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Bellini finds in Belcanto an instrument to create a unity between musicand emotions. His noble and melodious  style with influances of Gluck,will lead his way for years to come for Italian Opera and willinfluance Donizetti and Verdi a great...
Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
Conductor: Massimo Zanetti

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"Die Entfürhung aus dem Serail" is Mozart's most ambitious contributionto the Singspiel that was promoted by Jozef II in Vienna. The populartone and the exotisme of the Singspiel makes a connection with thevirtuoso art of singing of Italian Opera...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Arnold Östman
Director: Tim Albery

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At the end of his operacarreer, Giuseppe Verdi amazed us with two opera's with which he choosed a radical new way of thinking.
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Conductor: Balázs Kocsár
Director: Guy Joosten

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Puccini's "La Bohème" remains an unrivaled evocation of the ParisQuartier Latin en artistic ideals clashing with hard reality. This special mix of humor and pathos from HenriMurgers "Scènes de la vie de Bohème" becomes much clearer in this way....
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Conductor: Massimo Zanetti
Director: Robert Carsen

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Janácek 'animal opera' makes a connection of intimate images andthoughts of death and rebirth, about old age and spring. The centralfigure is a little vixen that plunders and kills but at the same timeis capable of noble feelings.
Composer: Leoš Janácek
Conductor: Marc Albrecht
Director: Robert Carsen

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"Tristan und Isolde" is the fulfilment of romantic ecstasy as well as the transition to the new sounds of Expressionism.

Tristan and Isolde wish for perfect fusion of their love with thecosmos. The composer realised...
Composer: Richard Wagner
Conductor: Silvio Varviso
Director: Willy Decker

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Of all the operas based on Goethe's Faust, Arrigi Boito's "Mefistofele"is most faithful to the original. It covers the entire breadth ofGoethe's magnum opus, extending from Easter morning in Frankfurt toFaust's meeting with Helena in ancient Greece, and on...
Composer: Arrigo Boito
Conductor: Donato Renzetti

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The best thing that ever happened to Richard Strauss was his encounterwith Oscar Wilde's "Salomé". The concentrated drama of Strauss'symphonic poems was the perfect medium for Wilde's one-act play, whileWilde's rich symbolic language practically cried out for Strauss'luxuriant tonal...
Composer: Richard Strauss
Conductor: Massimo Zanetti
Director: Willy Decker

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In Mozart's and Schikaneder's "Die Zauberflöte" different traditionscome together. The themes of love conquering all perils en theintervention of good and bad in man's life make us think of theViennese Zauberoper.
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Marc Piollet
Director: Nicholas Hytner

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Based on the theatre of our compratiot Michel de Ghelderode, Ligeti’sopera evoces the fantastic and demonic world of Jeroen Bosch and JamesEnsor.
Composer: György Ligeti
Conductor: Luca Pfaff
Director: Ernst Theo Richter

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