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In a dispute with Fortuna and Virtù over supremacy over humankind, Amor seeks to prove that love alone stands above all else. Thus Poppea rises to become Empress of Rome through Nero’s love for her – and yet...
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“Are you human, or are you a fairy tale?” The water nymph Rusalka is in love with a prince. Only if she is transformed into a human can she be united with him. But the witch Ježibaba binds this spell to...
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“Such a little fat dachshund has never been seen here before,” Goethe’s mother wrote to her son in 1793 about a performance of DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (The Magic Flute) – a remark that reflects how Mozart’s Singspiel...
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This format offers a playful introduction to opera: improvising, experimenting, and reflecting – no prior experience required. Each session focuses on a different work and gradually explores the themes and...
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This format offers a playful introduction to opera: improvising, experimenting, and reflecting – no prior experience required. Each session focuses on a different work and gradually explores the themes and...
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Our Multi-Sensory Tours invite you to experience the opera house through hearing, smelling, seeing, touching and tasting. What does it look like behind the scenes? What does a real opera costume feel like...
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Get in the mood for your opera visit and discover fascinating insights into the works, the music, and the production. Even before the premiere, we invite you to our soirées at the opera house, including a...
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With its lively programme and traditional raffle, the Red Cross benefit matinee is a firm audience favourite year after year. In around two hours, the concert sets the mood for the Christmas season – created...
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As the court jester to the Duke of Mantua, Rigoletto is no less scrupulous than his absolutist master, who seduces women at will and has men killed on a whim. Rigoletto seeks to protect his daughter Gilda...
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The opera DER ROSENKAVALIER leads into the bedroom of a princess and straight into the intimate conversation with her youthful lover. Inspired by the ancient tragedy ELEKTRA, Richard Strauss and the poet Hugo...
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Every year, Cäcilia Wolkenburg presents the world premiere of a truly Cologne-style musical. More than one hundred singers and dancers – all volunteers who perform not for a living but purely out of a love...
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A young hero enters a world full of dangers – without fear, without knowledge of his origins, armed only with a shattered sword as his father’s final legacy. Siegfried grows up far from humankind, raised by...
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Henry Purcell’s most famous opera tells the story of Dido, the Queen of Carthage, and the Trojan prince Aeneas, whose love is tragically thwarted by the looming hostility between their two kingdoms. As the...
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Jiří Kylián is one of the legendary figures of the international dance scene. For over three decades, he shaped the artistic profile of the Nederlands Dans Theater, which under his direction developed into...
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Contemporary avant-garde and Caribbean sensuality – a ballet company full of surprises – this is the label under which Cuba’s largest dance company performs. Danza Contemporánea de Cuba looks back on a...
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The stage is dark. A tremor can be felt. Then music begins – more a collage of different sounds. A harmonica. The brief moment of a whistled melody. It is unmistakably the music of Ennio Morricone. The...
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Once upon a time … there was a king who had three children. In the kingdom, the crown had always been passed on to the son or daughter deemed most suitable to rule. A ring served as the symbol of power, which...
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Set in London around 1910, the phonetics professor Higgins is convinced that language determines social status. The subject of his wager is the flower girl Eliza Doolittle, whom he intends to transform into a...
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In 1847, Giuseppe Verdi was working on a piece unlike anything ever seen on the opera stage. To turn a dark, blood-soaked Shakespearean tragedy into an Italian opera was already a bold undertaking. But to go...
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From crackling and popping to tapping and ringing – a world of rhythms, sounds, and tones opens up for the very youngest opera audience. In this 30-minute mini opera, babies and toddlers can immerse...