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Recommendations & Highlights
The Semperoper Dresden offers numerous programme highlights perfectly suited to you needs as tour operator, hotel manager or private group. We will let you know about seasonal and special highlights, prices and remaining tickets. Moreover, we offer you recommendations for your stay in Dresden and Elbe Region. Look forward to and secure your place at our artistically thrilling and moving performances!
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Our autumn recommendations for groups
Benvenuto Cellini
Three days in the colourful life of the Florentine sculptor, they are tumultuous enough: After several hours in the hustle and bustle of carnival celebrations in Rome, during which Cellini fatally stabs an enemy, the artist nevertheless enjoys sweet victory at the story’s end.
Contingents for you and your guests:
19 & 29 September 2024
Opera by Arrigo Boito
Mefistofele
Do people need redemption? Between heavenly choirs of angels with a radiant brass aureole and a hellish cauldron of witches with the gloomy pealing of bells, the world’s spheres take on a concrete, haunting shape in the sound space of the opera „Mefistofele“. For centuries, many different artworks have been inspired by the tale of Faust, which explores the complex relationship between God, the Devil, man and woman. Who seduces whom to do what, and how can we achieve redemption?
Contingents for you and your guests:
6, 10, 13, 18 & 24 Oktober 2024
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Otello
Will the love between Otello and Desdemona be sacrificed on the altar of jealousy? Created by Giuseppe Verdi in 1887, this new opera, which even at the time caused audiences to go into raptures due to its originality, is still one of his most captivating works, both musically and dramatically.
Contingents for you and your guests:
2, 5, 11 & 19 October 2024
Ballet by Johan Inger
Peer Gynt
The young adventurer Peer Gynt sets out to become »King of the World«. He seduces and abandons those around him, always in search of himself. Along the way he meets many people, both benevolent and manipulative, finds inspiration and disappointment, and is nowhere really accepted. Apart from his aged mother Aase, whom he buries with a heavy heart, the only person to truly love him is the girl Solveig, who waits a lifetime for him in their home country, because that’s how long it takes for Peer to return.
Contingents for you and your guests:
25 October & 3, 13, 22 November 2024
Opera by Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio
Christine Mielitz’s production of Beethoven’s Fidelio celebrated its premiere on 7 October 1989. While local citizens took to the streets in front of the Semperoper in support of democracy and human rights, the director placed this »opera of liberation« in a contemporary prison courtyard featuring a surveillance tower and barbed wire. At a time of revolution, terror and war, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his opera about a woman who, disguised as a man, tries to rescue her husband from illegal incarceration in a secret prison.
Contingents for you and your guests:
9, 12 & 17 October 2024
Salome
The world premiere of Richard Strauss’s Salome at the Semperoper on 9 December 1905 was a true milestone in 20th century opera. Unlike any composer before him, Strauss brought the fin-de-siècle at-mosphere of decadence, psychological hyper-sensitivity as well as uninhibited and destructive sexuality to the operatic stage, overwhelming the listener with his intoxicating and at times brutal sonic world, perfectly matching the brilliant sound of the Staatskapelle Dresden.
Contingents for you and your guests:
2 & 10 November 2024
Intermezzo
What does it feel like when, in an instant, your life is turned upside down? That’s what happens to Christine, the wife of court music director Robert Storch. A misdelivered letter leads her to believe that her husband is betraying her in a most shameful manner. She goes on an emotional rollercoaster ride, and the story seems to be veering towards a tragic end ... First performed in Dresden in 1924, Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo provides all manner of insights into his turbulent married life.
Contingents for you and your guests:
8, 21 November & 4, 9 December 2024