2020 - 21 SEASON

The world premiere of his adaptation of the "The Birds" by Aristophanes was a huge breakthrough for composer Walter Braunfels. An enormous success, followed in Munich alone by fifty performances!

Swan Lake is both a ballet classic and ballet mystery par excellence in equal measure.

In a village community that holds firm to archaic customs, the young hunter Max must pass a marksmanship test so he may marry his sweetheart, Agathe.

Verdi’s last opera was only his second excursion into the comedy genre. Falstaff should have spirit and he therefore extended Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor with passages from Henry IV.

What makes "Rosenkavalier" so fascinating are the possibilities and impossibility of love, the urgency and relentlessness of passing time and freedom to decide.

Heartache, heartbreak, the whole nine yards – four starving artists – love in a shabby attic loft – the swank boulevards where people live life with a capital "L", but Mimi is destined to die.

Of aristocratic stock, the young Marya falls in love with the poor Vladimir, to her parents' chagrin. The couple's decision to marry in secret, however, is thwarted by fate.

Paradigma includes three choreographies by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar (Bedroom Folk), Russell Maliphant (Broken Fall), and Liam Scarlett (With a Chance of Rain).

King Lear intends to distribute his kingdom among his three daughters. Those that love him the most will receive the most.

Giselle is considered the romantic ballet par excellence. Giselle, who falls in love with Duke Albrecht, who sneaks into her heart disguised as a peasant boy, is both romantic and tragic.

To journey home to Crete after the Trojan War, King Idomeneo vows to Poseidon, God of the Sea, that he will sacrifice the first living being he meets when he lands.

For decades, Marina Abramović has been fascinated by the life of the "tigress" - as Callas was called. Now she has conceived the opera project "7 Deaths of Maria Callas".