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AmsterdamLegacies – Dutch National Ballet

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Bizet, Mozart, Jeths
George Balanchine; Toer van Schayk; Hans van Manen; Kirsten Wicklund; Dutch National Ballet; Koen Kessels; Netty de Swardt; Jan Hofstra; Dutch National Ballet Orchestra

AmsterdamPagliacci / Cavalleria rusticana

Riccardo Massi (Canio) © De Nationale Opera | Bart Grietens
Leoncavallo, Mascagni
Andrea Battistoni; Robert Carsen; Dutch National Opera; Radu Boruzescu; Annemarie Woods; Peter van Praet; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

AmsterdamCherry TownNouvelle production

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Chostakovitch: Moscow, Cheryomushki (Cherrytown)
Bassem Akiki; Jakop Ahlbom; Dutch National Opera; Thomas Rupert; Esmee Thomassen; Marc Heinz; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

AmsterdamLennoxCréation mondiale

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Ankomah: Lennox
Lochlan Brown; Marjorie Boston; Dutch National Opera; John Lippens; Iris Elstrodt; Wes Broersen; Koen Jantzen

AmsterdamSwan Lake – Dutch National Ballet

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Tchaïkovski: Le Lac des cygnes
Marius Petipa; Lev Ivanov; Rudi van Dantzig; Dutch National Ballet; Fayçal Karoui; Toer van Schayk; Jan Hofstra

AmsterdamSwan Lake Remixed

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Ronner: Swan Lake Remixed
Sedrig Verwoert; Rutkay Özpinar; Zoë Greten; Ahmad Joudeh; Nnamdi Nwagwu; Dutch National Ballet; Ish Dance Collective; Dutch National Ballet's Junior Company; Ben Kreukniet
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Musical triumph meets voyeuristic violence in Carsen’s Pag & Cav

Riccardo Massi (Canio) © De Nationale Opera | Bart Grietens
Dutch National Opera’s powerhouse cast and incandescent chorus deliver a musical triumph in Robert Carsen’s Cav/Pag revival, even as its voyeuristic staging leaves bitter ethical questions around gendered violence unresolved.

Jetske Mijnssen’s Boccanegra a coup for DNO season finale

George Petean (Simon Boccanegra) and Georg Zeppenfeld (Jacopo Fiesco) © Dutch National Opera | Ben van Duin
Everything about this production is fresh and wonderful.

Weinberg’s The Passenger at Dutch National Opera

The Passenger © Dutch National Opera | Monika Rittershaus

Tobias Kratzer's 2024 Munich production makes its way to Amsterdam, proving that Weinberg's opera has the power to transfix. 

Michel van der Aa’s Theory of Flames: defining opera for a modern age

Mary Bevan (Neola) and Julia Bullock (Scientist) © Marco Borggreve

British singers Mary Bevan and Roderick Williams lead the cast in Dutch National Opera’s latest ground-breaking opera, merging live music with pre-recorded film and electronics.

Malin Byström brilliert bei Isolde-Debüt in Amsterdam

Malin Byström (Isolde) und Michael Weinius (Tristan) © Monika Rittershaus
Die schwedische Sopranistin gibt ihr spannungsumwobenes Debüt als Isolde in Pierre Audis zeitloser Inszenierung.

Semele at Dutch National Opera: myth, desire and fantasy

Elsa Benoit (Semele) © Bart Grietens

Guth’s Semele turns myth into a contemporary domestic drama, where desire becomes obsession and illusion consumes reality. Handel’s music remains the true engine, driven by a thrilling, physically intense ensemble.

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AmsterdamSimon BoccanegraNouvelle production

George Petean (Simon Boccanegra) and Georg Zeppenfeld (Jacopo Fiesco) © Dutch National Opera | Ben van Duin
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Fabio Luisi; Jetske Mijnssen; Dutch National Opera; Étienne Pluss; Hannah Clark; Valerio Tiberi; Orchestre royal du Concertgebouw

AmsterdamThe Maid of OrleansNouvelle production

Elena Stikhina (Joan) © Marco Borggreve
Tchaïkovski: The Maid of Orleans
Valentin Uryupin; Dmitri Tcherniakov; Dutch National Opera; Elena Zaytseva; Gleb Filshtinsky; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
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Elena Stikhina über Salzburg, Tosca und die Realität des Sängerlebens

Elena Stikhina © kseniaparisphoto
Die Sopranistin Elena Stikhina ist an allen großen Opernhäusern der Welt gefragt. Isabella Steppan trifft sie in Salzburg, um mit ihr über die Rolle der Tosca zu sprechen, die sie derzeit in Amsterdam und Wien singt, und über die Realität des Sängerlebens.

Dreams and documentaries: opera world premieres

Dead Centre’s staging of Il Teorema di Pasolini at Deutsche Oper Berlin © Eike Walkenhorst
We preview nine major new operas on stage this season in Europe, from composers including Unsuk Chin, Rebecca Saunders, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Philip Venables and Toshio Hosokawa.

State of the (operatic) union: notes from Opera Europa

Royal Danish Opera House, Copenhagen © David Karlin
Audiences, energy prices, politics, sustainability... With nearly 400 opera executives assembled in Copenhagen, the Opera Europa autumn conference was the ideal venue to take the temperature of the opera industry.