It was years before Charles Gounod felt that his opera Faust was ‘finished’. Conductor Stéphane Denève will let you experience the brilliance of Gounod’s original ideas.

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Gounod: Faust

Het Concertgebouw

Infanticide, cunning monks and a tsar falling prey to madness. In his large-scale choral opera, the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky tackled a theme that is still relevant today: the extremes to which a hunger for power can lead. Celebrated director Kirill Serebrennikov brings his own experiences in Russia into a grippingly topical reading of the work.

Boris Godunov

National Opera & Ballet

'A dazzling total work of art' and 'sparkling and imaginative music theatre'. This is how the new dance opera How Anansi liberated the stories of the world was received at its world premiere in 2021. This season, the National Ballet and the National Opera are therefore once again highlighting the story about the resourceful fairytale spider Anansi with a lot of passion, verve and humor.

How Anansi liberated the stories of the world

With Die Frau ohne Schatten , composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal created a layered fairy tale about two couples in search of meaning and new life in a cold and barren world.

The Frau ohne Schatten

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In partnership with Opera Zuid and Nederlandse Reisopera, Dutch National Opera has developed a new concert experience. Together, the companies will be touring the Netherlands with a Purcell programme centred around the short opera Dido and Aeneas. This music from more than 300 years ago is interpreted by a new generation of opera singers under the leadership of the young Baroque specialist Camille Delaforge.

Dido and Aeneas

Muziekcentrum Enschede

Musis Sacrum

PLT - Theater Heerlen

The end of a war. A child's birthday party. A wall falls in the center of the city. A first kiss. The economy collapses. A new millennium. It's getting warmer. Friends die. And everyone keeps buying new mobile phones.

We Are The Lucky Ones

Fifty years after her death, the significance of the Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum (ca. 1900 – 1975) is still indescribably great. In the new music theater performance OUM, her influential musical universe is combined with the book Visage retrouvé by the renowned writer and director Wajdi Mouawad.

To save himself from a fatal storm, King Idomeneo promises the god Neptune that he will kill the first human he encounters. Unfortunately, that turns out to be his son Idamante. The king becomes torn between fatherly love and his promise to the gods. This fateful dilemma is central to Mozart's masterpiece.

Idomeneo, re di Creta

The first two people on earth were in love. The third man killed the fourth. Die ersten Menschen tells the story of the first family in the Biblical history of humanity: Adahm and Chawa and their sons Kajin and Chabel. After the successful performances of the work during the corona pandemic, Rudi Stephan's unknown work, but 'excavated' by Dutch National Opera, returns in full glory.

Those first people

The first two humans on Earth fell in love. The third human murdered the fourth. Die ersten Menschen tells the story of the first family in the Biblical history of humanity, Adahm, Chawa and their two sons Kajin and Chabel. After performances in the midst of the COVID pandemic, which were highly praised by public and press alike, this ‘rediscovered’ work by Rudi Stephan is now returning to Dutch National Opera in all its glory.

Die ersten Menschen

“A wonderful performance for young and old,” wrote NRC after the premiere of Een lied voor de maat . And Theaterkrant concluded that the performance “deserves to be kept in the repertoire”. We kept that in mind: due to the overwhelming success, we are bringing the heart-warming youth opera back to Studio Boekman this Christmas holiday.

A song for the moon

Eros cries and in the glitter of his tears the dark sides of love appear. For their brand new production Le lacrime di Eros, conductor Raphaël Pichon – with his ensemble and choir Pygmalion – and theater maker Romeo Castellucci go back to the roots of opera. Inspired by the creativity and experimental freedom that prevailed in Florence in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, they explore the subject that has been central to opera since the very beginning: love.

Le lacrime di Eros

“Soon Lennox longed to become brave. And preferably as quickly as possible. He was ready for that now. Fortunately, for a boy who wasn't yet brave, Lennox looked pretty cool.” A musical story about courage, friendship, and the discovery that your world becomes bigger when you know more.

Lennox

How do you rock your baby to sleep while the howls of protest are flooding through the window? Can you soothe your child at all, as the fight for its future rages all around you?

Lullaby

Arias, bubbles and pas de deux. The International Young Patrons Gala will take place on Saturday, June 8, 2024 : a cultural highlight for all opera and ballet lovers up to the age of 40! On this festive evening, the Young Patrons Circle celebrates the young talent of Dutch National Opera and Dutch National Ballet – complete with special performances, extravagant outfits and included snacks and drinks. 

International Young Patrons Gala

Do you know the butterfly effect? They say the beat of a butterfly's wings can cause a storm. So you are never too small to make a big difference. That is what the mini-opera we will be working on during the Children's Choir Festival 2024 is about! Come, spread your wings and sing along.

Children's Choir Festival 2024

Giacomo Puccini composed his Il trittico as a triptych of one-act plays in which shudder, sadness and laughter are successively evoked. The three short operas are now being performed together for the first time at Dutch National Opera and are the culmination of the three-year Puccini series by conductor Lorenzo Viotti and director Barrie Kosky .

Il trittico

Resistance hero, cellist, queer – but above all the first woman ever to conduct her own symphony orchestra. In collaboration with the Boon en Ster Foundation, Dutch National Opera presents a 'one woman musical' about the life of this fascinating person: Frieda Belinfante (1904 – 1995). 

Frieda Belinfante

Let yourself be taken on a sensory journey to the golden age of Cairo! Hear stories, play board games, taste snacks and above all: enjoy a lot of music. Radio Cairo is not an ordinary performance, but a warm experience with a colorful afternoon and evening program. An ode to the heyday of Arab culture in the mid-twentieth century. When Cairo was the cultural center of the Arab world and artists like Oum Kalthoum became world stars, thanks to the power of radio

Radio Cairo

Herman the pot-bellied pig doesn't like competitions. He thinks that's a hassle. The chickens cluck the loudest every morning to see who is the first, the best, the fastest. One day Herman has had enough. He'll show them who's the fastest. All the animals encourage him. But is that really that important, winning or losing?

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Dido and Aeneas

Nationale Opera & Ballet

We Are The Lucky Ones

Nationale Opera & Ballet

OUM

Nationale Opera & Ballet

Idomeneo, re di Creta

Nationale Opera & Ballet

Those first people

Nationale Opera & Ballet

Die ersten Menschen

Nationale Opera & Ballet

A song for the moon

Nationale Opera & Ballet

Le lacrime di Eros

Nationale Opera & Ballet

Lennox

Nationale Opera & Ballet

Lullaby

Nationale Opera & Ballet

International Young Patro...

Nationale Opera & Ballet

Children's Choir Festival...

Nationale Opera & Ballet

Il trittico

Nationale Opera & Ballet

Frieda Belinfante

Nationale Opera & Ballet

Radio Cairo

Nationale Opera & Ballet

Hup Herman!

Nationale Opera & Ballet