The Deutsche Oper am Rhein has announced its 2024-25 season.

Premieres

Verdi’s “Nabucco” will be directed by Ilaria Lanzino. Vitali Alekseenok and Katharina Müllner conduct a cast that includes Alexey Zelenkov, Eduardo Aladrén, Jussi Myllys, Liang Li, Svetlana Kasyan, and Marigona Qerkezi.

Performance Dates: Sept. 10-Dec. 25, 2024

Christoph Stöcker and Katharina Müllner conduct Jerry Bock, Joseph Stein, and Sheldon Harnick’s “Anatevka” and will be directed by Felix Seiler. The cast includes Andreas Bittl, Susan Maclean, Anna Sophia Theil, Vero Miller, Lavinia Dames, Kimberley Boettger-Soller, Mara Guseynova, Morenike Fadayomi, Katarzyna Włodarczyk, and Alina Grzeschik.

Performance Dates: Oct. 14-Dec. 1, 2024

Pierangelo Valtinoni’s “Die Reisezu Planet 9” will star Anna Sophia Theil, Riccardo Romeo, Annabel Kennedy, Jake Muffett, and David Fischer. Harry Ogg conducts the production by Cordula Däuper.

Performance Dates: Oct. 31-Dec. 22, 2024

Slavka Zamecnikova, Beniamin Pop, Scott Hendricks, Heidi Elisabeth Meier, Maria Polańska, Andrés Sulbarán, Torben Jürgens, and Valentin Ruckebier star in Donizetti’s “Viva la Mamma.” Benjamin Reiners conducts the production by Daniel Kramer.

Performance Dates: Nov. 12, 2024-Jan. 12, 2025

Alexander Zemlinsky’s “Der Kreidekreis” will be conducted by Hendrik Vestmann and directed by David Bösch. The cast will include Lavinia Dames, Sarah Ferede, Joachim Goltz, Matthias Koziorowski, Jorge Espino, Cornel Frey, Richard Šveda, Katarzyna Kuncio, Romana Noack, and Elisabeth Freyhoff.

Performance Dates: Nov. 26, 2024-Jan. 15, 2025

“Dido und Aeneas” and “Der Leuchtturm” will be performed in a double bill and will star Adrian Dwyer, Roman Hoza, Sami Luttinen, Anna Harvey, Jake Muffett, Sylvia Hamvasi, Romana Noack, Morenike Fadayomi, Henry Ross, Elisabeth Freyhoff, Annabel Kennedy, and Charlotte Langner. Killian Farrell and Jason Tran conduct the new production by Haitham Assem Tantawy.

Performance Dates: Feb. 3-March 5, 2025

Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Izabela Matula, and Sergey Polyakov headline Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” with Vitali Alekseenok conducting. The new production will be directed by Elisabeth Stöppler. 

Performance Dates: Feb. 17-May 3, 2025

Ovidiu Purcel will headline Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” alongside Maria Kataeva, Kimberley Boettger-Soller, Elena Sancho Pereg, Darija Augustan, Sylvia Hamvasi, Sarah Ferede, and Bogdan Taloș.

Performance Dates: April 8-June 7, 2025

Torben Jürgens and Günes Gürle star in “Pinocchio.” Marthe Meinhold conducts the production by Florian Kiehl.

Performance Dates: April 27-June 2, 2025

Bellini’s “Beatrice di Tenda” will be presented in concert with Bogdan Baciu, Stacey Alleaume, Maria Kataeva, Konu Kim, and Henry Ross. Antonino Fogliani conducts.

Performance Dates: May 2-July 6, 2025

Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” will star Ekaterina Sannikova, Liana Aleksanyan, Luiza Fatyol, Ramona Zaharia, Anna Harvey, Maria Polańska, Bogdan Baciu, Richard Šveda, Ovidiu Purcel, David Fischer, Bogdan Taloș, Sami Luttinen, Hans-Peter König, and Luke Stoker.

Vitali Alekseenok and Dmitry Matvienko conduct the new production by Michael Thalheimer.

Performance Dates: May 10-July 3, 2025

Giorgi Sturua, Sarah Ferede, Nicole Chevalier, Luke Stoker, Anna Harvey, Jorge Espino, and Jake Muffett star in Dvořák’s “Rusalka.” Harry Ogg conducts the production by Vasily Barkhatov.

