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2015/16 Season
New Productions
Helmut Lachenmann
Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (The Little Match Girl)
Friday September 18th 2015
Conductor: Erik Nielsen / Matthias Hermann
Director: Benedikt von Peter
Stage Designer: Natascha von Steiger
Costume Designer: Cinzia Fossati, Natascha von Steiger
ChorWerk Ruhr (Chorus): Jonas Alber
With generous support from the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain
Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka
Iwan Sussanin (first ever performance in Frankfurt)
Sunday October 25th 2015
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
Director: Harry Kupfer
Stage Designer: Hans Schavernoch
Costume Designer: Yan Tax
Richard Wagner
Der fliegende Holländer
Sunday November 29th 2015
Conductor: Bertrand de Billy / Eun Sun Kim
Director: David Bösch
Stage Designer: Patrick Bannwart
Costume Designer: Meentje Nielsen
Franz Lehár
Der Graf von Luxemburg (in concert / first ever performance in Frankfurt)
Thursday December 31st 2015
Conductor: Eun Sun Kim
Chorus Master: Tilman Michael
followed by a New Year's Eve party in the foyer
on tour in the Philharmonie in Cologne on January 5th 2016
Valentino Fioravanti
Le cantatrici villane (The Village Singers)
Saturday January 23rd 2016 (Bockenheimer Depot)
Conductor: Karsten Januschke
Director: Caterina Panti Liberovici
Stage Designer: Sergio Mariotti
Costume Designer: Caterina Botticelli
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Giuseppe Verdi
Stiffelio (first ever performance in Frankfurt)
Sunday January 31st 2016
Conductor: Jérémie Rhorer
Director: Benedict Andrews
Stage Designer: Johannes Schütz
Costume Designer: Victoria Behr
Giuseppe Verdi
Oberto (in concert / first ever perfomance in Frankfurt)
Thursday February 18th 2016
Conductor: Jader Bignamini
Chorus Master: Tilman Michael
George Frideric Handel
Messias (The Messiah / first ever staged performance in Frankfurt)
Sunday March 27th 2016
Conductor: Markus Poschner
Director: David Freeman
Stage Designer: David Roger
Costume Designer: Louie Whitmore
A production from the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen
George Frideric Handel
Radamisto (first ever performance in Frankfurt)
Sunday April 3rd 2016 (Bockenheimer Depot)
Conductor: Simone Di Felice
Director: Tilmann Köhler
Stage Designer: Karoly Risz
Costume Designer: Susanne Uhl
Leoš Janáček
Das schlaue Füchslein (Příhody lišky Bystroušky / The Cunning Little Vixen)
Sunday April 24th 2016
Conductor: Johannes Debus
Director: Ute M. Engelhardt
Stage Designer: Stephanie Rauch
Costume Designer: Katharina Tasch
Georges Bizet
Carmen
Sunday June 5th 2016
Conductor: Constantinos Carydis / Sebastian Zierer
Director: Barrie Kosky
Stage and Costume Designer: Katrin Lea Tag
Alban Berg
Wozzeck
Sunday June 26th 2016
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
Director: Christof Loy
Stage Designer: Herbert Murauer
Costume Designer: Judith Weihrauch
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Arnold Schönberg
Pierrot Lunaire
Michael Langemann
Anna Toll oder Die Liebe der Treue (world premiere)
Commissioned by Oper Frankfurt
Thursday July 7th 2016 (Bockenheimer Depot)
Conductor: Nikolai Petersen
Director Pierrot Lunaire: Dorothea Kirschbaum
Director Anna Toll: Hans Walter Richter
Stage and Costume Designer: Bernhard Niechotz
With generous support from the Aventis Foundation
Revivals
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Hochzeit des Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro / The Marriage of Figaro)
Thursday October 1st 2015
Conductor: Karsten Januschke / Hartmut Keil
Director: Guillaume Bernardi
Stage Designer: Moritz Nitsche
Costume Designer: Peter DeFreitas
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Die tote Stadt (The Dead City)
Friday October 2nd 2015
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle / Björn Huestege
Director: Anselm Weber
Stage Designer: Katja Haß
Costume Designer: Bettina Walter
Engelbert Humperdinck
Hänsel und Gretel
Thursday October 29th 2015
Conductor: Rasmus Baumann / Nikolai Petersen / Björn Huestege
Director: Keith Warner
Stage Designer: Jason Southgate
Costume Designer: Julia Müer
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlo
Saturday November 7th 2015
Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi
Director: David McVicar
Stage Designer: Robert Jones
Costume Designer: Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor
Saturday December 5th 2015
Conductor: Vlad Iftinca
Director: Matthew Jocelyn
Stage Designer: Alain Lagarde
Costume Designer: Eva-Mareike Uhlig
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Gioacchino Rossini
Die diebische Elster (La gazza ladra / The Thieving Magpie)
Friday December 11th 2015
Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti
Director: David Alden
Stage Designer: Charles Edwards
Costume Designer: Jon Morrell
Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier
Saturday January 9th 2016
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
Director: Claus Guth
Stage an Costume Designer: Christian Schmidt
With generous support from the DZ Bank
Leoš Janáček
Die Sache Makropulos (Věc Makropulos / The Makropoulos Case)
Friday February 5th 2016
Conductor: Jonathan Darlington
Director: Richard Jones
Stage and Costume Designer: Antony McDonald
George Frideric Handel
Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Friday February 12th 2016
Conductor: Erik Nielsen
Director: Johannes Erath
Stage Designer: Herbert Murauer
Costume Designer: Katharina Tasch
Giacomo Puccini
Il trittico
Sunday March 13th 2016
Conductor: Jakub Hrůša
Director: Claus Guth
Stage Designer: Christian Schmidt
Costume Designer: Anna Sofie Tuma
Richard Wagner
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Ein Bühnenfestspiel für drei Tage und einen Vorabend
(A stage-festival play for three days and a preliminary evening)
Das Rheingold – Thursday May 5th 2016
Die Walküre – Sunday May 8th 2016
Siegfried – Saturday May 14th 2016
Götterdämmerung – Monday May 16th 2016
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
Director: Vera Nemirova
Stage Designer: Jens Kilian
Costume Designer: Ingeborg Bernerth
Two Ring cycles: May 5th to 16th 2016 and July 8th to 17th 2016
Advance booking for both cycles opens on June 1st 2015
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Recitals
Mauro Peter tenor
Tuesday October 13th 2015
Paula Murrihy mezzo-soprano
Tuesday November 10th 2015
Quinn Kelsey baritone
Tuesday December 8th 2015
Anja Silja soprano
Tuesday January 26th 2016
Sandrine Piau soprano
Tuesday March 1st 2016
Brenda Rae soprano
Tuesday April 19th 2016
Matthew Polenzani tenor
Tuesday May 31st 2016
Mark Padmore tenor
Tuesday June 21st 2016
With support from Mercedes-Benz-Niederlassung Frankfurt / Offenbach
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