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Opernhaus Zurich Announces Adjusted Schedule for ‘Opernhaus für alle’ Due to Extreme Heat

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The Opernhaus Zürich has announced that it will be changing times for its “Opernhaus für alle” programing due to high temperatures. The company said, “Due to the forecast summer heat this coming weekend, the Zurich Opera House is postponing the starting times of several ‘Opernhaus für alle’ events on Sechseläutenplatz.” The Friday June 26 performance of “Romeo and Juliet” will {…}
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Opernhaus Zürich 2025-26 Review: Tannhäuser

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(Photo: Herwig Prammer) Richard Wagner wrote the libretto of “Tannhäuser” drawing on medieval German mythology, although its protagonist was probably inspired by a real person who lived in the thirteenth century. Mythology functions as a mechanism of psychological externalization: it takes the abstract, often chaotic dynamics of the human subconscious—our conflicting impulses, fears, and cultural values—and projects them into tangible {…}
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Opernhaus Zürich 2025-26 Review: La Damnation de Faust

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  First performed in 1846, “La Damnation de Faust” remains one of Hector Berlioz’s most audacious and elusive works: neither fully opera nor oratorio, but a hybrid “dramatic legend” that defies conventional staging and genre. Drawing on Goehte’s “Faust” while filtering the story through Berlioz’s intensely Romantic imagination, the piece moves with feverish speed from pastoral lyricism to infernal spectacle, {…}
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Opernhaus Zürich 2025-26 Review: La Clemenza di Tito

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(Photo: Toni Suter) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote “La clemenza di Tito” in 1791, the year of his death, to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, as King of Bohemia. The libretto, adapted from Metastasio, celebrates the Roman Emperor Tito as a magnanimous and forgiving ruler; this was particularly apt for the enlightened monarch Leopold, who governed through {…}
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Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko, Lise Davidsen, Elīna Garanča, Ludovic Tézier, Juan Diego Flórez, Diana Damrau, Regula Mühlemann, Cecilia Bartoli, Sonya Yoncheva, Sabine Devieilhe, Ermonela Jaho, Benjamin Bernheim Lead Opernhaus Zürich’s 2026-27 Season

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The Opernhaus Zürich has announced its 2026-27 season. Premiere  The season opens with Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” conducted by Tamo Peltokoski and Erina Yashima. The new production will be directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca and will star Magnus Dietrich, Tobias Kehrer, Regula Mühlemann, Jasmin Delfs, Johan Krogius, Brent Michael Smith, Kathrin Zukowski,  Alina Wunderlin, Yannick Debus, Andrew Moore, and Evan Gray. {…}
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Opernhaus Zürich 2025-26 Review: Scylla et Glaucus

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(Photo: Monika Rittershaus) The “Zürich Barock” Festival at the Zurich Opera House presents a rarity: “Scylla et Glaucus” by Jean-Marie Leclair, a composer best known for instrumental music, especially for the violin, which he himself played with great virtuosity. The opera premiered in 1746 and enjoyed moderate success, but soon disappeared from the repertoire. Its first modern performance took place {…}
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Opernhaus Zürich 2025-26 Review: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo

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(Photo: Toni Suter) Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” written in the first century A.D., profoundly influenced Baroque art in all its forms: literature, the visual arts, and music. It is an epic-style compilation of over 250 Greek and Roman myths centered on transformation, spanning from the creation of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar, all linked by the overarching theme of {…}
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Opernhaus Zürich 2025-26 Review: Giulio Cesare in Egitto

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(Credit: Monika Ritterhaus) To encounter Handel’s “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” is to step into a world where the grand sweep of history is refracted through the glittering prism of Baroque opera seria. The great Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) is acclaimed upon his arrival in Egypt and receives an unexpected and troubling gift from Achilla, Tolomeo’s (Ptolemy’s) advisor: the severed head {…}
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Opernhaus Zürich Launches New Music Festival

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Opernhaus Zürich announces its new festival, “Zürich Baroque.” The first edition of “Zürich Baroque” aims to bring together opera productions, concerts, chamber music, family formats and performative projects in a concentrated panorama of historically informed performance practice. Over 10 days, the festival will give the premiere of Jean-Marie Leclair’s “Scylla et Glaucus,” present Handel’s “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” and “Aci, {…}

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