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Michel Friedman (a well known person in Germany) in conversation on 17/02/2026

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Friedman Prof. Dr. jur. Dr. phil. Michel, Eidinger Lars, Friedman Prof. Dr. jur. Dr. phil. Michel, Friedman Prof. Dr. jur. Dr. phil. Michel, Nassehi ... Prof. Dr. jur. Dr. phil. Michel, Friedman Prof. Dr. jur. Dr. phil. Michel, Amann Melanie, BEING AN OUTSIDER - and Britten's Peter Grimes a moving story about an outsider, turned into a scapegoat by his small-minded, ...

Friedman, Prof. Dr. jur. Dr. phil. Michel

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Prof. Dr. jur. Dr. phil. Michel Friedman, Prof. Dr. jur. Dr. phil. Julien Michel Friedman is a German-French jurist, philosopher, journalist, author and moderator. He hosted Hessen radio's political discussion programme Vorsicht! (watch out!) Friedman from ... ARD's Friedman programme from 2001, has moderated other radio programmes, such as Studio Friedman since 2004, Friedman schaut hin and Open End onWeltN24 since 2021, is also a regular guest on television, ...

Friedman in der Oper

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Intermezzo – Opera at Lunchtime on 03/11/2025

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Matviienko Danylo, Kang Pilgoo, Rollinson Gabriel, Goławski Michał, Yende Nombulelo, Monreal Marvic, Venanzoni Felice, Vatteroni Valentina, ... surroundings – these lunchtime concerts are popular and the venue easy to reach, performed be members of our Opera Studio and Paul-Hindemith-Orchestra Academy or students from the University for Music & the Performing ...

History

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History, , The history of opera in Frankfurt , , c.1700 a French operatic troupe came to Frankfurt and performed works, mainly ... c. 1000 seats, on what is now Rathenauplatz, the first purpose built theatre, created by master builder Johann Andreas Liebhardt, in Frankfurt scheduled plays and operas. The first production was Johann ...

Kaun, Ines

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Ines Kaun Chorus Mistress Ines Kaun became Chorus Master at Theater Heidelberg at the beginning of the ... she was contracted to teach chorus conducting at Erfurt University and assisted Johannes Knecht at Oper Stuttgart. Ines Kaun has been supported by the German Musikrat's Dirigentenforum since 2013. She ...

Hwang, Ingyu

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Ingyu Hwang Tenor During the Korean tenor Ingyu Hwang's time in Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio, which he left last season, his roles included Graf Elemer (Arabella), Don Riccardo (Ernani, in concert), Federico di Frengel (Stiffelio), the Young Man (Eötvös’ Der goldene Drache / The Golden Dragon) and ...

Falch, Thor Inge

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Thor Inge Falch Tenor The Norwegian tenor is making his debut in Germany, and Oper Frankfurt, singing the Captain inWozzeck, a role he sang in this Christof Loy production at Den ... in Oslo, where he has been a member of the ensemble since 2007. He is currently singing Valzacchi in Der Rosen­kavalier, which will be followed by Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte, there, where he was recently heard ...

de Haas, Ingo

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Ingo de Haas violin Frankfurt am Main started playing an important part in Ingo de Haas' life when he ... Concert Master at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt at 25, moving to the same position with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 1999. He teaches at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in ... Korngold, Igor Stravinsky and Philip Glass' violin concertos. He is passionate about chamber music and leader of the Hindemith Quartet.

Jeong, Inho

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Inho Jeong Bass South Korean bass Inho Jeong is back at Oper Frankfurt to sing Tschub this wonderful production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Night before Christmas, ...

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Opera Extra on 23/11/2025

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Phillips Heather, Taylor Beth, Lebow Theo, Larlee Anne, Erath Johannes, Glarner Kaspar, Horpácsy Zsolt, Hinterdobler Magdalena, Glueckert AJ, Bauer Kanabas Andreas, Larlee Anne, Mikhailov Alexander, MacNeil Iain, Vassilieva Tatiana, Uryupin Valentin, Barkhatov Vasily, Horpácsy Zsolt, Buczkowska-Ward ... the next new production - during which a singer, or singers, from the cast sing something from the opera in question. These are held in German but English is sometimes spoken as well, as not all the ...

Discussing an opera on 21/11/2025

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Hinterdobler Magdalena, Holender Liviu, Poschner Markus, Horpácsy Zsolt, Rae Brenda, Neal Simon, Guggeis Thomas, Wink Mareike, Poaros ... production you have just seen! Come and join in, if you have a smattering of German.  ,c 1 hr, Discussing an opera

Live Recordings & DVDs

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Live Recordings & DVDs, , OehmsClassics, Oper Frankfurt and our wonderful sound technicians have worked together to build up an impressive catalogue ...

Opera Gala

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Opera Gala, , , 25th Opera gala : november 29 2025 , , , WE're very grateful to OUR SPONSORS FOR THEIR ... , , , , , , ,   , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Please contact:Anna von LüneburgHead of Sponsoring and Mäzenatentumtel +49 (69) 69 212 37178email: Anna.vonLueneburg@buehnen-frankfurt.de2018 Opera ...

Opera Workshops for Adults on 08/11/2025

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»Carmen«,»Così fan tutte«,»Giulio Cesare in Egitto«,»Madama Butterfly«,»Peter Grimes«,»Tristan und Isolde«,»Turandot«,»CARMEN« To be Cleopatra or Carmen for a day! You can. Not to vie with an opera singer, but to delve into the emotions felt by characters. Supporting roles are equally important! ...

Opera Studio

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Opera Studio, , , , , , , , , , © Barbara Aumüller , , , , , , , , , , , , , Oper Frankfurt’s Opera Studio, founded in 2008, is regarded as one of the best nurturers of young talent in Germany,  helping them before ... the Studio also take part in masterclasses run by legendary regulars including Brigitte Fassbaender, Hedwig Fassbender, Neil Shicoff and Edith Wiens. , , how to apply to join the Studio , , Young ...

Opera to go on 29/10/2025

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Ryberg Anna, Ryberg Anna, Ryberg Anna, Zib Daniela, Abildin Kudaibergen, Larlee Anne, Križaj Domen, Werkueberschrift, Werkueberschrift, Dying slowly to Puccini,»DIE SLOWLY ... Then this is for you, because Puccini knew how to tug at your heartstrings! Perfect for people new to opera: members of our Ensemble and Opera Studio serve up delicacies for you to enjoy, leaving you drooling ...

New Year's Eve at Oper Frankfurt on 31/12/2025

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booking opens July 2, as long as you buy a ticket forTosca too!,See in the New Year in a relaxed atmosphere in Oper Frankfurt's wonderful foyer, with buffet, drinks, a DJ and dancing! Come and have a ball!, Oper Frankfurt's big foyer, ...

Opera Studio Soirées

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Opera Studio Soirées The series of Opera Studio Soirée concerts, which began in 2008/09, continues ...

Opera Studio Soiree on 11/11/2025

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Makuła Karolina, Ilie Florina, Moorman Julia, Lauritano Kelsey, Matviienko Danylo, Kang Pilgoo, Goławski Michał, ... Cláudia, Bretón Abraham, Mkosana Sakhiwe, Kim Andrew, booking opens September 15,Our series of  Opera Studio Soirées continues, giving you the chance to hear exciting new young singers. The Opera ...

OperaVision Next Generation

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OperaVision Next Generation, , How do you embark on a career as a singer appearing at leading theatres ... have the chance of making their programmes fostering up and coming young artists better known to a wider international audience with videos and Livestreams. The videos, which can be seen until 2024, offer ...

Opera Extra

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Opera Extra INTRODUCTORY TALKS ABOUT NEW PRODUCTIONS This series, presented by the dramaturgy department ...

Concerts by the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchestra

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Concerts by the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchestra 10 pairs of concerts with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester (Oper Frankfurt's orchestra) in the Alte Oper run by the Frankfurter Museums-Gesellschaft e.V.  Tickets ONLY ON SALE VIA: Frankfurt ...

The Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester

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The Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester, ,   , , This link opens a YouTube video., Data protection information can ...

oPERA hOUSE OF THE yEAR yet again!

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oPERA hOUSE OF THE yEAR yet again!  »Opernwelt« magazine has just voted Oper Frankfurt »Opera House ... of that: after votes were recounted it transpires that the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester under our GMD Thomas Guggeis (for works including Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre) tied with the Bayerische Staatsorchester ...

Opera to Go on the River Main on 07/05/2026

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Ryberg Anna, Ship moored near Eiserner Steg (bridge) / Mainkai, Opera to Go on the River Main

Opera Merry-go-Round on 15/04/2026

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Opera Merry-go-Round

Opera for Children on 14/03/2026

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Brazier Nina, Einspieler Deborah, Opera for Children

Opera for Children on 24/01/2026

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Gatto Silvia, Fischer Christoph, Sendfeld Katharina, Einspieler Deborah, Opera for Children

Opera for Children on 29/11/2025

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Koch Max, Fischer Christoph, Fuks Alexandra, Einspieler Deborah, Nagyová Judita, Bengtsson Karolina, Zechmeister Barbara, Rutigliano Angela, Reiter Elizabeth, Makuła Karolina, Mkosana Sakhiwe, Opera for Children

Opera Merry-go-round on 30/09/2025

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Grevesmühl Adda, Grevesmühl Adda, Holender Liviu, Grevesmühl Adda, Holender Liviu, Opera Merry-go-round

Oper Frankfurt stand at 2025 Museumsuferfest on 31/08/2025

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Oper Frankfurt stand at 2025 Museumsuferfest

Ensemble, Guests, Opera Studio & Teams

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Ensemble, Guests, Opera Studio & Teams,

Opera in (German) Dialogue

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Opera in (German) Dialogue Events in German - go to German side of website.

NEW YEAR'S EVE AT OPER FRANKFURT

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NEW YEAR'S EVE AT OPER FRANKFURT

Opera for You

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Oper Frankfurt at home

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Kilian, Jens

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... Kilian Set Designer Dresden born Jens Kilian, who designed highly acclaimed sets for the Frankfurt Der Ring des Nibelungen (available on CD & DVD – OehmsClassics) and this production of Die Frau ohne ... DEFA in Babelsberg. He has been working as an international freelance set and costume designer for opera, drama and dance since 1987. Directors with whom he has worked over the years have included Christof ...

Jakubiak, Sara

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Sara Jakubiak soprano The American soprano Sara Jakubiak, who has been a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt since 2014/15, adds two new roles to her repertoire this season: Ellen Orford in the new production of ... Freia in Das Rheingold.  She recently enjoyed great success with the title role in Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.  Roles with which she has enjoyed great success in Frankfurt ...

Nelsen, Rebecca

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Rebecca Nelsen soprano Rebecca Nelsen is stepping in to sing Hanna Glawari in the last performance of The Merry Widow in Frankfurt this season, a role she recently sang for the first time, with great success, at the Volksoper in Vienna, where she is a member of the ensemble. She also sang it at Oper Dortmund (house debut) ... Gretel), Frauke Beeke Hansen (Das Gespenst von Canterville / The Canterville Ghost), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Gilda (Rigoletto), Eurydike (Orpheus in der Unterwelt), Fiona MacClaren (Brigadoon), Lauretta ...

Schabel, Tobias

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Tobias Schabel bass Tobias Schabel is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt singing Fritz Kothner in this performance of Meistersinger.  He joined the ensemble ... heard singing Alaskawolfjoe in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and Ritter Sinbrand von Fraß in Der singende Teufel / The Singing Devil. His roles for the company have included Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier), ...

Ammann, Lindsay

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Lindsay Ammann mezzo-soprano The US American mezzo-sopano Lindsay Ammann, a regular guest at leading opera houses in Europe and America, joined the ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2021/22, where ... Musiktheater in Essen and the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Japan. Her repertoire includes Erda (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde), Mary (Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying ...

Lang, Melanie

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Melanie Lang mezzo-soprano Melanie Lang is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt tonight, stepping in at short notice to sing Mrs Sedley in Peter Grimes. This Austrian ... the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, Philharmonie in Cologne and she appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle. She was a member of the Staatstheater in Oldenburg's ensemble from 2014 - 2024, ...

Saelens, Yves

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Yves Saelens Tenor The Belgian tenor Yves Saelens is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he recently sang Demodocus and Tieresias in the first ever performances of Dallapiccola’s Ulisse in Frankfurt (2022 Rediscovery of the Year - International Opera Awards), repeated his wonderful portrayal of Bajazet in Handel's Tamerlano and sang the Kurfürst of Brandenburg in last season's new ...

Piffka, Thomas

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Thomas Piffka Tenor Thomas Piffka, the Vater / Father in the world premiere of this work and first run of this production of Scartazzini's Der Sandmann at Theater Basel, is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. He is a regular guest at Cologne Opera, the Staatstheater in Wiesbaden ...

Taratorkina, Anastasiya

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Anastasiya Taratorkina, This young German-Russian soprano was a member of Hessen's State Theater in Wiesbaden's ensemble from 2022-2024, during which time roles included Gilda (Rigoletto), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Marzelline (Fidelio), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Valencienne (The Merry Widow), ... world premiere Søren Nils Eichberg's Oryx and Crake. She was also invited to performed at Zürich Opera, Oper Bonn, in an Opera Gala in the Tonhalle Zürich and gave recitals at the Dresden and Vilagarcia ...

Nekhames, Anna

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Anna Nekhames soprano The soprano Anna Nekhames, who comes from Moscow, left the Vienna State Opera's Opera Studio to join the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2022/23. She enjoyed a triumph last season with the title role ... Chloe (Pique Dame), 2nd Flowermaiden (Parsifal), Konstanze (Entführung ins Zauberreich) and a Couturier(Der Rosenkavalier). She started her career in the children's chorus at the Bolschoi in Moscow before ...

Bliss, Ben

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Ben Bliss Tenor The tenor Ben Bliss is one of the most promising talents in his fach, who is much sought after for Mozart roles. This American artist is appearing ... Germany for the first time singing Ferrando (role debut) in Così fan tutte, a role then sings at Seattle Opera and back at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, who awarded him the Martin E. Segal Award in 2016. ... have included Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and the Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer). Other engagements have included Tamino at Opera Philadelphia and Los Angeles ...

Bode, Simon

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Simon Bode Tenor Simon Bode, who sings Gabriel in the world premiere of Michael Langemenn's Anna Toll, left the Opera Studio to join the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2012/13, where recent roles have included Graf von Lerma (Don Carlo), Armand Brissard (Der Graf von Luxemburg), Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer/The Flying Dutchman), Fenton (Falstaff), ...

Warner, Keith

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Keith Warner Director Keith Warner is one of the world's most sought-after drama and operatic directors working at leading opera houses and festivals including those in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Dresden, Hamburg, Vienna, London (Der Ring des Nibelungen and many other works), Copenhagen, Strasbourg, Brussels, Warsaw, Tokyo (Der Ring ...

König, Michael

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Michael König Tenor The tenor Michael König is one of the most sought after singers in his fach and a regular guest at Oper Frankfurt, where he recently sang The Tenor / Bacchus in a new production of Ariadne auf Naxos (available ... the Kaiser (Die Frau ohne Schatten) and Florestan (Fidelio). Recent engagements have included Erik (Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Florestan ...

