Like no other 18th-century composer, Christoph Gluck paved the way for the intellectual world of Romanticism and, consequently, for Richard Wagner's great mythological narratives. The connection between Gluck and Wagner is unique in the world of opera: Wagner revered Gluck and paid him homage with his new orchestration and German translation of "Iphigenia in Aulis." This arrangement forges a musical bridge between the operatic aesthetics of the 18th and 19th centuries and reveals Gluck as a crucial precursor to Wagner's Romantic music drama.

Iphigenia In Aulis

Friedrichsforum, Bayreuth

Macbeth has achieved much. As a military commander, he is respected. But witches prophesy greater things for him and awaken greed within him. With the murder of King Duncan, Macbeth seizes power. Spurred on by his power-hungry wife, he sets in motion a cruel spiral of violence and crime.

Macbeth

Theater Osnabrück

Men and women of flesh and blood take centre stage in Cavalleria rusticana as in Pagliacci. Reality becomes theatre and, when the masks come off, theatre becomes reality. In both of these short works, obsessive love and jealousy give rise to violent emotions and passionate musical outbursts. When they brought rural Italy to the opera stage, Pietro Mascagni and Ruggero Leoncavallo inaugurated verismo in music. Director Damiano Michieletto is reprising his 2018 production, which made a lasting impression with its powerful neo-realist transposition to an Italian village in the mid-twentieth century. For her debut at La Monnaie, conductor Alevtina Ioffe promises to bring out the emotional depth of these scores with their unparalleled dramatic force.

Theo Magongoma

Events

Upcoming events

May 8 - Aug 12, 2026

Iphigenia In Aulis · Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach

12 - 21 May, 2026

Macbeth · Theater Osnabrück

14 - 31 Mar, 2027

Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci · La Monnaie / De Munt

Past events

May 8 - Aug 12, 2026

Iphigenia In Aulis · Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach

Future and recently performed repertoire

Macbeth, Scottish general in Macbeth by Verdi

Theater Osnabrück

Tonio in Pagliacci by Leoncavallo

La Monnaie / De Munt

Calchas in Iphigénie en Aulide by Gluck

Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach

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