Singer

“How am I supposed to do that? I'm going mad!” On Fadinard’s wedding day, his horse eats the straw hat of a lady having a bit of fun with her lover in the bushes. But Anaide doesn’t dare return to her jealous husband Beaupertuis without her new Florentine hat: she simply has to get hold of a new one! An odyssey full of hijinks begins, taking Fadinard across the length and breadth of Paris ...

The Italian Straw Hat

Semperoper Dresden

The traditional Palm Sunday Concert was established in 1827 to gather money for the widows and orphans of the Royal Kapelle (today’s Staatskapelle). For decades, this was the only concert programme to feature choral symphonic music. Leipzig’s Gewandhaus Kapellmeister Felix Mendelssohn was also once a guest here, conducting his oratorio »St. Paul« on Palm Sunday in 1843. Five years later, in memory of Mendelssohn’s death a few months earlier, Carl Gottlieb Reißiger conducted the Dresden premiere of »Elijah«. The oratorio tells the story of the prophet in a series of dramatic scenes depicting a life of destiny, doubt, faith and consolation.

Symphony Concert N° 8

Semper Opera Dresden

In the midst of the French Revolution, a group of nuns fight for their self-determination, their faith and against the fear of death.

Dialogues des Carmélites

“If Falstaff got thinner, what would he be?” Sir John Falstaff loves food, wine and women – and urgently needs cash to pay off his debts. Despite his advanced age, he considers himself an irresistible heartthrob and writes two identical love letters to Mrs Alice Ford and Mrs Meg Page in order to get his hands on their husbands’ money. But the two women see through his plan and begin to play him at his own game ...

Falstaff

A shared flat in Paris’s bohemian world of artists and students: The lives of the poet Rodolfo and his friends are filled with talk of freedom, independence, art, as well as financial hardship. When Rodolfo falls in love with his neighbour Mimì, everything seems to have taken a turn for the better, but poverty and Mimì’s illness overshadow the relationship. The young couple become closely attached. Later they separate, only rediscovering their love when it is already too late. At the time of its premiere in 1896, Puccini’s best-known work broke new ground in Italian opera through its prosaic scenery and everyday subject matter. This staging by Christine Mielitz of Puccini’s fourth opera is one of the most popular productions at the Semperoper.

La bohème

Based on Voltaire’s satire „Candide ou l’optimisme“, Leonard Bernstein created a masterpiece of modern operetta about the madness of the world. In a witty and lively mixture of opera, musical and revue, he not only parodies traditional dance forms such as the gavotte, mazurka, polka and waltz, but also slyly sprinkles the score with the operatic quotations.

Candide

It is hard to believe that the people of Dresden once looked askance at the music of Gustav Mahler. And this despite the fact that Ernst von Schuch had very early programmed the Second Symphony: He conducted three movements in January 1897 and the entire work five years later. The critics were certainly unimpressed, sarcastically thanking von Schuch for not aping his colleague’s efforts at composing: »We have enough composers like Mahler but only very, very few conductors like von Schuch«. More than 120 years later, the picture is quite another: the »Resurrection Symphony«, which deals with the themes of life, death and redemption, is universally acclaimed as one of the most profound works of the late Romantic period.

9th Symphony Concert

The Viennese cycle built by Daniele Gatti closes with Brahms, a composer constantly revisited by the Italian conductor, who made him the hallmark of his first cycle when he took over the National in 2008. Time has passed, and this maturation still benefits frescoes such as the German Requiem , a sacred but not liturgical work, which Johannes Brahms described as a "human requiem." Two voices, including that of the exceptional reciter Michael Volle, join the troops.

Brahms, A German Requiem - Daniele Gatti

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Can the past be denied and memories erased? After a mass shooting at an international school, pupils, parents and teachers are left horrified and traumatised. The teenage perpetrator is committed to a psychiatric ward. Ten years later, Stela is celebrating her wedding to Tuomas, who she met in her home country of Romania, together with his parents and a priest. She is so happy that she doesn’t ask why there are so few guests. But the waitress hints that there is something Stela doesn’t know – that her groom has another brother.

Innocence

Concert at María Pita - OSG and OSG Choir - Roberto González-Monjas

Maria Pita Square

Vincenzo Bellini's opera »La sonnambula«, which premiered in Milan in 1831, is considered to be his most important work, alongside »Norma«, which was released just six months later. The ›semiseria‹, composed in an elegiac, soft style, shows the idyll of a remote Alpine village in which superstition and backwardness almost cost the young orphan Amina her happiness in life, because Amina sleepwalks. So she ends up in the room of a strange man at night, is accused of infidelity by her lover Elvino and left. Only Rodolfo, the apparent seducer and none other than the deceased count's son who has returned home, can use his knowledge to explain the phenomenon, confirm Amina's innocence and lead the story to its happy ending. Director Rolando Villazón stages Amina's story as an escape from the confines of her village to another

Soprano

Rosalia Cid

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 21, 2026

Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 2 · Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Past events

May 31 - Jun 29, 2026

The Italian Straw Hat · Semperoper Dresden

29 - 30 Mar, 2026

Symphony Concert N° 8 · Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

Future and recently performed repertoire

Musetta in La Bohème by Puccini

Semperoper Dresden

Paquette in Candide by Bernstein

Semperoper Dresden

Nannetta in Falstaff by Verdi

Semperoper Dresden

Singer in Elijah by Mendelssohn

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

Musetta in La bohème by Puccini

Semperoper Dresden

Singer in Symphony No. 2 by Mahler

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

Singer in A German Requiem by Brahms

Orchestre National de France

Lisa in La Sonnambula by Bellini

Semperoper Dresden

Singer in Symphony No. 2 by Mendelssohn

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Sister Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc

Semperoper Dresden

Elena in The Italian Straw Hat by Rota

Semperoper Dresden

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