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Opera Studies … Home Study Departments Opera Studies Archive Archive Production Archive Department of Opera Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus 19.2.2026 Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus  Opera production Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 2.2.2026 Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia  "Go back, Tarquinius!" – comes the warning from the opera's narrator to the son of the Etruscan king. But the tragedy is already unfolding at pace: Tarquinius falls upon Lucretia, the wife of his comrade Collatinus, and rapes her, in spite of her fierce reistance. The next day, Lucretia takes her own life in public. Benjamin Britten's dark chamber opera, premiered in 1946 at Glyndebourne, resounds with the traumatic experiences of fascism and war. Opera production Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue 15.12.2025 Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue  Through purgatory to paradise – two voices of resistance. Two works – two perspectives on the unimaginable. Even 80 years after the end of the war, they raise big questions about the value of life, the power of art and human resilience. An evening full of intensity, musical beauty and profound humanity. Opera production Medusa Giuditta 23.6.2025 Medusa Giuditta  Caught between Baroque and contemporary music, Kai Röhrig and Florentine Klepper's opera class set out in search of clues with ‘Medusa / Giuditta’, following on from the successful double bill ‘Elissa / Dido & Aeneas’ in 2023. Opera production Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Don Giovanni 25.5.2025 Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Don Giovanni  Mozart's opera Don Giovanni deals with the mythologically charged subject of the womaniser and libertine Don Juan. The focus is on an unscrupulous nobleman who lives excessively, seduces women and even murders – until he is finally brought to account by a higher power. The story is deeply rooted in moral issues and raises questions of guilt, abuse of power and punishment. Opera production Christian Jost: Poet's love 31.1.2025 Christian Jost: Poet's love  Opera production Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi 15.12.2024 Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi  The performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi delivered a powerful reinterpretation of the masterpiece. Directed by Alexander von Pfeil, the production centred on the relentless feud between two rival clans and the profound despair of its victims. This staging transcended specific eras, placing the story in a universal, timeless setting that brought Bellini's dark vision of love and war to the stage with harrowing clarity. Opera production Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro 26.6.2024 Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro  As a play, La Folle journée by the scandalous author Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais was banned in Vienna. However, Mozart and Da Ponte were able to suggest to Emperor Joseph II that the genre of opera would defuse the revolutionarily objectionable text and were thus commissioned to compose and write the libretto. The question of whether they did not in fact intensify the play in other ways is one that is posed anew in every production. With Le nozze di Figaro, Gernot Sahler and Alexander von Pfeil's opera class continued their Da Ponte cycle, which began with Così fan tutte in May 2023. Opera production Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 20.5.2024 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff  Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly. Opera production Elegy for young lovers 31.1.2024 Elegy for young lovers  "What qualities must a person possess in order to dominate both dramaturgically and vocally in an opera?" and "What must a man of mature age look like who is in close relationships with a crazy old lady, a young girl and a doctor at the same time?" Opera production Hansel and Gretel 15.12.2023 Hansel and Gretel  With her production, Rosamund Gilmore embarked on a journey into the subconscious and combined the deep psychological layers of the fairy tale with the film-visualized works of Claudia Lehmann's students. Opera production Elissa / Dido & Aeneas 30.6.2023 Elissa / Dido & Aeneas  More than 330 years after the premiere of the only complete opera by Henry Purcell, the French composer Henry Fourès composes a setting for Dido and Aeneas and calls it "Elissa". A second name for the queen that allows the character to exist on its own, without direct ties to Aeneas. Opera production Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Così fan tutte 21.5.2023 Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Così fan tutte  The young officers Ferrando and Guilelmo* do not want to let their fatherly friend Don Alfonso get away with it - after all, he doubts the fidelity of their fiancée! But instead of the demanded duel, they accept his proposal of a wager and thus become handmaidens in the work of destroying their love relationships. Opera production Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw 27.1.2023 Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw  Opera production Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring 7.12.2022 Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring  After A Midsummer Night's Dream and Owen Wingrave, the Department of Opera & Music Theater at the Mozarteum University will once again devote itself to Benjamin Britten's abysmal music-theatrical oeuvre. This winter semester, two of his masterpieces will be performed: Albert Herring in December 2022 will be followed by The Turn of the Screw in January 2023. Opera production Claudio Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea 2.7.2022 Claudio Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea  Opera production Ermanno Wolf-Ferarri: Il campiello 15.5.2022 Ermanno Wolf-Ferarri: Il campiello  Opera production Charles Gounod: Faust 28.1.2022 Charles Gounod: Faust  Opera production Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: The Magic Flute 23.6.2021 Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: The Magic Flute  Opera production Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: La clemenza di Tito 29.1.2021 Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: La clemenza di Tito  Opera production Franz Schubert: Winter Journey 28.1.2021 Franz Schubert: Winter Journey  Opera production Tan Dun: Tea - A Mirror of Soul 19.12.2020 Tan Dun: Tea - A Mirror of Soul  Opera production Benjamin Britten: Owen Wingrave 20.1.2020 Benjamin Britten: Owen Wingrave  Opera production Joseph Haydn: Il mondo della luna 21.6.2019 Joseph Haydn: Il mondo della luna  Opera production Jacques Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann 10.5.2019 Jacques Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann  Opera production Georg Philipp Telemann: Don Quixote at the wedding of Comacho 19.1.2019 Georg Philipp Telemann: Don Quixote at the wedding of Comacho  Opera production Philippe Boesmans: Round dance 5.12.2018 Philippe Boesmans: Round dance  Opera production Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream 21.6.2018 Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream  Opera production Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: La finta semplice 2.5.2018 Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: La finta semplice  Opera production George Frideric Handel: Alcina 5.12.2017 George Frideric Handel: Alcina  Opera production

News … Home News George Frideric Handel: Alcina George Frideric Handel: Alcina 05.12.2017 Opera production Skip page navigation Overview About production Livestream Dates & Cast Other productions Return to slider start Ruggiero has fallen for Alcina, who is said to possess magical powers and to transform lovers on her island into animals, springs and rocks. Ruggiero's fiancée Bradamante invades Alcina's kingdom disguised as a man and tries to recapture Ruggiero and destroy Alcina's power. Music director Gernot Sahler Stage director Alexander von Pfeil Stage & Costumes Eric Droin & Anna Brandstätter Music Chamber orchestra of the University Mozarteum About production With this magic opera in 1735, Handel once again builds on his earlier triumphs in London.  The libretto is borrowed from the crusader epic "Orlando furioso" by Ariost and revolves around the Circe myth, also already worked on by Homer, in which stranded heroes are first made happy with love by a sorceress and then transformed into animals. "I have the impression that the strictly emblematic characteristics of the baroque dramaturgy give way in "Alcina" in favor of a dramatic meaningfulness. As far as the genre is concerned, Handel combines this approach, which is modern for us, with a recourse: he turns again to the magic theme, which was almost frowned upon. This allows him to break open the canon, to give space to the irrational, the fantastic and the abysmal, the despair. The piece is about doubt in the world, about the insolubility of things. For this deeply melancholic approach Handel finds again and again new forms of expression - he leaves the terrain of predictability.... " (Alexander von Pfeil) Dates & Cast Performance dates 5. December 2017, 19.00 6. December 2017, 19.00 7. December 2017, 19.00 9. December 2017, 17.00 max Schlereth Hall   Cast ALCINA: Ayse Senogul, Ezgi Güngör MORGANA: Himani Grundström, Laura Incko RUGGIERO: Ines Constantino, Katrin Heles OBERTO: Anne Reich, Sejin Park ORONTE: Santiago Sanchez, Nuttaporn Thammathi BRADAMANTE: Neelam Brader, Melissa Zgouridi, Ekaterina Bocharova (St.Af.) MELISSO: Daniel Weiler, Jakob Mitterrutzner Other productions Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 2.2.2026 Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia  "Go back, Tarquinius!" – comes the warning from the opera's narrator to the son of the Etruscan king. But the tragedy is already unfolding at pace: Tarquinius falls upon Lucretia, the wife of his comrade Collatinus, and rapes her, in spite of her fierce reistance. The next day, Lucretia takes her own life in public. Benjamin Britten's dark chamber opera, premiered in 1946 at Glyndebourne, resounds with the traumatic