Theater an der Wien

Programme 2009/10

The new season provides international highlights for Vienna all the year round, with no summer break. With thirteen premieres on the programme, the Theater an der Wien once again places the emphasis firmly on productions of the very highest quality.

Programme 09/10

season 2009|10

Opera

Death in Venice

Premiere
Thursday, 17th September 2009, 7 pm

Opera in two acts (1973)
Music by Benjamin Britten, Libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the novella by Thomas Mann
In English with German surtitles
Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Director: Ramin Gray
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

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September 2009

		17	19
	22	24		27

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Opera

Tancredi

Premiere
Thursday, 15th October 2009, 7 pm

Melodramma eroico in two acts (1813)
Music by Gioachino Rossini
In Italian with German surtitles
Conductor: René Jacobs
Director: Stephen Lawless
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées

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October 2009

			15		17
	19	21		23

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Opera

Der Prinz von Homburg

Premiere
Thursday 12th November 2009, 7.30 pm

Opera in three acts (1960)
Music by Hans Werner Henze
Libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann after the play by Heinrich von Kleist
Conductor: Marc Albrecht
Director: Christof Loy

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November 2009

		12		14
	17		20

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Opera

Il mondo della luna

Premiere
Saturday, 5th December 2009,
7 pm

Dramma giocoso in three acts (1777)
Music by Joseph Haydn
Libretto by Carlo Goldoni
Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Director: Tobias Moretti
Concentus Musicus Wien

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December 2009					05
	07		09	11		13

		22

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Opera

L'incoronazione di Poppea

Premiere
Thursday, 21th January 2010,
7 pm

Opera by Claudio Monteverdi
In Italian with German surtitles
Conductor: Christopher Moulds
Director: Robert Carsen
With Lawrence Zazzo, Juanita Lascarro, Jacek Laszczkowski, Anna Bonitatibus u. a.
Balthasar Neumann Ensemble

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January 2010


			21		23
	25	27		29		31

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Opera

Die Besessenen

Premiere
Friday, 19th of February 2010,
7pm

Opera by Johannes Kalitzke
Text by Christoph Klimke
based on the novel by Witold Gombrowicz
Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke
Director: Kasper Bech Holten
With Noa Frenkel, Leigh Melrose, et al.

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February 2010

			19	21
	23	25

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Opera

Iphigénie en Tauride

Premiere
Sunday 14 March, 2010, 7 pm

Tragédie opéra in four acts (1779)
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard
Conductor: Harry Bicket
Director: Torsten Fischer

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March 2010
				14
	16	18	20
	23

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Opera

Der Freischütz

Premiere: Monday 19 April, 2010, 7 pm

Romantic opera in three acts (1821)
Music by Carl Maria von Weber
Libretto by Johann Friedrich Kind
In German
Conductor: Betrand de Billy
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky

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April 2010


	19	21		23
	26		29

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Opera

Orlando misterioso

Premiere: Wednesday 23 June, 2010, 7.30 pm

A journey through song
Music by Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss
Idea, conception, dramatic advisour & soprano: Nadja Michael

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	Wed	Fri
June 2010


	23	25

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Opera

Die Fledermaus

Premiere: Thursday 15 July, 2010, 7.30 pm

Comic opera in three acts (1874)
Music by Johann Strauß
Libretto by Carl Haffner and Richard Genée, after Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
In German
Conductor: Cornelius Meister
Director: Philipp Himmelmann
With Kurt Streit, Nicola Beller Carbone ......

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July 2010

		15	17
	20	22		25
	27	29

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