladies, attendants of the Queen of the Night, appear an ... Read More
Opera
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Main Stage
1 Feb 2025, Sat
•
7 PM
The brilliant production signed by David McVicar.
Cast:
Nadine Sierra,
Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu,
.... + 4
La traviata
Premiere of this production:
06 March 1853,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Set in and around Paris in about 1850.
Act I
Violetta Valéry, a Parisian courtesan, greets the guests at her salon. Among them are Flora Bervoix, the Marchese D’Obigny, Baron Douphol and Gastone, who introduces Violetta to a new admirer of hers, Alfredo Germont. The young Germont, who has been admiring her from afar, joins her in a drinking song. An orchestra strikes up in an adjace ... Read More
Opera
Opera National de Paris, Opéra Bastille
2 Feb 2025, Sun
•
2:30 PM
Director Calixto Bieito places The Rhinegold in a context dominated by digital virtuality and questions the impact of technology and science on human beings.
Composer:
Richard Wagner
Cast:
Ludovic Tézier,
Brian Mulligan,
.... + 5
Das Rheingold
Premiere of this production:
22 September 1869,
National Theatre Munich
Scene 1
At the bottom of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens, Woglinde, Wellgunde, and Floßhilde, play together. Alberich, a Nibelung dwarf, appears from a deep chasm and tries to woo them. The maidens mock his advances and he grows angry – he chases them, but they elude, tease and humiliate him. A sudden ray of sunshine pierces the depths, to reveal the Rhine gold. The maidens sing a h ... Read More
Opera
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Main Stage
2 Feb 2025, Sun
•
5 PM
The brilliant production signed by David McVicar.
Cast:
Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu,
Giacomo Sagripanti,
.... + 4
La traviata
Premiere of this production:
06 March 1853,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Set in and around Paris in about 1850.
Act I
Violetta Valéry, a Parisian courtesan, greets the guests at her salon. Among them are Flora Bervoix, the Marchese D’Obigny, Baron Douphol and Gastone, who introduces Violetta to a new admirer of hers, Alfredo Germont. The young Germont, who has been admiring her from afar, joins her in a drinking song. An orchestra strikes up in an adjace ... Read More
Opera
Vienna State Opera, Main Stage
3 Feb 2025, Mon
•
7 PM
In Franco Zeffirelli's historical, visually stunning production of La bohème, four young artists share a life that is at times carefree and at other times beset by extreme hardship, wh...
Composer:
Giacomo Puccini
Cast:
Liparit Avetisyan,
Ailyn Pérez,
.... + 3
La Bohème
Premiere of this production:
01 February 1896,
Teatro Regio, Turin
Place: Paris
Time: Around 1830.
Act 1
In the four bohemians' garret (Christmas Eve)
Marcello is painting while Rodolfo gazes out of the window. They complain of the cold. In order to keep warm, they burn the manuscript of Rodolfo's drama. Colline, the philosopher, enters shivering and disgruntled at not having been able to pawn some books. Schaunard, the musician of the group, arrives w ... Read More
Opera
Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Main Stage
3 Feb 2025, Mon
•
7:15 PM
Love and duty collide in Verdi’s powerful and seductive opera.Love and duty collide in Verdi’s powerful and seductive opera. Verdi’s sharply relevant opera of love and war retur...
Composer:
Giuseppe Verdi
Cast:
Anna Pirozzi,
Ekaterina Semenchuk,
.... + 6
Aida
Premiere of this production:
24 December 1871,
Khedivial Opera House in Cairo
Backstory: The Egyptians have captured and enslaved Aida, an Ethiopian princess. An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for her and his loyalty to the King of Egypt. To complicate the story further, the King's daughter Amneris is in love with Radamès, although he does not return her feelings.
Act 1
Scene 1: A hall in the King's palace; ... Read More
Opera
Teatro Real, Main Auditorium
3 Feb 2025, Mon
•
7:30 PM
After almost 15 years, this opera that explores themes of unrequited love returns to the Teatro Real in a new production by Christof Loy commemorating the 225th anniversary of the birth of A...
Composer:
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Cast:
Bogdan Volkov,
Choir of the Teatro Real Madrid,
.... + 6
Eugene Onegin
Premiere of this production:
29 March 1879,
Maly Theatre, Moscow
Time: The 1820s
Place: St Petersburg and surrounding countryside
Act 1
Scene 1: The garden of the Larin country estate
Madame Larina and the nurse Filippyevna are sitting outside in the garden. They can hear Madame Larina's two daughters, Tatyana and her younger sister Olga, singing a love song. Madame Larina begins to reminisce about her own courtship and marriage. A group of peasants ent ... Read More
Opera
Royal Theatre of La Monnaie, Main Auditorium
4 Feb 2025, Tue
•
4 PM
Der Ring des nibelungen reaches its apotheosis.