Petruccelli, Michael

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... Petruccelli Tenor The Australian tenor Michael Petruccelli, who studied at the University of Melbourne, joined the Opera Studio at Oper Frankfurt in the 2018/19 season, during which he made his debut in Germany singing ... Carlo), A young Sailor in the new production of Tristan und Isolde, Remendado (Carmen), a Court Orderly in a new production of Rossini's Bianca e Falliero and a Landlord (Der Rosenkavalier). This ...

Sokolowski, Christopher

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Christopher Sokolowski tenor Christopher Sokolowski, from New York's Hudson Valley, is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, stepping in at very short notice to sing Ken in this brand new opera. ... / The Seven Deadly Sins), Don Curzio (Le nozze di Figaro), Tschaplizki (Pique Dame) and Vogelsang (Der Schauspieldirektor). He also joined the company for concerts at the Baden-Baden Festival and Opéra ...

Sofroniadou, Penny

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Penny Sofroniadou soprano The Greek soprano Penny Sofroniadou is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt, singing Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. She has been a member of the Ensemble at Theater ... as Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) at Oper Dortmund, at the Aalto-Musiktheater Essen as a Dresser (Der Rosenkavalier) and the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen as Angelica (Orlando Paladino). She has ...

Devieilhe, Sabine

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Sabine Devieilhe soprano The soprano Sabine Devieilhe studied cello and musicology before concentrating ... sought-after singers in her fach. This artist from Normandy regularly enjoys great success at leading opera houses, most recently as Ophélie in Thomas’ Hamlet at the Opéra Comique de Paris, Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) at Zurich Opera, Zerbinetta at La Scala Milan and Marie (La Fille du régiment) at ...

Bock, Christina

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Christina Bock mezzo-soprano Christina Bock is stepping in at short notice to sing Magdalene in this evening's performance of Die Meistersinger, a role she is currently singing at the Vienna State Opera, in another new production of the work.  She thrills audiences with many roles, particularly ... Vienna State Opera in 2021, as Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea and sang the title role in Der Rosenkavalier,  she maintains close ties to the house. She was a member of the Semperoper in ...

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Crocetto, Leah

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Leah Crocetto Soprano Leah Crocetto is back in Frankfurt, where she made her debut in 2012/13 as Desdemona in Otello and returned in 2013/14 for ... Alice Ford in Falstaff, to sing Leonora in this new Il Trovatore. This winner of the 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions recently sang Aida (role debut) San Francisco Opera, where she used ...

Cabell, Nicole

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Nicole Cabell Soprano Nicole Cabell, winner of the 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, is one of the most sought-after lyric ... Alarcón. She sings another new role this season: Flavia, in Cavalli's Eliogabalo, at the Nationale Opera in Amsterdam. Roles central to this Californian soprano's repertoire include Mimì (La Bohème), ... highlights were Bess (Porgy and Bess) with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Australia, Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) in Cincinnati, Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Adina (L’elisir ...

Alden, David

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David Alden, David Alden, one of the most sought-after directors in the world, who directed this production of Rossini's La gazza ladra, also produced wonderful productions of Chabriers L’Étoile and Schreker's Der Schatzgräber / The Treasure Hunter for the company. Highlights in this American's calendar this season include Anna Bolena at Zürich Opera and Otello at Grange Park Opera. His production of Janáček's Jenůfa won him an Olivier ...

Bauer Kanabas, Andreas

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Andreas Bauer Kanabas Bass During the 2025/26 season Andreas Bauer Kanabas, who joined Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in 2013/14, can be heard singing his first Pimens in a new production of Mussorgsky's Boris Gonunov and repeating his wonderful portrayals of Banco, King Marke and Adahm in Macbeth, Tristan und Isolde and Rudi Stephan's The ...

Bronder, Peter

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Peter Bronder Tenor Peter Bronder is back in Frankfurt, where he was last seen repeating his memorable portrayal ... the treasurer, in this new production of Offenbach's The Bandits. He is a regular guest at leading opera houses around the world including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, San Francisco Opera, the ...

Blunier, Stefan

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Stefan Blunier Conductor Stefan Blunier, who was born in Switzerland and was the city of Bonn's General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Beethoven Orchestra and Bonn Opera from 2008 - July 2016, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2013/14 with Daphne and Tristan und Isolde and conducted Lohengrin, for this revival of our wonderful Carmen. Recent productions in Bonn have included Benvenuto Cellini, Fidelio and Thaïs.  Other ...

Herzog, Jens-Daniel

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Jens-Daniel Herzog Director The director Jens-Daniel Herzog is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he directed Wagner's Lohengrin and Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes, for this new production of Henze's The Prince of Homburg. He ... Staatstheater in Nürnberg in 2018/19, where productions he has directed included Le nozze di Figaro, Mathis der Maler, the world premiere of Schreier's Turing, Die Frau ohne Schat­ten, The Rape of Lucretia, L’Orfeo, ...

Hogrefe, Sabine

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Sabine Hogrefe Soprano Sabine Hogrefe is back in Frankfurt, where she appeared for the first time in 2014 ... the role again in 2018, at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. She has sung Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival under Christian Thielemann, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Staatsoper in Hannover, Oper Leipzig and in Detmold, Freiburg and Dijon. Other engagements ...

Peter, Mauro

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Mauro Peter, The Swiss tenor Mauro Peter is regarded as one of the best interpreters of Lieder of his generation since winning the 2012 Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau and making his debut at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, and is a regular guest at leading concert venues and opera houses around the world. He studied in Munich and was a member of Zurich Opera's Ensemble from ...

Köhler, Tilmann

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Tilmann Köhler Director Tillmann Köhler made his debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2013 with Teseo, which was followed by Radamisto, Xerxes, Rossini's Bianca et Falliero, ... Tirol Festival in Erl, Frank Martin's Le vin herbé , this production of Le nozze di Figaro and a wonderful Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge / George the Dreamer, which both opened last season. He recently make his ...

Janušaitė, Sandra

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Sandra Janušaitė Soprano The Lithuanian soprano Sandra Janušaitė has been under contract to Lithuanian National Opera in Vilnius since 2001, where recent roles have included the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), Leonora (Il ...

Schager, Andreas

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Andreas Schager Tenor Austrian born Andreas Schager is one of the best Heldentenors there is. After making his triumphant international breakthrough in 2013, singing Siegfried in Götterdämmerung at La Scala Milan, the Staatsoper in Berlin and BBC Proms under Daniel Barenboim, he has been much sought-after for major Wagner and Strauss roles by leading theatres ...

Pantiukhova, Maria

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Maria Pantiukhova Mezzo-soprano Maria Pantiukhova left the opera studio to join the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2016/17, during which roles included the title ... Passenger. Other roles in Frankfurt have included Giovanna (concert performances of Verdi's Ernani), Mary (Der fliegende Holländer/The Flying Dutchman), Brigitta (Die tote Stadt/The Dead City), Grimgerde (Die ...

Nánási, Henrik

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Henrik Nánási Conductor Henrik Nánási is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he conducted new productions of La gazza ladra and Chabrier's L’Étoile and performances of La Bohème and I masnadieri for this new production of Halévy's La Juive. Born in Hungary, he was General Music Director of the Komische Oper Berlin from 2012 – 2017, during which ... Garden, Rigoletto at the Hamburg State Opera, La traviata at the Teatro Real de Madrid and a new Der Rosenkavalier, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski,  at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. ...

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Kriegenburg, Andreas

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Andreas Kriegenburg Director Andreas Kriegenburg made his debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2010/11, with this production of Tosca. He has enjoyed great success directing plays ... Berlin, The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein at the Staatstheater in Nürnberg, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Der Freischütz at Hamburg State Opera and Enescu's Œdipe at the Bregenz Festival. Many of Andreas ...

Nurgeldiyev, Dovlet

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... Nurgeldiyev Tenor Dovlet Nurgeldiyev, from Turkestan, is a member of the ensemble at the Hamburg State Opera. Recent roles there have included Lenski, which he will soon be singing at Polish National Opera in Warsaw, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer), Ferrando (Così fan tutte) and Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail. This ...

Gritschneder, Susanne

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Susanne Gritschneder Mezzo-soprano The mezzo-soprano Susanne Gritschneder is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt, as Fortunata in Maderna's Satyricon. Born in Munich, she was a member of the ensemble ...

Breth, Andrea

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... Butterfly (2024) and Salome (2022) at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. She started her career directing plays. Productions at the Städtische Bühnen in Freiburg, where she was house director from 1983 ... Berlin from 1992 - 1997 and house director at the Burg Theatre in Vienna from 1999 - 2019. She made her operatic debut in 2005, with Carmen at the Styriarte Festival in Graz. This was followed by very successful ... Cross of Honour for Science and the Arts, the Bundesverdienstkreuz (2015, 2019), the 2015 German „Der Faust“ Theater Prize, the Order "Pour le Mérite“ (2018) and Austria's 2022 Music Theatre Prize.

Ruckgaber, Katharina

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Katharina Ruckgaber soprano Katharina Ruckgaber joined the ensemble at Theater Freiburg in the 2017/18 season, ... where roles have included Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Adele (Die Fledermaus) and Musetta (La Bohème). She sang Ännchen (Der Freischütz) at the Staatstheater in Karlsruhe and can ... Adele. After studying at the University for Music and Theatre in Munich this young soprano joined the Opera Studio at Oper Frankfurt, where her roles included Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Waldvogel (Forest ...

Motulewicz, Joanna

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Joanna Motulewicz Mezzo-soprano The Polish mezzo-soprano Joanna Motulewicz is back in Frankfurt, where she made her debut in 2015 as Bronka in Weinberg’s Die Passagierin / The (female) ... Little Vixen - available on CD - OehmsClassics), and Euryclea in a new production of Fauré’s only opera - Pénélope, a role later sang at Oper Graz, to repeat her portrayal of Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi. Joanna Motulewicz has been under contract to the Podlachisian Opera in Białystok (Poland) since 2012, where roles have included Mirabella ...

Yang, Antonio

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Antonio Yang Baritone The baritone Antonio Yang (The Wanderer) is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. Since joining the ensemble at the Staatstheater in Nürnberg in 2013/14 ...

Tunney, Clare

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Clare Tunney soprano Born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, Clare Tunney, who makes her debut at Oper Frankfurt this evening stepping in at short notice to sing the Mother in Hänsel und Gretel, joined ... Condemnation of Lucullus). During their 2022/23 she sings this role in Hänsel und Gretel, Frau Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor), Helmwige (Die Walküre), Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia), the soprano role in ...

Einspieler, Deborah

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Deborah Einspieler Dramaturge Italian born Deborah Einspieler studied German, Romantic languages and literature in Frankfurt am Main and musicology in Florence. This dramaturge also runs Oper Frankfurt's Education Programme JETZT, which seeks to make opera more approachable for people from ... Theatertage. During her time at Oper Frankfurt she has worked with directors including Andrea Schwalbach (Der Kaiser von Atlantis), Axel Weidauer (Curlew River & Golden Vanity), Christoph Quest (Weiße Rose ...

Volle, Dietrich

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Dietrich Volle baritone The baritone Dietrich Volle was a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt for 15 years. He's back this to sing the Captain of the Carabinieri  and a Detective & Rogue in revivals of Offenbach's The Bandits ... Makropoulos Case), Music Teacher (Ariadne auf Naxos), Spencer Coyle (Britten's Owen Wingrave), Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier), Old Man (Reimann's Ghost Sonata), Donner (Das Rheingold), Manz (Delius' Village ...

Petersen, Nikolai

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Nikolai Petersen Kapellmeister & Soloists' Coach This season Nikolai Petersen, a Kapellmeister at Oper Frankfurt, conducts performances of Carmen and Don Giovanni.  In 2018/19 he enjoyed great success with Menotti's The Medium, and co-conducting Eötvös’ Tri sestry ... Sisters - both new productions.  He also conducted a new production of Britten's Paul Bunyan, Eotvos' Der goldene Drachen / The Golden Dragon, the first ever performances in Frankfurt of three one act operas ...

Behr, Victoria

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Victoria Behr Costume Designer Victoria Behr's colourful and beautifully designed costumes can be seen in productions of plays and operas. Productions on which she has worked with Benedict Andrews have included Macbeth at the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen, La Bohème at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam and Prokofiev's Der feurige Engel/The Fiery Angel at the Komische Oper Berlin, where she returns this season for Reimann's ...

Neubauer, Margit

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Margit Neubauer Mezzo-soprano Margit Neubauer, who was given the title of Kammersängerin by Oper Frankfurt in 1993, where she was a member of the ensemble from 1977 - 2015. This season she returns for a Senior Warder in Weinberg's Die Passagierin / The (female) Passenger and Praskowia in the new production of Die ...

Gorny, Konstantin

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Konstantin Gorny bass This Russian bass, who is stepping in at short notice to sing Ramphis in tonight's performance ... in 1998, who bestowed the title of Kammersänger on him in 2006.  He's a regular guest at leading opera houses  in Europe around the world, from Tokyo, Sydney to Buenos Aires. Highlights in his international ... magazine for »Male Singer of the Year«. The first role in German was Hagen in Tobias Kratzer's DER FAUST Theatre Prize winning production of Götterdämmerung in Karlsruhe, which was followed by ...

Family Workshops on 09/11/2025

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Vassilieva Tatiana, Vassilieva Tatiana, »Help« When someone's in trouble they don't always have the strength to call for help.  If we find someone in need of help, we both feel relieved. People get into dangerous situations in many operas, are unhappy and need a friend. We'll try both out – begging for help and helping others in ... day-to-day questions are a form of longing, wishing we could see someone, be somewhere where we had a wonderful time or there's something to look forward to. Feelings a lot of characters in operas experience, ...

Brownlee, Lawrence

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Lawrence Brownlee Tenor The American tenor Lawrence Brownlee – voted »Best Male Singer« at the 2017 International Opera Awards – is one of the leading bel canto tenors of his generation.  He has thrilled audiences ... at Houston Grand Opera, Rossini's Le Comte Ory at the Klangvokal Musikfestival in Dortmund, Schnyder's Charlie Parker, he also sang it at the world premiere in Philadelphia, at English National Opera ...

Švēde, Zanda

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Zanda Švēde Mezzo-soprano Zanda Švēde's roles for the company during the 2025/26 season include Cornelia in Giulio Cesare and the title role in Carmen, Vlasta in Weinberg's ... Waltraute in new Siegfrieds and Götterdämmerungs at the Tirol Festival in Erl, Carmen at Pittsburgh Opera, Seattle Opera, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Latvian National Opera. She studied at the Jāzeps ...

Andrews, Aurelia

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... Andrews piano The American pianist and conductor Aurelia Andrews also enjoys a successful career coaching singers. She accompanies leading singers in recital who appear regularly at leading opera houses around the world and has worked with conductors including James Conlon, Plácido Domingo, ... Matthew Polenzani, Michael Fabiano and Bryan Hymel - in Dallas. Conducting projects have included Frederick Loewe's Camelot, at Intermountain Opera, Ben Moore's The Odyssey and Robin Hood and Benjamin Britten's ...

