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04/11/07 - 01/12/07

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

07/09/07 - 18/09/07

La Damnation de Faust

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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

15/06/07 - 08/07/07

Pikovaja Dama

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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

13/04/07 - 12/05/07

Don Giovanni

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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

23/02/07 - 18/03/07

Aladdin & de wonderlamp

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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

04/02/07 - 10/03/07

Die Walküre / Der Ring des Nibelungen

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After entering Walhalla at the end of Das Rheingold , Wotan has been trying to find ways of winning back Alberich’s ring and prevent the cataclysmic end of the world order. A woman in the ‘world...
Composer: Richard Wagner
Conductor: Ivan Törzs
Director: Ivo van Hove

31/10/06 - 11/11/06

Les Pêcheurs de Perles

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Passion and rich coloration are the characteristics Hector Berlioz admired most in this opera, which was composed by twenty-five-year-old Bizet in less than three months. The action of Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Bizet’s real breakthrough in opera, is set in...
Composer: Georges Bizet
Conductor: Patrick Fournillier

17/09/06 - 14/10/06

Tosca

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After La Bohème , Puccini went resolutely for innovation and drama pur sang with Tosca. One of the Tosca librettists, Giacosa, wrote: ‘ La Bohème is pure poetry...
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Conductor: Silvio Varviso
Director: Robert Carsen

13/06/06 - 09/07/06

Der Ring des Nibelungen / Das Rheingold

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The ‘Vorabend’ of Der Ring des Nibelungen presents the general framework of the four music dramas. We are submerged in a mythical world composed of various regions: Walhalla, the elevated abode of the gods; the world...
Composer: Richard Wagner
Conductor: Ivan Törzs
Director: Ivo van Hove

02/04/06 - 18/04/06

Maria Stuarda

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Gaetano Donizetti was determined to present an opera after Schiller’s tragedy Maria Stuart (1800) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, but it was banned by King Ferdinand II and his spouse, who took offence at...
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Conductor: Silvio Varviso

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