Commemorative concert on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp

Arnold Schönberg: A Survivor from Warsaw op. 46
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony Nr. 3, op. 55 "Eroica"

Thomas Quasthoff, narrator
Staatskapelle Berlin
Menchoir of the Staatsoper Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

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, Musikalische Leitung
Calixto Bieito, Inszenierung
Susanne Gschwender, Bühnenbild
Anja Rabes, Kostüme
Michael Bauer, Licht
Bettina Auer, Dramaturgie

Patricia Petibon, soprano
Susan Manoff, piano

"L'amour, la mort et la mer"
Recital with works by Manuel de Falla, Nicolas Bacri, Gabriel Fauré,
Joaquín Turina, Enrique Granados, Claude Debussy, Henri Collet

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: 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