Mlinde, Vuyani

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Vuyani Mlinde bass Vuyani Mlinde joined the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2010/11. During our 2015/16 season his roles include Bartolo in Die Hochzeit des Figaro/Le ... roles in Frankfurt in recent seasons have included the Speaker (Die Zauberflöte), Casino Director (Der Spieler/The Gambler), Der Hohepriester/High Priest (Enescu's Oedipe) and Pluto (Telemann's Orpheus). ...

Lazar, Hans-Jürgen

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Hans-Jürgen Lazar Tenor Hans-Jürgen Lazar is back at Oper Frankfurt to sing Ulrich Eisslinger in this new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürenberg (a ... (Rossini's Otello), Graf von Lerma (Don Carlo), Monsieur Taupe (Capriccio), A Dubious Character (Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Distant Sound - available on CD - OehmsClassics), The 60+ Man (world premiere of ...

Reiter, Alfred

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Alfred Reiter bass Alfred Reiter has performed lots of  varied roles at Oper Frankfurt since joining the ensemble in 2008/09, including the Doctor (Wozzeck), Graf Waldner (Arabella), ... di Poppea). He sang Herr Zenk, Lucifer & Dr. Muthesius in the world premieres of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter / The Tenant, Lucia Ronchetti's Inferno (Bockenheimer Depot 2021) & Vito Žuraj's Blühen ...

Alder, Louise

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Louise Alder soprano The British soprano Louise Alder looks back on her time with Oper Frankfurt as the ideal start for her international career. Now she's back in Frankfurt, where she was a popular member of the Ensemble from ...

Sigl, Ramses

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Ramses Sigl Choreography The choreographer Ramses Sigl works regularly with Claus Guth, in Frankfurt onThe Merry Widow, Der Rosenkavalier (don't miss the revival April 2025!) and the Dialogues des Carmelités, and elsewhere: ... Messiah at the Theater an der Wien, Helmut Oehring's AschMOND and Martinů's Julietta at the Staatsoper Berlin, this production of Rodelinda at the Teatro Real in Madrid, La clemenza di Tito in Glyndebourne ...

Petersen, Marlis

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Marlis Petersen Soprano Marlis Petersen, voted »Singer of the Year« four times by Opernwelt, won the same accolade from Opus Klassiks 2020. Her last role in Frankfurt was Hanna Glawari ... production of Die lustige Witwe / The Merry Widow in 2018. She recently sang her first Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, a role she is due to sing in June at the Vienna ...

Koziara, Ian

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Ian Koziara Tenor The American tenor Ian Koziara is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his European debut in 2018/19 singing Fritz in a new production (and subsequent revival) of Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Elusive Sound, which was followed by Chabel in Rudi Stephan’s Die ersten Menschen ...

Jud, Karin

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Karin Jud Costume Designer Karin Jud studied fashion design at the University for Design and Art in Basel. She was as a costume assistant at the Schauspiel and Opera House in Zurich before starting to work as a freelance costume designer in 2007. She has worked ... Schorsch Kamerun and Matthias Hartmann. She designed the costumes for Jan Philipp Gloger's production of Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman at the 2012 Bayreuth Festival. They have worked together ...

Brownlee, Nicholas

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... bass-baritone American bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee, who won the the 2025 Richard Tucker Award, joined the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2020/21. His dizzy making number of new roles since then included the title role & Amfortas ... Midsummer Night's Dream in Santa Fe, Méphistophélès (Gounod's Faust) in Dublin, Kaspar / Samiel (Der Freischütz), Grandier (The Devil of Loudun) and Wotan (Rheingold) at the Bayerische Staatsoper in ...

Wilson, Theresa

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Theresa Wilson costume designer The German / Canadian costume designer Theresa Wilson worked at Oper Frankfurt for the first time on this new production of Elektra. This fashion and textile designer assisted whilst training at theatres including the Vienna and Berlin state operas; working with people including Otto Schenk, Claus Guth (The Turn of the Screw, costumes: Christian Schmidt) and Michael Thalheimer (Der Freischütz, costumes: Katrin Lea Tag). Other assisting work took her to the Theater an der Wien, ...

Hahn, Patrick

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Patrick Hahn Conductor This Graz born conductor, composer and pianist is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, conducting this revival of La Cenerentola. The beginning of the 2021/22 ... and Asia. Recent highlights have included his debut at De Nationale Opera with a new production of Der Freischütz with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra und  his return to the Bayerische Staatsoper ...

Kammerloher, Katharina

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Katharina Kammerloher mezzo-soprano Munich born Katharina Kammerloher studied the oboe before taking up singing. Daniel Barenboim invited her to join the Staatsoper in Berlin in 1993, where roles have included Rosina (Il barbiere di Sevilla), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Meg Page (Falstaff), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) and the Composer in Ariadne ...

Castells, Lluc

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Lluc Castells Costume Designer Lluc Castells, who was born in Barcelona, works as a set and costume designer for plays, operas, dance, musicals, circus and films. He has worked regularly with Àlex Ollé since 2009, on productions ...

Sutphen, Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Sutphen Soprano Elizabeth Sutphen, who studied at the renowned Juilliard School in New York, is back in Frankfurt, where she was a member of the Opera Studio from 2016 – 2018, where she recently sang Oriana in the second run of our new production ... in 2018 for Zerbinetta, a role she sang at Kentucky Opera in 2017, and sang her first Sophies in Der Rosenkavalier at the Glyndebourne Festival. Other engagements have included Bianca (La rondine) at ...

Mahnke, Claudia

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Claudia Mahnke mezzo-soprano Claudia Mahnke, a member of the Ensemble and Kammersängerin at Oper Frankfurt since 2020/21, is one of the most sought-after mezzo-sopranos in the world, for roles ... and Giselle in new productions of Berg's Lulu and Magnard's Guercœur and had great fun as Annina in Der Rosenkavalier, a role she recently sang at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. During the 2023/24 ...

Magiera, Katharina

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Katharina Magiera contralto Katharina Magiera, who studied in Frankfurt with Hedwig Fassbender, has been a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt since 2009/10. Her roles during the 2025/26 season include Disinganno in a new production ...

Kasper, Kateryna

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Kateryna Kasper soprano The Ukrainian soprano Kateryna Kasper, singing Cleopatra (role debut) in this revival of Giulio Cesare in Egitto, left the Opera Studio to join the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt (2014/15 - 2024/25). Roles for the company, many ... Figaro), Tytania (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Nannetta (Falstaff), Antonida (Ivan Sussanin), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Oriana (Amadigi), Lady Harriet Durham (Martha) Frasquita (Carmen), Tigrane (Radamisto), ...

Mayer, Franz

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Franz Mayer baritone Franz Mayer, who was awarded the title of Kammersänger in 1993, was a member of the the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt from 1977 until the end of the 2015/16 season. He returned recently to sing roles including ... revival, a Night Watchman in our new Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Le Bailli in Werther and Oreste's Minder in Elektra. Other recent roles for the company have included the Judge in Flotow's Martha (get the ...

Robert, Luc

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Luc Robert Tenor The tenor Luc Robert, who comes from Québec, is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. He recently sang Don José at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the ... in São Paolo, Finnish National Opera in Helsinki and the Pacific Opera in Victoria, the Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer/The Flying Dutchman) at Opéra Lyon and Macduff (Macbeth) in Quebec and Ottawa.

Mohr, Berit

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Berit Mohr Costume Designer Berit Mohr has designed costumes for Oper Frankfurt's productions of Die Ausflüge des Herrn Brouček/The Adventures of Mr Brouček, Offenbach's ... Frankfurt's TAT (Theater am Turm) with Nicolas Stemann (Ich und Politik/Me and Politics), the Staatsoper in Hannover (Der kleine Schornsteinfeger/The Little Sweep) and the Landesbühnen Sachsen (Médée and L’Orfeo). ...

Zechmeister, Barbara

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Barbara Zechmeister Soprano Barbara Zechmeister has been singing at Oper Frankfurt since 1996, and the title of Kämmersängerin was bestowed upon her in 2011. During ... The Medium), Evelyne in Křenek's Heavyweight, or the Pride of the Nation, Graumann's Wife in a wonderful new production of Schreker's Elusive Sound, the Old Baroness (Barber's Vanessa), Adelaide (Arabella), ...

Sloane, Steven

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Steven Sloane Conductor The American-Israeli conductor Steven Sloane is back in Frankfurt, where he conducted a revival of the Dido and Aeneas / Herzog Blaubarts Burg (Bluebeard's ... European Capital of Culture: RUHR.2010. He was awarded  Nordrhein-Westfalen's 2022 Landesverdienst Order for this artistic achievements and has held the post of Music Director of the Jersusalem Symphony ... Philharmonique de Radio France and Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He is also much sought-after for operatic work which, this season, includes the world premiere of Moritz Eggert's Die letzte Verschwörung / ...

Schwarz, Hanna

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Hanna Schwarz Mezzo-soprano Hannah Schwarz has been one of the leading singers in her fach since she made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976 in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (directed by Patrice Chéreau). She is a regular guest at leading opera houses around the world including the state operas in Hamburg, where she was a member of the ensemble, ...

Lapkovskaja, Anna

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Anna Lapkovskaja Mezzo-soprano Anna Lapkovskaja studied at the University for Music and Theatre in Munich and  August Everding Bavarian Theatre Academy.  She made her debut at the Staatsoper Berlin in 2011, singing Mascha in Eötvös’ Tri sestry / Three Sisters. This was followed by a Lady Artist (Lulu), Floßhilde, Grimgerde and 1st Norn (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Dunja (Die Zarenbraut / The Tsar's Bride), Magdalene (Die Meistersinger von ...

Guggeis, Thomas

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... Conductor / General Music Director, Thomas Guggeis took up the posts of General Music Director of Oper Frankfurt and Artistic Director of the Frankfurt Museum Concerts in 2023/24. New productions of Le Grand Macabre, Le nozze di Figaro,  Lulu, Tannhäuser and Parsifal are ... Operas conducted by him at the Staatsoper in Berlin since 2020 included a new Daphne and revivals of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Lohengrin, Elektra, Ariadne auf Naxos, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, La traviata, ...

Konradi, Katharina

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Katharina Konradi soprano Katharina Konradi is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. Born in Bish­kek, she's the first Kyrgyzstanian soprano in the ... joined the ensemble at the Hamburg State Opera after making her debut there in 2018, as Ännchen in Der Freischütz. This was preceded by three years under contract to Hessen's State Theatre in Wiesbaden. ...

An, Stella

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Stella An soprano This New Yorker with Korean roots and winner of the Rheinsberg Kammeroper's singing competition, left Cologne Opera's opera studio to go under contract to Hessen's Staatstheater in Wiesbaden (2014-2024), where her many roles included Barbarina ...

Brockway, Fleuranne

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Fleuranne Brockway mezzo-soprano Fleuranne Brockway, from Australia, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she made her debut in 2022 singing Ciesca in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, to sing the role of Sonyetka at short notice in ... Zauberflöte), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel),  3rd Maid (Elektra), Annina (Der Rosenkavalier), Sonjetka (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk), the title role in Carmen and Amando in Le Grand ...

Smith, Catriona

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Catriona Smith soprano The Scottish soprano Catriona Smith is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she made her debut jumping in at short notice to sing Lisa in La sonnambula in 2014, to sing the Mother in Hänsel und Gretel tonight. ... included Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Morgana (Alcina), Olympia (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Prinzessin Eudoxie (Die Jüdin / The ...

Klaus, Händl

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... He writes lyric poetry, prose and plays, which have received their word premieres at the Kammerspiel in Munich, the Salzburg Festival, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Ruhrtriennale and the Steirismark Autumn ... (Wüstenbuch / Barren Book, Theater Basel / Wiener Festwochen und Violetter Schnee / Violet Snow, Staatsoper Berlin), Georg Friedrich Haas (the »Schwetzinger Trilogie« Bluthaus / Thomas / Koma / Blood House / Thomas / Coma, which will be followed in 2024 by Liebesgesang / Lovesong), Arnulf Herrmann (Der Mieter / The Tenant, commissioned by Oper Frankfurt 2017), Heinz Holliger (Lunea, Zurich Opera), ...

Grüter, Julia

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Julia Grüter soprano The soprano Julia Grüter is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, singing Susanna in this performance of our new Le nozze di Figaro.  She's ... season she sings the title role in La Calisto again, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus). She recently added new roles to her repertoire in her home house, including Micaëla (Carmen), ...

Chmelensky, Dennis

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Dennis Chmelensky baritone This German-American baritone is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt singing Don Polidoro in Cimarosa's L’italiana in Londra. He recently sang Marquis de Corcy in Adolphe Adams' Der Postillon von Lonjumeau at the Tirol 2023 Winter Festival in Erl.  He trained in the Staatsoper ...

Kim, Young Woo

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Young Woo Kim tenor Korean tenor Young Woo Kim is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt, singing Radamès in the first revival of this new production of Aida.  He joined the ... this season singing Ismaele (Nabucco) and Don José (Carmen). Other recent roles have included Erik (Der fliegende Holländer) at Cologne Opera and the Felsenbühne in Sachsen, Radamès at Theater Bielefeld, ...

Chayrouse, Cédric

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Cédric Chayrouse Actor After studying in Paris and Barcelona the French actor and director Cédric Chayrouse founded his own theatre group ... soleil/Four Ladies and the Sun, directed by Neus Vila. Plays in which he has taken part have included Pere Calder's Chien Brosse with the Compagnie Teatre Nu, Bios (quelques tentatives) directed by Neus Vila, Joan ...

Jordan Sherin, Mimi

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Mimi Jordan Sherin Lighting Designer Mimi Jordan Sherin, who was born in the USA, was lighting designer for this production of Billy Budd when it first opened in 2007/08. She works regularly with Richard Jones on opera productions at leading opera companies around the world, including the Royal Opera House Covent ...

Abernethy, Jonathan

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Jonathan Abernethy tenor Award winning tenor Jonathan Abernethy from New Zealand left Zurich's international Opera Studio to join the Ensemble in Frankfurt from 2019/20 - 2023/24. Now he's back in Frankfurt, where ... - both role debuts, Balakin (Tchaikovsky's The Sorceress), the Broom-maker (Humperdinck's Königskinder), Raoul de St. Brioche (The Merry Widow) and a Spirit / Sailor (Dido and Aeneas), Lenski (Eugene ...

Pluss, Etienne

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Etienne Pluss Set Designer The Swiss set and costume designer Etienne Pluss, back at Oper Frankfurt for this new production of Così fan tutte, works regularly with Nadja Loschky, on works including Weinberg's The (female) Passenger (a Oper Graz/Staststheater in Mainz co-production), Hamlet at the Komische Oper Berlin, Alice in Wonderland at Zurich Opera and Giulio Cesare in Egitto at Oper Frankfurt and Claus Guth, most recently ...

