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Performer: Staatsoper Hamburg

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HamburgDas Paradies und die PeriNew production

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Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri)
Omer Meir Wellber; Tobias Kratzer; Staatsoper Hamburg; Felix Hornbachner; Rainer Sellmaier; Michael Bauer

HamburgDie GänsemagdNew production

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ter Schiphorst: Die Gänsemagd
Claudia Chan; Tobias Kratzer; Staatsoper Hamburg; Rainer Sellmaier; Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg; Matthias Piro

HamburgFalstaff

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Verdi: Falstaff
Valerio Galli; Calixto Bieito; Staatsoper Hamburg; Susanne Gschwender; Anja Rabes; Michael Bauer; Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
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Unsuk Chin's opera Die dunkle Seite des Mondes premieres in Hamburg

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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

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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

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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. 
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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.