experiences of fascism and war. Opera production Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue 15.12.2025 Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue  Through purgatory to paradise – two voices of resistance. Two works – two perspectives on the unimaginable. Even 80 years after the end of the war, they raise big questions about the value of life, the power of art and human resilience. An evening full of intensity, musical beauty and profound humanity. Opera production Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi 15.12.2024 Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi  The performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi delivered a powerful reinterpretation of the masterpiece. Directed by Alexander von Pfeil, the production centred on the relentless feud between two rival clans and the profound despair of its victims. This staging transcended specific eras, placing the story in a universal, timeless setting that brought Bellini's dark vision of love and war to the stage with harrowing clarity. Opera production Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 20.5.2024 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff  Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly. Opera production More news

News … Home News Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: La Finta Semplice Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: La finta semplice 02.05.2018 Opera production © Judith Buss Skip page navigation Overview About production Dates & Cast Other productions Return to slider start Seduction, intrigue, blackmail - LA FINTA SEMPLICE is a turbulent love tangle by Carlo Goldoni, the Molière-trained inventor of the dramma giocoso, and Mozart, twelve years old, develops from it an opera in which his later musico-dramatic mastery is already palpable. Musical direction Gernot Sahler Scenic direction Alexander von Pfeil Stage & Costumes yea Eun Hong & Yvonne Schäfer Dramaturgy Malte Krasting Music chamber Orchestra of the Mozarteum University About production A country estate near Cremona. Cassandro, a misogynistic nobleman, oppresses his love-hungry brother Polidoro and forbids his sister Giacinta to marry. The Hungarian captain Fracasso, who has taken up residence with them, so far unsuccessfully courts her hand in marriage. Rosina, his pretty and clever sister, is chosen to ensnare the two brothers so that Fracasso and Giacinta can reach their goal. She is supposed to wrap the brothers around her finger with feigned simplicity ("finta semplice"), play them off against each other and thus make the union possible - at least that is the plan of the housemaid Ninetta, who has her sights set on the stubborn soldier Simone. The premiere, which was planned for Vienna, was thwarted by many; the work was probably first performed on stage in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's native city at the beginning of May 1769. Dates & Cast Performance dates 3. May 2018, 7 p.m. May 4, 2018, 7 p .m. May 5, 2018, 5 p.m. Max Schlereth Hall   Cast FRACASSO: Niklas Matthias Mayer | Johannes Hubmer  ROSINA: Ayse Senogul |  Himani Grundström DON POLIDORO: Gabriel Arce | Santiago Sanchez DON CASSANDRO: Daniel Weiler GIACINTA: Ines Rocha Constantino | Katrin Heles NINETTA: Paula Bohnet | Sejin Park SIMONE: Clemens Joswig | Konstantin Riedl Other productions Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 2.2.2026 Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia  "Go back, Tarquinius!" – comes the warning from the opera's narrator to the son of the Etruscan king. But the tragedy is already unfolding at pace: Tarquinius falls upon Lucretia, the wife of his comrade Collatinus, and rapes her, in spite of her fierce reistance. The next day, Lucretia takes her own life in public. Benjamin Britten's dark chamber opera, premiered in 1946 at Glyndebourne, resounds with the traumatic experiences of fascism and war. Opera production Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue 15.12.2025 Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue  Through purgatory to paradise – two voices of resistance. Two works – two perspectives on the unimaginable. Even 80 years after the end of the war, they raise big questions about the value of life, the power of art and human resilience. An evening full of intensity, musical beauty and profound humanity. Opera production Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi 15.12.2024 Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi  The performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi delivered a powerful reinterpretation of the masterpiece. Directed by Alexander von Pfeil, the production centred on the relentless feud between two rival clans and the profound despair of its victims. This staging transcended specific eras, placing the story in a universal, timeless setting that brought Bellini's dark vision of love and war to the stage with harrowing clarity. Opera production Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 20.5.2024 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff  Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly. Opera production More news

