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Max the young huntsman may only win the hand of his love Agathe, and with it the job of assistant forester, if he wins the ...

The year is 1534. Ruprecht spends the night in a run-down inn. Suddenly he hears cries of fear from the next room, in which it ...

Florestan disappeared two years ago. His wife Leonore suspects that he has been imprisoned in a secret dungeon because he defied the governor Don Pizarro ...

The Spanish Netherlands rise up against the rule of Philip II. They are demanding freedom of religion and greater autonomy for their country. Spain’s governor, ...

Herod, the Tetrarch of Galilee, has had the prophet Jochanaan imprisoned for constantly criticising his wife Herodias. But even in his prison the prophet continues ...

Salieri was a prominent and wealthy composer and music director at the Viennese court, as well as a music teacher. He wrote over forty operas ...

During his second visit to England, Haydn was offered an English-language libretto: the creation of the world according to the Bible. Essentially, The Creation contains ...

Handel's time in London was marked by constant ups and downs, a succession of successes and failures. Ariodante was written at a time when he ...

Hans Werner Henze and his librettists, the English poets Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Simon Kallman, dedicated Elegy for Young Lovers, a commissioned work first ...

Are we ever honest enough to remain unmoved by lies? This is the question dealt with in Henrik Ibsen's drama Ghosts on which this ballet ...

With the central protagonist of his novella Carmen, Prosper Mérimée created a character that has lost none of its topicality and fascination to this day. ...

In 1734, George Frideric Handel created the three-act pasticcio Oreste with the theatre impresario and dancer John Rich, director of the new Covent Garden Theatre. ...

For a long time, Nicola Antonio Porpora was known to later generations only as the singing teacher of the famous castrato Farinelli. During his lifetime, ...

Elisabetta was the first opera that Gioachino Rossini wrote for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. It was a triumphant debut. He was to stay ...

In 1607, Monteverdi had established the new genre of opera with a masterpiece, L’Orfeo. Initially, performances of the new form of musical theatre were accessible ...

The young singers, you can not only experience in the opera productions in the Chamber Opera, they will also assume appropriate roles in the "big" ...

From 1725 on, Johann Adolph Hasse had a glittering career. It had begun in Italy, and he spent thirty productive years as court music director ...

The composer Viktor Ullmann was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 where, with the writer and painter Peter Kien, he created Der Kaiser von ...

English theatre at the time of the Restoration loved large-scale stage spectaculars, the so-called semi-operas. These consisted not just of singing: half of the performance ...

Antonio Vivaldi wrote over fifty operas, but only four oratorios of which only one survives: Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernis barbarie – Judith triumphant over the ...

The young singers, you can not only experience in the opera productions in the Chamber Opera, they will also assume appropriate roles in the "big" ...

Werner Egk composed Peer Gynt in 1937/38 as a commission from the Berlin State Opera where he had been engaged as principal conductor since 1936. ...

When Le nozze di Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's first collaboration with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, was such a resounding success in Prague in 1786, ...

If you have, value audience already asked the question at the last New Year's Eve concert of the Flying Schnörtzenbrekkers in the chamber opera "Why ...

Intrigues surrounding power and love in ancient Syria: The Roman emperor Adriano must choose between Sabina, his betrothed, and Emirena, the daughter of his enemy, ...

The legendary historical revues in the theatre and cabaret known as the "Hölle" in the basement of the Theater an der Wien enter their eighth ...

The young singers, you can not only experience in the opera productions in the Chamber Opera, they will also assume appropriate roles in the "big" ...

The hospital is a highly dramatic location. Here, the physical and the spiritual meet under the conditions of a workshop - strong contrasts so that ...

The hospital is a highly dramatic location. Here, the physical and the spiritual meet under the conditions of a workshop - strong contrasts so that ...

The hospital is a highly dramatic location. Here, the physical and the spiritual meet under the conditions of a workshop - strong contrasts so that ...

Macbeth, Giuseppe Verdi's first adaptation of a drama by William Shakespeare, was written in 1846/47 as a commission for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. ...

Descended from gods as the putative son of Oeagrus or even Apollo himself and the muse Calliope, it is said of Orpheus that he was ...