Heide, Daniel

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... Weimar, is one of the most sought-after accompanists and chamber music musicians of his generation, appearing regularly at venues including the Vienne, Berlin and Dortmund concert halls, London's Wigmore Hall, ... Schwarzenberg / Hohenems and Spain's Vilabertran, the Heidelberg Frühling (spring festival) and Oxford Lieder Festival. Regular partners include Andrè Schuen, Christoph Prégardien and Simone Kermes and he ...

Wohlbrecht, Matthias

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Matthias Wohlbrecht tenor Matthias Wohlbrecht joined the Staatstheater in Karlsruhe's ensemble in 2004, after time spent in Rostock, Darmstadt and Mannheim. ... Other roles this season include Loge (Das Rheingold) at Theater Dortmund and Prinz Pao in Zemlinsky's Der Kreidekreis in Karlsruhe, where this tenor has thrilled audiences with roles including Loge and ...

Mills, Simon

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Simon Mills Lighting Designer Simon Mills has worked with many leading directors including David Pountney, Daniel Slater, ... Cunning Little Vixen at the Bregenz Festival – co-productions with Geneva and San Francisco, Die Fledermaus at Korean National Opera, Tristan und Isolde at Den Norske Opera Oslo, Luisa Miller at the Opéra de Lyon and Il ritorno ...

Hussain, Leo

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Leo Hussain Conductor Recent highlights have included Strauss’ Capriccio and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Bizet’s Carmen at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, Korngold’s Die tote Stadt at the Théâtre ... Massenet’s Thaïs and Lortzing’s Waffenschmied (Armourer) and Strauss’ Salome at the Theater an der Wien, where he is a regular guest, Berg’s Wozzeck in Toulouse and Delibes’ Lakmé (in concert) ...

Kastening, Katharina

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Katharina Kastening, Productions directed by Katharina Kastening have included La Tragédie de Carmen at the Buxton International Festival, Paderewski's Manru at Oper Halle & the Opéra National de Lorraine, which won the Syndicat de la Critique's 2022/23 Grand ...

Benzi, Beatrice

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... The Italian pianist Beatrice Benzi qualified for her diploma at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire in Milan, where she studied with Bruno Canino and Luigi Zanardi before continuing her studies at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Michele Campanella. Her passions are chamber music, Lieder and opera. After winning the La Bottega Teatrale in Treviso competition in the 1990s she joined La Scala ...

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... appears only on the right hand side of the display above the stage!)  surtitles are provided for most operas performed at Oper Frankfurt but are not included in the price of a ticket. This means that refunds will not be made, or tickets reduced in price, ... Frankfurt's control (including things like strikes, civil unrest, natural catastrophes, an epidemic or order from the state). Tickets cannot be refunded if a singer is forced to cancel a recital if a suitable ...

Reiffenstuel, Brigitte

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... Costume Designer Brigitte Reiffenstuel's magnificent costumes have been seen all over the world during the last twenty years. Productions that have been created with the director David McVicar have included Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Il trovatore (Metropolitan Opera New York), Adriana Lecouvreur (Barcelona, Vienna Staatoper and Opéra National de Paris), Faust ...

Veulings, Pim

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Pim Veulings Choreographer Pim Veulings studied dance the Amsterdam's University for the Arts. He danced at the Landestheaters in Linz and Niederbayern, the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, Wielki Theater in Warsaw, Welsh National Opera and Flaamse Opera. He has been choreographing operas, musicals and contemporary dance companies ...

Rožeň, Jiří

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Jiří Rožeň Conductor During the 2024/25 season Jiří Rožeň makes his debuts with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Philharmonie Zuidnederland and the Musikkollegium in Winterthur. He also returns to the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Interlaken ... Orchestre National de Metz and Slovakian State Philharmonic. He started the season off with a new opera by Ana Sokolovic for Montreal Opera and conducts a revival of Nigel Lowery's production of Ligeti's ...

Happy New Ears on 02/12/2025

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... Werkueberschrift, Poppe Enno, Kluttig Roland, Ward Duncan, Niemann David, Motseri Keren, Kuhn Konrad, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Modern, Wink Mareike, Wendeberg Michael, Berger Saar, Gottschlich Daniel, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble ... especially for woodwind and strings, percussion too, for which Lachenmann developed his own notation. His opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern / The Little Match Girl (1997), staged at Oper Frankfurt ...

Klein, Joachim

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Joachim Klein Lighting Designer Joachim Klein, a lighting designer and lighting master at Oper Frankfurt since 1994, became head of the lighting department in 2013. This season he lights new productions of Henze's Der Prinz von Homburg, Magnard's Guercœur, Reimann's L'invisible and Handel's Alcina. Recent productions ...

Gatt, Alden

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Alden Gatt Coach & Conductor Born in Naples, Florida, Alden Gatt joins Oper Frankfurt as Kapellmeister and Assistant to the General Music Director at the beginning of the 2023/24 ... This soloists’ coach and conductor has worked at many leading opera houses, including the Theater an der Wien. He is currently assistant conductor and pianist at Dallas Opera and pianist and coach at San ...

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Blog, , The more often the better! Oper Frankfurt has more than 30 different subscriptions, catering for every taste and budget. There are, ... for Mix-Coupon-Subscriptions appear on the reverse side of the ticket.If you are a subscription holder you are entitled to a reduction of 15% on other tickets for the opera, schauspielfrankfurt AND, subject ...

Winter, Olaf

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Olaf Winter Technical Director & Lighting Designer In recent seasons Olaf Winter lit new productions of Rimsky-Korsakov's ... Naxos), Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Tchaikovsky's The Sorceresss,  Strauss’ Elektra and Offenbach's The Bandits at Oper Frankfurt. He recently returned to Covent Garden in London for a new Elektra and went to the Opèra ...

Bintner, Gordon

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Gordon Bintner Bass-Baritone Gordon Bintner, who joined the ensemble in 2016/17, started the 2021/22 season ... L'italiana in Londra, which was followed by 1st Nazarene in Salome, Escamillo in Carmen and a wonderful recital. Now he can be heard as Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and a recital. This Canadian ... padrona). Gordon Bintner sang his first Eugene Onegins and Belcores in L'elisir d'amore at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, where he was a member of their studio ensemble. Other engagements have included ...

Kaftan, Dirk

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Dirk Kaftan Conductor Dirk Kaftan is conducting at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. He is General Music Director Designate of Oper Bonn and Chief Conductor ... since 2013, where he conducts new productions of Tristan und Isolde, La Rondine and a double bill of Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) & Der Gefangene (The Prisoner), a revival of West Side Story and Grieg's Peer ...

Carella, Giuliano

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Giuliano Carella Conductor Giuliano Carella was born in Milan and works at many of the world’s leading opera houses. Now he is back in Frankfurt, where he has conducted Stiffelio, I vespri siciliani, Anna ...

Viotti, Lorenzo

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Lorenzo Viotti Conductor Lorenzo Viotti is back in Frankfurt, where he has conducted Tosca, Werther and enjoyed great success with the first Museum Concerts ... Manon Lescaut. The designated Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orches­tra and Nationale Opera Amsterdam just made his debut there with a Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci double bill. After ...

Reiners, Benjamin

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Benjamin Reiners conductor Duisburg born Benjamin Reiners is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut with our wonderful Dido and Aeneas / Bluebeard’s Castle double bill, to conduct the first revival of Tobias Kratzer's ...

Agresta, Maria

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Maria Agresta soprano This winner of many singing competitions made her official debut in 2007 and her international breakthrough ... singing roles including Mimì (La Bohème) at La Scala Milan, the Met in New York, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, in Paris, Naples, Turin, Venice, Torre del Lago, Tel Aviv and the Arena di Verona, Leonora ...

Barkhatov, Vasily

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Vasily Barkhatov director Vasily Barkhatov made his triumphant debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2022/23 with this production of Tchaikovsky’s The Sorceress, returning in 2023/24 ... Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Eugene Onegin at Theater Bonn, Weinberg’s The Idiot at the Theater an der Wien, Simon Boccanegra at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and The Flying Dutchman at the Deutsche Oper am ...

Cummings, Laurence

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Laurence Cummings conductor Laurence Cummings, one of the most versatile conductors and cembalists in the world of ... Göttingen in 2020/21. Often praised for his thrilling performances, his career has taken him leading opera houses throughout Europe, including Zurich Opera (Belshazzar’s Feast, King Arthur), the Theater an der Wien (Saul), Gothenburg Opera (Orfeo ed Euridice, Giulio Cesare, Alcina and Idomeneo), the Théâtre ...

Welch, Corby

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Corby Welch tenor The American tenor Corby Welch is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt, stepping in at short notice to sing the title role in our new production of Tannhäuser. ...

2nd Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts on 20/10/2025

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Guggeis Thomas, ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMME FOR  2ND SYMPHONY CONCERTS. hEROINES IN MUSIC AND FRANKFURT Film about forgotten female ... Clara Schumann's legendary performances in the Zeil (street with lots of shops), ending at the Alte Oper. October 14 & 17 @ 6pm, October 19 @ 2pm, Tickets Mel Bonis 1858 –1937 Trois Femmes de Légende ... this concert HERE 10am pre-concert talk in the main auditorium by Ulrike Kienzle HEroines Works by wonderful female composers feature in this season's series of symphonic concerts. Salome, Ophelia and Cleopatra ...

Göbbel, Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Göbbel Lighting Designer Wolfgang Göbbel has lit many plays and operas at leading theatres and festivals around the world. In 1997 he was nominated for an Lawrence Olivier ...

Thoma, Katharina

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Katharina Thoma Director Katharina Thoma's successful productions at Oper Frankfurt number Flotow's Martha (get the CD, Oehmsclassics!), a Pergolesi double bill, Tristan ... ballo in maschera at Covent Garden, Hänsel und Gretel in Göteborg, the world premiere of Jonas Söderman Bohlin's Tristessa at the Royal Opera in Stockholm and Manon Lescaut at Theater Dessau. She was ...

Šlekytė, Giedrė

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Giedrė Šlekytė Conductor Born in Vilnius, Giedrė Šlekytė started training at the National M. K. Čiurlionis High School for the ... Graz, the University for Music and Theatre in Leipzig and Zurich University of Arts. She's back at Oper Frankfurt, where she made her debut in 2021 with a new production of Dialogues des Carmélites, for these performances of Christof Loy's wonderful Die Entführung aus dem Serail. A much sought-after conductor she has worked with orchestras ...

Loschky, Nadja

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Nadja Loschky director Nadja Loschky made her debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2023/24 with this production of Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, which was followed ... an Oper Graz - Staatstheater Mainz co-production, Braunfels’The Birds at Cologne Opera, Alice in Wonderland at Zurich Opera and Thomas' Hamlet at the Komische Oper Berlin. Zazà and Il barbiere di Siviglia ...

Orchestra's History

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Orchestra's History, , Oper Frankfurt's orchestra came into being in the late 18th century. It received its unusual name because ... premieres in Frankfurt, played by the Frankfurter Opern- and Museumsorchester. Paul Hindemith was leader of the Frankfurter Opern- and Museumsorchester for a few years.Since the second world war Oper Frankfurt's ...

Fogliani, Antonino

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Antonino Fogliani Conductor Antonino Fogliani, who was born in Italy, is regarded as one of the world's leading bel canto conductors. He is now back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut last season with Tosca, for this new production of Norma. He ... Pasquale. Other future engagements include his debuts at the Bregenz Festival, with Carmen, Opera Vlaanderen, with La Juive, Zurich Opera and Oper Stuttgart with Il barbiere di Siviglia and a return to the ...

Creswell, James

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James Creswell Bass James Creswell is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he jumped in at short notice to sing Sarastro at Oper Frankfurt in 2006/07 and ... where he started his career as a member of their Young Artists Programme, Sarastro, the title role in Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman and Padre Guardiano (La forza del destino) at English ...

Biel, Michał

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Michał Biel piano The Polish pianist Michał Biel performs regularly at venues including the Witmore Hall in London, Carnegia Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York and in recital at leadings opera houses around the world. He works regularly with Jakub Józef Orliński in concert, recital tours ... bass Alex Rosen, with whom he also won 2nd prize at the Hugo Wolf Academy's International Art of Lieder Competition, at the Académie Orsay Royaumont in 2018/19. He has also won prizes for being an excellent ...

Tognocchi, Bianca

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Bianca Tognocchi Soprano Bianca Tognocchi sang Gilda in Rigoletto at Oper Frankfurt in 2019/20,  a role she sang again here and at several Italian opera houses during the ... Entführung aus dem Serail, Clorinda in La Cenerentola, an Italian Singer in Capriccio, Mary in a wonderful production of Schreker's Elusive Sound (get the CD!) and a Landlady / Crested Fowl in The Cunning ...

Rösler, Raphael

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Raphael Rösler Advisor to the GMD / Head of Other Orchestral Projects Raphael Rösler, who was born in Mannheim and grew up in Bonn, studied musicology, philosophy and sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. During his studies he gained professional experience at opera houses in Berlin, including in the artistic administration departments at the Komische Oper and ... 2012-2017, working with directors including Keith Warner, Christopher Alden, Anna Bergmann, Tobias Heyder, Arila Siegert and Bernd Mottl and overseeing productions including the world premiere of Anver ...

Future of the Städische Bühnen

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... Städtischen Bühnen – The status quo , , Why must the Städtischen Bühnen be rebuilt? Most of the building on Willy-Brandt-Platz was built in the1960s. After roughly 70 it is mostly the in-house equipment ... there.What will happen if nothing is done?Most of the in-house equipment is more than 30 years old. The older it gets the more likely there are to be faults and, even now, pieces that might need replacing are ... renewing in-house systems). Due to unresolved deficiencies in the building's structure no improvements in operation were possible. While work was being carried out both theatres would have to move into interim ...

Lascarro, Juanita

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Juanita Lascarro soprano During the 2025/26 season Juanita Lascarro, who was born in Columbia and has been a valued member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt for many years, can be heard repeating her portrayals of the Princess of Granada and ... her to the Berlin, Munich and Vienna state operas, Theater Freiburg, Zürich Opera, the Theater an der Wien, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Opéra National de Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent ...

Fathy, Haizam

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Haizam Fathy Dancer After graduating from the Conservatoire for Dance in Madrid Haizam Fathy has worked with companies including the Ballet ... by the Belgian dance company Peeping Tom at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid. He appears regularly in opera productions at the Teatro Real de Madrid, directed by people including Robert Wilson, David Alden, ...

Hasselhorn, Samuel

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Samuel Hasselhorn baritone Samuel Hasselhorn, who recently gave a wonderful recital here, is back to sing Wolfram von Eschenbach in this performance of the new production ... competition Samuel Hasselhorn has made Ta name for himself singing Lieder, in concerts and on the operatic stage. Roles this season have included the title role in Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, Mozart's ...

Guth, Claus

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Claus Guth Director The Director Claus Guth is much sought-after by leading international opera companies. His wonderful productions in Frankfurt, where he was born, have included Daphne (2010) and Pelléas et Mélisande ...

Talbot, Louisa

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Louisa Talbot Choreography Choreographer Louisa Talbot is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt with Tannhäuser. Born in South Africa she appeared as a soloist with the Cape Dance ... including Chicago at the Staatstheater in Braunschweig and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess at the Theater an der Wien, which was nominated for four (including best production) 2022 Austrian Music Theatre prizes. ...

