Director

The court of the Duke of Mantua is host to lavish parties. But in this society, having fun means humiliating and degrading others, and the most cynical joker of all is Rigoletto. He wants to protect his daughter Gilda from the corrupt world, so he locks her away. But the young woman goes her own way. Together with «Il trovatore» and «La traviata», «Rigoletto» cemented Verdi’s international fame as an opera composer. The opera is gripping theater in which all roles are ideally cast: from the king to the avenger, from the lover to the murderer.

Rigoletto

Zurich Opera House

"Man is an abyss, it makes you dizzy when you look down."
With incomparably stirring, moving music, Alban Berg focuses on the inner life of a person who is neither a hero, nor a privileged person, nor a chosen one: the penniless soldier Wozzeck could hardly be worse off. Derided, mistreated and abused by society, he barely has enough to feed Marie and their illegitimate child. The progressive deterioration of his physical and mental health leads to catastrophe.

Wozzeck

Staatstheater Darmstadt

Melodrama in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
After Victor Hugo’s play «Le Roi s’amuse»

EPSG:4326

Opernhaus Zürich

Opera by Beat Furrer (*1954) after the novel «Eisejuaz» by Sara Gallardo
Libretto by Thomas Stangl
Commissioned by the Opernhaus Zürich, World Premiere

Das grosse Feuer

A wealthy man wants to immortalise his life and success in an illustrated book, which confronts him with an uncomfortable reality.

Director

Tatjana Gürbaca

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026

Rigoletto · Opernhaus Zürich

Mar 1 - Apr 5, 2026

Written on Skin · Oper Frankfurt

Past events

Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026

Rigoletto · Opernhaus Zürich

May 17 - Jul 3, 2025

Wozzeck · Staatstheater Darmstadt

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