Reality or magic? The familiar or the strange? Control or love? The sorceress Alcina goes quite far for love: on her island she uses her magical powers to seduce the chosen one of the hour, while those who are rejected are transformed into plants, animals or rocks and thus decorate the island. But then the fiancée of her current lover Ruggiero lands on the island to find the missing groom. And Alcina increasingly loses control, because for the first time she really loves, and her magical powers are visibly fading... With "Alcina", Georg Friedrich Handel created one of his most successful operas. The bewitchingly beautiful, moving baroque arias illuminate the entire spectrum of human emotions: hope, tenderness, anger, joy - and the insatiable longing for love.

Alcina

Staatstheater Darmstadt

Nabucco, king of the Babylonians, raids the Hebrews and destroys their temples. His daughter Fenena defects to the enemy camp. Her love for the slave Ismaele is a thorn in the side of her half-sister Abigaille. She is not only fighting against Fenena, but against the subjugated Jewish people.

But then Abigaille finds a document that reveals that she is the daughter of a slave and will therefore never be entitled to the crown. Only an intrigue and the mental decline of her power-obsessed father Nabucco can pave her way to the king's throne...

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Nabucco

Staatstheater Mainz

La traviata –directly translated as »the one who has lost her way«–is, of course, the Parisian courtesan Violetta Valéry. Already dying from an incurable lung disease, she falls in love with Alfredo Germont. Yet her feelings are in conflict with her way of life and all sense of reason; ultimately, her quest for freedom and happiness is defeated by the moral strictures of bourgeois society. When first performed in Venice in 1853, this story was considered scandalous: an opera about a courtesan who dies of tuberculosis and is also modelled on a real-life woman in Parisian society was an outrageous inno-vation for the time. Focusing on the complex relationship between Violetta, her lover Alfredo and his father Giorgio, Giuseppe Verdi created a captivating and fully-rounded character, expressed through music that shifts between lyrical bel canto passages and powerful musico-dramatic outbursts. Director Barbora Horáková Joly places »La traviata« in the dazzling world of 19th-century vaudeville.

Annemarie Bulla

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 28 - Apr 28, 2026

La traviata · Semperoper Dresden

Past events

Mar 22 - May 23, 2025

Alcina · Staatstheater Darmstadt

Apr 1 - Jun 19, 2023

Nabucco · Staatstheater Mainz

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