Bischoff, Silas

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Silas Bischoff theorbo Silas Bischoff studied classic guitar, lute and early music performing techniques in Würzburg, Munich and Basel, where he started working for his doctorate. His study ... musician he has appeared at places including the Staatstheater in Darmstadt, Theater Basel, Cologne Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and leading venues including the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Musikverein ... 2020 he played the lute with the Young Stuttgart Bach Ensemble at the International Bachakademie under Hans-Christoph Rademann. He has performed with well-known musicians including the oboist Albrecht ...

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Donations, , , DONATIONS , , , to support Oper Frankfurt's artistic goals!Here are the details if you felt inclined to make a donation (for which ...

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Seating Plan / Prices / Online Purchase, , , SEATING PLAN , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Click here  to ... tickets purchased through external outlets. There is no booking fee for tickets purchased direct from Oper Frankfurt. To find out which price categories have been allocated to a performance simply click ... (station)Tel.: 069 / 13 40 400Fax: 069 / 13 40 444Mo - Fr 10am - 7pm, Sa 10am - 4pmTicketsnapperJahrhunderthalle HöchstPfaffenwiese 301Tel.: 069 / 300 65 325Mo - Do 10am - 18pm, Fr 10am - 4pmBad Homburg, ...

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Become a partner, , HELP US MAINTAIN THE HIGH STANDARDS WE ARE FAMOUS FOR. Variety is a wonderful thing, wrote Euripides, so he would probably have been proud of Oper Frankfurt's thirteen new productions and fifteen revivals a season. From baroque opera to world ...

Roger, David

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David Roger Set Designer David Roger began working with the director David Freeman in the 1970s, for Opera Factory in Zurich and London. Their productions included Le Grand Macabre, Mozart's Da Ponte operns, ...

Thor, Harald

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Harald Thor Set Designer Salzburg born Harald Thor, with his c 250 scenographic designs, is a mainstay at leading German theatres and opera houses. He recently designed sets for Les Huguenots at the Opéra National de Paris, Maderna's Satyricon and Rameau's Platée at the Semperoper in Dresden, Jörg Widmann's Babylon at the ...

Neidhardt, Mathis

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Mathis Neidhardt Set & Costume Designer After studying stage and costume design and film, Mathis Neidhardt worked creating sets and costumes at Staatsschauspiel ... with the director Jens-Daniel Herzog since 2002 – they have created many productions of plays and operas. Engagements have taken him to theatres including the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, Residenztheater ... theDeutsche Oper am Rhein, Oper und das Schauspiel in Dortmund, the Semperoper in Dresden, Theater an der Wien and the Salzburg Festival and Innsbruck Festwochen. Mathis Neidhardt also designed the sets ...

Płonka, Ewa

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Ewa Płonka Mezzo-soprano Ewa Płonka is back in Frankfurt, where she sang Mary in Der fliegende Holländer/The Flying Dutchman and Maddalena in Rigoletto last season, to sing Azucena ... made her debut in the Carnegie Hall in 2013, sang the Witch (Hänsel und Gretel) at the New York Lyric Opera and Adelia in The Armida Project at the New Opera NYC. Future engagements take her to Dallas Opera ...

Hermann, David

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David Hermann Director David Hermann won the 2023 DER FAUST German Theatre Prize for operatic direction. Now he’s back at Oper Frankfurt, where this German-French director has worked regularly since 2004/05 staging works including a Schönberg evening Warten auf heute/Waiting for Today, Janáček’s ...

Shanahan, Mark

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Mark Shanahan Conductor Mark Shanahan is back in Frankfurt, where he has conducted Tosca, Death in Venice, Simon Boccanegra, Nabucco and Adriana Lecouvreur, ... prize at the NAYO conductors competition. He works regularly with many leading European orchestras and opera companies. He is First Guest Conductor of the Nederlands Symfonieorkest and Artistic Director of the Forest Philharmonic Orchestra. Recent projects at ...

Ryberg, Anna

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Anna Ryberg Soprano / Inventor / Coach As a long term member of the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt the soprano Anna Ryberg has performed many roles all over Europe. She has devised and ... These include the very popular series of »Oper to go« events. She also worked as vocal coach and leader of Oper Frankfurt's Youth Project Mina, an opera performed and co-invented by young artists which ...

Landolfi, Francesco

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Francesco Landolfi, Francesco Landolfi, born in Caserta, Italy, is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt with the title role in Verdi's Rigoletto, a role he has sung at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, ...

Erath, Johannes

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Johannes Erath Director The director Johannes Erath is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he enjoyed great success in recent seasons with works including Verdi's Otello, Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Weber's Euryanthe, Eötvös' Angels in America, the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter / The Tenant (commissioned by Oper Frankfurt), Szymanowski's King Roger and Die Meistersinger ...

Costea, Cellia

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Cellia Costea Soprano The Romanian soprano Cellia Costea, Eleonora in this performance of Il Trovatore, is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the third time. Last season she jumped in at short notice to sing the title role in ...

fettFilm

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fettFilm Video The video designers Torge Møller and Momme Hinrichs, under the name fettFilm, create projections and sets for all sorts of theatre and opera productions. They have enjoyed long and close working relationships with directors including Peter ...

Michieletto, Damiano

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Damiano Michieletto Director Damiano Michieletto, one of the world's most successful opera directors, made his hugely successful debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2018/19 with a stunning production of of Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Elusive Sound (available on CD - OehmsClassics), returning in 2019/20 for this ...

Saccà, Roberto

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Roberto Saccà Tenor Roberto Saccà, one of the world's most sought-after tenors, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he enjoyed great success with his the title role in Mozart's Idomeneo (role debut) and Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos, a role this German / Italian singer ... in London and the Salzburg Festival. Highlights in his career have included Alfredo (La traviata) under Lorin Maazel at the re-opening of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 2003, Walther von Stolzing (Die ...

Jones, Robert

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Robert Jones Set designer Robert Jones has designed sets for many David McVicar productions, including Gloriana (Madrid), Norma and Anna Bolena (Metropolitan Opera in New York), Andrea Chénier (Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London), Don Giovanni (Melbourne), ... the Staatsoper Berlin, Strasbourg, Brussels, Paris and Copenhagen. He also designed sets for Die Fledermaus (Met), L’elisir d’amore and Leonard Bernstein‘s On the Town (English National Opera in ...

Søberg, Yngve

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Yngve Søberg Baritone The Norwegian baritone Yngve Søberg is jumping in at very short notice to sing the title role in Rigoletto this evening, a role he has sung at places including the Teatro di Felice in Florence (under Fabio Luisi), the Bregenz Festival and Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, where he appears regularly in leading roles such as Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Sharpless ...

Shaishmelashvili, Olga

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Olga Shaishmelashvili Costume Designer Olga Shaishmelashvili’s working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. Born in St. Petersburg, she graduated ...

Lyniv, Oksana

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Oksana Lyniv Conductor Oksana Lyniv is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, conducting Bellini's I puritani. She became Chief Conductor of Oper ... of Verdi's Don Carlo, Weinberg's Die Passagierin / The (female) Passenger and Prokofiev's ballet Cinderella and concert performances of Schönberg's Friede auf Erden / Peace on Earth during the 2019/20 ...

Kluttig, Roland

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Roland Kluttig Conductor Roland Kluttig took up the post of Chief Conductor of the Graz Philharmonic and Oper Graz in 2020/21 after spending ten years as General Music Director in Coburg, where productions of Wager ... acclaim. Forthcoming engagements include appearances with the Tapiola Sinfonietta in Finland, the Niedersachsen and Brandenburg state orchestras and Jena Philharmonic. In recent seasons he enjoyed great ...

Dephoff, Kirsten

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Kirsten Dephoff costume designer Kirsten Dephoff studied set design at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf with Prof. Karl Kneidl and works as a free-lance costume and set designer. She made her debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2022/23 with this production of Tchaikovsky's The Sorceress. Recent engagements have ... Favorite at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra and Rusalka at the Theater an der Wien), Lucia di Lammermoor  at the Hamburg State Opera and Macbeth at the Landestheater in Salzburg). ...

Schlicht, Annika

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Annika Schlicht mezzo-soprano Stuttgart born Annika Schlicht is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, singing Magdalene in our new Meistersinger von Nürnberg. This season ... in Die Walküre. Her broad and varied repertoire includes Fenena (Nabucco), Prince Orlovsky (Die Fledermaus), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Marchesa Melibea (Il viaggio a Reims), Maddalena ...

Madrid, Irene

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... dancer The dancer and performer Irene Madrid graduated from the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza in Madrid and has gained international respect as a trainer. She now concentrates on taking part in operatic productions, appearing at leading opera houses including the Opéra Royal de la Monnaie in Brüssel, ... Madrid, the Semperoper in Dresden, Opéra Comique in Paris and Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. Other modern and contemporary projects have enabled her to work with the Physical Momentum Company, the Marie ...

Come, take a peek! on 04/12/2025

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»BLOOD WEDDING« Step inside! Something new, aimed at students and people under the age of 35 - the chance to attend selected final rehearsals of revivals, free, and maybe talk ...

Laera, David

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David Laera Dancer & Choreographer David Laera's recent productions have included Maometto II. at COC in Toronto, Khowanshchina at Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp, a Pierrot Lunaire / Anna Toll double bill at Oper Frankfurt and Serse at the Handel ...

Kirschbaum, Dorothea

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Dorothea Kirschbaum Director Dorothea Kirschbaum's back at Oper Frankfurt, where she directed Eötvös' Tri sestry / Three Sisters, Schönberg's Pierrot lunaire (in the Bockenheimer Depot) and jumped in to finish directing a new Eugene Onegin, for the first ever ... directed several operas for children and tailored dialogue and semi-staged concert performances of Der Graf von Luxemburg and Die Csárdásfürstin. She worked as a director's assistant at the Landestheater ...

Eichenholz, Agneta

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Agneta Eichenholz Soprano The Swedish soprano Agneta Eichenholz, known to audiences in Frankfurt for her portrayals of Mozart's Konstanze and Fiordiligi, sang the role of Clara / Clarissa in the world premiere of  Scartazzini's Der Sandmann / The Sandman, and first performances of this production, at Theater Basel in 2012. In February 2017 she sings Isabella in the world premiere of Scartazzini's new opera, Edward II, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin - also directed by Christof Loy, with whom she has worked ...

Glarner, Kaspar

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Kaspar Glarner Set & Costume Designer Kaspar Glarner was born in Zurich and studied in Paris. He has worked regularly at Oper Frankfurt for many years, designing costumes for Anselm Weber production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk, ... Boussard's  Ezio and Adriana Lecouvreur, with Johannes Erath on the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter / The Tenant (commissioned by Oper Frankfurt) and a recent new Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, ...

Ferricks-Rosevear, Madeline

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Madeline Ferricks-Rosevear Dancer Australian dancer Madeline Ferricks-Rosevear studied at the Academy for ... including William Forsythe, Richard Siegal and Regina van Berkel. She’s been dancing regularly at Oper Frankfurt, where she plays a Young Woman this season in Janáček's From the House of the Dead, ... at Hessen’s Staatstheater in Wiesbaden (Candide), the Staatstheater in Darmstadt (Orpheus in the Underworld, The Tales of Hoffmann), the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Fairy Tale in the Grand Hotel) and the ...

Sellmaier, Rainer

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Rainer Sellmaier Set & Costume Designer The set and costume designer Rainer Sellmaier made his debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2018 with Meyerbeer's L’Africaine, which was followed by La forza del destino, ... the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and La gazza ladra and Schwanda the Bagpiper at the Musiktheater an der Wien. They also staged Weinberg's The (female) Passenger and Das Rheingold (the start of a new Ring) ...

Vanoosten, Victorien

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Victorien Vanoosten Conductor & Pianist The conductor and pianist Victorien Vanoosten was appointed artistic director of the Ensemble Symphonique de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 2019. He recently conducted operas including Carmen  and Gounod's La Reine de Saba at the Opéra de Marseille, Les Pêcheurs de ...

Jenis, Dalibor

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Dalibor Jenis Baritone The sought after baritone Dalibor Jenis appears regularly at leading opera houses around the world, including La Scala Milan, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Opéra National de Paris, the Vienna, Munich and Hamburg state operas, the Thea­ter an der Wien, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Los Angeles Opera and the New National Theater in Tokyo. Dalibor Jenis ...

Grandy, Elias

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Elias Grandy Conductor Elias Grandy is back in Frankfurt, where he made his debut with Delius’ A Village Romeo and Juliet in 2019/20, which was ... Conductor in Residence of the Robert Schumann Philharmonie in Chemnitz during the 2023/24 season. Recent operatic work has included Elektra and Carmen at Minnesota Opera, Un ballo in maschera at the Aalto ...

Carlier, Emmanuel

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Emmanuel Carlier Video Emmanuel Carlier began working regularly with La Fura dels Baus in 1993, with whom he created many performance events, theatre and opera productions including Bluebeard's Castle at the Opéra Garnier in Paris, Un ballo in maschera in ...

Brito, Francisco

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Francisco Brito Tenor The Argentinian tenor Francisco Brito is back in Frankfurt, where he recently sang Giannetto in Rossini's La gazza ... Argentina before going to Italy to join the Accademia d’Arte lirica di Osimo and the Scuola dell’opera italiana di Bologna, where he specialised in Rossini. He made his operatic debut in 2006, as Libenskof ... (La donna del lago) in Sofia, Idreno (Semiramide) in Lausanne and Armand Brissard in Franz Lehár's Der Graf von Luxemburg at the Tirol Festival in Erl. Earlier this season he sang Don Narciso in Rossini's ...

McMillan, Cameron

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... Zealand / British choreographer and dancer Cameron McMillan is a versatile artist who has been making a name for himself in various forms of dance, ballet, film and fashion.  His career as a dancer ... Sydney Dance Company and Sadler’s Wells. His own choreography has been performed at Rambert, Vlaanderen Ballet, the Brisbane Festival, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet and the BBC Proms. ...

Hayward, Robert

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Robert Hayward Baritone This bass-baritone, who is much sought after by leading opera companies around the world, is a regular guest at Oper Frankfurt, where his hugely successful roles ... (Fidelio), Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress), Méphistophélès (La Damnation de Faust), Wotan / Der Wanderer (Wagner's Ring) and the title roles in Macbeth, Falstaff, Der fliegende Holländer/The Flying ...

Schavernoch, Hans

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Hans Schavernoch Set Designer The set designer Hans Schavernoch works at leading theatres around the world, including those in Munich, Vienna, Zürich, Berlin, Warsaw, London, Amsterdam, Florence, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles, at the Metropolitan Opera New York, in Sydney and Tokyo and at the Bayreuth and Salzburg festivals. He has worked on productions ... Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich), Macbeth & Fidelio (Staatsoper Berlin), Der Rosenkavalier (2014 Salzburg Festival – which then went to La Scala Milan), Die Meistersinger von ...

