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HamburgMacbethNew production

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Verdi: Macbeth
Tomáš Hanus; Tobias Kratzer; Staatsoper Hamburg; Daniele Squeo; Rainer Sellmaier; Michael Bauer

HamburgPetruschka / L’Enfant et les sortilègesNew production

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Ravel, Stravinsky
Vitali Alekseenok; Suzanne Andrade; Staatsoper Hamburg; TBC; Pia Leong; Katrin Kath; Diego Leetz

HamburgDornröschenNew production

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Humperdinck: Dornröschen
Markus Poschner; Anna Bergmann; Staatsoper Hamburg; Jo Schramm; Lane Schäfer; Henning Streck; Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
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Vampires, Disney and Donald Trump: Monster’s Paradise in Hamburg

Monster's Paradise at Staatsoper Hamburg © Tanja Dorendorf
Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek take on Donald Trump in their latest operatic collaboration. 
****1
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Unsuk Chin's opera Die dunkle Seite des Mondes premieres in Hamburg

Andrew Dickinson (Lichtwesen) and Thomas Lehman (Dr Kieron) © Bernd Uhlig
At Staatsoper Hamburg, Unsuk Chin’s new opera The Dark Side of the Moon immerses audiences in an hypnotic, introspective journey, where dreams, science and psyche collide in a rigorously crafted, thought-provoking spectacle.
****1
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Franciscan virtues for a modern age: a multimedia Messiaen remix

Jacques Imbrailo and Anna Prohaska © Bernd Uhlig
No half measures in a triple-decker Hamburg staging of Saint François d'Assise at the Elbphilharmonie. 
***11
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Staatsoper Hamburg's new Boris Godunov traverses Russian history

Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris Godunov) and the Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper © Brinkhoff | Mögenburg
Opening the new opera season, Kent Nagano powerfully directs Mussorgsky's great psychodrama about a famous tsar, marred only by Frank Castorf's visually confusing and symbolically overweighted production. 
****1
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Staatsoper Hamburg's new Carmen: a sumptuous theatrical experience

Ida Aldrian (Mercédès), Maria Kataeva (Carmen) and Katrina Galka (Frasquita) © Brinkhoff/Mögenburg
“Jealous lover kills local slut” might be the tabloid headline, but Bizet's Carmen is much more than that, especially in this visually stunning new production in Hamburg, directed by Herbert Fritsch.
****1
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Summer marches in: Mahler's Third Symphony at the Elbphilharmonie

Kent Nagano brings Mahler's former Hamburg orchestra out of the opera house and into the concert hall for the composer's symphonic hymn to life.
***11
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