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Wagner: Parsifal
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Marc Minkowski; Jürgen Flimm; Staatsoper Berlin; Magdalena Gut; Ursula Kudrna; Olaf Freese; Staatskapelle Berlin
BerlinDido and Aeneas
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Christopher Moulds; Sasha Waltz; Staatsoper Berlin; Thomas Schenk; Christine Birkle; Thilo Reuther; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
BerlinLa traviata
Verdi: La traviata
Giuseppe Mentuccia; Dieter Dorn; Staatsoper Berlin; Joanna Piestrzyńska; Moidele Bickel; Tobias Löffler; Staatskapelle Berlin
BerlinDie Zauberflöte
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Tim Fluch; August Everding; Staatsoper Berlin; Fred Berndt; Dorothée Uhrmacher; Franz Peter David; Staatskapelle Berlin
BerlinThe Tsar's Bride
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride
Keri-Lynn Wilson; Dmitri Tcherniakov; Staatsoper Berlin; Elena Zaytseva; Gleb Filshtinsky; Staatskapelle Berlin
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