News … Home News Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream 21.06.2018 Opera production © Christian Schneider Skip page navigation Overview About production Dates & Cast Other productions Return to slider start Turmoil in the fairy kingdom: the ruling couple Oberon and Titania have fallen out over a boy whom they both jealously claim for their own. Oberon instructs his confidant Puck to bring a certain herb, the juice of which, when dribbled into the eyes of a sleeping person, will make him fall in love with the first person he sees when he wakes up. In this way he wants to punish Titania for her infidelity... Musical Director Kai Röhrig Scenic Director Karoline Gruber Stage Charlina Lucas & Amelie Ottmann Costumes Egon Stocchi Dramaturgy Ronny Dietrich Music Symphony Orchestra of the Mozarteum University About production Puck, however, also catches two wandering lovers with this magic formula, who now fall in love in completely the wrong constellation, which leads to a total love mess. Now it's up to Puck to set things straight. Initially unaffected by these events, six craftsmen in the realm of the elves are rehearsing the comic tragedy Pyramus and Thisbe , which they want to perform on the occasion of the upcoming wedding of their sovereign. But they too get caught up in the confusion of this midsummer night. Night, forest, a fairytale-like subject with elves, fairies and ghosts - preferred themes of the Romantic period are so frequently anticipated in hardly any other work of world literature as in Shakespeare's  A Midsummer Night's Dream  from 1595. It is not surprising that this comedy has inspired numerous composers to set it to music. For example, Henry Purcell wrote his opera  The Fairy Queen  and Ambroise Thomas his opera  Le songe d'une nuit d'été based on Shakespeare's original. Felix Mendelssohn created his famous overture and incidental music (including the wedding march) to  A Midsummer Night's Dream  and Carl Maria von Weber used elements of the material for his romantic opera  Oberon . Benjamin Britten, on the occasion of his festival in Aldeburgh in 1960, took up this material and formed a three-act opera from the five-act play, adopting Shakespeare's language almost verbatim. Britten found specific sound spaces for each of the magical and human spheres. Thus the different levels of rulers, lovers, craftsmen and elves are also characterized musically in very different ways. In addition, there are numerous allusions to operatic history in the score, culminating in the performance of the craftsmen in the third act: Britten presents the performance of the play  Pyramus and Thisbe  as a parody of Italian opera. Dates & Cast Performance dates 21. June 2018, 7:00 p.m. June 23, 2018, 5 :00 p.m. June 25, 2018, 7:00 p.m. Max Schlereth Hall   Cast OBERON: Tolga Siner TYTANIA: Karina Benalcazar, Marie-Dominique Ryckmanns PUCK: Augustin Groz THESEUS: Clemens Joswig HIPPOLYTA: Reba Evans LYSANDER: Alexander Rewinski DEMETRIUS: Chi-An Chen HERMIA: Maria Hegele, Zsofia Mozer HELENA: Wendy Krikken, Mariya Taniguchi BOTTOM: Felix Mischitz QUINCE: Di Guan FLUTE: Sascha Zarrabi SNUG: Max Tavella SNOUT: Richard Glöckner STARVELING: Jakob Hoffmann FAIRIES: Laura Barthel, Adelheid Caroline Baumgartner, Bettina Meiners, Donata Valerie Meyer-Kranixfeld, Silvia Moroder, Leonie Stoiber Other productions Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 2.2.2026 Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia  "Go back, Tarquinius!" – comes the warning from the opera's narrator to the son of the Etruscan king. But the tragedy is already unfolding at pace: Tarquinius falls upon Lucretia, the wife of his comrade Collatinus, and rapes her, in spite of her fierce reistance. The next day, Lucretia takes her own life in public. Benjamin Britten's dark chamber opera, premiered in 1946 at Glyndebourne, resounds with the traumatic experiences of fascism and war. Opera production Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue 15.12.2025 Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue  Through purgatory to paradise – two voices of resistance. Two works – two perspectives on the unimaginable. Even 80 years after the end of the war, they raise big questions about the value of life, the power of art and human resilience. An evening full of intensity, musical beauty and profound humanity. Opera production Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi 15.12.2024 Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi  The performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi delivered a powerful reinterpretation of the masterpiece. Directed by Alexander von Pfeil, the production centred on the relentless feud between two rival clans and the profound despair of its victims. This staging transcended specific eras, placing the story in a universal, timeless setting that brought Bellini's dark vision of love and war to the stage with harrowing clarity. Opera production Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 20.5.2024 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff  Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly. Opera production More news

