Singer

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.

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Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Oper Frankfurt

Don't miss this unique opportunity to experience classical music's answer to a pulsating rave party, when Tivoli's Concert Hall is transformed into Dante's Inferno for an evening. Fearsome musical forces are unleashed when an amplified Tivoli Copenhagen Phil, together with four outstanding vocal soloists – including our own world star, Stephen Milling – and a number of the country's leading chamber choirs, jointly throw themselves into Giuseppe Verdi's magnificent  Requiem . The score unites the violent and dramatic expression of opera with the solemnity of the Catholic funeral mass in a work that is strangely both terrifying, majestic and intimate.

Tivoli: Verdi's Requiem

Tivolis Koncertsal

Death has many faces. Appearing as comforter, seducer, sadist. It shines in the dark and hides in the light.

Aribert Reimann’s L’invisible turned three Maeterlinck plays into a poetic meditation on the power of death: L’intruse shows a mother, struggling to survive childbirth. While most of her relatives fail to grasp the seriousness of the situation, her blind grandfather’s the only one to register the arrival of an invisible stranger. Intérieur starts with a young woman’s suicide. Two men, expected to break the news to her family, wonder whether it wouldn’t be kinder to hide the bitter truth. La mort de Tintagiles harks back to a dismal fairy tale: an old Queen lures her grandson Tintagiles back to her kingdom, to murder him. He puts up a fight, helped by his sisters, but vanishes without trace in his grandmother’s mysterious castle.

L’invisible

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

A shrewd politician, a jilted bride disguised as a man, and three upper crust, eager to marry gentlemen make for all kinds of confusion in Handel’s tragicomedy. The libretto drew on texts by the Roman poet Silvio Stampiglia, who prefered writing silly stories and biting comedy to moralising plots and pathos. His work’s got nothing to do with Partenope, the last Siren Odysseus encountered on his Odyssey. In Handel’s opera she’s foundress and Queen of Naples, who’s being courted by three men. The first, shy Armindo, waits a long time before declaring his love for the Queen. The second, Emilio, arrives with his army, ordering the Queen to choose between marriage or war. Partenope beats him in battle, has him arrested, offering him friendship instead.

Partenope

Bockenheimer Depot

While Syracuse is arming for war against the Sarazans, the King’s daughter Amenaide is charged with high treason for writing a letter to Solamir, leader of the Sarazans, professing her love. Just before her execution Tancredi, a knight banished from Syracuse, and Amenaide’s secret lover, returns, incognito. The letter was intended for him. Although he saves her from being executed, he starts doubting her fidelity. War with the Sarazans looms closer, and Tancredi’s to lead his people into the decisive battle.

Mezzo-soprano

Cláudia Ribas

Events

Upcoming events

7 - 26 Jun, 2026

Tancredi · Oper Frankfurt

Past events

Oct 3 - Nov 13, 2025

Giulio Cesare in Egitto · Oper Frankfurt

Jun 5, 2025

Tivoli: Verdi's Requiem · Copenhagen Phil

Future and recently performed repertoire

Tancredi in Tancredi by Rossini

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Singer in Requiem by Verdi

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Cornelia in Giulio Cesare in Egitto by Handel

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Armindo in Partenope by Händel

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Shadow of a Woman in Guercœur by Magnard

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Servant in L’intruse by Reimann

Oper Frankfurt

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