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Julies Massenet’s much loved opera Werther moves between ecstasy and resignation, dream and reality, sensual desire and the longing for death. Central to this feverish drama, based on Goethe‘s 1774 epistolary novel, are Werther and his impossible love for Charlotte, who promised her dying mother to marry dependable Albert. Charlotte repeatedly turns Werther down, although she shares his feelings. It ends with Werther taking his life on Christmas Eve.

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Werther

Oper Frankfurt

She lives in the here and now, one of the best-known heroines in operatic history, she makes sergeant Don José lose his mind, throwing his life into confusion. His attempts to make her tow the line fail because she can’t be tied down. They gradually drive each other into corners. Bizet’s music brings the differences in their perceptions of love and relationships into contrast again and again: Their downfall starts with light-hearted operetta music, but ends in tragedy. Barrie Kosky’s production quickly achieved cult status after it blasted onto the stage in  2015, and has lost none of its impact, taking the most performed opera in the world back to its roots - Opéra comique. The story’s interspersed and told using concise texts, steering us towards its tragic end. En route, romantic, amusing moments and wonderful dance routines share the stage. Kosky’s vision is fascinating, toying masterfully with usual Carmen and Spanish clichés.

Carmen

Handel turned one of the world’s most famous love stories into one of his greatest hits. An opera, which is a dramatic love story and political thriller. When Cesare and Cleopatra met in Alexandria in BC 48 both were caught up in power struggles – he for supremacy in Rome, she for the Egyptian throne. The dramatic events taking place around them turn, in matter of seconds, into situations resulting in murder and manslaughter.

Giulio Cesare in Egitto

A woman falls in love with a man young enough to be her son. She feels as if her body’s rejuvenating but, feeling on top of the world, is confronted with the news that she’s terminally ill.

Blossoming

Bockenheimer Depot

Finding no peace in the world hereafter, Guercœur wishes himself back to earth – to his great love Giselle and his people, who he led to freedom ...

Four deities, Vérité, Bonté, Beauté and Souffrance grant Guercœur’s wish to return to earth, but the world’s moved on: Giselle, who promised to be true to him forever, is having an affair with Guercœur’s pupil Heurtal, who’s kissed goodbye to the ideals of freedom and love and turned into a dictator. The starving populace is divided, resulting in violent riots which threaten the foundations of the fledgling democracy.

Guercœur

Lulu's uniqueness challenges the norm. Is she real, a mythological figure or a figment of men's imagination? Innocent victim or a destructive demon? She's none of these things yet all of them. This feral, vulnerable, creature's struggle with the world, during which she's appropriated and exploited before being murdered, began when she was dragged out of her element.

Mezzo-soprano

Bianca Andrew

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 6 - Apr 17, 2026

Werther · Oper Frankfurt

Past events

Mar 6 - Apr 17, 2026

Werther · Oper Frankfurt

Dec 13, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026

Carmen · Oper Frankfurt

Future and recently performed repertoire

Charlotte in Werther by Massenet

Oper Frankfurt

Sesto in Giulio Cesare in Egitto by Handel

Oper Frankfurt

Dresser / Schoolboy / Groom in Lulu by Berg

Oper Frankfurt

Bonté in Guercœur by Magnard

Oper Frankfurt

Carmen in Carmen by Bizet

Oper Frankfurt

Aurelia in Blühen by Žuraj

Oper Frankfurt

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