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Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini - Lauretta (Elsa Dreisig)

Three masterpieces – two centuries – one narrative. There is Schumann's song cycle "Frauenliebe und -leben ," in which the feelings of the nameless protagonist revolve around the needs of a man. There is Duke Bluebeard's Castle , in which two mysterious strangers are magically attracted to each other. And there is the bourgeois, liberal marriage construct of Oscar Wilde's Florentine Tragedy . These raise the question: Do people desire the same throughout all ages?

Women's Love and Death

Hamburg State Opera

La bohème

San Carlo Theatre

They are the most famous pair of lovers of all time: Romeo and Juliet. The Italian bel canto composer Vincenzo Bellini created a particularly beautiful operatic version of their tragic story, whose melodious and captivating work will be performed by the Hamburg Ensemble Resonanz, the WDR Radio Choir, and a top-class line-up of soloists on stage in the Great Hall.

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Bellini: The Capulets and the Montecchio / Richard Minasi

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

The New Year's Eve gala, under the direction of Chief Conductor Ivan Repušić, with its rich vocal sensibility from the world of opera, has become a tradition at the Munich Radio Orchestra. This year, soprano Elsa Dreisig and tenor Matteo Ivan Rašić will be joining the cast. Naturally, they'll also be performing arias by Mozart, who inspired the renowned French-Danish singer to pursue a professional career. Matteo Ivan Rašić, winner of the 2024 Otto Edelmann Singing Competition and member of the Gärtnerplatztheater ensemble, will complement the program with tenor highlights from opera and operetta!

New Year's Eve Gala

Munich Residence

Born in London, Nicholas Collon is a violist, pianist and organist by training, and studied as Organ Scholar at Clare College, Cambridge. As a conductor, he is recognized for his elegant conducting style, searching musical intellect and inspirational music-making. He is Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony, Founder and Principal Conductor of the Aurora Orchestra. From 2016-2021 he was Chief Conductor of the Residentie Orkest in Den Haag and was Principal Guest Conductor of Gürzenich-Orchester from 2017-2022.

Advent Concert of ZDF

Frauenkirche Dresden

Advance ticket sales are available through the ticket service of the Frauenkirche Dresden Foundation:

ZDF Advent Concert

Tarmo Peltokoski, Principal Guest Conductor of The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, has had a passion for Mozart since he first saw the »Magic Flute« at the age of eleven. With hand-picked soloists – led by Elsa Dreisig, Mauro Peter and Kathryn Lewek – the young Finnish conductor now promises a rousing, semi-staged performance of this timeless opera!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute

Mitridate, re di Ponto

House for Mozart

The young lyric soprano Elsa Dreisig has already established herself on the European music scene with both central opera roles and concert performances. She has received several talent awards and recognitions, and in addition to prestigious roles, she has released two albums, one in collaboration with the renowned American accompanist and chamber musician Jonathan Ware, who will also accompany Elsa Dreisig at this concert. The concert will also feature Bulgarian violinist Nikola Nikolov, who is married to Elsa Dreisig and has been associated with the Orchestre de Paris since 2008.

Elsa Dreisig, Jonathan Ware & Nikola Nikolov

Mogens Dahl Koncertsal

Selv den, som guderne puster på – Mozart f.eks. – kan blive overanstrenget. Og når man er ved at etablere sig som fri kunstner i Wien og skal giftes og etablere familie med sin elskede, sopranen Constanze Weber, kan selv et geni som Mozart føle sig presset. Alt dette forklarer han i et brev til sin far således, at han nok kan forstå, at Mozart ikke har tid til, som Leopold ellers har bedt ham om, at komponere et værk til en velhavende og indflydelsesrig person, der skulle til at adles, og som var en god ven af familien Mozart. Hvor travlt han end har haft, kan Mozart dog ikke sige nej til sin far, og han komponerer et af de værker, der er gået over i musikhistorien; hans symfoni nr. 35, kaldet Haffnersymfonien, efter den familie værket skulle skrives til. Mozart var selv overrasket over, hvor vellykket musikken var endt med at blive, da han senere genså værket. Han kunne knap huske det, men arbejdede videre på det, så det blev til endnu en symfoni. Og i sidste ende fik han sopranen: de blev gift, og hans sans for sopraner udmøntede sig også i musik. Til denne koncert får du Mozart for alle pengene, med en skøn ouverture, en perlerække af hans mest berømte arier for netop solosopran og til sidst den flotte 35. symfoni.

