STAATSOPER.TV
The streaming platform of the Bayerische Staatsoper

With STAATSOPER.TV, the Bayerische Staatsoper offers viewers around the world selected opera and ballet performances as well as concert recordings of the Bayerische Staatsorchester live or streamed as video-on-demand.

Music videos, documentaries, interviews, current releases of the in-house label Bayerische Staatsoper Recordings (BSOrec), podcasts and exclusive looks behind the scenes of one of the most successful opera houses in the world complete the offer. This means that opera and music enthusiasts from all over the world will once again be able to watch performances from Munich in full length on the Internet this season - in the highest HD quality, of course.

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AIDA
Opera for all
Giuseppe Verdi
Musical direction: Daniele Rustioni
VIDEO LIVESTREAM
Sunday, 23.07.2023, 19.00 pm, National Theatre

aida

Stage design of Aida

Trailer zu Aida

Podcasts

How to Oper Spoiler on Aida


The subjective, slightly tipsy opera review. 
This time Kathie Roeb and Linda Becker talk with our fan Paula, winner:in our <30 giveaway, about opening night of Aida at the National Theater.

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How to Oper on Aida 

In the current episode, Kathi Roeb and Linda Becker talk about the new production of Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, which will premiere at our National Theater on May 15, 2023. They not only go into the historical background of Aida, but also into the exciting love triangle between Aida, Radamès and Amneris. They also talk to dramaturge Katharina Ortmann about the two princesses from hostile states who love the same man and the effects this has on the two peoples. Linda and Kathi also ask how it can be that so many operas have a woman's name; however, the role of women in the play often plays a subordinate role.

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Audiofeature on Aida 

Not walled in an underground temple vault, but in front of a mountain of ashes, Aida and Radamès die in Damiano Michieletto's new production of Giuseppe Verdi's Egyptian opera, which he likes to understand as monumental. How war affects people and their search for happiness has hardly changed since the time of the pharaohs until today. Thus, Aida presents a sharp social analysis of the deadly intertwining of the private and the political. And the famous triumphal march trumpets no longer sound so triumphant - Holger Noltze on Verdi's long journey to Egypt and the new Aida at the Bayerische Staatsoper.

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Ja, mai festival 2023

OBSERVATIONS to HANJO

OBSERVATIONS to IL RITORNO

Podcasts

Audiofeatue on Il ritorno / The year of magical thinking
 

The 15-minute podcast to prepare for the performance: Twenty years Ulisse has been away, in the Trojan War and on other odysseys. At home in Ithaca, his wife Penelope fights off several persistent suitors, as well as the voices of the well-meaning to fall in love again after all. Then the man returns, miraculously. - Director Christopher Rüping tells Monteverdi's late opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria as a great mental picture about holding on (and letting go), in dialogue with Joan Didion's book The Year of Magical Thinking, the account of what happened to the American writer when her husband died suddenly: the intrusion of magical thinking into a modern enlightened brain. Is perhaps opera, which deals so much with grief and loss and longing, nothing but magical thinking? Holger Noltze on Il ritorno / The Year of Magical Thinking, the Bayerische Staatsoper's second new production at the Ja, Mai! festival.

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Audiofeature on Hanjo 


The 12-minute podcast to prepare for the performance: The young woman with the fan comes to the train station day after day to wait for a man: A "case" that can even be read about in the newspaper. The Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa found the material for his second opera Hanjo in a play by the poet Yukio Mishima from the 1950s, which in turn goes back to a model from the 14th century. Hanako, the girl who waits, in the home of a painter whom she loves. When Yoshio, the man, appears one day, it comes to a decision. - A dense chamber play, accompanied by refined fragile sound textures, to open the new year of the Ja, Mai Festival of the Bayerische Staatsoper

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How to Oper on the Ja, Mai Festival

In the current episode, Kathi Roeb and Linda Becker talk about Ja, Mai- The Festival for Early and Contemporary Music Theater.

The festival revolves around the thematic complex: "Expectation". It deals with motives such as waiting, the passing of time, the question of letting go or holding on, and the various artistic dimensions of time.

In the process, the two opera premieres: Hanjo and Il Ritorno/The Year of Magical Thinking are explained, reference is made to follow-up discussions on important current issues, as well as the accompanying cinema series.

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WAR AND PEACE (VOYNA I MIR)

VIDEO ON DEMAND
 

WAR AND PEACE
Sergei Prokofiev
Musical direction: Vladimir Jurowski
Recording: Sunday, 05.03.2023, 17.00 (premiere) National Theater
Here you can experience the recording as video on demand. 

OTHER PERFORMANCES

You can experience our opera War and Peace live again during the 2023 Munich Opera Festival!
To the performance

INTERMISSION INTERVIEW

KRIEG UND FRIEDEN - Vladimir Jurowski und Dmitri Tcherniakov im Gespräch

Here you can find the intermission interview, for the premiere of WAR AND PEACE on 05.03.2023, with Vladimir Jurowski and Dmitri Tcherniakov.

OBSERVATIONS ZU KRIEG UND FRIEDEN

Podcasts

Audiofeature on War and Peace

Sergei Prokofiev's monumental project of an opera based on Lev Tolstoy's novel War and Peace, with 70 soloists alone, with ball and battle scenes, was created in 1941 under the impression of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.  An audio feature about the question of what War and Peace means in the year 2023.

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How to Oper Spoiler to War and Peace

This time Kathi Roeb and Linda Becker talk to our fans Malena and Christoph, winners of our <30 competition, about the opening night of WAR AND PEACE at the National Theater.

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How to Oper to War and Peace

In the current episode, Kathi Roeb and Linda Becker talk about Sergei S. Prokofiev's setting of Lev N. Tolstoy's monumental book War and Peace. They explore the question of why it is so important to perform this piece despite current circumstances, and include the opinions of conductor Vladimir Jurowski and director Dmitri Tcherniakov.

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Hand auf's Hirn

In the fifth episode, "Hand  auf's Hirn," Katja Gloger talks about her first encounters with Vladimir Putin, her work as a correspondent in Moscow, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and her assessments of the Putin system, Putin's Russia, and the way people there view their own history.

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In memory of the anniversary of the Ukraine war

General Music Director Vladimir Jurowski, together with soloists from the upcoming production War and Peace and other singers from the Bayerische Staatsoper, sends a musical greeting to Ukraine on the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian folk song "Їхав козак за Дунай" (a Cossack song; text: Semen Klimowski) which also gained fame in Germany at the beginning of the 19th century under the title "Schöne Minka, ich muß scheiden" (text: Christoph August Tiedge, music: Ludwig van Beethoven) will be performed in all five verses.
 
Olga Kulchynska  & Stanislav Kuflyuk  (1st verse), Alexandra Yangel & Andrei Zhilikhovsky (2nd verse), Vida MiknevičiūtėMischa Schelomianski  (3rd verse), Violeta Urmana & Sergei Leiferkus(4th verse).

The 5th stanza is sung by all participants together.
 
Vladimir Jurowski, piano
Hanna Asieieva, violin
Darima Tcyrempilova, cello

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