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List of repertoire

Aida

Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi

Anna Bolena

Concertante opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti
In Italian with German surtitles

Ariadne auf Naxos

Opera in one act and a prologue, to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, by Richard Strauss
Performed in German

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)

Opera in three acts by Kurt Weill

Boris Godunow

Music drama in seven pictures by Modest P. Mussorgski
First draft of 1869
Text by Modest P. Mussorgski after Alexander Puschkin and Nikolaj Karamsin
in Russian with German surtitles

Capriccio

A conversation piece for music in one act by Richard Strauss. Performed in German.

Cardillac

Opera in three acts (four pictures) by Paul Hindemith
after a stage plot by Ferdinand Lion
original version from 1926 (world premiere in Dresden)

Carmen

Opera in four acts by Georges Bizet. Performed in French with German surtitles.

Cleofide

Opera in three acts by Johann Adolf Hasse.
Performed in Italian with German surtitles.

Così fan tutte

Dramma Giocosa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

Daphne

Opera in three acts by Richard Strauss
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

The Magic Kingdom

Fairy tale drama in one act by Ernst Křenek.
In German language
Semper 2

Das Rheingold

The eve of the Bühnenfestspiels »The Ring of the Nibelungs« by Richard Wagner

Dead Man Walking

Opera in two acts. Music by Jake Heggie. Libretto by Terrence McNally. After a novel by Sister Helen Prejean. Performed in English with German surtitles

Der fliegende Holländer / Flying Dutchman

Romantic opera in three acts by Richard Wagner

Der Freischütz

Romantic opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber

Der Rosenkavalier / The Knight of the Rose

Comedy for music in three acts by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, music by Richard Strauss.
In German language.

Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

German musical comedy in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In German language.

Die Fledermaus / The Bat

Lyrical comedy in three acts by Johann Strauß.
In German language.

Die Frau ohne Schatten / Woman without a shadow

Opera in three acts by Richard Strauss

Die Liebe der Danae / The love of Danae

A cheerful mythology in three acts by Richard Strauss

Die lustige Witwe / The Merry Widow

Operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg / The Mastersingers of Nuremberg

Opera in three acts by Richard Wagner

Die schweigsame Frau / The Silent Woman

Comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss

Die Walküre

First day of the Bühnenfestspiel »The Ring of the Nibelungs« by Richard Wagner

Don Carlo

Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

Dorina e Nibbio

Intermezzo by Domenico Sarro / Lucia Ronchetti.
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

El Cimarrón

Recital for four musicians by Hans Werner Henze.
Semper 2
Guest appearance of the »El cimarrón Ensemble«

Elektra

Opera in one act by Richard Strauss

Euryanthe

Grand heroic, romantic opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber

Falstaff

Lyrical comedy in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

Faust / Margarete

Opera in five acts by Charles Gounod
Performed in French with German surtitles

La damnation de Faust

Dramatic legend in four parts by Hector Berlioz
Performed in French with German surtitles

Fidelio

Opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven

Friedenstag

Opera in one act by Richard Strauss

Gisela! oder: Die merk- und denkwürdigen Wege des Glücks

Musictheatre by Hans Werner Henze, Christian Lehnert and Michael Kerstan
For singers, actors, mixed little choir and instruments
Performed in German with German surtitles

Giulio Cesare in Egitto / Julius Caesar in Egypt

Opera in three acts by Georg Friedrich Händel
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

Götterdämmerung

By Richard Wagner

Idomeneo

Dramma per musica in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

Il tutore / The Guardian

Intermezzo by Johann Adolf Hasse
Performed in Italian with German inserted text. Included staged play: »Der Automobilsalon« by Eugène Ionesco

Iolanta / Jolanthe

Lyric concertante opera in one act by Peter I. Tschaikovsky
Performed in Russian with German surtitles

L'Upupa

A German comedy by Hans Werner Henze
Eleven Tableaux translated from the Arabic
Libretto and music by Werner Henze

La cenerentola / Aschenputtel

Comic drama in two acts by Gioachino Rossini
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

La Dirindina / The Dilettante-Diva

Intermezzo
Farsetta per musica by Giovanni Battista Martini. Performed in Italian with German surtitles.

La gazza ladra / The Thieving Magpie

Concertante opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

La grande magia

Scenes from the extended present. By Manfred Trojahn
based on the play by Eduardo de Filippo
Libretto by Christian Martin Fuchs

La juive

Opera in five acts by Fromental Halévy.
Performed in French with German surtitles

La vestale (Opera concertante)

Tragédie lyrique in three acts by Gaspare Spontini.
Performed in French with German surtitles

Lucrezia Borgia

Opera concertante
Opera with prologue in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti

Libretto by Felice Romani
After Victor Hugo's play of the same name
Performed in Italian

Lulu

Opera in three acts by Alban Berg.
Performed in German with surtitles

L’incoronazione di Poppea / The Coronation of Poppea

Opera in one prologue and three acts by Claudio Monteverdi.
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

L’Italiana in Algeri / The Italian Girl in Algier

Comic opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. In Italian language with German surtitles.

Macbeth

Melodramma in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed in Italian with German supertitles

Madama Butterfly

Japanese tragedy in three acts by Giacomo Puccini

Manon Lescaut

Dramma lirico in vier Akten by Giacomo Puccini.
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

Nabucco

Opera in four parts by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

Notre Dame

Opera in two acts by Franz Schmidt
Performed in German

Orlando

Opera seria in three acts by Georg Friedich Händel.
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

Otello

Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi. Performed in Italian with German surtitles.

Parsifal

By Richard Wagner

Peter Grimes

Opera in three acts with a prologue by Benjamin Britten

Rusalka

Lyric opera in three acts by Antonín Dvořák
Performed in Czech with German surtitles

Salome

Musical drama in one act by Richard Strauss. In German language with German surtitles.

Siegfried

By Richard Wagner

Simplicius Simplicissimus

Three scenes of his youth after Hans Jakob Christoph by Grimmelshausen.
By Hermann Scherchen, Wolfgang Petzet and Karl Amadeus Hartmann.
Performed in German.

Street Scene

An American opera in two acts by Kurt Weill.
Performed in German with surtitles

Švanda dudák / Švanda the Bagpiper

Volksoper in two acts by Jaromír Weinberger.
Performed in Czech with German surtitles

Tannhäuser

Grand romantic opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. In German language.

Tristan und Isolde

Opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. Performed in German

Turandot

Dramma lirico in three acts by Giacomo Puccini
Performed in Italian with German surtitles

How deserted this city, once so populous

by Heinrich Schütz and Matthias Weckmann

We come to the river

Plots for music by Hans Werner Henze, text by Edward Bond.
In German language

Wozzeck

Opera in three acts by Alban Berg