Schmidt, Christian

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... Costume Designer Christian Schmidt, voted set / costume designer of the year often by specialist magazine Opernwelt, is back in Frankfurt, where he has worked on many celebrated productions, for the first ever ... Sorceress. He has worked with the director Claus Guth for many years, on productions including Rodelinda, Der Rosenkavalier (don't miss the revival April 2025!),The Merry Widow, Daphne and Pelléas et Mélisande ...

Hotea, Ioan

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Ioan Hotea tenor The Romanian tenor Ioan Hotea is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he appeared for the first time in 2017/18 singing his first Elvinos in La sonnambula, to sing the title role in the last revival of this wonderful production of Massenet’s Werther. He has sung many roles at Hessen’s Staatstheater in Wiesbaden ...

Fefferman, Gal

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Gal Fefferman Dancer / Choreographer Gal Fefferman was born in Israel and studied contemporary dance at Frankfurt’s University for Music and the Performing Arts. ... joint project about Gershwin’s An American in Paris was seen on stage for the first time at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt in 2021. She and her collective GOSSIPS brought ACHSCHAV into being – an evening ... d’Aix-en-Provence). She has danced in many productions at Oper Frankfurt over the years, including Der Rosenkavalier, Les Troyens, Anna Toll, The Merry Widow and Dialogue des Carmelites and played a young ...

Mayerhofer, Alfred

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Alfred Mayerhofer Costume Designer Since 1992 the Austrian costume designer Alfred Mayerhofer has worked all over the world on many operas, plays, ballets, big screen films, television films and series. Recent projects have taken him ... Candide and Dangerous Liaisons: 2015 Deutsche Musical Theater Prize), Staatstheater Nürnberg (Wozzeck, Der Ring des Nibelungen), the Aalto-Musiktheater Essen (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny / The Rise ...

Gedschold, Christoph

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Christoph Gedschold Conductor Christoph Gedschold, who was born in Magdeburg, is back at Oper Frankfurt for this, last, revival of Ariadne auf Naxos. He appeared with the company for the first ... Kapellmeister at Oper Leipzig since 2015, where he has built up a broad and varied repertoire, including Der Freischütz, Rigoletto, La traviata, La Bohème, Tosca, Rusalka, Bluebeard's Castle and West Side ...

Larlee, Anne

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Anne Larlee piano The Canadian pianist Anne Larlee has been working at Oper Frankfurt as a soloists' coach since 2016. She accompanied the American soprano Tamara Wilson ... members Jonathan Abernethy (a streamed recital from the Bockenheimer Depot) and Anthony Robin Schneider in the Holzfoyer in 2019/20.  Before coming to Frankfurt she worked at the Komische Oper Berlin and ...

Downie Dear, Finnegan

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Finnegan Downie Dear Conductor Finnegan Downie Dear is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time with these performances of Le nozze di Figaro. It was to have been a ... Salzburg Festival. Born in London, recent highlights have included Gerald Barry's Alice’s Adventures Underground at Covent Garden, Korngold's Die tote Stadt / The Dead City,  Hänsel und Gretel  at Korean ...

Frenzel-Riehl, Almut

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Almut Frenzel-Riehl Violin Almut Frenzel-Riehl studied at the universities for music in Cologne with Prof. Gerhard Peters and ... concert exams, the culmination of her post-graduate studies, with Prof. Sebastian Hamann, a former leader of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester. Almut Frenzel-Riehl was deputy leader of the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra ...

Ward, Duncan

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Duncan Ward Conductor Duncan Ward was born in Kent in 1989 and studied piano, conducting and composition at the Royal Northern College of Music ... Orchester Akademie for two years in 2012, on Sir Simon Rattle's recommendation, guiding the scholarship holders on projects including a Boulez programme and gaining important experience assisting Simon Rattle. His ... the first time. He was »BBC Young Composer of the Year« in 2005 and has made a name for himself in opera.  He also made his debuts with orchestras including the Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestre Philharmonique ...

Andresen, Carl-Christian

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Carl-Christian Andresen Co-costume designer After graduating in texile and fashion design at the Armgartstrasse University for Applied Science in Hamburg Carl-Christian ... Galliano, amongst others. He returned to Germany in 2006 as an artistic advisor for costumes in drama and opera. He started working with Silke Willrett in 2008. He has worked at places including the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Hamburg State Opera, the Komische, Deutsche State operas in Berlin, Nederlands Opera, Zurich Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Théâtre de ...

Wendling, Fabian

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Fabian Wendling set designer Fabian Wendling is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt with Daniela Löffner’s new production of Aribert Reimann‘s L’invisible and you ... Friedel, Roger Vontobel, Rahel Thiel and Daniela Löffner. He and Luise Vogt’s production of Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar / Würgendes Blei at the Residenztheater in Munich was invited to the 2025 Theatertreffen ...

Abildina, Madina

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Madina Abildina soprano The young Kazakhstanian soprano Madina Abildina gained her bachelors at the Kurmangazy ... Munich. She made her debut on stage at the HfMDK in Frankfurt in February 2024, singing Adele in Die Fledermaus. Her impressive artistic development was made evident during appearances with renowned orchestras ... the Shostakovitch Philharmonie in St. Petersburg. Madina Abildina appears regularly in concert and opera at the Theatre for Opera and Ballet in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan).

Cousineau, Jorge

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Jorge Cousineau video The theatre artist and film maker Jorge Cousineau, who was born in Dresden, where he studied ... ones in New York City, Denver, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Louisville and Philadelphia. He is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on this new production of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's Doctor and ...

Emanuel-Marial, Zvi

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Zvi Emanuel-Marial alto Zvi Emanuel-Marial is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, in this new production of Reimann's L’invisible.  He's a popular ... Opera in Amsterdam. Other engagements this season included the world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's Der Doppelgänger at the SWR and Lucerne festivals. He started his career playing the horn until the ...

8th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts on 19/04/2026

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Peter Eötvös 1944–2024 Speaking Drums – 4 poems by Jayadeva & Sándor Weöres for solo percussion & orchestra Gustav Mahler ... concert in this series this season. Much has been interpreted into Mahler's Fifth. After the ‘Wunderhorn’ world got lost, it attempts to ‘reshape the world from one's own self’. What is undisputed ... And our percussionists get the chance to shine!, 8th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts, Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester

Faulkner, Thomas

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Thomas Faulkner bass British bass Thomas Faulkner joined Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in 2016/17 from the opera studio, since when roles have included John Claggart ... of the Year 2022 (Opernwelt)« get the DVD!), Bartolo in our new Le nozze di Figaro and he was a wonderful Night Watchman / Master of Masquerades in Nielsen's Masquerade. Other recent roles for the company ...

Bach Nissen, Per

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Per Bach Nissen bass The Danish bass Per Bach Nissen (Fafner) is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. He was under contract to the Staatsoper in Hannover from 2012-2015, where roles included Boris (Lady Macbeth von ...

Hall, Cecelia

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Cecelia Hall Mezzo-soprano Since joining the Ensemble in 2016/17 American mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall's roles for the company have included Handel's Xerxes (which she also sang at the Komische Oper in Berlin) and Irene (Tamerlano), Mozart's Ascanio (new production of Ascanio in Alba), Idamante ...

Bornkamm, Franziska

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Franziska Bornkamm Set Designer Franziska Bornkamm studied set design with Erich Wonder at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna. Her installation Bitte verlassen sie den Raum so wie sie ihn ... Schauspiel Essen, the Deutsche Theater Berlin and Hessen's Staatstheater in Wiesbaden. They returned to Oper Frankfurt after this production of Idomeneo for Betulia liberata in 2017. Since taking part in the ...

Poaros, Evie

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Evie Poaros Dancer The British dancer Evie Poaros, back to perform Anima in this new production of Berg's Lulu, has been appearing regularly at Oper Frankfurt since 2015, in new productions including Dialogues des Carmélites, The Merry Widow, Rinaldo, Carmen, Orlando ... She also works on interdiciplinary projects with the Kammer Philharmonie Frankfurt and Ensemble Modern and appeared with free dance and theatre groups including Dorfproduct and the GOSSIPS collective. ...

Corral Matute, Álvaro

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... Corral Matute took up the post of Chorus Master and Children's Chorus Master on April 1 2025. He joined the company in 2021/2022 season, during which he trained the chorus (»Chorus of the Year« Opernwelt magazine 2021/22) and children's chorus for revivals of Cosi fan tutte, Król Roger and Il ...

Polne, Eva

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Eva Polne dancer Born in Israel, Ayelet Polne studied classical dance at the London Studio Centre and was taught privately ... Patricia Aharoni. After graduating she joined the »Hamaslool« Young Artist Programme in Tel Aviv under Naomi Perlov's direction. While there she appeared on stage in projects including Le sacre du printemps ... her to places including the Slaviansky Bazaar Festival in Vitebsk, Belarus. She has often appeared in operatic productions in recent seasons, including Christof Loy's Tannhäuser at the Het Muziektheater ...

Heyningen, Erik van

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Erik van Heyningen baritone Erik van Heyningen joined Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in 2022/23. During the 2025/26 season you can hear him singing Escamillo ... Festival Artist, Santa Fe Opera's Donald Gramm Memorial Award and 1st prize at the 2016 Gerda Lissner Lieder and Song Competition.

Esturillo Sánchez, Sara

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... performed at home and abroad as a soloist and with orchestras and chamber music ensembles. She won invaluable scholarships and was taught by highly respected harpists including Françoise Verherve, with ... member of the State Philharmonic Orchestra in Hamburg’s Academy from 2018 – 2020 and has been under contract to the Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester since April 2022. She has performed with orchestras including the hr-Sinfonieorchester, ...

Hübschmann, Henriette

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Henriette Hübschmann Costume Designer Henriette Hübschmann studied at the Berlin-Weißensee University for the Arts with Prof. Peter Schubert and was under guest contracts as an assistant at the Deutsche Theater Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater and the Staatsoper Berlin before working full time as an assistant at the Staatstheater in Braunschweig and Staatsschauspiel ...

Luks, Václav

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... music specialist Václav Luks completed his three year Artist‘s Residence at the Chamber Academy in Potsdam in 2025. He has been appearing as a guest conductor with the Händel & Haydn Society in Boston ... orchestras specialising in early music, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Nederlands' Bachvereniging, the Academy for Early Music Berlin, Concerto Köln and the La Cetra Barockorchester ...

Chamber Music Concert on 14/06/2026

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Vogler Wolfgang, Ye Lin, Rocha André, Rössel Thomas, de Haas Ingo, Ozaki Toshinori, SalahEldin Kaamel, Hampe Ludwig, Wilken ... Susanne, Tsankov Tsvetomir, Heugen Matthijs, Oesterlee Johannes, Ritts-Kirby Freya, Horn Ulrich, Schneider Diemut, Dresel Claudia, Kirsch Henrike, Podlesny Artur, Faraut Guillaume, Friedrichs Elisabeth, Tremuth ... Toshinori, Venanzoni Felice, Friedrichs Elisabeth, chamber concert ii performed by string players from the Opera and Museum's Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791 Quintet für 2 violins, 2 violas & cello in ...

Punch and Judy on 11/12/2025

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Harrison Birtwistle, Gatt Alden, Nägele Wolfgang, Ullrich Thilo, Duken Marlen, Klein Joachim, Einspieler Deborah, Kontora Danae, Hall Cecelia, Hjörleifsson Sven, Porter Jarrett, Holender Liviu, Reiter Alfred, A tragi-comedy, amusing tragedy? Both! Harrison Birtwistle’s opera ain’t for the fainthearted. A man throws a baby in the fire, stabs his wife Judy, searching for ...

CHILDREN'S CHORUS

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CHILDREN'S CHORUS, , , Oper Frankfurt'S CHILDREN'S CHORUS , , , Oper Frankfurt's Children's Chorus consists of around 60 boys and girls aged 7 - 18.  During the 2024/25 season they can be heard in the new production of Parsifal and revival of Honegger's Jeanne ... / Burning Fiery Furnace double bill, Werther, Hänsel und Gretel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Königskinder, Carmen and Szymanowski's Król Roger.Álvaro Corral Matute has been Chorus Master since 2021/22 ...

Marsh, Peter

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Peter Marsh Tenor Peter Marsh has sung an astonishing number of very different roles since joining the ensemble in 1998. During the 2025/26 season you ... of Mantua in Offenbach's The Bandits, Goro in Madama Butterfly, Schmidt in Werther and the Ring Leader in Weill's The Tsar wants his Photograph Taken. Last season he had fun with Captain Sturmwald in ... von Mzensk, Ossip the Deacon in Rimsky-Korsakov's Chrismas Eve (»Performance of the Year 2022 « - Opernwelt - get the DVD!), Faninal's Major Domo in Der Rosenkavalier and Porcus/ A Herald / A Cleric ...

Murauer, Herbert

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Herbert Murauer Set Designer Set and costume designer Herbert Murauer has worked regularly at Oper Frankfurt, on Christof Loy's Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt – an online evening of Tchaikovsky Lieder – with whom he devised productions of Wozzeck, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La fanciulla del ...

Teem, Rebecca

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Rebecca Teem soprano The American soprano is back to repeat her wonderful portrayal of Brünnhilde (which she sang here in 2013) in this revival of Oper Frankfurt's Ring. She made her debut in Germany, singing this role, at Theater Lübeck (whose Ring ...

Caimi, Leonardo

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Leonardo Caimi Tenor The Italian tenor Leonardo Caimi, who conquers one international opera stage after the other, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2017 singing Cavaradossi ...

Leiacker, Johannes

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... Leiacker Set Designer Johannes Leiacker is sought-after world wide as a set and costume designer for opera and plays. He returns to Oper Frankfurt early in 2025 for Brigitte Fassbaender's new production of Parsifal,  where recent triumphs have included R.B. Schlather's new Madame ...

Kutlu, Ezgi

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Ezgi Kutlu Mezzo-soprano The Turkish mezzo-soprano Ezgi Kutlu is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. After a time spent under contract to the Staatstheater in Nürnberg, where roles included the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos ...

Paterson, Iain

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Iain Paterson Bass-baritone Baritone Iain Paterson is singing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. Much sought after for leading Wagner and Strauss roles, he appears ... Amsterdam. He sang the title role in The Flying Dutchman for the first time in 2016, at Opera Vlaanderen, where he has also sung Don Giovanni. He returns to Bayreuth this summer, for the third year in ...

Sunnegårdh, Erika

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Erika Sunnegårdh Soprano The Swedish/American soprano Erika Sunnegårdh is back to repeat her wonderful portrayal of Senta in this revival of Der Fliegende Holländer/The Flying Ducthman at Oper Frankfurt, where she sang the title roles in Tosca and Euryanthe, and Leonore in Fidelio - all new ...

Engel, Titus

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Titus Engel Conductor Titus Engel is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut with Telemann’s Orpheus, returning to conduct Salome and new productions of Nielsen’s Masquerade and Mozart’s Betulia liberata, ... Théâtre de Genève, the Opéra National de Lyon, the Berlin and Hamburg state operas, the Theater an der Wien and Vienna Konzerthaus, the Komische Oper Berlin, Opera Vlaanderen, the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, ...

