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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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“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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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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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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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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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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At night, a fisherman thinks of the nightingale’s song, which makes him forget everything else. When the nightingale appears, it enchants him with its singing. That same night, an imperial delegation is on...
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It is fair day in Bohemia; the entire village is drinking and celebrating merrily – except Marie, who remains sad. Because of old family ties, her father insists that she marries a man she does not know. The...
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It all starts with a bet. Prodded by the experienced Don Alfonso, Ferrando and Guglielmo want to test the fidelity of their fiancées Dorabella and Fiordiligi. So the two young men fake a call-up to war...
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A Japanese girl, a great love, and a promise that rests on fragile ground from the very beginning. Cio-Cio-San, known as Butterfly, marries the American naval officer Pinkerton. But while he regards the...
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The composer Hans Werner Henze traveled to Cuba ten years after the end of the revolution. He met composers, writers, and artists, performed one of his own works with the Havana Symphony Orchestra, and was...
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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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Step into the roles of the opera’s characters before the performance and act out the story of the opera in just 30 minutes – that’s our WHOOSH!
After the performance, stay for a “Chat at the Edge of the Stage”...
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What does it feel like to sing on an opera stage? What does an opera singer do when they are not performing? And how does someone become an opera singer in the first place?
You can ask our ensemble members...
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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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Cologne’s celebrated rock band Kasalla is launching an extraordinary musical project: NIT ESU LAUT 2027. Known for their high-energy performances and lyrics in the Cologne dialect, the band is now focusing on...
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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...