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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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Opernhaus Zürich 2025-26 Review: Cardillac

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(Photo: Monika Rittershaus) Paul Hindemith’s “Cardillac” remains one of the most insightful operatic examinations of artistic obsession ever written. Premiered in 1926 amidst the cultural turbulence of the Weimar Republic, this psychological thriller follows a Parisian goldsmith so consumed by his creations that he murders to reclaim them, unable to tolerate his masterpieces in anyone else’s possession. Beyond its surface {…}
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Opernhaus Zürich 2025-26 Review: Carmen

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(Credit: Toni Suter) Few operas are as iconic or as enduringly popular as Georges Bizet’s “Carmen.” Since its 1875 premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, the work has captivated audiences with its indelible melodies and its unsentimental, ground-level portrayal of passion, obsession, and freedom. Set in 19th-century Spain, “Carmen” charts the collision between a woman’s fierce independence and a man’s {…}
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Opernhaus Zürich Appoints New Music Director

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(Credit: Gaetan Bally) The Opernhaus Zürich has appointed Lorenzo Viotti as its new General Music Director for the 2028-29 and 2029-30 seasons. The initial contract term is set for two years and is aligned with the current tenure of Artistic Director Matthias Schulz. Viotti will succeed Gianandrea Noseda, who has shaped the orchestra with artistic clarity, passion, and the highest {…}
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Opernhaus Zürich 2025-26 Review: La Forza Del Destino

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(Credit: Monika Rittershaus) “La Forza del Destino” has always been considered a transitional work in Giuseppe Verdi’s output, bridging the purely romantic operas of his early period and the mature works where his musical language became more dramatic, direct, and personal. It was composed on a commission from the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg, where it premiered in 1862. The {…}

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