The premiere of Jean-Philippe Rameau's fifth tragedy, Zoroastre, received a rather lukewarm reception from Parisian society in 1749, although reports suggest that the show as ...

In his novel La dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), published in 1848, Alexandre Dumas, fils made his former lover, the courtesan Marie ...

200 years after Shakespeare, 100 years before Verdi, 217 years before today: Salieri's opera Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle to a text by Carlo Prospero ...

The young singers, you can not only experience in the opera productions in the Chamber Opera, they will also assume appropriate roles in the "big" ...

After Antonio Salieri had scored a huge success with Les Danaïdes in Paris in 1784, he travelled back to Vienna with a new libretto in ...

By 1654, premiered in Venetian Teatro SS Giovanni e Paolo Francesco Cavalli opera Xerse should achieve one of his biggest successes. During his lifetime, the ...

The young singers, you can not only experience in the opera productions in the Chamber Opera, they will also assume appropriate roles in the "big" ...

The tales told about the two enigmatic African queens Dido and Cleopatra, both the fictional and the true, have fired the imaginations of many composers, ...

Shakespeare's Hamlet is one of the most famous plays in world literature. Since 1602 it has proved its unbroken topicality in countless new productions and ...

One of Handel's best-known orchestral works is the Water Music, at least part of which was written at the behest of King George I for ...

I think Shakespeare is the greatest reservoir of inspiration for choreographers. He is the most humane of all poets. He sees things, speaks of things ...

What is fundamentally important for a good opera, the text or the music, which element has what to be of service? Stefan Zweig made Richard ...

One of the cruelest periods of Roman antiquity, the 16 year old Mozart treated in his opera seria Lucio Silla second: (.. 138-78 BC) Cornelius ...

The season 1736/37 was extremely laborious for Handel, its own opera company at Covent Garden was the competition of the Opera of the Nobility in ...

With Agrippina the young Handel 1707/08 was his big chance to distinguish itself in Italy as an opera composer. The order came from the renowned ...

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony no. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60 Violin Concerto in D major, op. 61 "Since we have because even in ...

In the works of Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725), the Italian music of the 17th and early 18th century, was another highlight. Coming from Palermo, ...

Rossini wrote Otello in 1816 on behalf of the royal theater in Naples between the Il barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola. If one expects ...

Johann Nestroy and the Theater an der Wien combines a common history, which already in 1801 begins with the common "Year of Birth". From 1831 ...

In his for the London King's Theatre in the Haymarket opera written Orlando George Frideric Handel drew on the history of the amorous knight from ...

The operas of George Frideric Handel lived in the 1920s, a rediscovery, hence the Handel parody Beggar's Opera by John Gay and Christopher Pepusch came ...

For 10-years anniversary of the reopening of the Theater an der Wien as a new opera house in the city of Vienna will receive the ...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt congratulates the new opera house in the Theater an der Wien on its 10 years of existence with a concert performance of Fidelio, ...

At the turn of Angelika Kirchschlager and Anne Sofie von Otter through music worlds of Kurt Weill - as a prelude to the premiere of ...

As Benjamin Britten was staying during the Second World War in the United States, he longed to be back to England and found in George ...

The opera Armide represents the last collaboration between Jean-Baptiste Lully and librettist Philippe Quinault and is at the same time as one of its most ...

Ever since the enthusiastic acclaimed world premiere of La pietra del paragone at La Scala in 1812 a Rossini enthusiasm was spreading that should cover ...

When Richard Wagner in 1839 came on the ship to England in several sea storms, the fear coined him before the raging sea deeply. Supposedly ...

Michael Heltau sings, plays and talks in a literary-musical program of longing, restart and farewell, may the lilacs and the flower on his lapel, from ...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 -1827) Symphonie Nr. 6 F-Dur, op. 68, Sinfonia pastorale Symphonie Nr. 5 c-Moll, op. 67 „Da haben wir denn auch in ...

Francesco Bartolomeo Conti began his career from his hometown of Florence than theorbist - a highly successful career that in 1723 the honorary title of ...