News … Home News Philippe Boesmans: Round dance Philippe Boesmans: Round dance 05.12.2018 Opera production © Judith Buss Skip page navigation Overview About production Livestream Dates & Cast Other productions Return to slider start Born in Tongeren (Belgium) in 1936, Philippe Boesmans, compositeur en résidance at La Monnaie under Gérard Mortier and Bernard Focroulle, was introduced to "Reigen" as operatic material by Luc Bondy - the librettist and director of the 1993 premiere in Brussels: "I wanted to write something light, something close to, for example, 'Cosi fan tutte'." Musical direction gernot Sahler Scenic direction alexander von Pfeil Stage & Costumes eric Droin & Yea Eun Hong Dramaturgy malte Krasting Music oenm . austrian ensemble for new music About production Boesman's "Reigen," whose musical language was described by the premiere conductor Sylvain Cambreling as a "mixture between Alban Berg and Maurice Ravel," developed into one of the most frequently performed new operas of our time. "A little Decameron of our days. The transience, even of subterranean life, rings through the whole." This is how Alfred Kerr describes Arthur Schnitzler's scandal-ridden "Reigen," written in the winter of 1896/97. "Scenes; always between a woman and a man. Each time in the middle of it a line of dashes - in a horizontal position. Schnitzler, who quietly wielded the psychic magic of love in other works, here smilingly gives the comedy of the lower zones." Arthur Schnitzler was already skeptical about a staged realization of "Ten Dialogues" when it was written - "there has never been anything more unperformable" - and imposed a performance ban after both the book publication and attempts to perform the "offensive" work were torpedoed by hostility and lawsuits. It was not until 1982 that the polarizing work found its way back onto the stage. Dates & Cast Performance dates 5. December 2018, 19.00 7. December 2018, 19.00 9. December 2018, 17.00 10. December 2018, 7.00 p.m max Schlereth Hall   Cast DIRECTOR: Ornella de Luca, Chelsea Kolic SOLDIER: Gabriel Arce STUB GIRL: Ekaterina Bocharova, Ines Constantino, Neelam Brader (study assignment) YOUNG LORD: Johannes Hubmer YOUNG WOMAN: Anne Reich, Sejin Park GATTE: Audrius Martisius, Konstantin Riedl CUTE GIRL: Vera Maria Bitter, Bethany Yeaman GUARD: Nuttaporn Thammathi SINGER: Himani Grundström, Ayse Senogul COUNT: Jinseok Kim, Daniel Weiler Other productions Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 2.2.2026 Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia  "Go back, Tarquinius!" – comes the warning from the opera's narrator to the son of the Etruscan king. But the tragedy is already unfolding at pace: Tarquinius falls upon Lucretia, the wife of his comrade Collatinus, and rapes her, in spite of her fierce reistance. The next day, Lucretia takes her own life in public. Benjamin Britten's dark chamber opera, premiered in 1946 at Glyndebourne, resounds with the traumatic experiences of fascism and war. Opera production Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue 15.12.2025 Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue  Through purgatory to paradise – two voices of resistance. Two works – two perspectives on the unimaginable. Even 80 years after the end of the war, they raise big questions about the value of life, the power of art and human resilience. An evening full of intensity, musical beauty and profound humanity. Opera production Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi 15.12.2024 Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi  The performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi delivered a powerful reinterpretation of the masterpiece. Directed by Alexander von Pfeil, the production centred on the relentless feud between two rival clans and the profound despair of its victims. This staging transcended specific eras, placing the story in a universal, timeless setting that brought Bellini's dark vision of love and war to the stage with harrowing clarity. Opera production Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 20.5.2024 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff  Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly. Opera production More news

News … Home News Georg Philipp Telemann: Don Quixote Georg Philipp Telemann: Don Quixote at the wedding of Comacho 19.01.2019 Opera production © Christian Schneider Skip page navigation Overview About production Dates & Cast Other productions Return to slider start Don Quixote is the story of someone who cannot bear the monotony and small cruelties of everyday life. Therefore, he flees to a fantasy world much larger and more exciting than his reality could ever be. The novel by Miguel de Cervantes, whose life has many parallels with the adventures of his hero, is world literature. In the anarchic epic is also found the episode of the participation of the knight Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza in the wedding of the Comacho.  