Actor

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

Manon wants a life of luxury. Des Grieux, a student, tries to escape his father’s influence, hoping for a freer life with Manon. The uncompromising nature of their wishes becomes the young man’s undoing. «Manon» made Jules Massenet one of France’s leading opera composers of the Belle Époque overnight. Lisette Oropesa is one of the outstanding lyric coloratura sopranos of her generation. French tenor Benjamin Bernheim’s international career began as a member of the International Opernstudio in Zurich.

Manon

Musikdrama in one act by Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
after Oscar Wilde’s play of the same name

EPSG:4326

Salome

Opernhaus Zürich

Romantic opera in three acts by Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Libretto by the composer

Lohengrin

Opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Libretto by Joseph Ferdinand Sonnleithner and Georg Friedrich Treitschke

Fidelio

Opera in two acts by Jonathan Dove (*1959) for children from age 7 and up and the eternally young
based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne, Libretto by Peter Lund
Commission of the Opernhaus Zürich

Actor

Tomislav Jukic

Events

Past events

Nov 2 - Dec 21, 2025

The strength of destiny · Opernhaus Zürich

Sep 24 - Oct 10, 2025

Manon · Opernhaus Zürich

Future and recently performed repertoire

Actor in Manon by Massenet

Opernhaus Zürich

Trebuchet Mast in The Strength of Destiny by Verdi

Opernhaus Zürich

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