Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Announces 2024-25 Season

The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera The season opens with Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” starring Dorothea Spilger, Ann-Beth Solvang, Brett Sprague, Martha Eason, Ralitsa Ralinova, Florence Losseau, Melanie Lang, Kihun Yoon, Ks. Klaus Schneider, Ks. Armin Kolarczyk, Oğulcan Yılmaz, Ks. Konstantin Gorny, and Liangliang Zhao. Georg Fritzsch conducts the new production by Keith Warner. Performance Dates: {…}

May 11, 2023

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Announces 2023-24 Season

Germany’s Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe has announced its 2023-24 season. Here are the operatic and vocal performances. Premieres Verdi’s “Nabucco” will get a new production by Thaddeus Strassberger. Yura Yang conducts. Premiere Date: Oct. 21, 2023 Strauss’ “Die schweigsame Frau” will be conducted by Georg Fritzsch and directed by Mariame Clément. Premiere Date: Dec. 19, 2023 Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” will {…}

Jul 31, 2022

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Appoints New Intendant

The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe has appointed a new Intendant. The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Art announced that Christian Firmbach will take the position⁩ starting in the 2024-25 season. The board of directors of the theater unanimously voted in favor of Firmbach, who will succeed interim director Ulrich Peters. Firmbach’s contract will run for five years. In a statement Firmbach said, “The Badisches {…}

Jun 21, 2022

Matthias Wohlbrecht Named Kammersänger of Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

Tenor Matthias Wohlbrecht has been named Kammersänger of Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Wohlbrecht was given the honor for his artistic merit at the theater by the state of Baden-Württemberg. The tenor has been a member of the opera company since 2004 and has performed in such productions as “Ariadne auf Naxos,” “Fidelio,” “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” “Manon Lescaut,” “Tannhäuser,” “The Passenger,” {…}

May 14, 2022

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Announces 2022-23 Season

The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe has announced its 2022-23 season featuring six premieres and several revivals. Premieres Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer” with Georg Fritzsch conducting and Ludger Engels directing. Premiere Date: Dec. 10, 2022 Yura Yang conducts Bizet’s “Carmen” in a new production by Immo Karaman. Premiere Date: Jan. 21, 2023 Regie Carlos Wagner directs Händel’s “Ottone, Re di Germania” with {…}

May 20, 2021

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Announces 2021-22 Season

The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in Germany has announced its 2021-22 season featuring ballet, theater, and opera. For this article, we will only highlight the opera productions. Premieres Mozart’s “La Finta Giardiniera” will get a new production with Yura Yang conducting and Anja Kühnhold directing. Premiere Date: Oct. 23, 2021 Emmerich Kálmán’s “Grafin Mariza” gets a new production with Georg Fritzsch {…}

Mar 31, 2021

Lea Desandre & Jakub Józef Orliński Lead Baroque Night Livestream From Aix-en-Provence

(Credits: © Julien Benhamou / Kamil Szkopik) The Festival de Pâques will present a night of baroque music to be live-streamed on March 31, 2021 at 8:30 p.m. The performance will star mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and counter-tenor Jakub Józef Orliński. The two singers will perform works by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Giulio Caccini, Henry Purcell, Georg Friedrich Händel, Thomas Dunford, Reynaldo Hahn, {…}

Mar 1, 2021

Nicole Braunger to Remain Opera Director at Staatstheater Karlsruhe Until Summer 2024

Nicole Braunger, the first woman opera director at Staatstheater Karlsruhe, will stay on with the theater for three more years, until the summer of 2024, as part of an interim management restructuring at the opera house, Badische Neuste Nachrichten reported on February 25. According to the report, Braunger originally asked that her contract not be extended beyond this year; however, {…}

Jan 7, 2021

Jakub Józef Orliński To Give Concerts In Spain In January

Credit: Jiyang Chen Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński is set to give two concerts in Spain in January 2021. The first stop for the countertenor will be at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona on Jan. 11, and the second concert will take place at the National Auditorium in Madrid on Jan. 17, 2021. On both occasions, Orliński will {…}