Schedule Zurich Opera House 2022/23 – “We are the busiest opera house in the world”
“We are the busiest opera house in the world”
In the coming season, superstar Jonas Kaufmann is returning to Zurich. And things are moving forward with Wagner’s «Ring».
17 major and minor premieres, 20 revivals, 43 concerts and recitals: Opera House Director Andreas Homoki spoke at the today Media conference rightly from the “most industrious opera house in the world”. If you then leaf through the program for the coming season, the advantages of this productivity are obvious: it enables a stylistic breadth that other houses can hardly afford.
There are hits and rarities, French repertoire and bel canto, a baroque opera and contemporary works, an operetta and ballet productions. And there is the sequel to Wagner’s “Ring des Nibelungen”, which began at the end of April: “Die Walküre” opens the coming season – a work that Wagner not only composed in Zurich, but also sang himself at the Hotel Baur au Lac , accompanied at the piano by his father-in-law Franz Liszt.
New collaborations
Camilla Nylund will play Brünnhilde in Die Walküre for the first time, and Klaus Florian Vogt will make his debut in the title role in Siegfried later in the season. Prominent singer names can also be discovered beyond the «Ring»: Piotr Beczala and Inga Kalna, Julie Fuchs and Benjamin Bernheim – and in the revival of «Tosca» Jonas Kaufmann returns to Zurich once again.
Speaking of revivals: Christoph Marthaler’s production of Gluck’s “Orphée et Euridice” should also be mentioned, which was streamed during the lockdown and can now be followed live for the first time. Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” with the grandiose Johannes Martin Kränzle will also be one of the highlights – including a broadcast on the Sechseläutenplatz on June 17, 2023.
Of the various new names that can be discovered in the program, Cathy Marston is probably the safest: in autumn 2023 she will succeed Christian Spuck, who has already included her choreography “The Cellist” in the program.
Also new is the collaboration with the Tonhalle, which has come about not least thanks to the friendship between the two chief conductors: In a Rachmaninoff cycle, Paavo Järvi and Gianandrea Noseda will swap houses and orchestras in two concerts.
expansion of youth work
The opera house also spans together with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra: Wolfgang Rihm’s chamber opera “Jakob Lenz” in the ZKO-Haus is the focus of a rich program on this composer.
And then there is the “Die Schule tanzt” project, with which the opera house is expanding its wide range of youth activities: over the next four years, pupils at the Im Birch secondary school in Zurich-Oerli will get to know various dance styles and experiment with physical forms of expression and create your own performances.
Susanne Kuebler has been the cultural editor since 1998, primarily responsible for classical subjects. The musicologist also at the MAZ and the ZHAW; In 2007 she received the Greulich Culture Prize.
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