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Ring Streaming
The international interest in our interpretation of Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen is many times greater than our small house has seats for. For this reason, we are particularly pleased to be able to offer the second Ring cycle as streaming to those at home. The performances will be broadcast live from the opera house on 18, 20, 24 and 26 May and will remain available free of charge for a month afterwards.
Through a deliberate false statement, Briony Tallis, a pubescent, overzealous writer (in Marston's case: choreographer) in 1930s England, puts her older sister’s unfit lover in prison and destroys the lives and loves of two people. Her feeling of guilt accompanies her to the end of her life.
moreIan McEwan, author of «Atonement», paid a visit to Ballett Zürich and talked about what the ballet version of his book evokes in him.
«An all-round successful, sensitive and fast-paced production that did full justice to Bizet's masterpiece»
Deutschlandfunk , 08.04.24
Don't know it, never heard of it, what's that supposed to be? We have created a playlist for you with selected hits from our current program.
The British composer Benjamin Britten set Shakespeare's popular «A Midsummer Night's Dream» to music with an incredible joy of experimentation: in the realm of the fairies, we hear the baroque influence of Henry Purcell with harpsichord and countertenor, while folk and barbershop elements are used with the theatre-loving rustics.
moreWe spoke to Duncan Ward, the conductor of this year's Opera Studio production at Theater Winterthur, and listened in on an orchestra rehearsal.
A NEW DIRECTION FOR DINING AND CATERING AT THE OPERNHAUS+++ OPERETTEN-FROSCH FOR «DIE LUSTIGE WITWE» +++ RESULTS OF THE 2022/23 SEASON +++ «DER FEURIGE ENGEL» IS BEST OPERA PRODUCTION 2022 +++ GIANANDREA NOSEDA NAMED BEST CONDUCTOR 2023 +++ IOS SINGERS CELEBRATE SUCCESSES AT «TENOR VINAS» +++ RECORDING OF LUNEA WINS ICMA IN THE «CONTEMPORARY MUSIC» CATEGORY +++ FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE 2021/22 SEASON