In his last opera, premiered in 1643, Monteverdi intervenes for the first time on a historical subject. The story of the scandalous marriage with Emperor ...

The second evening, Emmanuelle Haïm contests with Le Concert d'Astree, transports you to magical realms. The representation of the supernatural and miraculous ("merveilleux") was originally ...

In July 1831, Heinrich Marschner was sent an anonymous libretto. This "Hans Heiling" titled text is based on a forecast Bohemian, Marschner was immediately inspiring ...

Pietro Metastasio libretto Catone in Utica that the serious conflict between the aspiring dictator Julius Caesar and the statesman Marcus Porcius Cato describes the Younger ...

It's a wonder I have not abandoned all expectations, because they seem absurd and impracticable. Yet I cling to them, in spite of everything, because ...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) and Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) wanted their works L'heure espagnole and Les mamelles de Tiresias revive the genre of Italian opera buffa from ...

The young singers you can not only experience in the opera productions in the chamber opera, they will also take appropriate games in the "big" ...

Beaumarchais' third piece to the Almaviva's servant and her pair is more of a bourgeois melodrama as a comedy as the two preceding. La mère ...

A production of l'arte del mondo and Bayer Leverkusen Culture, sponsored by the Ministry of Family, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North ...

Mozart knew Paisiello's Barbiere good, the opera was a great success in Vienna was shown in 1783, and the two composers had also met the ...

Johann Adolf Hasse made ??first career in Italy before 30 years of music at the court of Saxony in Dresden was from 1733. But his ...

Jean-Philippe Rameau Zaïs created in 1748 for the Paris Opera. Not long before the composer had been appointed to the Cabinet du Roi Compositeur you, ...

A native of Bohemia composer Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729-1774) was responsible for many years as an opera and later Kapellmeister for the performances at the ...

The young singers you can not only experience in the opera productions in the chamber opera, they will also take appropriate games in the "big" ...

"I can not. Now I can not anymore, "she says to Oskar. "Then come," he replies. These are the last words in Odon von Horvath's ...

In 1931, Odon von Horvath was premiered bitter evil as clairvoyant "folk play" in Berlin. It provides in an accurate inventory of the satirical attitude ...

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799), court clockmaker, inventor, writer, diplomat and adventurer, offered 1772 Le Barber of Seville the Comédiens Italy as an opera libretto ...

Four years before the premiere of the beginning of January 1745 George Frederick Handel had given up his efforts to the opera and all facing ...

In all that touch the Austrian poet, they feel the sting, tasted in every glass them the downside of transience. "Hilde Spiel Michael Heltau sings, ...

The young singers you can not only experience in the opera productions in the chamber opera, they will also take appropriate games in the "big" ...

The Theater an der Wien in 2011, the world premiere of Lera Auerbach's Gogol presents - a grand opera with chorus, soloists numerous and enormous ...

About Victor d'Arlincourts successful novel L'etrangère Vincenzo Bellini wrote enthusiastically: "This is a material full of exciting moments, and all new, terrific." He took it ...

Charles Gounod in 1852 created one of the now famous works of music history: Méditation sur le 1er prelude de Bach - better known as ...

I contending "prima donnas", there are only more in the soap operas private television stations that compete quote bringing to the price of the Jungle ...

Silent films are back in vogue for some years now - they are in absolute contrast to today's film technology, viewers can not only provide ...

Rinaldo was George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) debut in London. The world premiere in 1711 at the Haymarket Theatre was granted a spectacular success and contributed ...

When Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the famous words "Sing, rejoice" attaches, it does not succumb to the illusion rarely willing to float. The ...

The young singers you can not only experience in the opera productions in the chamber opera, they will also take appropriate games in the "big" ...

The young singers you can not only experience in the opera productions in the chamber opera, they will also take appropriate games in the "big" ...

Alban Berg Lulu left in 1935 without the third act Friedrich Cerha 1979 allowed a construct on the basis of Berg's sketches "complete" version, which ...

In the course of exoticism were in the 19th century in the opera Schauplätz remote and seemingly exotic musical elements much in style. 1863 Georges ...

