Stephen Sondheim’s razor-sharp musical is about hard-working barber Benjamin Barker, who is unfairly banished to Australia by vile Judge Turpin. Turpin muscles in on the barber’s family, both the wife and daughter, and the barber’s anger and helplessness at the rough i...

Mit dem Briten Duncan Ward konnte einer der vielversprechendsten jungen Dirigenten gewonnen werden. Der renommierte kanadische Regisseur Matthew Jocelyn, der für Brett Dean das Libretto dieser Oper geschrieben hat, übernimmt nun bei der Deutschen Erstaufführung an der...

Amorous duets, arias, and instrumental works mix freely on this tribute to the Baroque ear’s finest musical dramatist. A truly cosmopolitan figure, George Frederic Handel combined a sturdy German musical heritage with sophisticated Italian training, in works that remai...

"Your name is a number, your story's a case."  Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Consul touches on issues of fascism, political resistance, and immigration bureaucracy that are every bit as relevant today as when the work premiered in 1950.  Magda Sorel's husband John has been...

Benjamin Britten’s last opera was also his most personal. The work is extraordinary not simply for the autobiographical threads that are reflected in Thomas Mann’s ageing writer Gustav von Aschenbach; the circumstances surrounding the creation of the work are also inex...

Handel – Messiah

Columbus Symphony Music Director Rossen Milanov, the Columbus Symphony and Chorus, and a quartet of exquisite soloists come together to perform Handel’s deeply spiritual oratorio, Messiah, for an unforgettable concert experience at the intimate Southern...

Step into the dark streets of Victorian London with the Michigan Opera Theatre as they present Stephen Sondheim's macabre masterpiece this winter. In typical Sondheim-ian style the story of the Demon Barber of Fleetstreet is laid bare and his grisly collaboration with...

Um des entflohenen politischen Häftlings Cesare Angelotti wieder habhaft zu werden, bringt Polizeichef Baron Scarpia den an der Flucht beteiligten Maler Mario Cavaradossi und dessen Geliebte, die Operndiva Floria Tosca, die gleichzeitig auch von Scarpia heiß begehrt wi...

If the world’s most famous love poet could help you express yourself to the one you love, you’d never be either at a loss for words, or love, again… Based on the 1994 Oscar-winning film Il Postino (The Postman) a hapless mailman has Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Nerud...

Director Phelim McDermott tackles another one of Philip Glass’s masterpieces, following the now-legendary Met staging of Satyagraha. Star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is the title pharaoh, the revolutionary ruler who transformed ancient Egypt, with the striking m...

INSZENIERUNG Vasily Barkhatov MUSIKALISCHE LEITUNG Kevin John Edusei, Eduardo Strausser BÜHNE Zinovy Margolin KOSTÜME Olga Shaishmelashvili LICHT Alexander Sivaev CHOR Lorenzo Da Rio KINDERCHOR Heide Müller DRAMATURGIE Regine Palmai MUSIKTHEATERVERMITTLUNG Eva-Maria Kö...