Singer

After meeting for the first time, the two are in love. Surprisingly, the Spanish King Philip II announces that he wants to marry Elisabeth himself. Elisabeth complies for reasons of state. The liberal Marquis Posa advises his desperate friend Don Carlo to become politically active for a better future for Flanders. However, this puts Don Carlo and Posa in dangerous opposition to the overpowering Grand Inquisitor.

Don Carlo

Vienna State Opera

Elektra is determined to avenge the murder of her father Agamemnon by her mother Klytämnestra – but will Klytämnestra destroy her first?

Strauss’s Elektra

Usher Hall

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.

Die Zauber­flöte

In the final part of the Nibelung tetralogy, Siegfried goes out into the world, gets caught up in Hagen's intrigues and is murdered by him. Dying, he remembers his love for Brünnhilde.

Götterdämmerung

With their incestuous, adulterous love, they violate the guest and marriage laws that Wotan's wife Fricka watches over. Siegmund is therefore supposed to die in a duel with Hunding, but Wotan's daughter Brünnhilde, a Valkyrie, defies her father's will and fights for Siegmund. Wotan is forced to kill Siegmund himself. Brünnhilde is punished by her father: he surrounds her with a wall of fire and sinks her into a deep sleep.

Die Walküre

He asks the marshal for a suitable candidate to deliver a silver rose to his very young bride Sophie - daughter of the newly ennobled, rich Lord of Faninal. The Marschallin suggests Octavian. She reflects melancholically on the transience of life. With a »light heart and light hands«, she wants to let Octavian go one day..

Der Rosenkavalier

He was condemned by Satan to sail the world's oceans until a woman frees him from this curse through her loyalty. One day, when Senta's father returns home from a long voyage with a mysterious man, Senta is the only one who recognizes the Flying Dutchman in the sinister foreign captain. At the cost of self-destruction, she decides to redeem him.

Der fliegende Holländer

Robert Jindra, principal guest conductor of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, will present Béla Bartók's one-act opera Bluebeard's Castle from 1911. German bass Günther Groissböck will play the role of Bluebeard, while Judith will be performed by Hungarian mezzo-soprano Szilvia Vörös.

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Bluebeard's Castle

Rudolfinum

The final day of The Ring is staged with The Twilight of the Gods . This completes Sir David McVicar's directorial vision, which returns the Ring to its mythical foundations and narrative linearity, rightfully placing it among the benchmarks of the Western canon. Ancient tragedy, Baroque theater, and Elizabethan drama converge in a reading that identifies two episodes of comedy— Rheingold and Siegfried —and two episodes of tragedy, Die Walküre and, above all, Götterdämmerung , which marks the final arrival at catastrophe.

Götterdämmerung (Der Ring des Nibelungen)

Teatro alla Scala

The Twilight of the Gods marks the final day of The Ring of the Nibelung , before the complete performance of two cycles of the Tetralogy . This completes Sir David McVicar's directorial vision, which returns The Ring to its mythical foundations and narrative linearity, rightfully placing it among the reference points of the Western canon. Ancient tragedy, Baroque theater, and Elizabethan drama converge in a reading that identifies two episodes of comedy— Rheingold and Siegfried —and two delves into tragedy, Die Walküre and, above all, Götterdämmerung , which marks the final arrival at catastrophe.

When Strauss and Hofmannsthal wrote «Der Rosenkavalier» – setting it in an imaginary Rococo Vienna and yet closely linked to the decadent fin de siècle – they created a profound social comedy. It is not without melancholy that the Marschallin lets her young lover Octavian go when he falls head over heels with Sophie, who hails from Faninal’s bourgeois household. As voluptuous as Strauss' score is, it contains tender moments of dream and melancholy. Director Lydia Steier stages Strauss’ opera according to an aesthetic concept by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein. Diana Damrau sings the Marschallin. 

Zurich Opera House

Meet one of opera’s most unforgettable characters, Katerina Ismailova, in the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s (BSO) concert performance of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. The BSO’s remarkable history with Shostakovich’s music dates back to the composer’s lifetime, and in recent years has included multiple Grammy Award–winning recordings and season highlights at Carnegie Hall. Of his “intimate relationship with [Shostakovich’s] music,” Music Director and Conductor Andris Nelsons says, “I feel like I know him, in a mystical way.” There’s no better way to hear this music than with the BSO at Carnegie Hall.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Carnegie Hall

At the now traditional recitals, you will experience internationally renowned singers not in the usual opera productions, but with specially compiled song and aria programs.

Recital Günther Groissböck

This important recital, which launches Richard Stokes’s new book, A Carl Loewe Song Companion, presents some of the composer’s greatest ballads, his wonderfully tender Frauenliebe, a group of his finest Goethe-Lieder, and several of his unaccountably neglected lyrical gems.

Richard Stokes author; Juliane Banse soprano; Lizzie Bett Estrada soprano; Aksel Rykkvin baritone; Günther Groissböck bass; Joseph Middleton piano

Wigmore Hall

The Paris Opera continues its exploration of Richard Wagner’s colossal Ring, directed by Calixto Bieito. After the final scene of The Rhinegold, in which the gods ascend to Walhalla, The Valkyrie, the second part of the cycle, focuses on humans in the form of twins Sieglinde and Siegmund.

Die Walküre (RING Festival)

Opéra Bastille

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the helm of Strauss’s most beloved score, following his acclaimed Met performances of the composer’s Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten, and Salome. After her “resplendent” (Observer) 2025 portrayal of Strauss’s Arabella, soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the elegant Marschallin, alongside brilliant mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo as her impetuous younger lover, Octavian. Soprano Ying Fang is the lovely heiress who steals his heart, and bass Günther Groissböck reprises his uproarious portrayal of the bumptious Baron Ochs in Robert Carsen’s turn-of-the-century setting.

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Günther Groissböck

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 25, 2026 - Jun 10, 2027

Der fliegende Holländer · Wiener Staatsoper

Jun 22, 2026 - May 19, 2027

Die Zauber­flöte · Wiener Staatsoper

4 - 16 Sep, 2026

Don Carlo · Wiener Staatsoper

Sep 22, 2026 - May 25, 2027

Recital Günther Groissböck · Wiener Staatsoper

Oct 10, 2026

Richard Stokes author; Juliane Banse soprano; Lizzie Bett Estrada soprano; Aksel Rykkvin baritone; Günther Groissböck bass; Joseph Middleton piano · Wigmore Hall

Past events

4 - 16 Sep, 2026

Don Carlo · Wiener Staatsoper

Aug 23, 2026

Strauss’s Elektra · Edinburgh International Festival

Future and recently performed repertoire

Bass in Bluebeard's Castle by Bartók

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Sarastro in The Magic Flute by Mozart

Wiener Staatsoper

Hagen in Götterdämmerung by Wagner

Teatro alla Scala

Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier by Strauss

The Metropolitan Opera

Baron Ochs at Lerchenau in Der Rosenkavalier by Strauss

Opernhaus Zürich

Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau in Der Rosenkavalier by Strauss

Wiener Staatsoper

Hunding in Die Walküre by Wagner

Wiener Staatsoper

Daland in Der fliegende Holländer by Wagner

Wiener Staatsoper

Philip II. in Don Carlos by Verdi

Wiener Staatsoper

Orest in Elektra by Strauss

Edinburgh International Festival

Hagen in Götterdämmerung (Der Ring des Nibelungen) by Wagner

Teatro alla Scala

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