Cast:
Alain Altinoglu,
Ingela Brimberg,
.... + 7
Götterdämmerung
Premiere of this production:
17 August 1876,
Bayreuth Festspielhaus
Prologue
The three Norns, daughters of Erda, gather beside Brünnhilde's rock, weaving the rope of Destiny. They sing of the past and the present, and of the future when Wotan will set fire to Valhalla to signal the end of the gods. Without warning, their rope breaks. Lamenting the loss of their wisdom, the Norns disappear.
As day breaks, Siegfried and Brünnhilde emerge from their c ... Read More
Opera
Vienna State Opera, Main Stage
4 Feb 2025, Tue
•
6:30 PM
The young Prince Tamino is commissioned by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina - with whom he falls in love at the sight of a portrait - from the hands of Sarastro.
Cast:
Franz Welser-Möst,
Georg Zeppenfeld,
.... + 4
Die Zauberflöte
Premiere of this production:
30 September 1791,
Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna
The opera begins with the overture, which Mozart composed last.
Act 1
Scene 1: A rough, rocky landscape
Tamino, a handsome prince lost in a distant land, is pursued by a serpent and asks the gods to save him (aria: "Zu Hilfe! Zu Hilfe!" segued into trio: "Stirb, Ungeheuer, durch uns're Macht!"). He faints, and three ladies, attendants of the Queen of the Night, appear an ... Read More
Opera
5 Feb 2025, Wed
•
6 PM
Led by preeminent conductor Christian Thielemann and stage director David McVicar, the Tetralogy returns to La Scala ten years after the memorable edition conducted by Daniel Barenboim and directed by...
Cast:
Christian Thielemann,
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra,
.... + 6
Die Walküre (Der Ring des Nibelungen)
Premiere of this production:
26 June 1870,
Königliches Hof- und National-Theater in Munich
Prior history
During the lengthy time that has passed since the gods entered Valhalla at the end of Das Rheingold, Fafner has used the Tarnhelm to assume the form of a dragon, and guards the gold and the ring in the depths of the forest. Wotan has visited Erda seeking wisdom, and by her has fathered a daughter, Brünnhilde; he has fathered eight other daughters, possibly also by Erda. These, ... Read More
Opera
Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Main Stage
5 Feb 2025, Wed
•
7:15 PM
Love and duty collide in Verdi’s powerful and seductive opera.Love and duty collide in Verdi’s powerful and seductive opera. Verdi’s sharply relevant opera of love and war retur...
Cast:
Anna Pirozzi,
Ekaterina Semenchuk,
.... + 6
Aida
Premiere of this production:
24 December 1871,
Khedivial Opera House in Cairo
Backstory: The Egyptians have captured and enslaved Aida, an Ethiopian princess. An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for her and his loyalty to the King of Egypt. To complicate the story further, the King's daughter Amneris is in love with Radamès, although he does not return her feelings.
Act 1
Scene 1: A hall in the King's palace; ... Read More
Opera
Opera National de Paris, Opéra Bastille
5 Feb 2025, Wed
•
7:30 PM
Director Calixto Bieito places The Rhinegold in a context dominated by digital virtuality and questions the impact of technology and science on human beings.
Cast:
Ludovic Tézier,
Brian Mulligan,
.... + 5
Das Rheingold
Premiere of this production:
22 September 1869,
National Theatre Munich
Scene 1
At the bottom of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens, Woglinde, Wellgunde, and Floßhilde, play together. Alberich, a Nibelung dwarf, appears from a deep chasm and tries to woo them. The maidens mock his advances and he grows angry – he chases them, but they elude, tease and humiliate him. A sudden ray of sunshine pierces the depths, to reveal the Rhine gold. The maidens sing a h ... Read More
Opera
Teatro Real, Main Auditorium
6 Feb 2025, Thu
•
7:30 PM
After almost 15 years, this opera that explores themes of unrequited love returns to the Teatro Real in a new production by Christof Loy commemorating the 225th anniversary of the birth of A...
Cast:
Bogdan Volkov,
Choir of the Teatro Real Madrid,
.... + 6
Eugene Onegin
Premiere of this production:
29 March 1879,
Maly Theatre, Moscow
Time: The 1820s
Place: St Petersburg and surrounding countryside
Act 1
Scene 1: The garden of the Larin country estate
Madame Larina and the nurse Filippyevna are sitting outside in the garden. They can hear Madame Larina's two daughters, Tatyana and her younger sister Olga, singing a love song. Madame Larina begins to reminisce about her own courtship and marriage. A group of peasants ent ... Read More
Opera
Vienna State Opera, Main Stage
7 Feb 2025, Fri
•
7 PM
The young Prince Tamino is commissioned by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina - with whom he falls in love at the sight of a portrait - from the hands of Sarastro.
Cast:
Franz Welser-Möst,
Georg Zeppenfeld,
.... + 4
Die Zauberflöte
Premiere of this production:
30 September 1791,
Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna
The opera begins with the overture, which Mozart composed last.