Musical Director Kai Röhrig Scenic Director Diana Merkel Stage Anna Schöttl Costumes Anna Wunderskirchner, Sebastian Helminger & Department for Scenography Dramaturgy Yvonne Gebauer Music Chamber Choir & Choir Ensemble of the University Mozarteum About production The then 20-year-old Hamburg poet Daniel Schiebeler liked this scene so much that he worked it into an opera one-act together with Georg Philipp Telemann, who was sixty years older. At an age when others had long since retired, the eighty-year-old Telemann began a second creative springtime. He enthusiastically took up the genre of the Singspiel, which was just coming into vogue, and created a brilliantly comic late work with Spanish color and full of ravishing arias and ensembles. Dates & Cast Performance dates 19. January 2019, 17.00 21. January 2019, 19.00 max Schlereth Hall   Cast DON QUICHOTTE: Felix Mischitz SANCHO PANSA: Di Guan COMACHO: Tolga Siner PEDRILLO - GRISOSTOMO: Zsofia Mozer QUITERIA: Dares Hutawattana BASILIO: Sascha Zarrabi Other productions Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 2.2.2026 Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia  "Go back, Tarquinius!" – comes the warning from the opera's narrator to the son of the Etruscan king. But the tragedy is already unfolding at pace: Tarquinius falls upon Lucretia, the wife of his comrade Collatinus, and rapes her, in spite of her fierce reistance. The next day, Lucretia takes her own life in public. Benjamin Britten's dark chamber opera, premiered in 1946 at Glyndebourne, resounds with the traumatic experiences of fascism and war. Opera production Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue 15.12.2025 Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue  Through purgatory to paradise – two voices of resistance. Two works – two perspectives on the unimaginable. Even 80 years after the end of the war, they raise big questions about the value of life, the power of art and human resilience. An evening full of intensity, musical beauty and profound humanity. Opera production Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi 15.12.2024 Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi  The performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi delivered a powerful reinterpretation of the masterpiece. Directed by Alexander von Pfeil, the production centred on the relentless feud between two rival clans and the profound despair of its victims. This staging transcended specific eras, placing the story in a universal, timeless setting that brought Bellini's dark vision of love and war to the stage with harrowing clarity. Opera production Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 20.5.2024 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff  Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly. Opera production More news

News … Home News Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffmann Jacques Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann 10.05.2019 Opera production © Judith Buss Skip page navigation Overview About production Dates & Cast Other productions Return to slider start Les amours fous - with the doll, the terminally ill girl who is not allowed to sing, and finally with the courtesan Giulietta in the shallows of the Venetian demimonde - pervade the narrative that begins when the punch is lit..  Musical direction Gernot Sahler (10.5. / 11.5. / 13.5.) Shun Oi (14.5.,1st and 2nd act) Giulio Cilona (14.5., 3rd act) Ruben Hawer (14.5., 4th and 5th act) Stage direction Alexander von Pfeil Stage & Costumes Lisa Behensky, Theresa Staindl Dramaturgy Malte Krasting Chorus direction Stefan Müller About production Opera fantastique by Jacques Offenbach - Libretto by Jules Barbier after the drama by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré Jacques Offenbach - given the honorable title "Mozart of the Champs-Elysées" by Rossini - worked intensively on "Les Contes d'Hoffmann", marked by illness and in a race against death. When he died on October 5, 1880, he left behind an enormous torso of various versions and sketches. The attempts of his contemporaries to reconstruct the work and bring it to performance turn into something adventurous themselves: a theater burns down, parts of Offenbach's autograph fall victim to the flames, decades later versions thought to be lost reappear, even an entire finale that ends the Giulietta act completely differently than previously assumed. Thus, a kaleidoscope of possibilities opens up for each reinterpretation. The subject is actually based on tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann. "Here, place and hour are themselves ghosts and spirits. People live locked in them until they suffocate. " (Theodor W. Adorno) The opera class of Alexander von Pfeil and Gernot Sahler brings the work to the stage of the Mozarteum in a condensed and pointed version, concentrated on material that has been safely handed down. Dates & Cast Performance dates 10. May 2019, 19.00 11. May 2019, 17.00 13. May 2019, 19.00 14. May 2019. 7.00 p.m max Schlereth Hall   Cast Hoffmann: Nutthaporn Thammathi (10.5. / 13.5.) Gabriel Arce (11.5. / 14.5.) Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto: Daniel Weiler (10.5. / 13.5.) Konstantin Riedl (11.5. / 14.5.) Nathanae¨l/Spalanzani/Schlémil: Benjamin Sattlecker (10.5. / 13.5.) Kristjan-Jaanek Mölder (11.5. / 14.5.) Crespel: Clemens Joswig (10.5. / 13.5.) Oscar Marin-Reyes (11.5. / 14.5.) Andrès/Cochenille/Frantz/Pitichinaccio: Johannes Hubmer (10.5. / 11.5. / 13.5. / 5/14) Olympia: Ornella de Luca (5/10 / 5/13) Marie-Dominique Ryckmanns (5/11 / 5/14) Antonia: Sejin Park (5/10 / 5/13) Anne Reich (5/11 / 5/14.) Giulietta: Ays¸e S¸enogul (10.5. / 13.5.) Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir (11.5. / 14.5.) La Muse/Nicklausse: Maria Hegele (10.5. / 13.5.) Vera Maria Bitter (11.5. / 14.5.) La Voix de la Mère: Ekaterina Bocharova (10.5. / 13.5.) Inês Constantino (11.5. / 14.5.) Chorus: Delia Bachler, Solitaire Bachhuber, Anna Baumgartner, Valentin Bedrich, Ines Rocha Constantino, Alicia Grünwald, Lala Hajili, Marianna Herzig, Donata MeyerKranixfeld, Margarita Polonskaia, Mats Hendrik Roolvink, Sandra Šarikovait, Dominik Wolfgang Schumertl, Serafina Starke, Laura Thaller, Emil Ugrinov, Dariel Ugrinov, Juan Villanueva Other productions Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 2.2.2026 Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia  "Go back, Tarquinius!" – comes the warning from the opera's narrator to the son of the Etruscan king. But the tragedy is already unfolding at pace: Tarquinius falls upon Lucretia, the wife of his comrade Collatinus, and rapes her, in spite of her fierce reistance. The next day, Lucretia takes her own life in public. Benjamin Britten's dark chamber opera, premiered in 1946 at Glyndebourne, resounds with the traumatic experiences of fascism and war. 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News … Home News Joseph Haydn: Il Mondo Della Luna Joseph Haydn: Il mondo della luna 21.06.2019 Opera production © Christian Schneider Skip page navigation Overview About production Dates & Cast Other productions Return to slider start Even though the genre designation "science fiction" only began to establish itself from 1929 onwards, it is fair to say that Joseph Haydn had already dared to take a look into space, or more precisely at the moon, 150 years earlier with his comic opera "Il mondo della luna"... Musical direction kai Röhrig Scenic direction karoline Gruber Stage & Costumes marion Käfer & Egon Stocchi Dramaturgy ronny Dietrich Music chamber Orchestra of the Mozarteum University About production Haydn's fantasies about life on the distant planet with beguiling birdsong, divinely dancing nymphs and, above all, women deeply devoted to their husbands may be far removed from the reality explored in 1969 with the first moon landing, but the longings projected into that distant world are decisive. In Haydn's opera, Buonafede, widowed and plagued by two nubile daughters, dreams of being able to cast off all earthly heaviness and lead a different life in an ideal world that corresponds to his dreams. The fact that in the end his flight to the moon turns out to be a fiction created by humans, which only served to satisfy their own interests, opens up dimensions worth considering. Dates & Cast Performance dates 21. June 2019, 19.00 22. June 2019, 17.00 24. June 2019, 19.00 25. June 2019, 7.00 p.m max Schlereth Hall   Cast ECCLITICO: Sascha Zarrabi BONAFEDE: Felix Mischitz CLARICE: Wendy Krikken , Hyun-jung Hwang LISETTA: Zsofia Mozer FLAMINIA: Mariya Taniguchi, Dares Hutawattana ERNESTO: Tolga Siner, Hyunsik Ko CECCO: Niklas Matthias Mayer Other productions Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 2.2.2026 Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia  "Go back, Tarquinius!" – comes the warning from the opera's narrator to the son of the Etruscan king. But the tragedy is already unfolding at pace: Tarquinius falls upon Lucretia, the wife of his comrade Collatinus, and rapes her, in spite of her fierce reistance. The next day, Lucretia takes her own life in public. Benjamin Britten's dark chamber opera, premiered in 1946 at Glyndebourne, resounds with the traumatic experiences of fascism and war. Opera production Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue 15.12.2025 Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue  Through purgatory to paradise – two voices of resistance. Two works – two perspectives on the unimaginable. Even 80 years after the end of the war, they raise big questions about the value of life, the power of art and human resilience. An evening full of intensity, musical beauty and profound humanity. Opera production Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi 15.12.2024 Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi  The performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi delivered a powerful reinterpretation of the masterpiece. Directed by Alexander von Pfeil, the production centred on the relentless feud between two rival clans and the profound despair of its victims. This staging transcended specific eras, placing the story in a universal, timeless setting that brought Bellini's dark vision of love and war to the stage with harrowing clarity. Opera production Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 20.5.2024 Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff  Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly. Opera production More news