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The «comedy for music» is considered by many to be the most beautiful of all Strauss operas – the vocal parts are of great lyricism and opulence. Our revival features a top-class ensemble of singers, including one of the most important Strauss interpreters of our time: Krassimira Stoyanova as the Feldmarschallin.

Revival 15 Feb 2019
23, 27 Feb; 03 Mar 2019

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Der Rosenkavalier

Opera by Richard Strauss

The «comedy for music» is considered by many to be the most beautiful of all Strauss operas – the vocal parts are of great lyricism and opulence. Our revival features a top-class ensemble of singers, including one of the most important Strauss interpreters of our time: Krassimira Stoyanova as the Feldmarschallin.

Revival 15 Feb 2019
23, 27 Feb; 03 Mar 2019

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Der Rosenkavalier

Opera by Richard Strauss

The «comedy for music» is considered by many to be the most beautiful of all Strauss operas – the vocal parts are of great lyricism and opulence. Our revival features a top-class ensemble of singers, including one of the most important Strauss interpreters of our time: Krassimira Stoyanova as the Feldmarschallin.

Revival 15 Feb 2019
23, 27 Feb; 03 Mar 2019

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Der Rosenkavalier

Opera by Richard Strauss

The «comedy for music» is considered by many to be the most beautiful of all Strauss operas – the vocal parts are of great lyricism and opulence. Our revival features a top-class ensemble of singers, including one of the most important Strauss interpreters of our time: Krassimira Stoyanova as the Feldmarschallin.

Revival 15 Feb 2019
23, 27 Feb; 03 Mar 2019

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Der Rosenkavalier

Opera by Richard Strauss

György Ligeti’s opera is one of the 20th century’s most potent works of musical theatre. This magnificent, cryptic and always slightly vulgar piece of world theatre, which Ligeti himself described as an «anti-anti-opera» and whose overture consists of a concert of car horns, will be staged by Tatjana Gürbaca.

Premiere 03 Feb 2019
07, 10, 13, 16, 21, 24 Feb; 02 Mar 2019

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Le Grand Macabre

Opera by György Ligeti

György Ligeti’s opera is one of the 20th century’s most potent works of musical theatre. This magnificent, cryptic and always slightly vulgar piece of world theatre, which Ligeti himself described as an «anti-anti-opera» and whose overture consists of a concert of car horns, will be staged by Tatjana Gürbaca.

Premiere 03 Feb 2019
07, 10, 13, 16, 21, 24 Feb; 02 Mar 2019

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Le Grand Macabre

Opera by György Ligeti

György Ligeti’s opera is one of the 20th century’s most potent works of musical theatre. This magnificent, cryptic and always slightly vulgar piece of world theatre, which Ligeti himself described as an «anti-anti-opera» and whose overture consists of a concert of car horns, will be staged by Tatjana Gürbaca.

Premiere 03 Feb 2019
07, 10, 13, 16, 21, 24 Feb; 02 Mar 2019

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Le Grand Macabre

Opera by György Ligeti
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Trailer «Le Grand Macabre»
Leigh Melrose sings Nekrotzar in «Le Grand Macabre»
Tito Ceccherini conducts «Le Grand Macabre»

In Mozart's first «Dramma giocoso», composed at the age of 18, enormous depths of feeling collide with theatrical racket. The Zurich Premiere of Tatjana Gürbaca's production features an exquisite ensemble of singers.

Zurich Premiere 17 Feb 2019
20, 24 Feb; 01, 06, 08 Mar 2019

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La finta giardiniera

Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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News

Intendant Andreas Homoki and Ballet director Christian Spuck extend their contract until 2025, Gianandrea Noseda becomes the new General Music Director from the 2021/22 season. +++ 22 opera houses, 14 countries, one new opera season for Europe. The European culture channel ARTE Concert presents outstanding productions, great classics, exciting novelties and rediscoveries of the most important opera stages in Europe on its new digital ARTE Opera Season.  From 31 Jan, Hector Berlioz' Les Troyens will be broadcast from the Opéra Bastille in Paris. +++ In the two performances of Lucia di Lammermoor on 22 and 26 February 2019, Artur Ruciński takes over the role of Lord Enrico Ashton instead of Roman Burdenko. +++

It’s that time of the year again: Zurich Opera House will open its doors for a truly glittering ball.

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Opera Ball

Charity gala 16th of March 2019

Gaetano Donizetti captured the dependences and passions of the principal figures extremely effectively in music. In our revival production, the Armenian soprano Nina Minasyan alternates with Venera Gimadieva singing the difficult and fascinating part of Lucia.

Revival 22 Feb 2019
26, 28 Feb; 05, 10, 14, 19 Mar 2019

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Lucia
di Lammermoor

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Gaetano Donizetti captured the dependences and passions of the principal figures extremely effectively in music. In our revival production, the Armenian soprano Nina Minasyan alternates with Venera Gimadieva singing the difficult and fascinating part of Lucia.

