Opera buffa in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

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Le nozze di Figaro

Opernhaus Zürich

Power and domination, love, betrayal - and forgiveness? The themes of this opera are universal and more topical than ever, even if the work is set in ancient Rome and was written in 1791, at the end of the absolutist era. Will Emperor Tito, betrayed by his nearest and dearest, nevertheless show clemency? And if so, what does that mean for him? Director Jetske Mijnssen takes a psychological look at the characters and explores this question from today's perspective. Carried by Mozart's music, who once again demonstrates his complete mastery in this, his last opera.

La clemenza di Tito

Staatsoper Hamburg

Carmen charms everyone with her dancing and singing - only one of them turns her down: Don José. He, of all people, is supposed to arrest her after an argument in the factory. But José is also caught - he can't help it, lets her flee and is demoted and dismissed for it. Finally, the much-awaited appearance of the Toréador: he sings his furious march-like melody and flirts with Carmen. But she rejects him - she is waiting for Don José ... An opera full of musical highlights and dramatic love stories.

Carmen

A coming-of-age story, recurring conflicts with parents, and first love, Manon is a young girl full of hopes, dreams, and an irrepressible desire for life. Manon is to enter a convent and sees her desire for a free, self-determined life fading. However, she falls head over heels in love and flees to Paris, the city of love and opportunity.

Manon

The works of the 3rd Chamber Concerto are all about love and solidarity in word and sound: When Johannes Brahms set about composing the “Two Songs”, it was his close friendship with his long-time companion, the violinist Joseph Joachim. Brahms wanted to create a musical monument to his love and composed the “Spiritual Lullaby” based on a text by Emanuel Geibel for his wedding, but withdrew the composition and revised it. The composer then published both songs together with “Quenched Longing” based on a text by Friedrich Rückert to mark another happy event: the baptism of his godchild, Joseph Joachim’s son. In both compositions, one can hear the unbridled joy of life, born of love. Leoš Janáček's (late) love for Kamilla Stösslová, who was almost 40 years younger than him, was, however, under a completely different, much worse star. In his second string quartet, with the programmatic nickname "Intimate Letters", his feelings for the young woman are omnipresent. Just a year before his death, Janáček left behind the frivolous testimony of a great love: eruptive, provocative and passionate.

3rd Chamber Concert

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

What happens when, in times of war and destruction, even your own family becomes a battlefield and mistrust, desire and betrayal break out? The cruel, ingenious and at the same time megalomaniac King of Pontus, Mitridate, fights a hopeless war against the Romans, while his two sons are under pressure from their father and his fiancée Aspasia decides against her duty and in favor of her feelings and turns away from him. With Mitridate, the 14-year-old Mozart composed his first full-length opera seria according to all the rules of the time and at the same time a work in which his humanistic flair already shines through. In the arias, he gives the ensemble of singers ample opportunity to explore the depths of the human soul and display their vocal virtuosity. Preserving the essence of this historical operatic genre, but at the same time reinterpreting its form, the aim is to create something in which the orchestra is integrated both visually and in terms of content. In this way, the fate of the characters can be experienced directly through visible music-making.

Mitridate, re di Ponto

Sir John Falstaff is an anarchist who obeys only the reign of his own enjoyment, an egoist who feeds only his power-hunger and his own flesh, and who would prefer to raze the small-minded morals of his contemporaries like the walls of a fortress – by seducing two women at the same time. Needless to say, his plan is thwarted, but those trying to expose him also fail to emerge unruffled from the confusion they unleash around him – which only the audience can keep track of, barely. “Tutto nel mondo è burla,” but these jokes are only funny because falling into the abyss actually does pose quite a serious risk. Arrigo Boito, the librettist of “Otello”, distilled a sophisticated, ingenious libretto from Shakespeare’s original, driving Verdi to highly complex compositional heights.

Kady Evanyshyn

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 15, 2024 - Jan 2, 2025

Le nozze di Figaro · Opernhaus Zürich

Jan 28 - Feb 6, 2025

Manon · Staatsoper Hamburg

Feb 9, 2025

3rd Chamber Concert · Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Feb 23 - Jun 26, 2025

Mitridate, re di Ponto · Staatsoper Hamburg

3 - 10 Apr, 2025

Falstaff · Staatsoper Hamburg

Past events

Dec 15, 2024 - Jan 2, 2025

Le nozze di Figaro · Opernhaus Zürich

16 - 26 Oct, 2024

La clemenza di Tito · Staatsoper Hamburg

Future and recently performed repertoire

In the year in La clemenza di Tito by Mozart

Staatsoper Hamburg

And Page in Falstaff by Verdi

Staatsoper Hamburg

Singer in Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano by Brahms

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Ismene in Mitridate, re di Ponto by Mozart

Staatsoper Hamburg

Javotte in Manon by Massenet

Staatsoper Hamburg

Mercedes in Carmen by Bizet

Staatsoper Hamburg

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