Komponist Richard Wagner. Dichtung vom Komponisten.
Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel in drei Aufzügen (1882)

Musikalische Leitung

Constantin Trinks

(2024: APR 04, 07, 10)

Adam Fischer

(2024: JUL 20, 23)

Inszenierung

Pierre Audi

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Bayerischer Staatsopernchor und Zusatzchor der Bayerischen Staatsoper

Extrachor der Bayerischen Staatsoper

LEITUNG

• Musikalische Leitung Christoph Gedschold

• Moderation Juri Tetzlaff

• Chor Chor der Oper Leipzig

• Orchester Gewandhausorchester

BESETZUNG

• Samantha Gaul

• Yajie Zhang

• Matthias Stier

• Sven Hjörleifsson

• Tuomas Pursio

• Jonathan Michie

“In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the war in Vietnam and the cold war, this encounter marked a turning point in Chinese‑ American relations. John Adams, a major musical figure of the last forty years, made this event of contemporary history the subject of his first opera. Nixon in China tackles the political thaw instigated by ping-pong diplomacy, begun by the invitation of the American table tennis players by their Chinese counterparts, one year before the presidential visit. A mesmerising work in which the pulsations and repetitions typical of minimalism are combined with melodic lines of great lyricism. For its entry into the Paris Opera repertoire, this work has been entrusted to the director Valentina Carrasco, who underlines the importance and the mediating power of Chinese national sport in history.” -Opéra National de Paris

Richard Strauss | “Musical drama in one act Text by the composer after Oscar Wilde’s Drama Salome (1891) in a German translation (1903) by Hedwig Lachmann | In German with German and English supertitles | Playing time 1 3/4 hours | No intermission

When Salome had its world premiere in 1905, it marked the beginning of Richard Strauss’ operatic successes. Based on Oscar Wilde’s sensational tragedy, Strauss composed a musical drama rife with unleashed passion, whose worldwide success not even prudish censors could stop. Using one of the most scandalous stories in cultural history, whose origins lie in the New Testament, Strauss created a musical and stunning psychological profile of the unconscious, laying bare the conflict between sensuality and asceticism, between intoxication and loneliness, power and love.
Princess Salome lives in the decadent court of her mother, Herodias, and stepfather, Herod. Like a voice from another world, the prophet Jochanaan calls to her from his prison cell in the palace dungeon. She projects her sensual desires on to the very man who cannot be tempted by worldly pleasures. His disdain for her cements her plan: if she can’t have the man, then at least she can have his head on a platter. In her final monologue, which is a dialogue with the prophet’s decapitated head, is simultaneously an ecstatic and tragic love song: “If you had seen me, Jochanaan, you would have loved me.”
Never before had a composer set such passion and desire to music. With new, exciting ways of manifesting sound, Strauss cast the fiery temper and soulless depths of his eponymous character in thrilling music. Jochanaan’s prophecy is as haunting as Salome’s erotically-charged “Dance of the Seven Veils,” a scintillating dance that both fascinates and disturbs even today.” - Oper Leipzig

Engelbert Humperdinck | “Fairy tale opera in three scenes | Text by Adelheid Wette after the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm / For children 8 and older | Playing time ca. 2 1/4 hours | One intermission 

For over a century, Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera »Hänsel and Gretel« has been enchanting generations of young opera-goers. Not insignificantly, the premiere of this work took place on the night before Christmas Eve. To this day, this beloved opera is performed near Christmastime in many opera houses. After all, Christmas is a time for family, and »Hänsel and Gretel« is a family opera par excellence: While their children’s eyes widen in wonder at their first opera experience, parents can reminisce and delight in nostalgia. In this new production, director Birgit Eckenweber, together with her set- and costume designer Alexander Mudlagk, sends Hansel and Gretel into a fantastical fairy-tale world that’s guaranteed to fascinate. Ah, to be young again!” - Oper Leipzig

Giuseppe Verdi | “Melodramma in three acts | Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas | In Italian with German supertitles | Playing time ca. 2 1/4 hours | One intermission
La Traviata is the final work in the Trilogia Popolare, Verdi’s trio of masterpieces written between 1850-52. Once again, he was inspired by an outsider: after the jester in Rigoletto and the gypsy Azucena in Il Trovatore, the courtesan Violetta Valéry -- a woman whose charm surpasses her predecessors -- takes center stage here. The Parisian demimonde is the setting for the story of the unconditional and hopeless love between Alfredo Germont and the terminally ill Violetta. From the very beginning, their love is threatened not only by death, but also by the norms of the society and the honor of a family.
But the story’s grand themes of love, death, and morality only come into their own through Verdi’s music. He didn’t so much compose moments -- the morbid allure of the saintly whore, the passion of the young society lover, the unsavory milieu of the demimonde, and the moral standards of the father -- as much as the interplay between these moments. And so it is that Verdi’s most popular opera is about so much more than the tortured journey of an outsider: Here, psychologically-unstable inner worlds and societal norms confront one another in the most dramatic of ways.” - Oper Leipzig

Composer Georg Friedrich Haas / Claudio Monteverdi. Text für "Thomas" von Händl Klaus. New Production.

Premiere at 23. May 2022

Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel in drei Aufzügen - 1882

Komponist Richard Wagner. Dichtung vom Komponisten.
In deutscher Sprache · Mit Übertiteln in deutscher und englischer Sprache.

Premiere am 28. Juni 2018
Nationaltheater.

Dauer ca. 5 Stunden 15 Minuten

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#BSOparsifal

Opera buffa in zwei Akten

Komponist Gioachino Rossini. Jacopo Ferretti.
In italienischer Sprache · Mit Übertiteln in deutscher und englischer Sprache.

Nationaltheater

Dauer ca. 3 Stunden 10 Minuten

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#BSOcenerentola

Opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček (1924)

Composer Leoš Janáček · Text by the composer based on Rudolf Těsnohlídek’s serialized novella, Vixen Sharp Ears

In tschechischer Sprache · Mit Übertiteln in deutscher und englischer Sprache | New Production

Thursday, 03. February 2022 bis 16. July 2022

Nationaltheater

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Premiere at 30. January 2022