Press Information of the Bayerische Staatsoper

Kirill Petrenko and Romeo Castellucci rework „Tannhäuser“

04/27/2017

General Music Director Kirill Petrenko continues his work on Richard Wagner's oeuvre, presenting his perspective of „Tannhäuser“ on the 21st May. The Italian artist Romeo Castellucci will give his directorial debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper with Klaus Florian Vogt performing the leading role for the first time.

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The 2017/18 Season at the Bayerische Staatsoper

04/04/2017

General Manager Nikolaus Bachler and General Music Director Kirill Petrenko will present seven opera premieres in the 2017/18 season. This season's title will be „Show me your wound“.

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Munich Opera Festival 2017

01/31/2017

As per tradition, the Bayerische Staatsoper invites you to the Munich Opera Festival from 24th June to 31st July. The centrepiece will be five premieres. Alongside the two festival premieres, Die Gezeichneten and Oberon, the Elf King, the General Manager Nikolaus Bachler will present further two productions as part of the Festival Workshop in June: Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek and [catarsi], an evening of operatic theatre from the artist collective AGORA. For the first time for many years, the Staatsballett will also be presenting a festival premiere with An Evening of Ballet – Young Choreographers.

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Premiere: „Semiramide“ produced by David Alden

01/13/2017

Joyce DiDonato is Semiramide

Rossini specialist Michele Mariotti gives his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper and, together with director David...

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Kirill Petrenko conducts "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District"

11/29/2016

Kirill Petrenko, together with director Harry Kupfer, present the second new production of the season: Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

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STAATSOPER.TV : The 2016/17 season

10/11/2016

In 2016/17, the Bayerische Staatsoper will be presenting selected performances as free live streams online in its fifth season of STAATSOPER.TV....

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Premiere of Gaetano Donizetti's „La Favorite“ with Elīna Garanča

10/11/2016

The first premiere of the Bayerische Staatsoper’s season will bring Gaetano Donizetti's La Favorite to the stage under the musical leadership of Karel Mark Chichon.

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The 2016/17 season at the Bayerische Staatsoper

03/13/2016

General Manager Nikolaus Bachler and General Music Director Kirill Petrenko have eight opera premieres in store for the 2016/17 season. The season's theme is "Was folgt" ["What follows"]: "This expression suggests just as much ending as new beginning. The question as to the consequences of our own actions in an ever more complex world leaves us all too often confused and provides the subject matter for our premieres – two of which are under the direction of Kirill Petrenko," reveals Nikolaus Bachler.

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Kirill Petrenko conducts "South Pole": A double opera in two parts by Miroslav Srnka and Tom Holloway

12/29/2015

Miroslav Srnka's "South Pole" was commissioned by the Bayerische Staatsoper and will be premiered in January. General Music Director Kirill Petrenko will be on the rostrum, conducting the world premiere of a full-length opera for the first time in his career. In collaboration with the Tasmanian author Tom Holloway, Srnka has developed a "double opera" in English about the discovery of the South Pole. The two explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, who were battling to be the first men to reach the South Pole at the beginning of the 20th century, will be played by Thomas Hampson (Amundsen) and Rolando Villazón (Scott). The director is Hans Neuenfels. The curtain will rise for "South Pole" for the first time on 31 January 2016 – 104 years and two weeks after the defeated Robert Scott reached the South Pole.

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First Munich performance of Prokofiev's "The Fiery Angel"

11/16/2015

As the year comes to a close, the Bayerische Staatsoper will be presenting the second premiere of the current season – "The Fiery Angel" by Sergei Prokofiev. The work, composed in Ettal Abbey in Bavaria, will be given its first Munich performance on 29 November. The director will be Barrie Kosky, directing for the second time at the Bayerische Staatsoper after Richard Strauss's "Die schweigsame Frau".

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Kirill Petrenko and Nikolaus Bachler extend their contracts

10/13/2015

General Manager Nikolaus Bachler and General Music Director Kirill Petrenko have accepted the offer of the Minister of State, Dr Ludwig Spaenle, and are extending their current contracts at Bayerische Staatsoper up through the end of August 2021. Due to Maestro Petrenko's commitment as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, in his final season of 2020/21 he will be working at Bayerische Staatsoper as a guest conductor.

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STAATSOPER.TV 2015/16 Season in Full-HD

09/28/2015

In 2015/16, the Bayerische Staatsoper will be presenting selected performances as free live streams online in its fourth season of STAATSOPER.TV. Classical music lovers from all over the world can thus follow a total of six operas and a complete ballet from Munich, all in superb sound and image quality, live and in full HD. The first event will be the audiovisual transmission of Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos on 23 October 2015 under the musical direction of General Music Director Kirill Petrenko.

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Bayerische Staatsoper world premiere: Miroslav Srnka composes "South Pole"

02/26/2015

A preview of the coming season at the Bayerische Staatsoper: Together with Kiwi writer Tom Holloway, the young Czech composer Miroslav Srnka is working on an English-language opera revolving around the discovery of the South Pole. The world premiere of this work commissioned by the Bayerische Staatsoper will take place on 31st January 2016. A blog following the creative process of the opera (as well as explaining the historical background to the 1910-1913 polar expedition) has been online at www.suedpol.staatsoper.de since 16th February.

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"Lucia di Lammermoor" sees Kirill Petrenko make his bel canto conducting debut

01/09/2015

The Bayerische Staatsoper presents Gaetano Donizetti’s "Lucia di Lammermoor", Kirill Petrenko’s first premiere conducting role of the season. The production is the work of Polish director Barbara Wysocka. Diana Damrau takes the title role, accompanied by Pavol Breslik as her lover Edgardo di Ravenswood.

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