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Season 2023/24

Richard Strauss Days

From 27 March to 7 April 2024, the Semperoper will once again host a festival with a Strauss focus.

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Dear audience members

After two successful ballet premieres and acclaimed opera revivals over the past few months, the next world premiere is just around the corner with Detlev Glanert’s »Die Jüdin von Toledo« (The Jewish Woman of Toledo).

The work has been staged by the internationally celebrated director Robert Carsen, here working on his first project at the Semperoper. Carsen previously directed the premiere of Glanert’s »Oceane« at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. An outstanding cast featuring Heidi Stober as Rahel, Lilly Jørstad as her sister Esther, Christoph Pohl as King Alfonso VIII, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner as Eleanor of England and Markus Marquardt as Manrique will perform under the baton of Jonathan Darlington.

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In the opera, Rachel’s sister Esther tells us that »[t]he world becomes hell for all those who sacrifice their humanity«. – a powerful idea whose truth has unfortunately become ever more relevant in view of current events. Detlev Glanert and his librettist Hans-Ulrich Treichel have drawn inspiration in their work from the tragedy of the same name by Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer, who, reflecting a pessimistic streak amongst his countrymen, wrote the prophetic sentence that still moves us today: »The path of modern education goes from humanity via nationalism to bestiality.« That was in 1849. Is the situation different in 2024?

It is with great concern that we see our democratic values, which are rooted in diversity, international goodwill and tolerance, being openly attacked by radical right-wing forces. The fact that neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists, including leading members of the political party »Alternative für Deutschland« (AfD) and the group »Werteunion«, met in Potsdam to reputedly discuss the outlines of a so-called »master plan« to expel people of diverse ethnic backgrounds from Germany brings back memories of the direst chapter in this country’s history.

As an international cultural institution bringing together creative individuals from more than 30 nations, we cannot remain silent. And so we fully back the peaceful demonstrations in support of the rule of law, human dignity and tolerance shown to all peoples of the world.

Your
Peter Theiler
Intendant of the Staatsoper Dresden

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Musical in one prologue and two acts by Stephen Sondheim Performed in German

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Opera and Ballet 2023/24

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Oper

Der Freischütz

Romantic opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber

Oper

La bohème

Scenes of »La vie de Bohème« (Henri Murger) in four pictures by Giacomo Puccini

Szene aus »La Cenerentola«

Oper

La Cenerentola / Cinderella

Dramma giocoso in two acts von Gioachino Rossini

Szene aus »La sonnambula«

Oper

La sonnambula

Melodramma in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini

Szene aus der Oper »La traviata«

Oper

La traviata

Melodramma in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi

Oper

L’elisir d’amore/ The Elixir of Love

Melodrama in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti

Oper

Les Contes d’Hoffmann / Tales of Hoffmann

Fantastic opera in five acts by Jacques Offenbach

Oper

L’Orfeo

Favola in musica in one prologue and five acts by Claudio Monteverdi

Oper

Die tote Stadt

Opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Szene aus »Don Carlo«

Oper

Don Carlo

Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi

Szene aus der Oper »Elektra«

Oper

Elektra

Tragedy in one act by Richard Strauss

Oper

Pique Dame / The Queen of Spades

Opera in three acts and seven scenes by Pjotr I. Tschaikowsky

Ballett

Dornröschen / The Sleeping Beauty

Ballett in one prologue and three acts after Marius Petipa. Adapted by Marcelo Gomes.

Oper

Benvenuto Cellini

Opéra-comique in three acts (Weimar version) by Hector Berlioz

Ballett

A Swan Lake

Ballet in two acts by Johan Inger

Ballett

Classics by Balanchine / Peck / Tharp

Multi-part ballet evening by George Balanchine / Justin Peck / Twyla Tharp

Szene aus dem Ballett »The Dream«

Ballett

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Ballet evening in two parts by Frederick Ashton / David Dawson

Ballett

White Darkness

Three-part ballet evening by William Forsythe / Sharon Eyal / Nacho Duato

Oper

Katja Kabanowa

Opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček

About the Semperoper

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History of the Semperoper

A house full of tradition

The history of opera in Dresden goes back to the opening of the city’s first opera house in 1667.

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