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ParisHans van Manen & Dutch National Ballet
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Beethoven, Bach, Britten, Piazzolla
Hans van Manen; Dutch National Ballet
AmsterdamTosca
Puccini: Tosca
Nathalie Stutzmann; Barrie Kosky; Dutch National Opera; Rufus Didwiszus; Klaus Bruns; Franck Evin; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
AmsterdamMonument
Boerman, Beethoven, van Dun
Rudi van Dantzig; Toer van Schayk; Juanjo Arqués; Dutch National Ballet; Thomas Jung
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Collaborations and world premieres: Opera Forward Festival
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Two world premieres at Dutch National Opera speak to what have traditionally been two separate audiences: the audience within the opera house and the one without.
Venables We Are the Lucky Ones is the time to be alive at DNO
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Inspired by Annie Ernaux’s The Years, Philip Venables’ new opera widens the canvas to take in the whole of Europe’s postwar generation.
Bats! Die Fledermaus is a fabulous flight of fantasy at DNO
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Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, was never meant to challenge grand opera for profundity and Barrie Kosky pokes fun at Viennese high society in his riotous staging.
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EnschedeDido and Aeneas
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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Camille Delaforge; Rosemary Joshua; Dutch National Opera; Jojanneke Gremmen; Peter van der Sluis; Netherlands Chamber Orchestra; Jasmijn van Wijnen
AmsterdamBoris GodunovNew production
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Vasily Petrenko; Kirill Serebrennikov; Dutch National Opera; Nadia Kucher; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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Dreams and documentaries: opera world premieres
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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
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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.
An adventurous new season from Dutch National Opera
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One of the world’s most innovative opera houses, DNO’s new season offers a slew of bold new opera and ballet productions.