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A REDISCOVERY - NATIONAL EPIC OR FAIRYTALE OPERA ABOUT THE FIGHT AGAINST EVIL?

Who is good and who is evil in this fairytale opera - and why? The nucleus of Pushkin's setting of Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka is the abduction of the princess's daughter Lyudmila from Kiev, the center of both the Russian and Ukrainian founding myths. For Ruslan, the warrior promised to her, this marks the beginning of an adventurous journey through the magical realm of a powerful dwarf. The rescue operation escalates into a showdown between the men fighting for Lyudmila. But she herself increasingly becomes a distant vision of love - the longed-for prize for heroism. In 1842, in the midst of the awakening Russian national sentiment, Glinka conceived the idea of a culturally united tsarist empire, in which he merged Slavic, Finnish and Arabic melos with the bel canto fashion of his time.

Ruslan und Ljudmila

Hamburg State Opera

The Norn’s rope of destiny breaks, the world falls apart and the gods idly watch their own demise. People fight to claim power. Brünnhilde and Siegfried are drawn into these power struggles, essentially initiated by Hagen, the son of the ring’s first owner, Alberich. Siegfried dies: however, his death is the harbinger of a catastrophe from which hope for something new can arise.

Götterdäm­merung

Bebelplatz

Wotan wants to secure power through his descendants. The twins Siegmund and Sieglinde seem to be the perfect choice. One day, fate brings them together. However, for Wotan’s wife Fricka, the sibling’s love is a thorn in her side, and even Wotan himself feels emotionally torn. When his favourite daughter, the Valkyrie Brünnhilde, revolts against him, he puts her to sleep, casting a circle of fire around her that only a fearless person can walk through.

Die Walküre

Blood, sex, magic and redemption come together in an astonishing musical odyssey. This psychological drama about family duty and private desire, how we die and why we live, is staged at Glyndebourne for the first time.

Parsifal

Glyndebourne

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.

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Falstaff

Staatsoper Hamburg

Young Tatyana falls in love with Eugene Onegin, and confesses her love for him, against all convention. When he pretends that marriage is not for him, she weds Prince Gremin in haste. After many years, Tatyana and Onegin meet again, but their belated confession of mutual love cannot bring them back together.

Eugene Onegin

"Luisa Miller" is Giuseppe Verdi’s third setting of a play by Friedrich Schiller. “It is a great drama, full of passion and very effective in theatrical terms,” the composer wrote to the librettist Salvadore Cammarano about Kabale und Liebe. In order to conform to the expectations of the censors and audience, Verdi first had to reduce the play to a libretto suitable for opera, moving the focus from Schiller’s political tale to the family drama. In his opera, first performed in Naples in 1849, Verdi produced outstanding character studies of all his protagonists. In this work he laid the foundation for many “Verdi types” of later years, e.g. Iago, Giorgio Germont, Aida or Desdemona. Luisa Miller was first performed in Hamburg at the Hamburg State Opera in 1981 in a new production conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli and directed by Luciano Damiani, who also designed the sets and costumes at the time.

Luisa Miller

Musical theater on the current state of affairs: As avatars of themselves, the exceptional artists Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek send two "vampires" on a journey around the world and observe the decline of humanity. But what kind of world is this, one that can only be saved by a monster named Gorgonzilla? Tobias Kratzer stages this brand-new political grotesque as a contemporary Grand Guignol.

Monster’s Paradise

Olga Neuwirth is one of the outstanding composers of our time. Together with Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, she is writing a new piece of music theater. They send two «vampires» – really avatars of themselves – on a journey around the world. They observe the decline of humanity while a tyrannical king and a self-conjuring sea monster fight for power.

Monster's Paradise

Zurich Opera House

"Luisa Miller" is Giuseppe Verdi’s third setting of a play by Friedrich Schiller. “It is a great drama, full of passion and very effective in theatrical terms,” the composer wrote to the librettist Salvadore Cammarano about “Kabale und Liebe”...

Mezzo-soprano

Kristina Stanek

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 9 - Dec 19, 2025

Ruslan und Ljudmila · Staatsoper Hamburg

1 - 19 Feb, 2026

Monster’s Paradise · Staatsoper Hamburg

Mar 8 - Apr 12, 2026

Monster's Paradise · Opernhaus Zürich

May 24 - Jun 5, 2026

Luisa Miller · Staatsoper Hamburg

Past events

Nov 9 - Dec 19, 2025

Ruslan und Ljudmila · Staatsoper Hamburg

3 - 12 Oct, 2025

Götterdämmerung · Staatsoper Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

Mrs. Quickly in Falstaff by Verdi

Staatsoper Hamburg

Zweite Norn in Götterdämmerung by Wagner

Staatsoper Berlin

Roßweiße in Die Walküre by Wagner

Staatsoper Berlin

Kundry in Parsifal by Wagner

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Olga in Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky

Staatsoper Hamburg

Federica in Luisa Miller by Verdi

Staatsoper Hamburg

Naina in Ruslan and Ludmila by Glinka

Staatsoper Hamburg

Bampi in Monster’s Paradise by Neuwirth

Staatsoper Hamburg

Bampi in Monster's Paradise by Neuwirth

Opernhaus Zürich

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Mezzo-soprano

Kristina Stanek

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 9 - Dec 19, 2025

Ruslan und Ljudmila · Staatsoper Hamburg

1 - 19 Feb, 2026

Monster’s Paradise · Staatsoper Hamburg

Mar 8 - Apr 12, 2026

Monster's Paradise · Opernhaus Zürich

May 24 - Jun 5, 2026

Luisa Miller · Staatsoper Hamburg

Past events

Nov 9 - Dec 19, 2025

Ruslan und Ljudmila · Staatsoper Hamburg

3 - 12 Oct, 2025

Götterdäm­merung · Staatsoper Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

Mrs. Quickly in Falstaff by Verdi

Staatsoper Hamburg

Zweite Norn in Götterdämmerung by Wagner

Staatsoper Berlin

Roßweiße in Die Walküre by Wagner

Staatsoper Berlin

Kundry in Parsifal by Wagner

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Olga in Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky

Staatsoper Hamburg

Federica in Luisa Miller by Verdi

Staatsoper Hamburg

Naina in Ruslan and Ludmila by Glinka

Staatsoper Hamburg

Bampi in Monster’s Paradise by Neuwirth

Staatsoper Hamburg

Bampi in Monster's Paradise by Neuwirth

Opernhaus Zürich

About

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Götterdämmerung · Staatsoper Berlin