Performance Dates: June 10-July 11, 2025

Repertoire 

Sylvia Hamvasi, David Jerusalem, Cornel Frey, Romana Noack, Benny Meisenberg, Stefan Heidemann, Joachim Gabriel Maaß, Jake Muffett, Torben Jürgens, Valerie Eickhoff, and Julie Marszalkowski star in Paul Abraham’s “Märchen im Grand Hotel.”

Verdi’s “La Traviata” returns to the company with a cast starring Luiza Fatyol, Anja Jeruc, Adela Zaharia, Pavel Valuzhin, Ovidiu Purcel, Long Long, and Alexey Zelenkov. Antonino Fogliani and Vitali Alekseenok conduct.

Performance Dates: Oct. 25, 2024-April 25, 2025 

Marco Alibrando conducts Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” with Stacey Alleaume, Ovidiu Purcel, Sangmin Lee, Bogdan Baciu, Beniamin Pop, and Bogdan Taloș.

Performance Dates: Dec. 5, 2024-Jan. 17, 2025 

Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” will return for the holiday season and will showcase Simone McIntosh, Alexandra Yangel, Kimberley Boettger-Soller, Anna Harvey, Anke Krabbe, Lavinia Dames, Heidi Elisabeth Meier, Anna Sophia Theil, Renée Morloc, Sarah Ferede, Rita Kapfhammer, Romana Noack, Stefan Heidemann, Insu Hwang, Frank Dolphin Wong, Richard Šveda, Florian Simson, Morenike Fadayomi, and Cornel Frey. Harry Ogg, Sebastian Ludwig, Péter Halász, Vitali Alekseenok, and Katharina Müllner also star.

Performance Dates: Dec. 13, 2024-Jan. 19, 2025 

Ekaterina Sannikova and Liana Aleksanyan lead Puccini’s “Tosca” alongside Irakli Kakhidze, Xavier Moreno, Boris Statsenko, Alexey Zelenkov, and Anooshah Golesorkhi.

Performance Dates: Jan. 16-Apri 17, 2025

Harry Ogg, Marco Alibrando, Vitali Alekseenok, and Katharina Müllner alternate in the pit in Rossini’s “La Cenerentola.” The cast will include Maria Kataeva, Valerie Eickhoff, Alasdair Kent, Patrick Kabongo, César Cortés, Jake Muffett, Jorge Espino, Günes Gürle, Pablo Ruiz, Luke Stoker, Žilvinas Miškinis, and Chao Deng.

Performance Dates: Jan. 30-March 28, 2025

Wagner’s “Das Rheinold” will star Oliver Zwarg, Stefan Heidemann, Jussi Myllys, Cornel Frey, Anna Harvey, Ramona Zaharia, Florian Simson, Thorsten Grümbel, and Sami Luttinen. Vitali Alekseenok conducts.

Performance Dates: March 9-April 4, 2025

Harry Ogg conducts Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with Roman Hoza, Heidi Elisabeth Meier, Sylvia Hamvasi, David Fischer, Jussi Myllys, Sami Luttinen, Luiza Fatyol, Luke Stoker, Beniamin Pop, Valentin Ruckebier, and Mara Guseynova.

Performance Dates: March 23-May 11, 2025

Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” will showcase multiple casts including Beniamin Pop, Thorsten Grümbel, Luke Stoker, Sami Luttinen, Torben Jürgens, Andrés Sulbarán, David Fischer, Jussi Myllys, Dimitra Kotidou, Alina Wunderlin, Ylva Stenberg, Tetiana Zhuravel, Heidi Elisabeth Meier, Anke Krabbe, Lavinia Dames, Sonia Warzyńska-Dettlaff, Anna Sophia Theil, Jake Muffett, Roman Hoza, Philipp Meierhöfer, and Richard Šveda. Vitali Alekseenok, Antonino Fogliani, Yi-Chen Lin, Péter Halász, and Harry Ogg also star.

Performance Dates: April 24-June 24, 2025

Ramona Zaharia headlines Bizet’s “Carmen” with Liana Aleksanyan, Sylvia Hamvasi, Eduardo Aladrén, and Adrian Sâmpetrean.

Performance Dates: May 29-July 12, 2025

Axel Kober conducts Verdi’s “Otello” with a cast featuring Martin Muehle, Vladislav Sulimsky, and Anke Krabbe.

Performance Dates: June 22-July 13, 2025