Act 1
Scene 1: A rough, rocky landscape
Tamino, a handsome prince lost in a distant land, is pursued by a serpent and asks the gods to save him (aria: "Zu Hilfe! Zu Hilfe!" segued into trio: "Stirb, Ungeheuer, durch uns're Macht!"). He faints, and three ladies, attendants of the Queen of the Night, appear an ... Read More
Opera
Teatro La Fenice, La Fenice Opera House
7 Feb 2025, Fri
•
7 PM
One of the most stimulating works of the mid-nineteenth century, Rigoletto was initially fought by the censorship of the time, which for aesthetic and political reasons had much to object to its conte...
Cast:
Luca Salsi,
Daniele Callegari,
.... + 6
Rigoletto
Premiere of this production:
11 March 1851,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Place: Mantua
Time: the sixteenth century
Act 1
Scene 1: Mantua. A magnificent hall in the ducal palace. Doors at the back open into other rooms, splendidly lit up. A crowd of lords and ladies in grand costumes are seen walking about in the rear rooms; page boys come and go. The festivities are at their height. Music is heard from offstage. The Duke and Borsa enter from a door in the back.
At a ... Read More
Opera
Royal Danish Theatre, The Opera House - Main Stage
7 Feb 2025, Fri
•
7:30 PM
An electrifying cinematic adaptation of Rossini's classic about a quick-witted barber.
Composer:
Gioachino Rossini
Cast:
Matteo Beltrami,
Morten Staugaard,
.... + 4
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Premiere of this production:
20 February 1816,
Teatro Argentina, Rome
Place: Seville, Spain
Time: 18th century
Act 1
The square in front of Bartolo's house
In a public square outside Bartolo's house a band of musicians and a poor student named Lindoro are serenading, to no avail, the window of Rosina ("Ecco, ridente in cielo"; "There, laughing in the sky"). Lindoro, who is really the young Count Almaviva in disguise, hopes to make the b ... Read More
Opera
Palau de la Música Catalana, Concert Hall
7 Feb 2025, Fri
•
8 PM
Two-hour staged version with a 15-minute intermission. Symphonic orchestra integrated into the show, soloist singers, choir, ballet, traditional and exotic costumes, lighting, and a unique technical a...
Cast:
Adolf Gassol,
Ballet NovAria,
.... + 2
Madama Butterfly
Premiere of this production:
17 February 1904,
La Scala, Milan
Act 1
1. A short orchestral prelude with a busy, fugal opening theme, followed by a second theme of more overtly Japanese character, leads straight into the opening scene.
2. E soffitto e pareti ("And ceiling and walls"). Pinkerton and Goro are inspecting a small house which sits on a hill and overlooks the bay. Goro has found the house for Pinkerton and his bride, and is showing him t ... Read More
Opera
Royal Theatre of La Monnaie, Main Auditorium
8 Feb 2025, Sat
•
3 PM
Der Ring des nibelungen reaches its apotheosis.
Cast:
Alain Altinoglu,
Ingela Brimberg,
.... + 7
Götterdämmerung
Premiere of this production:
17 August 1876,
Bayreuth Festspielhaus
Prologue
The three Norns, daughters of Erda, gather beside Brünnhilde's rock, weaving the rope of Destiny. They sing of the past and the present, and of the future when Wotan will set fire to Valhalla to signal the end of the gods. Without warning, their rope breaks. Lamenting the loss of their wisdom, the Norns disappear.
As day breaks, Siegfried and Brünnhilde emerge from their c ... Read More
Opera
Opera National de Paris, Opéra Bastille
8 Feb 2025, Sat
•
7:30 PM
Director Calixto Bieito places The Rhinegold in a context dominated by digital virtuality and questions the impact of technology and science on human beings.
Cast:
Ludovic Tézier,
Brian Mulligan,
.... + 5
Das Rheingold
Premiere of this production:
22 September 1869,
National Theatre Munich
Scene 1
At the bottom of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens, Woglinde, Wellgunde, and Floßhilde, play together. Alberich, a Nibelung dwarf, appears from a deep chasm and tries to woo them. The maidens mock his advances and he grows angry – he chases them, but they elude, tease and humiliate him. A sudden ray of sunshine pierces the depths, to reveal the Rhine gold. The maidens sing a h ... Read More
Opera
9 Feb 2025, Sun
•
2:30 PM
Led by preeminent conductor Christian Thielemann and stage director David McVicar, the Tetralogy returns to La Scala ten years after the memorable edition conducted by Daniel Barenboim and directed by...
Cast:
Christian Thielemann,
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra,
.... + 6
Die Walküre (Der Ring des Nibelungen)
Premiere of this production:
26 June 1870,
Königliches Hof- und National-Theater in Munich
Prior history
During the lengthy time that has passed since the gods entered Valhalla at the end of Das Rheingold, Fafner has used the Tarnhelm to assume the form of a dragon, and guards the gold and the ring in the depths of the forest. Wotan has visited Erda seeking wisdom, and by her has fathered a daughter, Brünnhilde; he has fathered eight other daughters, possibly also by Erda. These, ... Read More
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