Malin Byström, Natalya Romaniw, Elena Stikhina, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Jakub Józef Orliński, Federica Lombardi & Joshua Guerrero Lead Dutch National Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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The Dutch National Opera has announce dits 2025-26 season. Elena Stikhina and Natalya Romaniw star in Puccini’s “Tosca” with Joshua Guerrero and Gevorg Hakobyan. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 3-25, 2025 “Operetta Land” will be performed featuring music by Johann Strauss II, Jacques Offenbach, and Arthur Sullivan. Steef de Jong, Raoul Stefani, Marc Pantus, Laetitia Gerards, Elenora Hu, Frederik {…}

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Dutch National Opera to Present ‘We Are The Lucky Ones’

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The Dutch National Opera is set to present the world premiere of Philip Venables’s latest opera “We Are The Lucky Ones.” The opera will be shown at the Opera Forward Festival 2025 and will mark the fourth collaboration between Philip Venables and Ted Huffman based on real-life interviews. “We Are The Lucky Ones” tells the story of a generation and {…}

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Beyoncé & Madonna Choreographer to Direct Dutch National Opera’s ‘Idomeneo’

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The Dutch National Opera is set to present Mozart’s “Idomeneo.” The company will present a production by choreographer and director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, who has choreographed for pop stars such as Beyoncé (at her 2017 Grammy Award performance) and Madonna (on her #CelebrationTour). The production will feature dancers from his own company Eastman and sets by the Japanese artist Chiharu {…}

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Dutch National Opera to Present ‘Die ersten Menschen’

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The Dutch National Opera is set to present Rudi Stephan’s “Die ersten Menschen.” The work tells the story of the first family in the Biblical history of humanity, Adahm, Chawa, and their two sons Kajin and Chabel. Directed by Calixto Bieito, the director situates the primeval conflict in a modern-day setting reminiscent of the family dinner in Luis Buñuel’s film {…}

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Dutch National Opera 2024-25 Review: Le Lacrime di Eros

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(Photo: Dutch National Opera/Monika Rittershaus) (*** Trigger warning based on explicit content & suicide ***) “Le Lacrime di Eros” takes the audience back to the Italian city states of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a period still basking in the afterglow of the High Renaissance, in which the artworks of Da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo hung in the {…}

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Dutch National Opera Releases Statement Admitting Misconduct During ‘Fidelio’ Production

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The Dutch National Opera has released a statement regarding an article by Parool on its Guest Director of “Fidelio.” The company said, “On Saturday, 26 October, Het Parool published an article about the behavior of guest director, Andriy Zholdak, during the production period of the opera ‘Fidelio’ at the Dutch National Opera. Several important aspects were insufficiently addressed in this {…}

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Dutch National Opera to Perform ‘Le Lacrime di Eros’

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(Credit: © Hugo Thomassen) The Dutch National Opera is set to present the world premiere of “Le lacrime di Eros.” The production by Romeo Castellucci is built around music from late Renaissance Florence, by composers such as Claudio Monteverdi, Giulio Caccini, Jacopo Peri, and others. The work is divided into five thematic “books,” each showing a different allegorical aspect of {…}

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Issachah Savage Lead Dutch National Opera’s ‘Peter Grimes’

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The Dutch National Opera is set to present Britten’s “Peter Grimes.” The production by stage director Barbora Horáková will highlight the tension between the loner and the village community. This will mark the latest collaboration between Lorenzo Viotti and Horáková following “Missa in Tempore Belli.” Regarding her new production, Horáková said, “’Peter Grimes’ is set in a small fishing community, and {…}

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Dutch National Opera to Revive ‘Rigoletto’ with Roman Burdenko

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The Dutch National Opera is set to open its 2024-25 season with Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” The famed Verdi opera will be revived in Damiano Michieletto’s production, which opened in 2017. When the production opened critics were mixed and said, “the production is overanalytical and is ultimately sabotaged by its own cleverness.” In 2021, the staging was shown in Venice at the {…}

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Malin Byström, Natalya Romaniw, Elena Stikhina, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Jakub Józef Orliński, Federica Lombardi & Joshua Guerrero Lead Dutch National Opera’s 2025-26 Season

Dutch National Opera to Present ‘We Are The Lucky Ones’

Beyoncé & Madonna Choreographer to Direct Dutch National Opera’s ‘Idomeneo’

Dutch National Opera to Present ‘Die ersten Menschen’

Dutch National Opera 2024-25 Review: Le Lacrime di Eros

Dutch National Opera Releases Statement Admitting Misconduct During ‘Fidelio’ Production

Dutch National Opera to Perform ‘Le Lacrime di Eros’

Issachah Savage Lead Dutch National Opera’s ‘Peter Grimes’

Dutch National Opera to Revive ‘Rigoletto’ with Roman Burdenko