The 1691 first performed semi-opera King Arthur, or The British Worthy (King Arthur or The British hero) is based on a 1684 written libretto by ...

A cabaret-style revue to the 108th anniversary of the "hell" The legendary historic cabaret programs in theater and cabaret "Hell" in the basement of the ...

Of the first eight operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck from his Milanese period, only one Ipermestra) has fully preserved for posterity. From Demo Fonte least ...

Krieg, Mythos der Opferung, die scheinbare Unentrinnbarkeit des Schicksals, der Fluch einer Familie und die Utopie, diesen Fluch zu überwinden: Euripides’ antike Tragödien, auf denen ...

For a small stage Tchaikovsky conceived his own words Eugene Onegin, for the modest means of a conservatory, as with students of the Moscow Conservatory ...

Francesco Provenzale (~ 1624-1704) was the first known composer, musician and music teacher from Naples. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school and ...

The young singers you can not only experience in the opera productions in the chamber opera, they will also take appropriate games in the "big" ...

With the figure of the sorceress Alcina, whose story is told in the sixth and seventh song of Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem Orlando Furioso, Handel ...

1885 wurde Peter I. Tschaikowski von seinem Bruder Modest auf das neue Drama des damals erfolgreichen Autors Schpaschinski aufmerksam gemacht; eine Liebesszene sei darin, die ...

A production of l'arte del mondo and Bayer Leverkusen Culture, sponsored by the Ministry of Family, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North ...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture Modest Mussorgsky A Night on Bald Mountain Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade...

Never before the world premiere of La traviata 1853 had been a scandal-prone, so current fabric on the Opera stage: until 1847 the courtesan of ...

The Lady of the camellias by Alexandre Dumas in 1848 appeared as the younger, was the theme for the time Ballet uninteresting: this story of ...

Although Rimsky-Korsakov wrote fifteen operas, his name outside of Russia is known almost only on the basis of his orchestral works. In his homeland, his ...

Along with his co-authors sought Claus Guth in the Handel year 2009 for its staged implementation of the Messiah to situations in which the subject ...

Antonio Salieri rejected supposedly the composition of Così fan tutte, because the text "is unworthy to be used in music". Beethoven was the cloth to ...

A bitter intrigue overshadowed the Olympic idea and also the hoped-for victory in one of the most famous libretti by Pietro Metastasio. The supposedly Cretan ...

In March 1745 Platée was created for the wedding of the heir to the French throne in Versailles, one of the last major celebrations of ...

Directly after Alessandro Opera seria Admeto, re di Tessaglia was very tailored to Senesino, Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. Handel adapted the musical highlights the ...

Fausto Romitelli (born 1963) was one of the most radical composers of his generation. He settled by the inspired by Anglo-American subculture, loved the archaic ...

1844 Giuseppe Verdi first wrote an Opera for the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, he offered the drama the two Foscari by Lord Byron as ...

The 1691 premiered semi-Opera King Arthur of the "Orpheus britannicus" Henry Purcell, John Dryden wrote the libretto to which, combines drama, music, dance and spectacle. ...

In 1820, Franz Schubert turned an oratorio Libretto by August Hermann Niemeyer built in 1778 to: Lazarus or the celebration of the resurrection. Called by ...

Handel's reputation was preceded him across the English channel. "The news of his uncommon ability were, even before his arrival in England, there spread out," ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had many suggestions on his journey to Mannheim and Paris in 1777/78 receive. He burned out from this inspiration to develop their ...

Während Christoph Willibald Gluck Anfang 1779 in Paris die Uraufführung seiner Iphigénie en Tauride vorbereitete, schlug ihm sein Librettist Ranieri de’Calzabigi für eine neue Oper ...

Over sixty years after the premiere of Stravinsky's the rake's progress the young English composer Iain Bell William Hogarths another famous engraving result uses A ...

In November 1941, the Nazis converted the garrison town and fortress Terezin, a concentration camp which they euphemistically referred to as a "Ghetto". Theresienstadt should ...

Seit seiner Ankunft 1939 in Amerika suchte Igor Strawinski nach einem Thema für eine englischsprachige Oper. Als er 1947 im Chicago Art Institute das erste ...

