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War, flight, hatred and revenge characterize the grand portrait that Giuseppe Verdi created in «La forza del destino». Amid this unpredictable interplay of forces, Leonora and Alvaro search for each other, fight for their love, experience persecution, find refuge in faith, and are crushed by inexorable fate. Director Valentina Carrascothe Catalan, who was a member of the Catalan theater collective La Fura dels Baus, uses Verdi’s monumental scenes as an opportunity to question the values of war and peace in the 21st century, creating a dystopian fantasy. Anna Netrebko returns to Zurich as Leonora. General Music Director Gianandrea Noseda is on the podium.

The strength of destiny

Zurich Opera House

Don Pasquale, an older, wealthy man with a desire for a young, modest wife, meets the young couple Ernesto and Norina in Donizetti's opera. The only thing missing for their great love happiness is the blessing of money. Malatesta, a doctor friend, develops a cunning plan so that in the end the perfect intrigue emerges and Don Pasquale becomes the plaything of the young people.

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Don Pasquale

Staatsoper Hamburg

La Traviata is set in the world of Parisian high society. This popular opera tells the story of the courtesan, Violetta Valéry: her loves and her sad fate. It is based on the dramatic adaptation of the romantic novel, "La Dame aux Camélias" by Alexandre Dumas fils, modeled by the author on the high-class mistress, Marie Duplessis. Giuseppe Verdi then took the story, making its heroine a contemporary woman, and writing an innovative opera in which he raised the role of the music itself to that of expressing the story's emotions. Starting with "Libiamo ne' lieti calici", which has become a well-known, staple tune of gala concerts, the work features numerous other famous songs, such as Violetta's most technically demanding aria, "Ah, fors'è lui-sempre libera", in the prelude foretelling tragedy, and Germont's "Di Provenza il mar, il suol".

Baritone

Roberto Frontali

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 2 - Dec 21, 2025

The strength of destiny · Opernhaus Zürich

2 - 12 Apr, 2026

La Traviata · Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Past events

Nov 2 - Dec 21, 2025

The strength of destiny · Opernhaus Zürich

8 - 14 Mar, 2025

Don Pasquale · Staatsoper Hamburg

Future and recently performed repertoire

Giorgio Germont in La traviata by Verdi

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Don Pasquale in Don Pasquale by Donizetti

Staatsoper Hamburg

Brother Melitone in The Strength of Destiny by Verdi

Opernhaus Zürich

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