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13/06/06 - 09/07/06

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

12/03/06 - 28/03/06

Prova d'Orchestra

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Following the successful world creation of Richard III last season, Flanders Opera is again programming a work by the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli. This is Battistelli’s second scenic work inspired by a great Italian film director, after ...
Composer: Giorgio Battistelli
Conductor: Luca Pfaff
Director: Andrea Schwalbach

11/02/06 - 08/04/06

De Toverfluit

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Waut Koeken has made a children’s version, in Dutch, of Mozart’s fable Die Zauberflöte . The young director deliberately stuck very closely to the composer’s original music dramaturgy, as any drastic changes would only have spoiled...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Koen Kessels
Director: Waut Koeken

07/02/06 - 14/05/06

Die Lustige Witwe

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With The Merry Widow the Austrian-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár wrote THE succes operetta of the 20th century. This winner, written in the same year as Strauss’ Salome , shows a rich allochtonous community,...
Composer: Franz Lehár
Conductor: Michel Tilkin
Director: Lee Blakeley

13/12/05 - 14/01/06

Semele

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Georg Friedrich Händel wrote Semele after his Italian operas, during a period when the majority of his compositions were oratorios. The great importance of the chorus and the richness of the accompanied recitatives certainly connect it...
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel
Conductor: Michael Hofstetter
Director: Robert Carsen

04/11/05 - 23/11/05

Nabucco

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According to Giuseppe Verdi, it was the opening lyrics of the legendary slave chorus – Va pensiero, sull’ ali dorate (Fly, thoughts, on wings of gold) – that convinced him to put the libretto by Temistocle...
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Paolo Carignani

17/09/05 - 15/10/05

Ariadne auf Naxos

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Ariadne auf Naxos is undoubtedly one of the most original creations produced by the collaboration between Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. This sophisticated opera, in which the leitmotif is the myth of Ariadne who is...
Composer: Richard Strauss
Conductor: Ivan Törzs
Director: Paul Curran

25/06/05 - 26/06/05

De grote verzoeking van Sint-Antonius

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Flemish composer Louis De Meester's rarely played "radio-opera" is given a new performance in Antwerp and Ghent.
Composer: Louis De Meester
Conductor: Michel Tilkin

09/06/05 - 10/07/05

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

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Whereas in Le Nozze di Figaro , the notorious barber and jack-of-all-trades thwarts Count Almaviva in his amorous adventures, in Rossini’s opera buffa , he features as the count’s perfect accomplice. Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Conductor: Ivan Törzs
Director: Guy Joosten

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