Alexander the great was a popular opera character, his success as a King and military commander in the 17th and 18th century served as comparison ...

Edita Gruberova is unique in this concert with their brilliant Belcanto art the tragic finales of three famous Queens Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena and Elisabetta ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was one composer who had already considered taking Zacharias Werner’s drama Attila, König der Hunnen (1807) as the basis for an opera. ...

Hector Berlioz loved Shakespeare’s dramas and always wanted to write an opera to a text by the great English playwright. As early as 1833 he ...

Amadigi and his companion Dardano wish to escape from Melissa’s magic garden but the sorceress wants to win the Gallic knight for herself. However, Amadigi ...

Henry Purcell was revered as “Orpheus britannicus” during his lifetime and was a sought-after composer of music for the theatre. With Nahum Tate, who also ...

Beethoven’s only opera belongs to the genre of rescue opera which was popular around the time of the French revolution and campaigned against tyranny and ...

Handel used the summer months of 1748 to write oratorios for the coming season and composed the two distinct works Solomon and Susanna. It remains ...

The tragedy surrounding the nymph Galatea and her love for the shepherd Acis originates in ancient Greek mythology and was revised and expanded by Ovid ...

In his settings of mythological themes, George Frideric Handel also portrayed the power of the supernatural which had otherwise disappeared from opera in his days. ...

The lecherous Count Ory is a character from troubadour’s tales. A ballad from Picardy relates how he smuggled himself into a convent with fourteen companions ...

Gioachino Rossini, court composer to Ferdinand IV, King of the Two Sicilies, wrote the one-act cantata Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo on the ...

Nicola Porpora was the leading Italian teacher of singing in the 18th century and also composed over sixty operas. He trained the two legendary castrati ...

A woman’s last telephone call with her lover was set to music in 1959 by Francis Poulenc in his lyrical tragedy La voix humaine after ...

Radamisto marked the sensational start of George Frideric Handel’s London opera company, the Royal Academy of Music: King George I and thePrince of Wales were ...

Bellezza, an allegorical personification of beauty, fears change when she looks at herself in the mirror: “You will always stay as you are. But I, ...

In his novel Satyricon, only parts of which survive, the Roman senator Titus Petronius denounces the perverse depravity of the nouveau-riche upper classes in Rome ...

In November 1862 Richard Wagner came to Vienna to supervise rehearsals for the scheduled premiere of Tristan and Isolde at the Court Opera. But after ...

Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) was Paul Hindemith’s masterpiece and artistic manifesto. In it he uses episodes from the life of the painter Matthias ...

As an old man, Goethe expressed the wish that “Mozart should have composed Faust”. This wish did not come true, but one of his contemporaries ...

Christoph Willibald Gluck was already sixty years old when he followed his pupil Maria Antonia, who by that time had become the Dauphine Marie Antoinette, ...

Pietro Metastasio was the most famous librettist of his age and is still regarded as the most important opera seria author today. His textbook for ...

In the 18th century, women in serious opera, the opere serie, were not the meek and gentle victims found in the bourgeois era that followed. ...

IL TABARRO Following the death of their child the love between Michele, a Parisian bargeowner, and his wife Giorgetta, has died. The couple have nothing ...

WIEN MODERN, the festival of contemporary music, opens its 25th season on 22 October at the Theater an der Wien with two works by Olga ...

At Christmas in 1718 the imperial governor of Mantua, Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, announced his forthcoming marriage. His maestro di cappella, Antonio Vivaldi, hastily had to ...

On 27 October, 1972 the Arnold Schoenberg Chor was born. The choir is celebrating this anniversary with a four-part spectacular at the Theater an der ...

Iolanta, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky´s final opera, and Sergei Rachmaninoff´s Francesca da Rimini are two love stories that differ not only on account of the endings ...

The sea nymph Thetis is trying to prevent her mortal son Achille from participating in the Trojan war. She sends him to the court of ...

Monsieur Des Rillettes, a professional scrounger, has received an invitation to tea from the apparently solidly middle-class couple, Monsieur and Madame Boulingrin. He is already ...