Munich Opera Festival
Festival Programme 2023 - Highlights
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HAMLET
June - July 2023 - Nationaltheater
June: 26(7.00 pm)
July: 01(7.00 pm), 05(7.00pm), 09(6.00pm), 12(7.00pm)
DETAILS:
Music Brett Dean - Production Glyndebourne Festival
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski
Director: Neil Armfield
Cast: Allan Clayton/Caroline Wettergreen/Rod Gilfry/Sophie Koch/Charles Workman/Jacques Imbrailo/John Tomlinson/Sean Panikkar/Patrick Terry/Christopher Lowrey/Andrew Hamilton/Liam Bonthrone/James Crabb/Joel Williams
Orchestra & Choir: Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
KRIEG UND FRIEDEN (WOINA I MIR)
July 2023 - Nationaltheater
July: 02(5.00 pm), 05(5.00pm)
DETAILS:
Music Sergej S. Prokofjew - Coproduction Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski
Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov
Cast: Andrei Zhilikhovsky/Olga Kulchynska/Alexandra Yangel/Kevin Conners/Alexander Fedin/Violeta Urmana/Mischa Schelomianski/Olga Guryakova/Arsen Soghomonyan/Victoria Karkacheva/Behzod Davronov/Alexei Botnarciuc/Christian Rieger/Emily Sierra/Martin Snell/Christina Bock/Sergei Leiferkus/Oksana Volkova/Elmira Karakhanova/Roman Chabaranok/Stanislav Kuflyuk/Maxim Paster
Orchestra & Choir: Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
SALOME
July 2023 - Nationaltheater
July: 11(8.00 pm), 14(8.00pm)
DETAILS:
Music Richard Strauss
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Mikko Franck
Director: Krzysztof Warlikowski
Cast: Gerhard Siegel/Michaela Schuster/Camilla Nylund/Wolfgang Koch/Evan LeRoy Johnson/Christina Bock/Ya-Chung Huang/Brenton Ryan/Dean Power/Kevin Conners/Daniel Noyola/Tilmann Rönnebeck/Jonas Hacker/Martin Snell/Bálint Szabó/Gabriel Rollinson/Elmira Karakhanova
Orchestra & Choir: Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
SEMELE
July 2023 - Nationaltheater
July: 15(8.00 pm), 18(8.00pm), 20(8.00 pm), 22(8.00pm), 25(8.00pm)
DETAILS:
Music Georg Friedrich Händel - Coproduction Metropolitan Opera, New York
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Stefano Montanari
Director: Claus Guth
Cast: Brenda Rae/Michael Spyres/Jonas Hacker/Jakub Józef Orlinski/Emily D'Angelo/Philippe Sly/Delphine Galou/Jessica Niles/Milan Siljanov
Orchestra & Choir: Bayerisches Staatsorchesterr/Lausch Werk
LOHENGRIN
July 2023 - Nationaltheater
July: 16(5.00 pm), 19(6.00pm)
DETAILS:
Music Richard Wagner - Coproduction Shanghai Grand Theatre
ARTISTS:
Conductor: François-Xavier Roth
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Cast: Mika Kares/Klaus Florian Vogt/Johanni van Oostrum/Johan Reuter/Anja Kampe/Egils Silins/Liam Bonthrone/Gabriel Rollinson/Roman Chabaranok/Solist(en) des Tölzer Knabenchors
Orchestra & Choir: Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Bayerischer Staatsopernchor und Extrachor der Bayerischen Staatsoper
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
July 2023 - Nationaltheater
July: 21(5.00 pm), 24(5.00pm), 29(4.00pm)
DETAILS:
Music Richard Wagner - New Production
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Juraj Valcuha
Director: Krzysztof Warlikowski
Cast: Stuart Skelton/René Pape/Anja Harteros/Wolfgang Koch/Sean Michael Plumb/Jamie Barton/Jonas Hacker/Christian Rieger/Liam Bonthrone
Orchestra & Choir:  Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
RECITAL JONAS KAUFMANN
