Ballet Dancer

Chamber music concerts are an important part of the program. In various formations and ensembles, the musicians of the Orchester der Oper Zürich explore a wide repertoire. At close quarters and in intimate spaces, audiences experience the intensity of the musicians as they make music. Each of the nine chamber music programs in the Spiegelsaal has its own individual focus: classics of the genre meet rarely heard works, and early music meets crossover. The «Zur Premiere» concert series feature programs specially tailored to a corresponding opera premiere. Chamber music concerts usually take place both at Sunday matinees and on Monday evenings. In addition, three special concerts on the Studiobühne stage shed light on influential composers from the first and second half of the 20th century, as well as the present. On the occasion of the premiere of Paul Hindemith’s opera «Cardillac», works by the composer, who lived in Zurich for a time, will be performed together with Leoš Janáček’s wind sextet «Mládi». To mark the 100th birthday of American avant-gardist Morton Feldman (1926-1987), the Opera Nova ensemble will perform his legendary trio «For Philip Guston», which lasts over four hours, in a special concert setting with a comfortable reclining area. One week before the Swiss premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s new music theater piece «Monster's Paradise» Opera Nova presents a portrait concert of the Austrian composer's chamber music works.

4th Chamber Concert

Hall of Mirrors

Two masterpieces of French late Romanticism form the core of the second chamber concert program: Ernest Chausson’s Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 30, marked by rich tonal colors and expressive melodic writing, is paired with César Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14, whose dramatic intensity and radiant sonority make it a pinnacle of Romantic chamber music.

2nd Chamber Concert

Aided by a variety of reference points, this three-part ballet evening delves into the world of the 1950s and ‘60s.

Scottish-born Kenneth MacMillan is one of the leading choreographers of the 20th century. His 1966 ballet «Concerto», set to the music of Shostakovich's second piano concerto, is a celebrated piece of pure choreographic poetry.

In Cathy Marston’s ballet «Mrs. Robinson» – based on the novel «The Graduate» by Charles Webb – a recent college graduate becomes involved with the attractive Mrs. Robinson, a married woman from his parents’ circle of friends.

Ballet Dancer

Kateryna Tereshchenko

Events

Past events

16 - 17 Nov, 2025

4th Chamber Concert · Opernhaus Zürich

12 - 13 Oct, 2025

2nd Chamber Concert · Opernhaus Zürich

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Piano Quintet in E flat major by Schumann

Opernhaus Zürich

Piano in Concerto by Schostakowitsch

Opernhaus Zürich

Piano in Piano Quartet in A major by Chausson

Opernhaus Zürich

Piano in Piano Quintet in F minor by Franck

Opernhaus Zürich

Piano in Piano Quintet in G major by Humperdinck

Opernhaus Zürich

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