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Zurich

Anna Pirozzi shines as a queen bee Turandot

By Laura Servidei, 03 July 2024

Anna Pirozzi and Piero Pretti bring Italian sunshine to Baumgarten’s confused production at the Opernhaus Zürich.

**111

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**111

Zurich

05 Jul 2024

Anna Pirozzi shines as a queen bee Turandot

By Laura Servidei

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Zurich

Werther in the sky at Opernhaus Zürich

By Laura Servidei, 23 January 2024

Benjamin Bernheim leads a very good cast in a revival of Tatjana Gürbaca's interesting 2017 production.

***11

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***11

Zurich

25 Jan 2024

Werther in the sky at Opernhaus Zürich

By Laura Servidei

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Zurich

Stikhina and Smoriginas shine in Zurich Salome

By Elodie Olson-Coons, 17 January 2023

A strong cast carries this satisfying revival of Andreas Homoki's production of Salome at Opernhaus Zürich.

***11

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***11

Zurich

19 Jan 2023

Stikhina and Smoriginas shine in Zurich Salome

By Elodie Olson-Coons

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Zurich

Cherubino steals the show in Zurich’s Le nozze di Figaro

By Laura Servidei, 25 September 2022

The Opernhaus Zurich revives Jan Philipp Gloger’s production, for a performance with mixed results: a solid cast of singers under Christoph König’s heavy baton.

**111

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**111

Zurich

26 Sep 2022

Cherubino steals the show in Zurich’s Le nozze di Figaro

By Laura Servidei

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Zurich

Floria Tosca plays the diva in Robert Carsen's Zurich staging

By Laura Servidei, 06 October 2021

The Opernhaus Zürich revives Robert Carsen’s 1990 production, with a strong cast led by Sonya Yoncheva and Joseph Calleja.

***11

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***11

Zurich

07 Oct 2021

Floria Tosca plays the diva in Robert Carsen's Zurich staging

By Laura Servidei

Zurich

Operetta in Zürich: Die Csárdásfürstin with acerbic wit and winning music

By David Karlin, 27 September 2020

Kálmán's operetta brilliantly updated to the super-rich of today, with starry singing from Annette Dasch and Pavol Breslik.

****1

****1

Zurich

27 Sep 2020

Die Csárdásfürstin in Zürich: acerbic wit and winning music

By David Karlin

Zurich

On the plague of eternal life: a new Makropulos Affair in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 22 September 2019

To outwit death and attain immortality is a dream as old as human history. But isn’t it precisely the finite nature of life that makes it so precious?

***11

***11

Zurich

24 Sep 2019

On the plague of eternal life: a new Makropulos Affair in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet

Zurich

Quirky staging, superb singing: Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 03 February 2019

Ligeti's “anti-anti opera” opens in Zurich in a new production by Tatjana Gürbaca.

****1

****1

Zurich

04 Feb 2019

Quirky staging, superb singing: Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet

Zurich

Simplicity the key to Ted Huffman's new Madama Butterfly in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 10 December 2017

Apparently, the composer himself was a notorious cheater, we can assume that some of the unsavoury themes of his 1904 opera “Madame Butterfly” were close to the bone.

****1

****1

Zurich

11 Dec 2017

Simplicity the key to new Butterfly in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet

Zurich

Wretched fates and quirky staging: Eugene Onegin in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 24 September 2017

Barrie Kosky’s atypically conservative production of the Russian classic was marked by musical direction and vocal performances of the highest order.

****1

****1

Zurich

25 Sep 2017

Wretched fates and quirky staging: Eugene Onegin in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet

Zurich

Effervescent music, unrelenting activity: Haydn’s Orlando Paladino in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 16 May 2017

Joseph Haydn’s opera Orlando Paladino was once cited as “a mixed salad of madness, mayhem and true love”. A recent revival in Zurich supports that assessment.

***11

***11

Zurich

18 May 2017

Effervescent music, unrelenting activity: Haydn’s Orlando Paladino in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet

Zurich

Provocation as part of the package: Massenet’s Werther in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 02 April 2017

Juan Diego Flórez stars as Goethe’s archetypal Romantic poet in Massenet's Werther in Zurich.

