Singer

The tragic drama of an oppressed person from society’s lower classes: Wozzeck, a hardworking but penniless soldier, is increasingly losing control of his life and his mind. He is seized by increasingly violent psychotic episodes, until in a delusion, he stabs and kills his girlfriend Marie.

Wozzeck

Bebelplatz

Under the face of the wandering moon, spirit and body quarrel in all their greatness and wretchedness until the blood of two bodies flows. Strauss remains close to Wilde's re-creation of the biblical material, which leads Salome from her mother's tool to autonomy. It is she who, in her unfulfilled desire for the liberatingly different, the body of the prophet Jochanaan, seeks revenge and demands his head - a price the male-dominated society around Herod is willing to pay for their dance. Now that Salome holds his severed head in her hands, she can kiss Jochanaan, possess him if not alive, then dead. As if under a burning glass, Strauss pours Oscar Wilde's demonic dramaturgy into sound like an eruption of the psyche, accompanying his protagonist from her failed escape from the decadence of her existence to her death.

EPSG:4326

Salome

Staatsoper Hamburg

A once-in-a-lifetime experience: conductor emeritus Riccardo Chailly leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Schönberg’s overwhelming Gurre-Lieder.

Riccardo Chailly conducts Gurre-Lieder

The Concertgebouw

The war is over, and tragedy takes its course: the mother and her lover murder the father upon his return. The daughter hides her brother, keeping him safe. – Every day, Elektra thinks of her murdered father, plotting blood-stained celebrations of victory and waiting for the moment when her brother, reared as an avenger, returns...

Tenor

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 14 - May 8, 2026

Elektra · Staatsoper Hamburg

Past events

Dec 14, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026

Wozzeck · Staatsoper Berlin

5 - 12 Oct, 2025

Salome · Staatsoper Hamburg

Future and recently performed repertoire

Herod in Salome by Strauss

Staatsoper Hamburg

Captain in Wozzeck by Berg

Staatsoper Berlin

Singer in Gurre-Lieder by Schönberg

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Aegisth in Elektra by Strauss

Staatsoper Hamburg

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