Name: Katja Kabanova
Start: 2026-02-08T18:30:00
Location: German Oper am Rhein

The Deutsche Oper am Rhein is set to offer an exciting season filled with enriching masterclasses, immersive operas, and engaging musicals. Highlights include musical masterclasses featuring esteemed artists like Peter Berne and Edith Wiens, captivating performances by the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, and the compelling storytelling of musicals such as 'Anatevka' and 'The Bat'. Dive into a world where tradition meets innovation, and experience the magic of opera and symphony in the heart of Germany.

Opera & Symphony: A Season of Artistic Brilliance at Deutsche Oper am Rhein

The Deutsche Oper am Rhein is back with a spectacular lineup of events that promise to captivate audiences. From the in-depth training offered in the Masterclasses to the grand musical narratives of 'Ana­tevka' and 'Nabucco,' this season is set to explore the beauty and complexity of opera and musical theatre. With performances like 'The Bat' and the eclectic 'Comedian Harmonists – Best of', each event offers a unique blend of storytelling, music, and performance artistry. Join us as we dive deep into this season's artistic offerings.

A Season of Cultural Splendor at Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Rosie Aldridge

Axel Kober

Alexandra Urquiola

Žilvinas Miškinis

Jussi Myllys

Sami Luttinen

Roman Hoza

David Fischer

Kimberley Boettger-Soller

Sylvia Hamvasi

Richard Romeo

Kim Holtappels

Barbara Drosihn

Tatjana Gurbaca

Stefan Bolliger

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

In addition to regular musical coaching, language courses, role study and work on the repertoire, five courses are on the program for the opera studio this season: a scenic workshop with director Gregor Horres and four musical master classes led by bel canto specialist Peter Berne, KS Barbara Frittoli, pianist and vocal coach Jonathan Papp and Edith Wiens. As always, the popular master class concerts at the end of the courses allow the audience to follow the development of the opera studio.

Masterclasses

MAXHAUS - Katholisches Stadthaus

WOYTON am Schadowplatz

In the stylish ambience of the foyer of the Düsseldorf Opera House, members of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, together with singers from the opera ensemble, explore well-known and lesser-known masterpieces of chamber music on selected Sundays and public holidays.

Symphony Orchestra in the Foyer

German Oper am Rhein

An ambitious local politician is talked into building a spaceport by an oligarch – to help his city - and perhaps himself - achieve new greatness. And yet Gabriel von Eisenstein actually has other problems: He is due to start a prison sentence tomorrow for disorderly conduct. But why face reality? Eisenstein prefers to follow the advice of his friend Dr. Falke and have a good time before starting his prison sentence - and thus falls into a net of intrigue in which quite a few honorable personalities stand to lose their good reputation.

The bat

Two peoples find themselves in the barbaric grip of war after Nabucco and his troops attack Jerusalem. The Babylonian ruler and Zaccaria, the leader of the Hebrews, do not budge an inch from their opposing viewpoints in this profound conflict, while the daily grind of war continues to bring new suffering to both peoples. The seemingly hopeless conflict does not even stop at their own families: Zaccaria holds Nabucco's favorite daughter Fenena hostage, while she has long since changed sides out of love for Ismaele and lives among the enemy people. Nabucco's other daughter, Abigaille, envies her sister's happiness and her father's throne and forges disastrous plans...

Nabucco

Theater Duisburg

In our song matinees, ensemble members and pianists dedicate themselves to the exciting variety of international song art - in the foyer of the Düsseldorf Opera House and, as of this season, also in the opera foyer of the Duisburg Theater!

Song matinee

A psychological drama between duty and freedom

Katja Kaba­nova

The Queen of the Night asks Tamino to free Pamina from the clutches of the supposed villain Sarastro. And so, together with the bird catcher Papageno, he sets out to become a hero. But there are many surprises awaiting him on his adventurous rescue mission... Barrie Kosky's multimedia staging, which the director developed together with the British artists' collective “1927”, has long enjoyed cult status around the world. The imaginative interplay of scene, music and video animation elegantly transposes Mozart's opera into the present day.

The Magic Flute

Three riddles must be solved by anyone who wants to marry the beautiful and ice-cold Princess Turandot. Anyone who fails them will be punished with death. But Prince Kalaf, who is unknown in the kingdom, passes the trial. Turandot desperately searches for a way to escape marriage to the much-hated man... With “Nessun dorma”, Puccini created one of the most famous tenor arias in opera literature. For the Taiwanese director Huan-Hsiung Li, Puccini's opera is a fairy tale, which he tells in the form of a dream that drifts back to the ancient Yuan dynasty.

Turan­dot

At the center of the tripple bill is David Dawson's award-winning classic about an intangible yet hopeful state between the end and a new beginning: “The Grey Area” seems to defy gravity and dynamically celebrates the beauty of the very moment.

Grey Area

Count Almaviva walks on suitor's feet. The object of his latest desire: Susanna, his wife's chambermaid and fiancée of his valet Figaro. Shortly before the wedding, the young couple has to use all their ingenuity to avoid Susanna's erotic advances from her aristocratic employer - turbulence is inevitable!

The Marriage of Figaro

The choreographer duo Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich explore the perpetual motion and transience of time. Under the title “Moto perpetuo” - perpetual motion - they develop their own physical language, which emerges from intuition together with the dancers in interaction with stage elements and light, inspired by the symmetries and circular movements in the music of Philip Glass.

Kalei­dos­kop

The spirit summons the forgotten voice of María through a crack in the pavement and tells her story. She was born on a day when God was drunk. “I am María ... María Tango, María of the suburbs, María Night, María fatal passion, María of love for Buenos Aires am I!” - Searching for happiness, she leaves the suburbs, glows, gets high and plays, sells herself and, in death, becomes a mystical figure. As a shadow, María wanders through a world of surreal encounters, tracing life backwards from oblivion to birth - until she finds redemption through poetry. On a holy Sunday.

Katja Kaba­nova

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