July 2023 - Nationaltheater
July: 25(7.00 pm)
DETAILS:
Music TBA
ARTISTS:
Piano: Helmut Deutsch
Tenor:Jonas Kaufmann
OTELLO
June 2023 - Nationaltheater
June: 27(7.00 pm), 30(7.00pm)
DETAILS:
Music Giuseppe Verdi
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Myung-whun Chung
Director: Amélie Niermeyer
Cast:Fabio Sartori/Gerald Finley/Evan LeRoy Johnson/Granit Musliu/Bálint Szabó/Daniel Noyola/Andrew Hamilton/Anja Harteros/Nadezhda Karyazina
Orchestra & Choir: Bayerisches Staatsorchester/ Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
BORIS GODUNOV
July 2023 - Nationaltheater
July: 04(7.30 pm), 06(7.00pm)
DETAILS:
Music Modest Mussorgsky
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Vasily Petrenko
Director: Calixto Bieito
Cast:Ildar Abdrazakov/Daria Proszek/Emily Pogorelc/Christina Bock/Maxim Paster/Sean Michael Plumb/Vitalij Kowaljow/Dmytro Popov/Ryan Speedo Green/Brenton Ryan/Rose Naggar-Tremblay/Kevin Conners/Roman Chabaranok/Aleksey Kursanov/Thomas Mole/Christian Rieger
Orchestra & Choir: Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Chorus, extra chorus and children's chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
RECITAL ANJA HARTEROS
July 2023 - Nationaltheater
July: 13(8.00 pm)
DETAILS:
Music TBA
ARTISTS:
Piano: Wolfram Rieger
Soprano: Anja Harteros
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
July 2023 - Nationaltheater
July: 15(6.00 pm), 17(7.00pm)
DETAILS:
Music Modest Mussorgsky
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Director: Benedict Andrews
Cast:Louise Alder/Avery Amereau/Konstantin Krimmel/Sebastian Kohlhepp/Sandrine Piau/Johannes Martin Kränzle
Orchestra & Choir: Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
DIDO AND AENEAS...ERWARTUNG
July 2023 - Nationaltheater
July: 20(7.00 pm), 22(7.00pm)
DETAILS:
Music Henry Purcell / Arnold Schönberg
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Andrew Manze
Director: Krzysztof Warlikowski
Cast:Ausrine Stundyte/Günter Papendell/Victoria Randem/Rinat Shaham/Key'mon Murrah/Elmira Karakhanova
Orchestra & Choir: Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
AIDA
July 2023 - Nationaltheater
July: 23(7.00 pm), 27(7.00pm), 30(7.00pm)
DETAILS:
Music Giuseppe Verdi
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Daniele Rustioni
Director: Damiano Michieletto
Cast:Anita Rachvelishvili/Elena Stikhina/Brian Jagde/Alexander Köpeczi/George Petean/Alexandros Stavrakakis/Granit Musliu/Elmira Karakhanova
Orchestra & Choir: Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
FESTIVAL CHAMBER-CONCERT: RECITAL PASCAL DEUBER
July 2023 - Cuvilliés-Theater
July: 27(8.00 pm)
DETAILS:
Music York Bowen/Richard Strauss/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Daniel Schnyder
ARTISTS:
Performers: Pascal Deuber/Matjaž Bogataj/Felix Key Weber/Adrian Mustea/Emanuel Graf/Blai Gumí Roca/Claudio Andrés Estay González
DON CARLO
July 2023 - Nationaltheater
July: 28(6.00 pm), 31(6.00pm)
DETAILS:
Music Giuseppe Verdi
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Daniele Rustioni
Director: Jürgen Rose
Cast: Ildar Abdrazakov/Charles Castronovo/Ludovic Tézier/Dmitry Ulyanov/Alexander Köpeczi/Maria Agresta/Clémentine Margaine/Mirjam Mesak/Galeano Salas/Jessica Niles/Christian Rieger/Andrew Hamilton/Thomas Mole/Daniel Noyola/Roman Chabaranok/Gabriel Rollinson
Orchestra & Choir:  Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
