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Although she is surrounded by many admirers, Arabella dreams only of the «right one». She finds him in Mandryka, the Croatian landowner. Opera history’s final idealized marriage of love was written on the precipice of disaster: The opera dates to a time of deep social insecurity. The operetta-like tone of Strauss’ «Lyrischer Komödie» is strangely fractured. When it premiered in Dresden in 1933, it was instrumentalized by the Nazis for propaganda purposes. 

Arabella

Zurich Opera House

Smetana's Bartered Bride depicts the state of emergency into which an entire Czech village is plunged during the fair and the seemingly hopeless struggle of a young woman for her seemingly betrayed and sold love. The utopian counter-world of a traveling circus holds up a mirror to the villagers' desires, their dependencies, fears and hopes.

Die verkaufte Braut (Prodaná Nevěsta)

Vienna State Opera

"Luisa Miller" is Giuseppe Verdi’s third setting of a play by Friedrich Schiller. “It is a great drama, full of passion and very effective in theatrical terms,” the composer wrote to the librettist Salvadore Cammarano about “Kabale und Liebe”...

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Paul Breslik

Events

Upcoming events

May 24 - Jun 5, 2026

Luisa Miller · Staatsoper Hamburg

Past events

14 - 28 Apr, 2026

Arabella · Opernhaus Zürich

Sep 25, 2025 - Mar 31, 2026

Die verkaufte Braut (Prodaná Nevěsta) · Wiener Staatsoper

Future and recently performed repertoire

Jack in The Bartered Bride by Smetana

Wiener Staatsoper

Matthew in Arabella by Strauss

Opernhaus Zürich

Rodolfo in Luisa Miller by Verdi

Staatsoper Hamburg

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