****1

****1

Zurich

03 Apr 2017

Provocation as part of the package

By Sarah Batschelet

Zurich

Torments, caprice and folly: a fine Figaro in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 15 October 2016

Men unfaithful out of habit? Sheer madness to trust a woman? These were the great themes of what has proven to be Mozart’s most popular opera.

****1

****1

Zurich

16 Oct 2016

Torments, caprice and folly in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet

Zurich

“To vanquish a terrible spell”: love reigns in Zurich's Turandot

By Sarah Batschelet, 12 December 2015

In Zurich, a dazzling production of Puccini's great Turandot gives us the stuff of torment, torture and all the other idiosyncracies of love at the executuve level.

*****

*****

Zurich

13 Dec 2015

Love reigns in Zurich's Turandot

By Sarah Batschelet

Zurich

Witness to a delicious aberration: Wozzeck in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 13 September 2015

The plot revolves around the daily life of a simple German town. But this fine production will make you glad that this is not your story.

*****

*****

Zurich

14 Sep 2015

Witness to a delicious aberration: Wozzeck

By Sarah Batschelet

Zurich

All about that soprano: Stemme’s Isolde in Zurich one for the ages

By David Larkin, 25 January 2015

Nina Stemme's domination of the heaviest dramatic soprano repertoire continues with an outstanding Isolde at the Zurich Opera House, ably assisted by Stephen Gould, Matti Salminen, and other notable performers under John Fiore.

****1

****1

Zurich

26 Jan 2015

Stemme’s Isolde in Zurich one for the ages

By David Larkin

Zurich

Die Frau ohne Schatten: a Strauss extravaganza in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 27 November 2014

Zurich’s Opera House takes on Die Frau ohne Schatten, one of Richard Strauss’ most convoluted and technically demanding works.

***11

***11

Zurich

29 Nov 2014

“Oh world within the world!”: FroSch in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet

Zurich

Ariadne in Zurich

By Andrew H. King, 12 February 2012

Richard Strauss’ outstanding catalogue of operas is part of the staple diet of opera houses around the world. From the musically and dramatically intense scores of Salome and Elektra to the romantically lush, emotional sweepings of Der Rosenkavalier, there is something in his canon for all manner of opera enthusiasts.

****1

****1

Zurich

16 Feb 2012

Ariadne in Zurich

By Andrew H. King

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Zurich

Darkroom des Begehrens: Le nozze di Figaro am Opernhaus Zürich

By Thomas Schacher, 15 December 2024

Bei der Wiederaufnahme von Mozarts beliebter Da-Ponte-Oper ist nicht nur der Dirigent, sondern auch der gesamte Cast ausgewechselt worden. Dies sorgt für beachtliche Veränderungen.

***11

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***11

Zurich

17 Dec 2024

Darkroom des Begehrens: Le nozze di Figaro am Opernhaus Zürich

By Thomas Schacher

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Zurich

Primat der Musik: Verdis Un ballo in maschera am Opernhaus Zürich

By Thomas Schacher, 08 December 2024

Gianandrea Noseda, ein leidenschaftlicher Verdi-Kenner, bringt die unterschiedlichen musikalischen Sphären des Stücks brillant zum Klingen. Die Regisseurin Adele Thomas findet für den schicksalhaften Gang der Handlung ein schlüssiges Symbol.

****1

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****1

Zurich

10 Dec 2024

Primat der Musik: Verdis Un ballo in maschera am Opernhaus Zürich

By Thomas Schacher

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Zurich

Ohne finale Liebesvereinigung: Puccinis Turandot in Zürich

By Thomas Schacher, 18 June 2023

Giacomo Puccini starb bevor er seine letzte Oper vollenden konnte. Die Neuproduktion am Opernhaus zeigt nur die originalen Teile des Werks – ohne den Schluss. Dramaturgisch geht diese Rechnung nicht auf.

***11

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***11

Zurich

20 Jun 2023

Ohne finale Liebesvereinigung: Puccinis Turandot in Zürich

By Thomas Schacher

Zurich

Vorspiel zur Revolution: Le nozze di Figaro an der Oper Zürich

By Alexandra Richter, 06 July 2019

Mozarts Figaro unterhält das Züricher Publikum mit einer kurzweiligen Inszenierung und hervorragender Besetzung.

***11

***11

Zurich

08 Jul 2019

Vorspiel zur Revolution: Le nozze di Figaro an der Oper Zürich

By Alexandra Richter