Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff

Ambrogio Maestri, Falstaff
Markus Brück, Ford
Oleksiy Palchykov, Fenton
Jürgen Sacher, Dr. Cajus
Daniel Kluge, Bardolfo
Tigran Martirossian, Pistola
Maija Kovalevska, Alice Ford
Elbenita Kajtazi, Nannetta
Nadezhda Karyazina, Mrs. Quickly
Ida Aldrian, Meg Page

Axel Kober, conductor
Calixto Bieito, director
Susanne Gschwender, set designer
Anja Rabes, costume designer
Michael Bauer, lighting designer
Bettina Auer, dramaturgy

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper

Georges Bizet: Carmen

Jelena Kordić, Carmen
Irakli Kakhidze, Don José
Eunju Kwon, Micaëla
Evez Abdulla, Escamillo
Raphael Wittmer, Remendado
Christopher Diffey, Dancaïro
Dominic Barberi / Bartosz Urbanowicz, Zuniga
Nikola Diskić / Ilya Lapich, Moralès
Nikola Hillebrand, Frasquita
Martiniana Antonie, Mercédès
Lucía Astigarraga, Sprecherin / Lillas Pastia

Mark Rohde, conductor
Yona Kim, stage director
Herbert Murauer, stage design
Falk Bauer, costume design
Reinhard Traub, light
Albrecht Puhlmann / Cordula Demattio, dramaturgy
Dani Juris, choir
Anke-Christine Kober, children's choir

Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto

Carolina Lippo, Carolina
Marco Filippo Romano, il signor Geronimo
Markus Werba, il conte Robinson
Monica Bacelli, Fidalma
Eleonora Bellocci, Elisetta

Nikolas Nägele, conductor
Pier Luigi Pizzi, direction, sets and costumes

Richard Strauss: Salome

John Daszak, Herodes
Michaela Schuster, Herodias
Marlis Petersen, Salome
Johan Reuter, Jochanaan
Martin Mitterrutzner, Narraboth
Tatiana Kuryatnikova, Page OF Herodias
Paul Schweinester, First Jew
Johannes Bamberger, Second Jew
Quentin Desgoerges, Third Jew
Andrew Owens, Fourth Jew
Dumitru Mădăraşăn, Fifth Jew

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Leo Hussain, conductor
Nikolaus Habjan, stage director
Julius Theodor Semmelmann, stage designer
Cedric Mpaka, costumes
Paul Grilj, light
Olaf A. Schmitt, dramaturge

Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

Dmitry Korchak, Orphée
Andriana Chuchman, Eurydice
Marie-Sophie Pollak, L'Amour

Alessandro De Marchi, conductor
John Neumeier, staging | choreography | set | costumes | lighting concept
Heinrich Tröger, set design collaboration
Eberhard Friedrich, chorus 

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper

Eurydice is dead, a fact the man and artist Orpheus cannot accept. He demands her return. Indeed, the beauty of art and its power to transcend and destroy borders manage to render the weapons of Death and its guards ineffective – apparently, this is necessary. Eurydice is allowed to return to the living. While in the antique myth, Orpheus casts a longing, but deadly gaze back at his beloved walking behind him, in Gluck’s treatment this turns into Eurydice’s suspicion that he might not be looking at her because he no longer loves her. The proof she demands that this is not the case kills her a second time. Things, however, are seldom what they seem: Amor, Love, has staged the entire episode to test Orpheus, and Eurydice lives. The gods simply do not trust humans, as little as vice versa.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro KV 492

Florian Boesch, Conte di Almaviva
Christiane Karg, Contessa di Almaviva
Regula Mühlemann, Susanna
Julien van Mellaerts, Figaro
Angela Brower, Cherubino
Marie McLaughlin, Marcellina
Angelo Pollak, Don Basilio | Don Curzio
Maurizio Muraro, Don Bartolo
Julia Lezhneva, Barberina

Cappella Andrea Barca
Arnold Schoenberg ChoIr
Sir András Schiff, conductor
Rolando Villazon, staging

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527

Luca Micheletti, Don Giovanni (until February 21)
Luke Gabbedy, Don Giovanni (February 25, 27)
Shane Lowrencev, Leporello
Eleanor Lyons, Donna Anna
Jane Ede, Donna Elvira
Juan de Dios Mateos, Don Ottavio
Anna Dowsley, Zerlina
Richard Anderson, Masetto
Gennadi Dubinsky, Commendatore

Zhong Xu, conductor (until February 15)
Dane Lam, conductor (from February 17)
Sir David McVicar, director
Robert Jones, set & costume designer
David Finn, lighting designer
Andrew George, choreographer
Nigel Poulton, fight director

Opera Australia Chorus
Opera Australia Orchestra

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, KV 620

Mauro Peter, Tamino
Wenwei Zhang, Sarastro
Olga Kulchynska, Pamina
Sen Guo, Queen of the Night
Ruben Drole, Papageno
Lina Dambrauskaité, Papagena
Hamida Kristoffersen, 1st lady
Sinéad O'Kelly, 2nd lady
Katia Ledoux, 3rd lady
Michael Laurenz, Monostatos
Wojciech Rasiak, Voice / 2nd priest
Luca Bernard, 1st priest
Thomas Erlank, 1st armoured man
Oleg Davydov, 2nd armoured man
Zürcher Sängerknaben, Three child-spirits

Sascha Goetzel, conductor
Tatjana Gürbaca, stage director
Klaus Grünberg, stage design
Silke Willrett, costumes
Klaus Grünberg, light and video design

Georges Bizet: Carmen

Guy Joosten, director
Johannes Leiacker, set design
Karin Seydtle, costumes
Benny Ball, lighting

Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto

Carolina Lippo, Carolina
Marco Filippo Romano, il signor Geronimo
Markus Werba, il conte Robinson
Monica Bacelli, Fidalma
Eleonora Bellocci, Elisetta

Nikolas Nägele, conductor
Pier Luigi Pizzi, direction, sets and costumes