Trąbka, Mikołaj

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Mikołaj Trąbka Baritone Mikołaj Trąbka joined Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in 2018/19. His roles during the 2025/26 season include Lescaut in Manon Lescaut, ... Leonardo (role debut) in a new production of Fortner's Bluthochzeit / Blood Wedding and he repeats his wonderful portrayals of Moralès / Dancaïro in Carmen and the King in Orff's Clever Woman. Last season ...

Kratzer, Tobias

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Tobias Kratzer Director Tobias Kratzer made his debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2018 with his unforgettable production of Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine, which was followed ... contes d’Hoffmann), the Aix-en-Provence Festival (Rossini’s Moïse et Pharaon) and Musiktheater an der Wien (La gazza ladra and Schwanda the Bagpiper). He recently directed Henzi's Raft of Medusa at ...

Haveman, Barbara

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Barbara Haveman, The Dutch soprano Barbara Haveman is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she sang the title role in Tosca, Minnie (La Fanciulla del West) and Amelia Grimaldi (Simon Boccanegra) to sing Hélène in Les ...

Iftinca, Vlad

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Vlad Iftinca Conductor Vlad Iftinca, who was born in Romania, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2015 with Lucia di Lammermoor. He is currently employed by ...

Steier, Lydia

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... Steier Director Lydia Steier, one of the most sought-after directors of her generation, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she staged a Stravinsky / Tchaikovsky Oedipus Rex / Iolanta double bill, for the first new Aida for many years. Recent ... Opéra National de Paris, where she returns in 2024 for La vestale. She staged Candide at the Theater an der Wien this season. Since 2009 she has directed at houses including the Komische Oper and Staatsoper ...

Schneider, Gerard

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Gerard Schneider Tenor The Austrian / Australian tenor Gerard Schneider joined the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2018/19. During the 2025/26 season you can hear him singing three new roles: Pinkerton ...

Feltz, Gabriel

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Gabriel Feltz Conductor Gabriel Feltz has been General Music Director of Oper Dortmund and the Dortmund Philharmonic since 2013/14. He is also Chief Conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic. Now this Berlin born musician ...

Berrugi, Giorgio

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Giorgio Berrugi Tenor Giorgio Berrugi is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2018/19 singing the title role in Berlioz’ La damnation ... the Arena di Verona, Riccardo Un ballo in Maschera at the Bolschoi in Moscow and the Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier at Covent Garden. He has also appeared at theatres including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, ...

Quatrini, Sesto

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Sesto Quatrini Conductor Sesto Quatrini is back in Frankfurt, where he made his debut in the autumn of 2019 with ... including the Met in New York. He was Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Lithuanian National Opera in Vilnius from 2018 - 2023, where he conducted La Bohème, Il barbiere di Siviglia, I Capuleti ...

Makuła, Karolina

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Karolina Makuła mezzo-soprano Karolina Makuła, a member of our Opera Studio from 2019 - 2022, joined the Ensemble last season, during which she sang Adalgisa in Norma, ... Erl, where she also sang Wellgunde and a Stable Girl in Götterdämmerung and Humperdinck's Königskinder, with Paolo in Mercadante's Francesca da Rimini and sang Hannah in Weinberg's The (female) Passenger ...

Krimmel, Konstantin

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Konstantin Krimmel baritone German-Romanian baritone Konstantin Krimmel was born in Ulm and studied with Teru Yoshihara in Stuttgart. This winner of many Lieder competitions has appeared in recital at places including the Konzerthaus and Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Heidelberg Spring Festival, the Schubertiades in Vilabertran ...

Niemann, David

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David Niemann conductor David Niemann (*1990) is regarded as one of the most promising conductors of his generation. After winning 2nd prize at the 2015 international Malko Conductors' ... Copenhagen he was named Kapellmeister of the Opéra National de Montpellier the same year, where he worked under Chief Conductor Michael Schønwandt until 2018.  Recent work has included engagements with the Orchestre ... afterHenry Purcell, at the Salzburg Festival, and Ivan Eröd's Pünktchen und Anton at the Vienna State Opera. He trained as a violinist before studying conducting at the Folkwang University in his home town ...

Rosskopp, Florian

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Florian Rosskopp Baritone Florian Rosskopp is a freelance singer. This baritone was a member of the Staatstheater Mainz’s Youth Ensemble, where roles included ... the Thüringer Landestheater in Rudolstadt, the Nordharz Städtebundtheater in Halberstadt, the Young Opera Company Freiburg, Papageno Theater Frankfurt, Chamber Opera at Castle Rheinsberg and the Eutin ... Jahreszeiten / Seasons, Beethoven‘s Ode to Joy, Mendelssohn‘s Elijah and Paulus, Mahler‘s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Brahm‘s German Requiem, Rossini‘s Petite Messe Solonelle and Stabat ...

Scalera, Vincenzo

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Vincenzo Scalera piano Vincenzo Scalera was born to Italian-American parents in New Jersey, USA, and started ... five. After training at the Manhattan School of Music he worked as an assistant at New Jersey State Opera before going to Italy to further his studies. He started at La Scala Milan in 1980 as chief coach ...

Rollinson, Gabriel

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Gabriel Rollinson bass-baritone The German-American bass-baritone Gabriel Rollinson joined the Opera Studio in Frankfurt last season and can be heard during the 2021/22 season in roles including ... Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Leone  in Verdi's Attila with the Munich Radio Orchestra under Ivan Repušić. Whille a member of the Salzburg Festival's Young Singers' Project he recently took ...

Welter-Fuchs, Ilse

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Ilse Welter-Fuchs, Ilse Welter-Fuchs has worked on many Christof Nel productions, including Aida at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Idomeneo at Cologne Opera, Don Carlo at the Staatstheater in Hannover, La clemenza di Tito and Pelléas et Mélisande at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Der Freischütz at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice's Teatro Malibran, Fidelio at the Komische Oper Berlin ...

Elmazaj, Klevis

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Klevis Elmazaj Choreographer The Albanian dancer and choreographer Klevis Elmazaj works regularly with international dance companies on operas, films and musicals. His work is seen all over the world and has won many prizes and awards, including ...

Arcayürek, Ilker

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Ilker Arcayürek tenor Ilker Arcayürek, one of the most versatile and exciting singers around today, is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. This tenor, who was born in Istanbul and grew up in Vienna, won the Hugo Wolf Academy's International Lieder Competition, reached the finals of the 2015 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and was ...

Lieberman, Andrew

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Andrew Lieberman Set Designer The American set designer Andrew Lieberman made his debut at Oper Frankfurt last season, designing the set for this new Die Zauberflöte. He regularly designs sets for leading opera houses around ...

Hinterdobler, Magdalena

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Magdalena Hinterdobler soprano Magdalena Hinterdobler, who sang her first Evas in Oper Frankfurt's wonderful new Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, joined the Ensemble in the 2023/24 season, ...

Moskalchuk, Serhii

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Serhii Moskalchuk, Serhii Moskalchuk studied singing in Kiev and Ukraine's National Music Academy, being taught by Prof. Serhii Skubak, from 2010 ... the Ukrainian military Ensemble since 2015, which he combines with engagements as a soloist at Kiev's Opera and Ballet for children and young people's academy and was a member of Ukraine's National Music ...

Kronthaler, Theresa

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Theresa Kronthaler mezzo-soprano Theresa Kronthaler is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she appeared for the first sime in 2013 as Sesto in Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, to step in at short notice to sing Clairon in ... by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christa Ludwig and Thomas Quasthoff. After making her debut as Orlowsky (Die Fledermaus) at Geneva Opera she spent time under contract to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Komische Oper ...

Jacquot, Marie

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Marie Jacquot conductor Marie Jacquot is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt with this new production of Magnard’s Guercœur. She was appointed Chief Conductor of ... Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin in 2023/24 with the world premiere of Dalbavie‘s Melancholie des Widerstands/The Melancholy of Defiance and conducted Eugene Onegin in Copenhagen. She also conducted Eötvös' ...

Jindra, Robert

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Robert Jindra conductor Robert Jindra is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, conducting this revival of Janáček’s From the House of the Dead. ...

Díaz Stephens, Lorena

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Lorena Díaz Stephens Costume Designer Lorena Díaz Stephens is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt, as costume designer for this new production of Aribert Reimann's Melusine in the Bockenheimer ... Leipzig, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Theater Heidelberg and the Kammerspiele in Munich. She and Aileen Schneider stage a new production of Carmen at the Staatstheater Augsburg in 2025/26.

Thanapat, Pete

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Pete Thanapat bass-baritone The young bass-baritone Pete Thanapat joinsedOper Frankfurt's ensemble this season, during which you can hear him as Angelotti in Tosca, the Helmsman ...

Todua, Teona

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Teona Todua soprano This young soprano from Georgia studied piano in Donetsk (Ukraine), her home town, before training to be a singer at Ukraine's Peter Tchaikovsky ... at the »Dolora Zajick Institute for Young Dramatic Voices« in the USA in 2021 and Polish National Opera's Academy in Warsaw, run by Olga Pasichnyk, before joining the Académie de Opéra national ...

Januschke, Karsten

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Karsten Januschke Conductor Karsten Januschke's back at Oper Frankfurt, where he began his career as a coach in 2008, was made a Kapellmeister and built up a broad and varied repertoire, returning in recent seasons ... in Dresden, Don Giovanni at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, a Zerbrochene Krug (the Broken Jug) / Der Diktator, double bill at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and working at the Gärtnerplatz Theater ...

Whitemore, Louie

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... designer Louie Whitemore has worked with the director David Freeman for many years. Recent projects have included Die Zauberflöte and Dead Man Walking at Theater Schwerin and Xerxes (for which she also designed ... London. She also designed the costumes for La Bohème, Albert Herring and Le nozze di Figaro at Co Opera Co in London and Carmen for Dorset Opera. Louie Whitemore has also designed costumes and stage ...

Blondelle, Thomas

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Thomas Blondelle Tenor Thomas Blondelle is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2017 singing Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, stepping ... season include the Uncle / Stranger in the world premiere of Reimann's L’Invisible, Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), the Prince (Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen/The Love for Three Oranges) and Sinowi (Lady Macbeth ...

Geyer, Sebastian

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Sebastian Geyer Baritone This versatile popular member of the ensemble's repertoire at Oper Frankfurt includes Handel's Giulio Cesare, Telemann's Orpheus and Cesti's Creonte (LʼOrontea, ...  OehmsClassics), Mozart's Don Giovanni, Guglielmo, Graf Almaviva and Papageno, Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus), Basil Basilowitsch (Graf von Luxemburg, get the CD! OehmsClassics), Don Pomponio (Rossini's ...

Glueckert, AJ

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AJ Glueckert Tenor The American tenor AJ Glueckert made his debut at the Met in New York in 2016/17, singing Erik in The Flying Dutchman, the same season he joined the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt, where he recently enjoyed great success in the title role of  a new production of ... time at the Tirol Festival in Erl, Lenski in Eugene Onegin, The Assistant / Man with a Donkey in a wonderful Weill / Orff The Tsar wants his Photograph Taken / Clever Woman double bill, Pinkerton in Madama ...

Herfurtner, Hanna

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Hanna Herfurtner Soprano Hanna Herfurtner, who made her debuts at Cologne Opera, in Glanert's Solaris, and the Nederlandse Reisopera, in Gluck's Orpheé et Eurydice during the 2014/15 season, is appearing at Oper Frankfurt ...

Bailey, Simon

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Simon Bailey Bass baritone Simon Bailey, a former member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt and winner of the 2018 Wales Theatre Award, is stepping in at short notice to sing Klingsor ... Cenerentola) and the title role in Bluebeard's Castle. He gave unforgettable performances of Wotan and the Wanderer in a wonderful new Ring at the Tirol Festival in Erl, directed by Brigitte Fassbaender. Recent ...

Schöpflin, Hans-Jürgen

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Hans-Jürgen Schöpflin Tenor The tenor Hans-Jürgen Schöpflin sang the role of Coppelius at the world premiere, and first run of performances of this production, of Scartazzini's Der Sandmann / The Sandman at Theater Basel in 2012. His roles at Oper Frankfurt have included Edmund in Reimann's Lear Right-Hand in the world premiere of Navok's An ...

Feuchter, Hermann

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Hermann Feuchter Set Designer Hermann Feuchter and Elisabeth Stöppler have worked together many times since their Oper Frankfurt production of Neunzehnhundert / Nineteenhundred in the Bockenheimer Depot in 2010/11 – including Saul at the Staatstheater in ...

Quest, Christoph

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Christoph Quest Actor Christoph Quest is a well known actor who appears on television and in films directed by Egon Monk, Heinrich Breloer, Uwe Janson, amongst others, and at many theatres (including ... is back to repeat his portrayal of Bassa Selim in this revival of Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Oper Frankfurt, where he also took part in Christof Loy's production of Die Fledermaus and was seen in the role of a Jewish violinist in Through Roses in the Bockenheimer Depot, where ...

Clayton, Allan

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Allan Clayton tenor Allan Clayton, making his long-awaited debut at Oper Frankfurt singing the title role in Peter Grimes, has sung roles at leading opera houses around ...

Southgate, Jason

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... illustrator, puppet and costume designer. Other productions on which he has worked with Keith Warner have included this La Cenerentola at Oper Frankfurt, Richard Ayres’ Peter Pan in Cardiff and at the Komische Oper Berlin and Tosca at the ... Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, The Turn of the Screw at the Landestheater in Salzburg, Der Silbersee / The Silver Sea at the Wexford Festival and Armide at the Buxton Festival. Jason Southgate ...

Ōno, Kazushi

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... Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya and takes up the post of Artistic Director of the New National Theatre in Tokyo in 2018. This Japanese conductor enjoyed great success with audiences and the press while he ... made an »Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres«. Kazushi Ōno has conducted at many leading opera houses around the world including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Vienna State Opera and ... 2015. Kazushi Ōno is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt with the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter/The Tenant and conducts two Museumskonzerts in the Alte Oper on November19th & 20th.

Polkowski, Verena

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Verena Polkowski Costume Designer Verena Polkowski has been working as a freelance costume designer since 2010. Her most recent productions were Erik Petersen's Footloose ... Jesus Christ Superstar at the Oldenburg Staatstheater. Since time spent working as an assistant at Oper Frankfurt, Verena Polkowski has worked regularly with the director Tobias Heyder. Their productions have included the world premiere of Rolf Riehm's Sirenen / Sirens at Oper Frankfurt, ...

Barth, Michaela

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... most recently his Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal at the Grand Théâtre du Genève and Eugene Onegin at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. They have also staged plays at houses including Hamburg's Thalia Theater, the Deutsche ...

Glaser, Attilio

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Attilio Glaser Tenor The German-Italian tenor Attilio Glaser is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he sang the title role in Massenet's Werther, Idomeneo and took part in a Museumskonzert last season (Verdi's Requiem and Schönberg's ... the Duke (Rigoletto), Adorno (Simon Boccanegra), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni). Tamino, Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser) and the title role in Lohengrin.  He also sang Froh ...

Müller, Andi A.

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Andi A. Müller video Swiss born Andi A. Müller made his debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2019 with this production of Rodelinda. He started working at Theater Basel in 2004 ...

