“What is the price of paradise and who has to pay for it?” asks Belgian choreographer Stina Quagebeur in her new creation "Omelas", which is based on a dystopian short story by Ursula K. Le Guin. Intuitive and urgent, in a composition of organ sound and orchestral force, abstract and narrative at the same time, she creates a journey at the pulse of today.

Orgel­Passion

German Oper am Rhein

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

Theater Duisburg

The king dies. Amfortas, leader of the Grail Brotherhood, is tormented by a wound that will not heal - struck by his arch-enemy Klingsor, to whom he also lost the Holy Spear of Christ that was guarded by the Brotherhood. Day after day, the Knights of the Grail are forced to watch helplessly as Amfortas dies of pain and guilt. Only a prophecy gives them hope: a “pure fool” will one day redeem the suffering king through his compassion and win back the Holy Spear, which the fallen Grail knight Klingsor guards in his magic garden. And then Parsifal knocks on the gates of the Grail Castle...

Parsifal

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.

Maria from Buenos Aires

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A trail of violence runs through the cursed dynasty of the Atrides long before this opera begins: Elektra's grandfather fed his own sons to his brother, her father Agamemnon sacrificed Elektra's sister Iphigenia, the desperate mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisth slaughtered Agamemnon with an axe in the bath. The children cannot find peace either: Elektra cannot mourn, desperate and raw, she dwells on her hatred. Like must be repaid in kind, the murderous mother and her lover must die. While her sister Chrysotemis refuses to join her, her brother Orest is to take vengeance for their beloved father: The next generation picks up the axe...

Elektra

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 charismatic and popular opera star Rolando Villazón is celebrating the big anniversary of his favorite composer in 2026: Wolfgang Amadé Mozart! To mark the 270th birthday of the musical genius, Rolando Villazón is inviting people to celebratory concerts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The program revolves around arias and scenes for kings, emperors and a bird catcher, with music from Mozart operas such as Idomeneo, La clemenza di Tito, Il re pastore and The Magic Flute.

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Rolando Villazón / Maarten Engeltjes / PRJCT Amsterdam

HCC Hannover Congress Centrum

Vienna Concert Hall

Tonhalle Düsseldorf

Munich Residence

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

Do you fancy a pas de deux today - or would you prefer a solo? Perhaps you are in the mood for something beguilingly sweet or refreshingly bubbly? At “ Dance à la carte”, the audience creates the choreography according to their own taste - together with the team and the dancers of the Ballett am Rhein. The guests choose individual “courses” from a thoughtfully compiled menu: movement elements, music, stories. At the end, what has been created together is served - an exclusive world premiere, unique and only for this evening.

Dance à la carte

It was a pandemic that disrupted musical mathematics – but Schubert and Beethoven defy every rule of arithmetic. Therefore, today, instead of the mysterious (and sadly nonexistent) "Seventh," Schubert's elegant and charming Symphony No. 5 will be performed again – but this time with a full orchestral sound for all. Before that, Alban Berg's "Lyric Suite" from 1926 surprises with passionate intensity and a hint of the Roaring Twenties. The "Golden Twenties" also shimmer through the operetta sounds of Franz Lehár's "Paganini," whose authentic performance is a matter close to Adam Fischer's heart: After all, as a young conductor in St. Pölten, Austria, he gained his first experience of how "light musical theater" can indeed be a serious matter. Especially with Lehár, who for the first time dispenses with the obligatory happy ending: Paganini renounces the world of women – seriously tragic, without a wink.

Beethoven 3

While the grimy back yards of the Weimar Republic were filled with unemployed singers practicing their skills in the hope of earning enough for a warm meal, night after night the revue theatres of the Kurfürstendamm would present glittering golden dreams to an audience of millions hungry for entertainment. Amid the glitz of the roaring 1920s, the fame of the Comedian Harmonists burned especially brightly: modelled on the American vocal quartet The Revelers, the six-strong ensemble made up of Ari Leschnikoff, Erich Abraham-Collin, Harry Frommermann, Roman Cycowski, Robert Biberti and pianist Erwin Bootz thrilled German audiences with mixture of sassy and entertaining lyrics set to the latest music and sung in perfect close harmony. With hits such as “Veronika, der Lenz ist da”, “Ein Freund, ein guter Freund” and “Wochenend und Sonnenschein” they conquered the concert halls of Europe at record speed and thanks to the modern mass medium of gramophone records they soon became a fixture in living rooms across Germany.

Come­dian Harmo­nists – Best of

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

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

Even a rich prince can be quite poor sometimes. The noble Don Ramiro finds out about this when his search for a bride takes him to the house of the notoriously penniless Don Magnifico. His daughters don't give the visitor, disguised as a simple servant, a second glance. It's a good thing that Ramiro finds a sympathetic heart in the unloved stepsister Angelina, known as Cenerentola... Gioachino Rossini composed some of his most beautiful melodies for his turbulent musical theater version of the charming “Cinderella”. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's legendary production, which has been enchanting audiences since 1974, is as effervescently cheerful as Rossini's light-hearted score.

Cinderella

It may come as a surprise, but the Czech Philharmonic has performed in Düsseldorf quite regularly. Over the years, local audiences have heard the orchestra under the batons of Karel Ančerl, Václav Neumann, Zdeněk Košler, Gerd Albrecht, Jiří Bělohlávek, and Semyon Bychkov. Now, Bychkov returns to the city’s Tonhalle with his ensemble, bringing a program of Dvořák, Elgar, and Stravinsky. He’ll be joined by cellist Sol Gabetta.

Events in Düsseldorf this month

OrgelPassion

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Turandot

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Parsifal

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Maria from Buenos Aires

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

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The Artelize Podcast: A l...

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Elektra

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Kaleidoskop

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Rolando Villazón / Maarte...

Concerts Pamplona

The Marriage of Figaro

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Dance à la carte

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Beethoven 3

Düsseldorfer Symphoniker

Comedian Harmonists – B...

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Nabucco

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Song matinee

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Cinderella

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Czech Philharmonic • Düss...

Czech Philharmonic

Events in Düsseldorf this month

Orgel­Passion

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Turan­dot

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Parsifal

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Maria from Buenos Aires

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

The Artelize Podcast and ...

Artelize

The Artelize Podcast - A ...

Artelize

The Artelize Podcast: A l...

Artelize

The Artelize Podcast and ...

Artelize

Elektra

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Kalei­dos­kop

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Rolando Villazón / Maarte...

Concerts Pamplona

The Marriage of Figaro

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Dance à la carte

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Beethoven 3

Düsseldorfer Symphoniker

Come­dian Harmo­nists – B...

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Nabucco

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Song matinee

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Cinderella

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Czech Philharmonic • Düss...

Czech Philharmonic

OrgelPassion

Turandot

Kaleidoskop

Comedian Harmonists – B...