New Productions
The Valkyrie
Richard Wagner
First day of the stage festival play »The Nibelung's Ring«
With Subtitles
Conductor: GMD Kimbo Ishii
Director: Jakob Peters-Messer
Set: Designer Guido Petzold
Premiere Sat. 8. 9. 2018 in the Opernhaus/Bühne
Countess Maritza
Emmerich Kálmán
Operetta in three acts by Emmerich Kálmán | Libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald
Conductor: Pawel Poplawski
Director: Oliver Klöter
Set /Costume: Designer Jason Southgate
Don Pasquale
Gaetano Donizetti
Drama buffo in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, Libretto by Giovanni Domenico Ruffini and Gaetano Donizetti, based on the work by Angelo Anelli
In Italian with German surtitles
Conductor: Svetoslav Borisov
Director: Christian Poewe
Set Designer: Christiane Hercherr
Premiere Sat. 11. 11. 2018 in the Opernhaus/Bühne
Vanessa
Samuel Barber
Opera in three acts by Samuel Barber; Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
In English with German surtitles
Conductor: Svetoslav Borisov
Director: Karen Stone
Set/Costume: Designer Ulrich Schulz
Premiere Sat. 19. 1. 2019 in the Opernhaus/Bühne
Otello
Giuseppe Verdi
Dramma lirico in in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on the work by Shakespeare
In Italien with German surtitles
Conductor: GMD Kimbo Ishii
Director: Olivia Fuchs
Set/Costume: Designer Yannis Thavoris
Premiere Sat. 16. 2. 2019 in the Opernhaus/Bühne
Xerxes
Georg Friedrich Händel
Opera in three acts by Georg Frideric Händel
Libretto by Nicolò Minato and Silvio Stampiglia
In Italian with German surtitles
Conductor: Nicholas Kok
Director: Tobias Heyder
Set Designer: Pascal Seibicke
The True Story of King Kong
Roscha A. Säidow
A chamber opera with puppets
Premiere
Libretto by Roscha A. Säidow, In cooperation with the Magdeburg Puppet Theatre
In English with German subtitles
Conductor: N. N.
Director: Roscha A. Säidow
Puppet-making: Magdalena Roth
Set Designer: Julia Plickat
Premiere Sat. 16. 3. 2019 in the Schauspielhaus/Bühne
Fiddler on the Roof
Musical in two acts
Based on stories by Sholem Aleichem, with the express permission of Arnold Perl,
book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, yrics by Sheldon Harnick
German version by Rolf Merz and Gerhard
Original stage production and choreography in New York by Jerome Robbins
Conductor Damian Omansen
Director Erik Petersen
Set Designer Anja Lichtenegger
Premiere Sat. 4. 5. 2019 in the Opernhaus/Bühne
Revivals 2018/2019
Salome
Opera by Richard Strauss
Revival Opening Night Fri. 14 September 2018
Little Shop of Horrors
Musical by Alan Menken
Revival Opening Night Sat. 15. September 2018
The Magic Flute
Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Revival Opening Night Sun. 2 December 2018
La Bohème
Opera by Giacomo Puccini
Revival Opening Night Sat. 22 December 2018
La Cage aux Folles
Musical by Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein
Reopening Sat. 13th March 2019
A Night in Venice
Operetta by Johann Strauss
Revival Opening Night Sat. 13 April 2019