Dramma per musica in three acts (1735)
Music by Georg Friedrich Händel
Libretto adapted from the play GINEVRA, PRINCIPESSA DI SCOZIA by Antonio Salvi
Performed in Italien with German surtitles
Conductor: Christohpe Rousset
Director & Set: Lukas Hemleb
with Caitlin Hulcup, Danielle de Niese, etc.
season 2008|09
Opera
Ariodante
Opera
Orfeo ed Euridice
Azione teatrale per musica in three acts (1762)
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Libretto by Ranieri De'Calzabigi
Performed in italian with german surtitles
Conductor: René Jacobs
Director: Stephen Lawless
with Bejun Mehta, Miah Persson, etc.
Opera
The Rake's Progress
Opera in three acts (1951)
Music by Igor Strawinski
Libretto by Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman
Performed in English with German surtitles
Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Director: Martin Kusej
with Toby Spence, Alastair Miles, etc.
Opera
Intermezzo
A bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes in two acts (1924)
Music and Libretto by Richard Strauss
Performed in German
Conductor: Kirill Petrenko
Director: Christof Loy
with Bo Skovhus, Carola Glaser, etc.
Opera
Pelléas et Mélisande
Drama lyrique in five acts (1902)
Music by Claude Debussy
Libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck
Conductor: Bertrand de Billy
Director & costumes: Laurent Pelly
with Natalie Dessay, Stéphane Degout
Opera
Partenope
Dramma per musica in three acts, HWV 27 (1730)
Music by Georg Friedrich Händel
Adapted from the Libretto by Silvio Stampiglia
Performed in Italian with German surtitles
Conductor: Christophe Rousset
Director: Pierre Audi
with Christine Schäfer, Kurt Streit, etc.
Opera
Messiah
Oratorio in three parts, HWV 56 (1742)
Music by Georg Friedrich Händel
Text (based on the Bible) by Charles Jennens
Performed in English with German surtitles
Conductor: Jean-Christohpe Spinosi
Director: Claus Guth
with Susan Gritton, Cornelia Horak, etc.
Opera
Mitridate, Re di Ponto
Opera seria in three acts (1770)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi
Based on the play by Jean Baptiste Racine
Performed in Italian with German surtitles
Conductor: Harry Bicket
Director: Robert Carsen
with Bruce Ford, Patricia Petibon, etc.
Opera
Il Turco in Italia
Dramma buffo per musica in two acts (1814)
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Based on a production by Christof Loy
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Opera
Don Giovanni
Dramma giocoso in two acts, KV 527 (1787)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libreto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Performed in Italian with German surtitles
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Director: Keith Warner
with Erwin Schrott, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, etc.