Bleuse & Mozart

Odense Concert Hall

A coming-of-age story, recurring conflicts with parents, and first love, Manon is a young girl full of hopes, dreams, and an irrepressible desire for life. Manon is to enter a convent and sees her desire for a free, self-determined life fading. However, she falls head over heels in love and flees to Paris, the city of love and opportunity.

Manon

Staatsoper Hamburg

Copenhagen Phil conducted by Michael Schønwandt

Copenhagen Phil - Schønwandt and Dreisig

Konservatoriets Koncertsal

Copenhagen Phil will be visited by one of Denmark's most sought-after conductors when Michael Schønwandt leads French masterpieces - and not least by the Danish/French star soprano Elsa Dreisig, who has her daily routine on the international opera scene and with the world's leading orchestras.

Schønwandt and Elsa Dreisig

The young rising soprano, Elsa Dreisig, is already an established name on the international opera scene – and with the world's leading orchestras. This evening she returns to the Copenhagen Phil and has the lead role in Richard Strauss's Vier letzte lieder .

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Figaro and Susanna want to marry, but their wedding day turns into chaos: Count Almaviva stalks Susanna, while Basilio schemes on his behalf.

Le nozze di Figaro

Vienna State Opera

Three men who make a bet. Two women who are the objects of this bet. Don Alfonso has thought up a perfidious game to test the faithfulness of these women: Fernando and Guglielmo are convinced that Fiordiligi and Dorabella would never betray them. They pretend to go off to war and return in disguise to seduce their respective beloved as a supposed stranger: If they succeed, they have lost the bet and Don Alfonso is triumphant. This is the setup for Mozart’s Così fan tutte. A contemporary operatic subject? It is primarily Mozart's music that secures this opera its place in the repertoire to this day, for it looks deep into the characters’ hearts without condemning them. When what began as a light-hearted game develops into a cruel experiment that ultimately pulls the rug out from under everyone involved, the music lays bare the characters’ emotions in all their complexity and contradiction; it plumbs the existential depths of love, which we all experience in the same way regardless of gender – today as in 1790, when Mozart's opera premiered. The Belgian directing collective FC Bergman, which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale and recently celebrated a resounding success at the Ruhrtriennale, is inclined towards visually powerful surrealism in its theatrical language and tells – for the first time in Berlin and in only its third opera production – Così fan tutte as a story about young people of today who are playfully searching for answers to the questions of life: What does love mean to us? What roles do we play in life? Who manipulates whom? Is reality truly always more sustainable than fantasy? Riccardo Minasi, one of the most interesting conductors in the field of historical performance practice, is working with the Deutsche Oper Berlin orchestra for the first time. A young ensemble of soloists led by Elsa Dreisig as Fiordiligi explores the psychological facets of this many-layered game of love.

Soprano

Elsa Dreisig

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 12 - May 22, 2026

Women's Love and Death · Staatsoper Hamburg

Sep 9, 2026 - Jun 14, 2027

Le nozze di Figaro · Wiener Staatsoper

Feb 28 - Mar 15, 2027

Così fan tutte · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Past events

Apr 12 - May 22, 2026

Women's Love and Death · Staatsoper Hamburg

8 - 14 Apr, 2026

La bohème · Teatro di San Carlo

Future and recently performed repertoire

Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte by Mozart

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Sifare in Mitridate, re di Ponto by Mozart

Salzburger Festspiele

Mimi in La bohème by Puccini

Teatro di San Carlo

Manon Lescaut in Manon by Massenet

Staatsoper Hamburg

Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart

Wiener Staatsoper

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