Anna Brull, Attilio Glaser, Gaston Rivero, Marjukka Tepponen & Michaela Schuster Lead Oper Graz’s 2026-27 Season

(Credit: Reithofer Media) Oper Graz has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust” is set to star Anna Brull, Pavel Petrov, and Nikita Ivasechko. The new production will be conducted by Johannes Braun and Stefan Birnhuber and directed by Lorenzo Fioroni. Performance Dates: Sept. 26-Dec. 13, 2026 Tom Schimon, Michael Heller, Jianwei Liu, Leah Bedenko, Anna Brull, Sieglinde {…}

May 5, 2023

Oper Graz Announces 2023-24 Season

Oper Graz has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the productions and concerts. Opera Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann“ will star Matthias Koziorowski, Anna Brull, Andżelika Wiśniewska, Tetiana Zhuravel, Tetiana Miyus , Sieglinde Feldhofer, Mareike Jankowski, and Petr Sokolov. Performance Date: Sept. 30, 2023-Jan. 6, 2024 Tobias Ribitzki directs Kurt Weill’s “Tom Sawyer” with Tom Schimon, Michael Heller, Euiyoung {…}

May 17, 2022

Marjukka Tepponen, Piotr Buszewski & Flurina Stucki Lead Oper Graz’s 2022-23 Season

Oper Graz has announced its 2022-23 season featuring numerous new productions and ensemble members. Britten’s War Requiem will be directed by Lorenzo Fioroni and conducted by Roland Kluttig and Nicolas Ellis. Flurina Stucki, Matthias Koziorowski, Mario Lerchenberger, and Markus Butter. Performance Dates: Sept. 24-Nov. 20, 2022 Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” will be directed by Floris Visser and conducted by Gábor Káli. {…}

Jun 23, 2021

Aurelia Florian, Maximilian Schmitt & Daeho Kim Lead Oper Graz’s 2021-22 Season

Oper Graz in Austria has announced its 2021-22 season featuring a number of new productions and concerts. For the performances of this article, we will only focus on operatic and vocal performances. Opera Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino“ will receive a new production by Eva-Maria Höckmayr and will star Aurelia Florian, Mariusz Godlewski, Jordan Shanahan, Aldo Di Toro, Mareike Jankowski, {…}

Jun 26, 2020

Pavel Petrov, Piotr Buszewski & Marjukka Tepponen Lead Oper Graz’s 2020-21 Season

Opera Graz in Austria has announced its 2020-21 season featuring several new productions and revivals. Here is a look at the opera and operetta performances for the season. Nadja Loschky directs a new production of Weinberg’s “Die Passagierin” starring Nadja Stefanoff, Markus Butter, Tetiana Miyus, Eva-Maria Schmid, Antonia Cosmina Stancu, Anna Brull, Andrea Purtić, Mareike Jankowski, Sieglinde Feldhofer, Mana Iwata, {…}

May 7, 2019

Oper Graz Reveals 2019-20 Season

Oper Graz has announced its 2019-20 season, which will include a slew of new productions and some revivals. The company opens its season with a new production of “Don Carlo” with Aurelian Florian as Elisabetta. Oksana Volkova takes on Eboli with Neven Crnic and Dariusz Perczak as Rodrigo. Casting for Carlo and Filippo are TBD. Jetske directs, while Marcus Merkel {…}

Aug 6, 2018

Oper Graz 2017-18 Review: “María de Buenos Aires” makes a sensational debut in Austria

Undoubtedly the most successful musical ever written about Argentina was Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Evita,” which stormed into the Prince Edward Theatre in London in 1978. Ten years before, Astor Piazzolla’s “María de Buenos Aires” made a much more modest debut at the Sala Planeta in the Argentinean capital. Nominally a “tango operita,” this relatively short work is a much more fascinating {…}