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The emotions of ‘Va, pensiero’ as you have never experienced them before. Come and marvel at Nabucco, the choral drama par excellence, in a poetic and visionary production designed by Stefano Poda.

Nabucco

Arena di Verona

The world’s most loved and performed opera, Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece, will open the 103rd Arena di Verona Opera Festival in a new production which, for the first time in Arena history, will bring one of the French capital’s most iconic institutions to Verona: the Moulin Rouge.

La Traviata

We've long been asked to perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony on New Year's Day. And now: our first New Year's concert in the newly opened Beethoven Hall! What better time than today to sing Beethoven's message of peace and joy to the world? We look forward to outstanding soloists and our partner choir, the Bonn Philharmonic Choir, whose members will help us anchor the Beethoven Hall in Bonn's cultural heart.  And we're also looking forward to the winner of the Telekom Beethoven Competition, who will join us in playing the first notes of the new year in the hall for everyone to enjoy.

New Year's Concert

Beethoven Hall

Three angels look back to a period in the past when books were precious artefacts with texts written on skin. One of the angels acts out the role of an olden-day illustrator who has been commissioned by the rich and powerful Protector to create a beautifully illuminated manuscript setting out the Protector’s biography. In his patron’s home the angel encounters Agnès, the Protector’s younger wife, who is still a virgin on account of her husband’s self-imposed abstinence. Despite this, he is jealous and keeps a close eye on her – to no avail, because Agnès begins an affair with the angel in his incarnation as an artist. The Protector learns of their relationship and kills the illustrator. Then he serves his unwitting wife the heart of her lover as part of a meal.

Written on Skin

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Large pillars, a seemingly infinite space, the feeling of a connection between heaven and earth: Bonn Minster has been open again since late autumn 2021 after several years of renovation and amazes you when you enter the light-flooded room. It offers spiritual perspectives even before the first word has been spoken or the first note heard. We have already had the pleasure of making music in this special room several times: There was the Wandelkonzert, where the audience could move around the musicians. The concert as part of the Beethovenfest 2023, where the audience remained in their seats while the orchestra moved through the nave during the programme. And the church was home to two benefit concerts that our musicians organised on a private initiative together with the city deanery for earthquake victims in Turkey and for victims of the war in Ukraine. Now we are returning with music that seems to have been made for the cathedral basilica in terms of its dimensions, sound and spirituality: to mark the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth, we are performing his 9th Symphony – » dedicated to God « – and his magnificent Te Deum, which in a way complements the unfinished symphony, bringing it to a striking conclusion. In a time of isolation, of the celebration of the individual, Bruckner’s music, which in many ways points far ahead into the modern age, is a manifesto of the collective and of togetherness. For us at the start of the season, at a time when we hope that the end of the Beethovenhalle’s renovation is approaching, it is also an invocation of the community of space, performers and audience.

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Werle

Events

Upcoming events

Jun 12 - Sep 12, 2026

La Traviata · Fondazione Arena di Verona

Jun 26 - Sep 9, 2026

Nabucco · Fondazione Arena di Verona

Past events

Jun 26 - Sep 9, 2026

Nabucco · Fondazione Arena di Verona

Jun 12 - Sep 12, 2026

La Traviata · Fondazione Arena di Verona

Future and recently performed repertoire

Flora Bervoix in La traviata by Verdi

Fondazione Arena di Verona

Singer in Symphony No. 9 by Bruckner

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Singer in Te Deum by Bruckner

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Singer in Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Fenena in Nabucco by Verdi

Fondazione Arena di Verona

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