Singer

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

A ruler wracked with guilt, power-greedy conspirators, a fickle people and a monk, who writes history, in the true sense of the word: Boris Godunov is crowned Tsar, to the delight of the people, after Dimitri, legitimate heir to the throne, was murdered. The monk Pimen naming the ruler as the murderer in his chronicles of Russian history inspires the novice Grigori to pass himself off as Dimitri, who escaped with his life after all, and lay claim to the throne, backed by ambitious Marina, Polish Voyevoda's daughter. While Boris struggles with ghosts of the past, the Boyars wonder how to get rid of the new usurper, but the »fake Dimitri« ends up being crowned Tsar.

Boris Godunov

Driven into a corner, disowned by a community who blame him for an accident that killed his apprentice, after the first one died at sea, because they'd run out of water – Peter Grimes is a tragic figure, at the mercy of a narrow-minded rural community’s bigotry. Keith Warner, with a passion for psychodrama, draws a haunting portrait of a fishing community, portraying people thrown together in a claustrophobic world. Ellen Orford finds the jersey she knitted the second apprentice washed up on the beach. With the people baying for Grimes‘ blood, Balstrode, his only friend, tells him to take the boat out, and sink it.

Peter Grimes

A young woman takes a stand against the destruction of nature. But her determination founders because of the most human emotion of all: Love.

Melusine suffers under her narrow-minded husband and her mother’s inverted snobbery. The young woman finds an alternative world in a wild, overgrown park, in which Pythia, »Queen of the Willows«, rules. Pythia spurs Melusine into action when the park’s destined to make way for a castle. Given a fish tail, thereby making her irresistible, Melusine seduces lots of workmen, but can’t save the park. When the castle’s opened Melusine falls in love with the owner, the Graf von Lusignan. Pythia swears to avenge Melusine’s betrayal.

Melusine

Bockenheimer Depot

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.

Lulu

Imagine being immortal and witnessing four centuries of history firsthand—first as a man, then as a woman...

Soprano

Anna Nekhames

Events

Upcoming events

May 16 - Jun 6, 2026

Orlando · Komische Oper Berlin

Past events

Mar 6 - Apr 17, 2026

Werther · Oper Frankfurt

Dec 13, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026

Carmen · Oper Frankfurt

Future and recently performed repertoire

Sophie in Werther by Massenet

Oper Frankfurt

Two Nieces in Peter Grimes by Britten

Oper Frankfurt

Xenia in Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky

Oper Frankfurt

15 year old Girl in Lulu by Berg

Oper Frankfurt

Melusine in Melusine by Reimann

Oper Frankfurt

Frasquita in Carmen by Bizet

Oper Frankfurt

Sasha/Chastity in Orlando by Neuwirth

Komische Oper Berlin

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Soprano

Anna Nekhames

Events

Upcoming events

May 16 - Jun 6, 2026

Or­lan­do · Komische Oper Berlin

Past events

Mar 6 - Apr 17, 2026

Werther · Oper Frankfurt

Dec 13, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026

Carmen · Oper Frankfurt

Future and recently performed repertoire

Sophie in Werther by Massenet

Oper Frankfurt

Two Nieces in Peter Grimes by Britten

Oper Frankfurt

Xenia in Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky

Oper Frankfurt

15 year old Girl in Lulu by Berg

Oper Frankfurt

Melusine in Melusine by Reimann

Oper Frankfurt

Frasquita in Carmen by Bizet

Oper Frankfurt

Sasha/Chastity in Or­lan­do by Neuwirth

Komische Oper Berlin

About

Anna Nekhames hasn't added a bio

Orlando · Komische Oper Berlin

Sasha/Chastity in Orlando by Neuwirth