Singer

Elektra

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi

Gala concert for Zubin Mehta's 90th birthday

Max-Joseph-Platz

After ten years, Teatro alla Scala presented a new production of Ring des Nibelungen in the fall of 2024 , conducted by Simone Young and Alexander Soddy, who join the ranks of great maestros such as Toscanini, De Sabata, Krauss, Furtwängler, Cluytens, Muti, and Barenboim. The direction is by David McVicar, one of the most authoritative names on the international stage, who has won acclaim at La Scala in a vast repertoire, from Cavalli to Berlioz, Cilea, and Verdi.

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Das Rheingold (Der Ring des Nibelungen)

Teatro alla Scala

The Velvet Revolution Concert resounds with spiritual strength and hope. In his Resurrection Symphony, Gustav Mahler traces a journey from the darkness of death towards faith in light and renewal. This monumental work, uniting emotion with philosophical depth, reflects the soul’s struggle for meaning and hope. The Czech Philharmonic and the Prague Philharmonic Choir will be conducted by the Finnish maestro Sakari Oramo, stepping in for Zubin Mehta.

Czech Philharmonic • Velvet Revolution Concert

Rudolfinum

Gustav Mahler described his ‘Song of the Earth’, which was not premiered until 1911 after his death, as the most personal work he ever wrote. Antonello Manacorda precedes the symphonic song cycle in his concert with the orchestral piece ‘Blossoming II’ by the multi-award-winning Toshio Hosokawa. With Okka von der Damerau and David Butt Philip.

Symphony concert as part of the Musikfest Berlin

Berliner Philharmonie

Klaus Mäkelä unites the Concertgebouworkest, eight vocal soloists and four choirs in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8. An impressive work by a huge cast.

Mäkelä leads Mahler’s Symphony No. 8

The Concertgebouw

For the first time, Gustavo Dudamel conducts the return of this remarkable production of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, directed by Peter Sellars with video by Bill Viola, one of America’s leading visual artists. When the Tristan Project was first performed in 2004, The New York Times hailed it as “a multimedia conception that promised to be so ingenious that listeners traveled long distances to catch it and talked about it for months.” Matching Wagner’s 19th-century desire to expand what opera could be with 21st-century innovation, Viola’s and Sellars’ staging explores the psychological, spiritual, and elemental subtext of the story. This rare opportunity to see the Tristan Project features a globally celebrated cast, headlined by Michael Weinius and Miina-Liisa Värelä.

Dudamel Leads the Tristan Project: Act III

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Dudamel Leads the Tristan Project: Act II

Dudamel Leads the Tristan Project: Act I

Sounds like those Richard Strauss unleashed in Elektra with a gigantic orchestra were unprecedented until the opera’s premiere in 1909. And the radicalism and expressive ferocity of Elektra have lost none of their power to this day. The archaic subject matter both terrifies and fascinates: Elektra, an infinitely lonely young woman, is kept alive solely by the thought of avenging her mother’s murder of her father, Agamemnon. When her father is avenged and her brother Orestes has killed their mother and her lover, Elektra dances an ecstatic dance, at the climax of which she collapses dead. This is a roller coaster of an opera. Ricarda Merbeth, one of the most important Wagner and Strauss interpreters of our time, takes on the title role, while the charismatic Okka von der Damerau makes her debut as Clytemnestra. The Slovak conductor Juraj Valčuha, for years one of the most influential guest conductors at Deutsche Oper Berlin, conducts the monumental work.

Mezzo-soprano

Okka von der Damerau

Events

Upcoming events

6 - 17 Nov, 2026

Elektra · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Past events

19 - 28 Jun, 2026

Elektra · Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

May 30, 2026

Gala concert for Zubin Mehta's 90th birthday · Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Das Lied von der Erde by Mahler

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Singer in Symphony No. 3 by Mahler

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Singer in Symphony No. 2 by Mahler

Czech Philharmonic

Singer in Symphony No. 8 by Mahler

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Klytämnestra in Elektra by Strauss

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Klytemnestra in Elektra by Strauss

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Fricka in Das Rheingold (Der Ring des Nibelungen) by Wagner

Teatro alla Scala

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