Revival 22 Feb 2019
26, 28 Feb; 05, 10, 14, 19 Mar 2019

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Lucia
di Lammermoor

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Gaetano Donizetti captured the dependences and passions of the principal figures extremely effectively in music. In our revival production, the Armenian soprano Nina Minasyan alternates with Venera Gimadieva singing the difficult and fascinating part of Lucia.

Revival 22 Feb 2019
26, 28 Feb; 05, 10, 14, 19 Mar 2019

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Lucia
di Lammermoor

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Out now: Our new Bruckner CD, Symphony No. 4 «Romantic»

In the Bruckner Package with the CD Bruckner, Symphony No. 8 you get it for CHF 40 instead of CHF 52!

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With Hänsel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck created the most successful fairytale opera of all time. Robert Carsen stages the popular fairy tale for the whole family.

Premiere 18 Nov 2018
22, 25 Nov; 12, 13, 15, 23, 26, 30 Dec 2018; 18, 20, 27 Jan; 17 Feb; 24 Mar; 20, 22, 25 Apr 2019

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Hänsel und Gretel

Fairy tale opera by Engelbert Humperdinck from the age of 8

With Hänsel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck created the most successful fairytale opera of all time. Robert Carsen stages the popular fairy tale for the whole family.

Premiere 18 Nov 2018
22, 25 Nov; 12, 13, 15, 23, 26, 30 Dec 2018; 18, 20, 27 Jan; 17 Feb; 24 Mar; 20, 22, 25 Apr 2019

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Hänsel und Gretel

Fairy tale opera by Engelbert Humperdinck from the age of 8

With Hänsel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck created the most successful fairytale opera of all time. Robert Carsen stages the popular fairy tale for the whole family.

Premiere 18 Nov 2018
22, 25 Nov; 12, 13, 15, 23, 26, 30 Dec 2018; 18, 20, 27 Jan; 17 Feb; 24 Mar; 20, 22, 25 Apr 2019

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Hänsel und Gretel

Fairy tale opera by Engelbert Humperdinck from the age of 8

With Hänsel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck created the most successful fairytale opera of all time. Robert Carsen stages the popular fairy tale for the whole family.

Premiere 18 Nov 2018
22, 25 Nov; 12, 13, 15, 23, 26, 30 Dec 2018; 18, 20, 27 Jan; 17 Feb; 24 Mar; 20, 22, 25 Apr 2019

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Hänsel und Gretel

Fairy tale opera by Engelbert Humperdinck from the age of 8

With Hänsel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck created the most successful fairytale opera of all time. Robert Carsen stages the popular fairy tale for the whole family.

Premiere 18 Nov 2018
22, 25 Nov; 12, 13, 15, 23, 26, 30 Dec 2018; 18, 20, 27 Jan; 17 Feb; 24 Mar; 20, 22, 25 Apr 2019

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Hänsel und Gretel

Fairy tale opera by Engelbert Humperdinck from the age of 8
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Nibble, nibble, gnaw

Based on the famous fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm, Engelbert Humperdinck created an opera for children and adults equally.

Mon04Mar

Song recital

Anja Harteros

Anja Harteros is one of the most sought-after sopranos of our time. Her international career has led her to the Metropolitan Opera, the Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the State Operas in Munich, Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg and Dresden, the Opera Houses in Florence, Amsterdam, Paris, Geneva, Tokyo as well as to the Salzburg Festival. In Zurich she can not only be heard this season in the revival of Verdi's La forza del destino, but also on her own song recital with selected songs by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Hugo Wolf. She will be accompanied by Wolfram Rieger on the piano.

04 Mar 2019

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Marco Goecke has dedicated a feature-length ballet to the epoch-making dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinski. The result fascinatingly merges Goecke’s distinctive, nervously trembling, frantic body language with reminiscences of Nijinsky the artist.

Premiere 09 Mar 2019
10, 17, 21, 22, 24, 29, 30 Mar; 03, 06 Apr 2019

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Nijinski

Ballet by Marco Goecke
Thu07Mar

Bach

1st La Scintilla Concert

The concert series of the Orchestra La Scintilla, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this season, begins on 7th of March. Under the direction of the conductor and violinist Riccardo Minasi, who will be working regularly with our original sound ensemble from this season on, we will celebrate the beginning of the concert series with the Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1721 Bach dedicated these six instrumental concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg. However, the works were not composed especially for this occasion, but were arranged newly. This also explains why the six concertos, which can be heard as a cycle in this Scintilla concerto, show great stylistic differences and are played with very different instruments.

07 Mar 2019

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The revival of Harry Kupfer’s production features a first-class cast: Stephen Gould, one of the internationally most sought-after Wagner tenors, will grace the stage of Zurich Opera House. The soprano Lise Davidsen will be performing the role of Elisabeth.

Revival 23 Mar 2019
27, 31 Mar; 05 Apr 2019

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Tannhäuser

Opera by Richard Wagner

«Et c’est là… l’histoire de Manon… Lescaut…» These are the last words of Manon’s brief life, which Jules Massenet portrays as a rise and fall. A dream cast has been assembled for this new production staged by Floris Visser.

Premiere 07 Apr 2019
10, 13, 18, 22, 26 Apr; 04, 12, 15 May 2019

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Manon

Opera by Jules Massenet