Singer

"Blessings of the afflicted" – this is how Johannes Brahms himself described his "German Requiem," and truly: it is a work for the living, less a music of mourning than of consolation. With his Requiem, Brahms deliberately turns away completely from church conventions, allowing himself a very personal religious perspective: The selection of biblical passages, the use of German language, all of this underscores the composer's stated goal of placing the mourning, suffering human being at the center of his work, both universally and individually.

Blessed are those who mourn

Bochumer Symphoniker

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

Zurich Opera House

The program will be announced at a later date


EPSG:4326

Italienisches Liederbuch by Hugo Wolf

Opernhaus Zürich

Chamber Opera by Wolfgang Rihm (*1952)
Text by Michael Fröhling after Georg Büchner’s «Lenz»

Jakob Lenz

Dramma per musica in three acts by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)
Libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani



Agrippina

Be someone else for a night? It’s not just frustrated Rosalinde and her employee Adele, who would much rather have been an artist, who dream of it. Together with Gabriel von Eisenstein, who has just been sentenced to prison, and Dr. Falke, who is bent on revenge, they go to Prince Orlofsky's crazy ball. Here, of all places, all the masks drop. Austrian director Anna Bernreitner stages this most Viennese of all operettas in costumes by renowned fashion designer Arthur Arbesser. It’s an evening with champagne moods, missed opportunities, and the lightness inherent in darkness, musically directed by the Swiss conductor Lorenzo Viotti.

The Bat

Johannes-Passion

In order to free her husband Florestan, Leonore disguises herself as a male prison guard and sneaks into a prison. Beethoven’s only opera is infused with an unwavering belief in the power of hope. The powerful liberation music at the end anticipates the «Ode to Joy» from his Ninth Symphony. Andreas Homoki separates the plot from its bourgeois comic light opera context, focusing instead on the utopian idea of world brotherhood and the universal themes of humanity that Beethoven chose as his central focus. Klaus Florian Vogt, one of the most outstanding tenors of our time, will appear as Florestan.

Fidelio

The depths of love are the subject of almost all of Mozart's operas – but none as exclusively as in "Così fan tutte." Ferrando and Guglielmo are convinced that their fiancées, Dorabella and Fiordiligi, are faithful to them. The men enter into a bet with Don Alfonso, who intends to prove them wrong with an experiment. But what begins as a harmless game turns into a cruel open-heart experiment... Kirill Serebrennikov's production is radically contemporary; Roberto González-Monjas, chief conductor of the Musikkollegium Winterthur, guides the audience through Mozart's brilliant yet ambiguous score.

Baritone

Yannick Debus

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 7, 2025 - Jan 10, 2026

The Bat · Opernhaus Zürich

Mar 24, 2026

Johannes-Passion · Opernhaus Zürich

3 - 16 May, 2026

Fidelio · Opernhaus Zürich

3 - 12 Jul, 2026

That's what they all do · Opernhaus Zürich

Past events

Nov 8, 2025

Blessed are those who mourn · Bochumer Symphoniker

Sep 24 - Oct 10, 2025

Manon · Opernhaus Zürich

Future and recently performed repertoire

Lescaut in Manon by Massenet

Opernhaus Zürich

Singer in A German Requiem by Brahms

Bochumer Symphoniker

Don Fernando in Fidelio by Beethoven

Opernhaus Zürich

Dr. Falke in The Bat by Strauss

Opernhaus Zürich

Singer in St. John Passion BWV 245 by Bach

Opernhaus Zürich

William in That's what they all do by Mozart

Opernhaus Zürich

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