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

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 {…}

Feb 23, 2025

Marc Albrecht Named Next Chief Conductor of Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

Marc Albrecht has been named the next Chief Conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Starting in the 2026-27 season, Albrecht will assume the new role. Before his official appointment, he will appear with the orchestra as Chief Conductor Designate during the 2025-26 season. The German conductor is particularly known for his interpretations of late-Romantic German-Austrian repertoire and contemporary music. He {…}

Jan 25, 2025

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

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 {…}

Dec 25, 2024

Dutch National Opera to Present ‘Die ersten Menschen’

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 {…}

Dec 4, 2024

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

(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 {…}

Oct 17, 2024

Q & A: Conductor Raphaël Pichon on the World Premiere of ‘Le Lacrime di Eros’

This November the Dutch National Opera will premiere “Le Lacrime di Eros,” an experimental work that brings together music from the Renaissance with contemporary electronic music composed by the American composer Scott Gibbons, under the baton of the French conductor Raphaël Pichon, who is responsible for creating and developing the concept. The work is built around rarely heard pieces from {…}

Apr 9, 2024

Opera Forward Festival 2024 Review: The Shell Trial

(Photo: Marco Borggreve) In 2021, a court in The Hague ordered the giant oil company Shell to cut its CO2 emissions by 45% by 2030 relative to its 2019 levels. The case had been brought by Dutch environmental groups concerned by the company’s flagrant disregard for the damage their emissions were doing to the planet’s climate; recent research has shown {…}

Apr 1, 2024

René Barbera, Austrine Stundyte, Tomasz Konieczny & Issachah Savage Lead Dutch National Opera’s 2024-25 Season

The Dutch National Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera René Barbera, Roman Burdenko, Aigul Khismatullina, Alexander Köpeczi, and Maya Gour Star in a revival of Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” Yi-Chen Lin conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 2-29, 2024 Britten’s “Peter Grimes” will get a new production by Barbora Horáková. Lorenzo Viotti conducts a cast that includes Issachah Savage, Johanni van Oostrum, and {…}

Mar 5, 2024

Dutch National Opera to Present ‘Il Trittico’ with Michael Volle

The Dutch National Opera is set to present Puccini’s triptych “Il Trittico” for the first time. The opera will premiere on May 3, 2024 and will be shown in celebration of the centenary of Puccini’s death 1924-2024. “Il Trittico” will be conducted by Lorenzo Viotti. Stage director Barrie Kosky will helm the production and will star baritone Michael Volle in {…}

Feb 14, 2024

Dutch National Opera Announces Major Production Change to ‘Jocasta’s Line’

The Dutch National Opera will no longer present “Jocasta’s Line.” Per an official press release, the company made the decision after director Wayne McGregor withdrew from the production due to “private circumstances.” In his stead, Mart van Berckel and Nanine Linning will bring in a new production of Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” and the work premiere of Samy Moussa’s “Antigone.” The {…}

Feb 2, 2024

Dutch National Opera & Ballet Awarded Another BREEAM-NL Sustainability Rating

(Photo credit: Michel Schnater) The Dutch National Opera and Ballet has been awarded a new BREEAM-NL certificate for its production workshop. The production workshop achieved a “Very Good” rating in 2023, marking a 20 percent improvement in its overall rating from 2019. The installation of 2,000 square meters of solar panels on the roof of the workshop, which are hooked {…}

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