Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125

Iwona Sobotka, soprano
Anna Stéphany, alto
Robert Murray, tenor
Florian Boesch, bassbaritone

London Symphony Chorus
Simon Halsey, choir master
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

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

Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer

Andrzej Dobber, Holländer
Allison Oakes, Senta
Michael Schade, Erik
Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Daland
Daniel Kluge, Steuermann
Katja Pieweck, Mary

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Christof Prick, conductor
Marco Arturo Marelli, stage-director
Dagmar Niefind-Marelli, costumes

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte KV 588

Jeniffer Check, Fiordiligi
Serena Malfi, Dorabella
Carolyn Sproule, Despina
Ben Bliss, Ferrando
Luca Pisaroni, Guglielmo
Gerald Finley, Don Alfonso

Harry Bicket, conductor
Phelim McDermott, stage director
Tom Pye, stage design
Laura Hopkins, costumes
Paule Constable, light design

Johann Strauß: Die Fledermaus

Norbert Ernst, Gabriel von Eisenstein
Anke Krabbe, Rosalinde
Stefan Heidemann, Gefängnisdirektor Frank
Maria Boiko, Prinz Orlofsky
Jussi Myllys, Alfred
Christoph Filler, Dr. Falke
Luis Fernando Piedra, Dr. Blind
Lavinia Dames, Adele
Helena Günther, Ida
Wolfgang Reinbacher, Frosch
Chin-A Hwang, Birgit Mühlram, Anna Pawlowa-Lichtenwald, Amanda Cruz-Portuondo, Marina Aikaterini Rouka, Chiara Jovy, Ewa Bienkowska, Sofia Klein-Herrero | female dancers

Benjamin Reiners, conductor
Axel Köhler, stage director
Frank Philipp Schlößmann, stage and costume designer
Volker Weinhart, lightning designer
Patrick Francis Chestnut, choir
Mirko Mahr, choreographer
Hella Bartnig, dramaturgy

Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein

Thomas Quasthoff, voice teacher
public Masterclass for singers in preperation for the Bach-Competition 2020

The "Quasthoff Method"
What exactly is fascinating about Thomas Quasthoff? What does he do differently from others? How is he teaching? Can you learn from him?
One focus of Thomas Quasthoff's musical work is his coveted “master classes”. These Masterclasses are for singers who are in advanced studies or have already successfully completed them. Thomas Quasthoff works with his students on stage with precision and intensity on the technical and interpretative challenges of classical singing.

Thomas Quasthoff, voice teacher
public Masterclass for singers in preperation for the Bach-Competition 2020

The "Quasthoff Method"
What exactly is fascinating about Thomas Quasthoff? What does he do differently from others? How is he teaching? Can you learn from him?
One focus of Thomas Quasthoff's musical work is his coveted “master classes”. These Masterclasses are for singers who are in advanced studies or have already successfully completed them. Thomas Quasthoff works with his students on stage with precision and intensity on the technical and interpretative challenges of classical singing.

Vilmantas Kaliunas, conductor
Ida Aldrian, presentation
Soloists of Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Vilmantas Kaliunas, conductor
Ida Aldrian, presentaion
Soloists of Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Ludwig van Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus, Op.43
Antonín Rejcha: "Lenore" Storm (2nd part) , op. 74
Julius Rietz: Hero and Leander, Ouverture, op.11
Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn: Hero und Leander
Carl Maria von Weber: Cavatina of Rezia from "Oberon"
Carl Maria von Weber: "Prayer" from Oberon

Sophie Karthäuser, soprano
Insula orchestra
Laurence Equilbey, conductor
Carlus Padrissa – La Fura dels Baus, staging and video
Mihael Milunovic, drawing and scenography

Beware of the elements! Terrestrial catastrophe is at the heart of the first part of this programme that explores the relationship between man and Nature. Prometheus, symbolising human destiny, opens the long list of climatic disasters with a cataclysmic tempest, followed by a storm described by Anton Reicha, and the floodwaters that sweep through the love story uniting Hero and Leander, in a setting by Julius Rietz and Fanny Hensel. The carnage caused by human hand adds to the elemental fury as war is at the heart of Weber’s cantata Battle and Victory, while the poignant allegretto of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony sounds like a premise of the long, slow exodus of migrants. In contrast with all this tumult, the prevailing mood of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, the Pastoral, forming the second half of the programme, is more appeased, a true hymn to nature and peace.