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With Götterdammerung Wagner's Ring cycle comes to a close. This promises to be a spectacular conclusion to the highly acclaimed series directed by Ivo van Hove and conducted by Ivan Törzs.
Composer: Richard Wagner
Conductor: Ivan Törzs
Director: Ivo van Hove

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Following Norma and Il Pirata , Flanders Opera presents a third key work by Vincenzo Bellini, grandmaster of the Italian belcanto . Again La Sonnambula is a work with divinely...
Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
Conductor: Rani Calderon

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Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites takes us within the closed setting of a Carmelite convent at the time of the French Revolution. The music draws from a very human emotional journey. Flanders Opera presents the work...
Composer: Francis Poulenc
Conductor: Nicolas Krüger
Director: Robert Carsen

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Flanders Opera’s Fellini cycle – with  Satyricon  (Maderna),  Prova d’Orchestra  (Battistelli) and  Aladdin en de Wonderlamp  (Rota) as previous editions — is to be crowned with an international creation. Composer Luc...
Composer: Luc Van Hove
Conductor: Koen Kessels
Director: Waut Koeken

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With  Le Nozze di Figaro , Mozart simultaneously capitalised on the great success of  opera buffa under Joseph II and plays to the expectations of the Viennese public. Following the success of Paisiello’s ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Andreas Spering
Director: Guy Joosten

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The third part of Ivo van Hove's version of Wagner's Ring cycle will, once again, be a both intriguing and moving present-day interpretation of the work.
Composer: Richard Wagner
Conductor: Ivan Törzs
Director: Ivo van Hove

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‘Concert opera’ and ‘dramatic saga’. Such are the descriptions Hector Berlioz himself offered for La Damnation de Faust . As with his choral symphony,  Roméo et Juliette , the French composer was adamant...
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Conductor: Paolo Carignani

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Pikovaya Dama , a.k.a. the Queen of Spades, is Tchaikovsky’s second most famous opera, after Evgeny Onegin . For the third time, the composer took his libretto from Pushkin. The impoverished officer Hermann dreams of...
Composer: Pjotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski
Conductor: Günter Neuhold
Director: Guy Joosten

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Mozart’s  Il dissoluto punito ossia Il Don Giovanni  — ‘The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni’ — lends the theatrical character who was highly popular in the 18 th  century mythical and archetypal proportions....
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Andreas Spering
Director: Achim Freyer

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After the succes of Mozart's The Magic Flute last year, Flanders Opera again schedules an opera for children. Nino Rota's colourful Aladdin and the wonderlamp (sung in Dutch) immerses the public in...
Composer: Nino Rota
Conductor: Jef Smits
Director: Waut Koeken

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