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07/04/11 - 12/05/11

Visually stunning opera fairy tale
Composer: Richard Strauss
Conductor: Alexander Joel
Director: Marco Arturo Marelli

12/12/10 - 20/01/11

Semiramide

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In his ‘melodramma tragico’ Semiramide, Rossini, the grand master of opera buffa, created a fascinating operatic tragedy with an eastern atmosphere. This eastern tragedy presents us with the infamous Semiramis, builder of the Hanging Gardens...
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Conductor: Alberto Zedda
Director: Nigel Lowery

13/06/10 - 10/07/10

Peter Grimes

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A fishing village on the wild coast of England. Life there is hard, the fishermen go out to work on the tempestuous sea, live in humble cabins and at night get drunk with the village wenches at the local...
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Conductor: Yannis Pouspourikas
Director: David Alden

30/04/10 - 20/05/10

Giasone

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Even for a classical hero, two shrewd women is one too many. Giasone – Jason – the leader of the Argonauts who went off to Colchis to steal the Golden Fleece, which brings its owner absolute power and eternal...
Composer: Francesco Cavalli
Conductor: Federico Maria Sardelli
Director: Mariame Clément

24/04/10 - 12/05/10

The Rage of Life

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Leif (18) reacts with cool denial to the news of the death of his great love Helena (19). The bringer of this bad news witnesses no sorrow or despair, but is treated with scorn. Leif runs off, and makes...
Composer: Elena Kats-Chernin
Conductor: Daniel Inbal

23/03/10 - 25/04/10

Jevgeni Onegin

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Jevgeni Onegin is the typical ‘superfluous man’ commonly encountered in 19th-century Russian literature: cultivated, intelligent and sensitive, but incapable of emotional commitment and of finding his place in society. He is a dandy who wanders into the rural world of...
Composer: Pjotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski
Conductor: Dmitri Jurowski
Director: Tatjana Gürbaca

12/02/10 - 13/03/10

Don Carlos

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Don Carlos, the son of King Philip II of Spain, has decided to go his own way, both politically and in his private life. When his father forces him to give up his love for Elizabeth of Valois, he...
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Alexander Joel
Director: Peter Konwitschny

15/12/09 - 17/01/10

Candide

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Candide, an illegitimate child of noble origin, and his secret love, Lady Cunegonde, live together with their retinue in the ‘best of all possible worlds’, as their mentor Dr Pangloss had taught them. But when war breaks out, Candide...
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Conductor: Yannis Pouspourikas
Director: Nigel Lowery

03/11/09 - 09/12/09

Madama Butterfly

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Madame Butterfly is the drama of a Japanese geisha who, in her love for a man from a foreign culture, exchanges her own country’s age-old traditions for an uncertain future. This radical choice makes her an outcast...
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Conductor: Muhai Tang
Director: Robert Carsen

19/09/09 - 23/10/09

Wozzeck

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Although the story of Wozzeck , which is based on Georg Büchner’s impressive dramatic fragment Woyzeck , is set on the margins of society, it also shows its most profound core. It is...
Composer: Alban Berg
Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
Director: Guy Joosten

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