Choreographer

Jacques Offenbach composed more than 100 operas and operettas, most of them with unique wit and biting satire, original and inspired. At the end of his illustrious career in Paris, which stretched over five decades, he turned to his most ambitious operatic work Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), an opéra fantastique based on a play that premiered in 1881.

Les Contes d’Hoffmann

Bebelplatz

When Strauss and Hofmannsthal wrote «Der Rosenkavalier» – setting it in an imaginary Rococo Vienna and yet closely linked to the decadent fin de siècle – they created a profound social comedy. It is not without melancholy that the Marschallin lets her young lover Octavian go when he falls head over heels with Sophie, who hails from Faninal’s bourgeois household. As voluptuous as Strauss' score is, it contains tender moments of dream and melancholy. Director Lydia Steier stages Strauss’ opera according to an aesthetic concept by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein. Diana Damrau sings the Marschallin. 

Der Rosenkavalier

Zurich Opera House

Lydia Steier's production shows us three worlds: A dazzling vaudeville atmosphere in which Venus is at home - the first act. Then the cold, restrictive Wartburg world (Act 2) and an illusionless media landscape in Act 3. As a second level, Steier inserts a theatrical journey through time: It begins with the cult that does not separate audience from spectator, then the path leads to sensual baroque theater and ends up in the classic separate spectator-performer situation; finally, Steier leads us into a landscape in which isolation has taken hold and flashing screens draw attention to themselves. Until, in the final moments, she draws a line back to baroque theater.

Tannhäuser

Vienna State Opera

As a largely unknown young composer, the later musical legend Andrew Lloyd Webber, together with lyricist Tim Rice, wrote the musical in the early 1970s that would become one of his greatest successes ever and trigger a veritable "Jesusmania": Jesus Christ Superstar .

Jesus Christ Superstar

City Theatre, Bern

The outsider Faust loses the joy of life and wants to take his own life. Mephisto appears and promises him power, happiness and pleasure.

Choreographer

Tabatha McFadyen

Events

Upcoming events

May 31 - Jun 27, 2026

Jesus Christ Superstar · Bühnen Bern

May 31 - Jun 27, 2026

Jesus Christ Superstar · Bühnen Bern

14 - 29 Dec, 2026

La Damnation de Faust · Wiener Staatsoper

Past events

Nov 16, 2025 - Mar 22, 2026

Les Contes d’Hoffmann · Staatsoper Berlin

Sep 21 - Oct 26, 2025

Der Rosenkavalier · Opernhaus Zürich

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