REOPENING ON DECEMBER 13
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear audience,
We are very happy to be able to share some really good news with you today: As announced by the City of Vienna, we are allowed to show performances in front of an audience again from December 13!
Like many thousands of opera fans, you may have followed the premiere of our new production, Don Giovanni directed by Barrie Kosky last Sunday via ORF III or our stream. We received a particularly large amount of positive feedback from viewers, which is a great incentive for our work. Here are also some excerpts from the media reactions:
Gerald Heidegger, orf.at (December 5, 2021):
»[...] Kosky and Jordan met congenially in the leadership of the singers [...]«
Peter Jarolin, Kurier (December 7, 2021):
»Thanks to brilliant character direction - Kosky explores each of the many relationship constellations grandiosely - this »Don Giovanni« gets under the skin.«
Judith Belfkih, Wiener Zeitung (December 7, 2021):
»[...] the production is incredibly precisely crafted with an ensemble and piano culture that is second to none. It's a honing of nuances that comes off above all because the soloists are unmistakably cast in character.«
Now you can also experience this first work of the Mozart/Da Ponte cycle thus newly begun live at the Vienna State Opera: Conducted by Philippe Jordan, it features the internationally sought-after U.S. bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen in his house debut as Don Giovanni and Philippe Sly making his house role debut as Leporello. Making an international role debut as Donna Elvira with the premiere was Kate Lindsey. Making role debuts at the house are Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Don Ottavio and Young Artist Program member Patricia Nolz as Zerlina. Soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller returns to the Vienna State Opera as Donna Anna; Ain Anger sings the Commendatore and Peter Kellner Masetto.
We have added an additional performance, the premiere in front of an audience, to the schedule on December 13. Tickets for this, as well as for the remaining performances in the series, can be booked now here.
Don Giovanni: December 13, 14, 17, 20, 2021
The next weeks at the Vienna State Opera: Another premiere in front of an audience - Parsifa
Another premiere in front of an audience, the revival of a Corona-related »lockdown premiere« from last season, Parsifal, awaits you on December 15. It is Wagner's compositional and dramaturgical perspective of memory in Parsifal from which the great theater creator Kirill Serebrennikov has developed his scenic conception: A grown man remembers the young man, almost still the lad he once was. Now this internationally sensational staging throw finally celebrates its audience premiere, with the great singer-actress Anja Kampe as Kundry and with Brandon Jovanovich as the matured Parsifal, who is mirrored in his alter ego, the juvenile delinquent touchingly portrayed by Nikolai Sidorenko. Georg Zeppenfeld as Gurnemanz and Wolfgang Koch as Amfortas promise further intense role portraits. Premiere conductor and music director Philippe Jordan is conducting.
Parsifal: December 15, 18, 21 and 26
Revival: Don Carlo
Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo is essentially based on Schiller's play of the same name, but the composer gave priority to private conflicts over the political ideas that were Schiller's primary interest. Director Daniele Abbado focuses in particular on the opera's different father-son constellations: on the relationships between King Philip II and Don Carlo, or Philip II and the mysterious monk in whom one believes to recognize Philip's father Charles V, as well as on the relationship between Philip and the Grand Inquisitor, whom Abbado interprets as a horror image of an all-dominant, ruthless Pater familias. This production is also conducted by music director Philippe Jordan, filling in for Franz Welser-Möst, who is ill. In place of Asmik Grigorian, who is also ill, María José Siri, who last appeared on the Staatsoper stage as Abigaille in Verdi's Nabucco, returns to the Haus am Ring as Elisabeth. She is joined by a top-class ensemble of singers, including Fabio Sartori as Don Carlo, Boris Pinkhasovich as Rodrigo, Ekaterina Gubanova as Eboli, Ain Anger as Philip II and Dmitry Ulyanov as the Grand Inquisitor.
Don Carlo: December 16, 19, 22, 25
We are looking forward to welcoming you again in our house,
Your team of the Vienna State Opera