Roberts, Irene

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Irene Roberts Mezzo-soprano The mezzo-soprano Irene Roberts is making her debut at Oper Frank­­furt. She has been a member of the Ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for three seasons, ... Opera, Isabella (L’italiana in Algeri) at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Janthe (Marschner's Der Vampyr / The Vampire) at New Orleans Opera. She also sang Maddalena in concert performances of Rigoletto ...

Nilsson, Christina

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Christina Nilsson Soprano Soprano Christina Nilsson is back at Oper Frankfurt where she appeared for the first time as Primadonna / Ariadne (role debut) in Ariadne ... Stockholm and Aida at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Other recent engagements have included Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Aida at Covent Garden and the Semperoper in Dresden ...

Dreher, Felix

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Felix Dreher Sound Designer Felix Dreher has been working as a sound technician at Oper Frankfurt since 2010, and was responsible for the sound design in Lachenmann's Das Mädchen mit ... Frankfurt's series of live recordings of operas with OehmsClassics. He works regularly with the Ensemble Modern and the composer Benedict Mason. Whilst training as a professional sound technician he was awarded ...

Ulrich, Mona

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Mona Ulrich Costume Designer Mona Ulrich was born in Bern and has been working as a freelance costume designer in opera, drama and film since 2010, in Germany, Austria, Norway and Switzerland, at theatres including ... Lobbes and Claudia Bossard. She has worked with Kay Voges for many years: his production of Die Borderline Prozession in Dortmund, for which she designed the costumes, was invited to the 2017 Berlin Theatertreffen ...

Hovland Holtbakk, Frøy

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Frøy Hovland Holtbakk soprano The Norwegian coloratura soprano Frøy Hovland Holtbakk is making her debut in Germany this evening singing Frasquita in Carmen. She studied at the Institute of Music in Oslo and Royal Danish Opera Academy in Copenhagen. Whilst a student she sang roles including  Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), ... Danish Opera in Copenhagen as Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), returning for roles including Ida (Die Fledermaus), a Flower Maiden (Parsifal) and Frasquita (Carmen) –  in Barrie Kosky's production. She ...

Schlipf, Katharina

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Katharina Schlipf Set Designer Katharina Schlipf is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she worked for the first time last season on the first new Aida in Frankfurt for ... worked regularly together since 2010. She designed set and costumes for Nutcracker at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Salome, after Oscar Wilde, and Krabat, after Otfried Preußler, at Stuttgart Ballet, Volpi's production ...

Kowalczyk, Matthias

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Matthias Kowalczyk trumpet Matthias Kowalczyk, born in Bochum in 1988, had his first trumpet lesson when he was six and was studying at the Robert Schumann ... for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt. He was engaged as a solo trumpet with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2010. He is a regular guest with other leading orchestras including the ...

Lienbacher, Anna-Sophie

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Anna-Sophie Lienbacher Costume Designer She was born in Vienna and studied at Michelbeuern Fashion College, taking part in masterclasses at the Fashion School ... the Tirol Festival in Erl. She then had many invitations to work as a costume assistant at the State Opera, Volksoper and Kammeroper in Vienna. Anna-Sophie Lienbacher has been working as a free-lance costume ... Lacan and an historical exhibition at Castle Tabor in Jennersdorf. She worked for jOPERA on Rossini‘s Der Barbier von Sevilla (2018), Brigitte Fassbaender‘s production of Martha (2019) and Joachim Raff’s ...

Ribas, Cláudia

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... who just won 1st Prize, the Wagner, audience and Junior-Jury prizes at the 2024 's-Hertogenbosch (IVC) International Vocal Competition, joined the Opera Studio in 2022/23 and made her house debut singing 3rd Lady in Ted Huffmann's new production of ... Lopes, Joäo Mario Alves, Susanna Rigacci, Cristiano Manzoni, Margreet Honig, Angela Brower, Alexander Oliver, Bejun Mehta, Lenneke Ruiten and Neville Dove and works regularly with conductors including ...

Iushkevich, Iurii

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Iurii Iushkevich countertenor The young Russian countertenor Iurii Iushkevich is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his very successful debut last season singing Nireno in our new Giulio Cesare in Egitto, for this new production of Aribert Reimann’s L’invisible, ...

Sannikova, Ekaterina

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Ekaterina Sannikova soprano The Ukrainian soprano Ekaterina Sannikova is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt, stepping in at short notice to sing the title role in this new production of Aida. She ... (Nabucco). She also sang Tatiana at Zurich Opera, Nastassya Filippovna (The Idiot) at the Theater an der Wien, Lisa (Pique Dame) at the Staatstheater in Wiesbaden and Leonora at Korean National Opera in ...

Schlaud, Konstanze

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Konstanze Schlaud soprano Konstanze Schlaud, who sings Zerlina in this new production of Offenbach's The Bandits,  studied at the Academy for Music in ... Ziesak and Rudolf Piernay. Whilst still a studen she joined the Gäching Kantorei in Stuttgart under Helmuth Rilling and sang in various ensembles and choirs including the Bamberg Symphony Chorus, ... Giulio Cesare in Egitto at the Landestheater in Detmold. She sang Euridice in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at Oper Frankfurt in 2005 and joined Oper Frankfurt's Chorus in 2008, where other solo appearances have ...

Karai, Liam James

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Liam James Karai bass-baritone Liam James Karai, making his debut at Oper Frankfurt as Escamillo in Carmen, is a member of the Staatsoper in Hamburg's International Opera ... there he was awarded the Sir John Tomlinson and Andrew Lloyd Webber scholarships. He won the 2021 Frederic Cox Award and the RNCM's Silver Medal. He represented the RNCM at the Joaninha Trust Award Music ...

Stuart, Julia

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Julia Stuart soprano Julia Stuart joined the Opera Studio this season, making her house debut singing the Priestess in a  revival of our new Aida which ... Vavrek, Frau Fluth in Otto Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor and Eurydike in Offenbach's Orpheus in der Unterwelt. She has taken part in many masterclasses, including those run by Barbara Bonney, Lisette ...

Melem, Sophie

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Sophie Melem dancer Sophie Melem grew up in a musical family in Graz and started learning to dance in 2004 when she was five, at the local Royal ... 2018 she started working freelance, with engagements taking her to places including the Theater an der Wien, the Bregenz Festival, Oper Graz, the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden and Erkel Theater in Budapest, appearing in productions ...

Tomkiewicz, Rafał

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Rafał Tomkiewicz countertenor Rafał Tomkiewicz is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut last season singing Unulfo in Rodelinda, to sing Nireno in this revival of Giulio Cesare in Egitto. He recently made ... available on CD). Other engagements have taken him to the  Meiningen Staatstheater, the Musiktheater an der Wien, the National Opera in Sofia, Teatro Comunale di Bolzano, the »Maria Callas« Olympia Music ...

Isotton, Chiara

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Chiara Isotton soprano The Italian soprano Chiara Isotton is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt, singing the title role in Tosca, a role she just sang when making her debut at the Teatro ...

Reiter, Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Reiter soprano The American soprano Elizabeth Reiter joined the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2013/14. She recently added roles to her repertoire including Amanda in new a production of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, her triumphant first Tatianas in Eugene Onegin and wonderful portrayal of Asteria in Tamerlano, which was followed by her moving and spirited Cunning Little ...

Holender, Liviu

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Liviu Holender Baritone Liviu Holender joined Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in 2019/20, making his debut as Leone in a new Tamerlano in the Bockenheimer ...

Betz, Dominic

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Dominic Betz Actor Dominic Betz was born in Frankfurt, where he graduated from the University for Music ... Landestheater in Detmold's ensemble. He's been working as a freelance actor since 2011. Now he's back at Oper Frankfurt, where he played Jesus in Handel's Messiah, Arthur in the world premiere of Michael Langemann's ... Bockenheimer Depot.  He recently took part in the world premiere of ICH/ICH/ICH directed by Aileen Schneider at the Landestheater in Detmold and a film, released in 2024 - Blestem (Frame Store Film GmbH) directed ...

Mihai, Simona

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... Romanian-British soprano Simona Mihai, who graduated from Covent Garden's Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in London, is making her debut in Germany singing Mimì (role debut) in La Bohème at Oper Frankfurt. Roles at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden have included Musetta (La Bohème), Nedda ... Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Salzburg Camerata. She is also much sought after as Lieder singer. Places where she has appeared in recital have included the Wigmore Hall in London, Birmingham ...

Ceccherini, Tito

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Tito Ceccherini Conductor Tito Ceccherini is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut with The Rake's Progress and conducted new productions of Aus ... dell’Opera di Roma, Filharmonica della Scala, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Ensemble Modern, hr(Hessen Radio)-Sinfonieorchester, the WDR-Sinfonieorchester in Cologne, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie ...

Nielsen, Meentje

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Meentje Nielsen Costume Designer Meentje Nielsen, who worked at Oper Frankfurt for the first time on Orlando furioso, which was followed by this production of Königskinder, Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman and Il trovatore, works regularly designing costumes ...

Pabst, Rouven

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Rouven Pabst Dancer Rouven Pabst is back at Oper Frankfurt where he has danced in productions including The Merry Widow and Der Rosenkavalier (both with Claus Guth) Carmen, Iwan Sussanin, Tchaikovsky's The Sorceress and a new ...

Manoff, Susan

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Susan Manoff, New York born Susan Manoff works regularly with singers including Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau and Patricia Petibon and chamber music musicians at leading ...

Spence, Toby

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Toby Spence Tenor Toby Spence is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, singing Antatol (role debut) in Samuel Barber's Vanessa. This British ... Orchestras with whom he has appeared during his busy concert career have included the Cleveland Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnányi, the Berlin and Vienna philharmonic orchestras under Sir Simon Rattle, the ...

Youn, Kwangchul

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Kwangchul Youn Bass The Korean singer Kwangchul Youn was a member of the Staatsoper in Berlin from 1993 - 2004, during which time he built up a large and varied repertoire. In recent ... (Lucia di Lammermoor, Les Troyens, Maria Stuarda), the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (Parsifal, Der fliegende Holländer, Tristan und Isolde, Il trovatore), Semperoper in Dresden (Simon Boccanegra, ...

Glaskin, Claire

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Claire Glaskin Choreographer The British choreographer Claire Glaskin, who died in 2009, worked on many productions of operas staged by directors including Christopher Alden, David Alden, Olivia Fuchs, John Fulljames, Ian ...

Ehnes, Barbara

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... Ehnes Set Designer Barbara Ehnes, one of the most formative set designers around, made her debut at Oper Frankfurt with this Oedipus Rex / Iolanta double bill. She works regularly with the director Stefan Pucher. Their productions of Ein Volksfeind / Public Enemy Number One, Der Sturm / The Tempest, Othello and Homo Faber were invited to the Theatertreffen in Berlin (a great ...

George, Andrew

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... Choreography The choreographer Andrew George has been a member of David McVicar’s team for many years. He trained at the Laban Centre in London and works regularly at theatres including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (on operas including Andrea Chénier, Salome, Les Troyens and Adriana Lecouvreur) and English National Opera (Aggrippina, The Turn of the Screw, Der Rosenkavalier and Die Walküre) in London. He collaborated with David McVicar on his Ring for the ...

Marra, Mario Antonio

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Mario Antonio Marra Conductor / Pianist This Italian-American musician joined Oper Frankfurt as a soloists' coach in 2018/19. He conducts the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester ...

Kulakov Tarasov, Arseni

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Arseni Kulakov Tarasov violin Arseni Kulakov Tarasov studied at the University of Music in Mannheim with Abraham Jaffé and Sergei ... first violin at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt before taking up the same position with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2019. Getting to know and working with Ivry Gitlis made a big impact on Arseni ...

Paterson, Geoffrey

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Geoffrey Paterson conductor The British conductor Geoffrey Paterson, much in demand since winning the 2009 Leeds Conductors‘ Competition, is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt with this new production of Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His repertoire is wide ... studied the violin and composition and was a member of Covent Garden’s Jette Parker Programme, under whose auspices he conducted Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice. He has appeared with many leading ...

Muto, Yoriko

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Yoriko Muto Violin Yoriko Muto was born in Tokyo. She appeared in concert with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra when she ... Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Chamber Philharmonic and German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. She was under contract to the Sächsische Staatskapelle in Dresden from 2014 – 2016, the year she joined the first violins at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester. She loves listening to music that speaks to her. Her life's motto: »Go ...

Santos, Josy

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Josy Santos Mezzo-soprano This Brazilian mezzo-soprano is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, singing Marzelline (role debut) in Le nozze di Figaro. This season ...

Bushakevitz, Ammiel

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Ammiel Bushakevitz PIano The pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz, who was born in Jerusalem and grew up in South Africa, studied in Berlin, Leipzig and Paris. His teachers included Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Helmut Deutsch, Alfred Brendel and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, whose 2011 Lieder masterclasses at the University of the Arts in in Berlin and Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg he accompanied. ... member of the Richard Wagner Verband and Edison Fellow of the British Library, London. His debut at Oper Frankfurt was adventurous, stepping in at extremely short notice to accompany Anna Lucia Richter ...

McMahon, Michael

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Michael McMahon piano The pianist, coach and accompanist Michael McMahon is Associate Professor for singing and piano at McGill University in Montreal, where he studied before joining the University for ... Wexford Festival and Debut Atlantic. He has enjoyed long term relationships with the Atelier lyrique der Opéra de Montréal, the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta and Franz Schubert Institut in Baden ... Philippe Sly, Gerald Finley, Michael Schade and Adrianne Pieczonka. Michael McMahon is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time.

Resch, Eva

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Eva Resch, The soprano Eva Resch's accomplished interpretation of contemporary music led to invitations to the Teatro de Bellas Artes, the Cervantino ... Massimo in Rome. She has also appeared at venues including the national theatres in Warsaw and Weimar, Oper Bonn, Malmö Opera, at the Munich Biennale, Vienna Festwochen and Berlin festivals. Eva Resch took ... Gordon Kampe and Anno Schreier. She has performed Benedict Mason's Chaplin Operas with the Ensemble Modern before, at the Tchaikovsky Theatre in Perm (Russia), the Philharmonie in Essen, the Cité de ...

Gündisch, Aischa

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Aischa Gündisch violin Aischa Gündisch was born in Tübingen and studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Prof. ... Society of Reading/Pennsylvania, and the Carnegie Hall in New York. Aischa Gündisch joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in the 2021/22 season as assistant deputy of the second violins.

Tomson, Anna

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Anna Tomson Director's Assistant Anna Tomson returned Oper Frankfurt, where she rehearsed a revival of Christof Loy’s La fanciulla del West in 2012/13, to rehearse his new production of Giordano’s Fedora and assisted him on Rimsky- Korsakov's ... Year« Opernwelt magazine 2021/22)  and Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt   ̶  staged Tchaikovsky Lieder, which appeared online. She has worked as an assistant and revival rehearser at the Royal Opera in ...

Rocha, André

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André Rocha bassoon Bassoonist André Rocha was born in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, in 1997 and started music lessons when he was 6.  He took up the bassoon ... the Sinfonieta de Lausanne and Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música. He joined the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2022.

Bidlack, Andrew

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Andrew Bidlack tenor American tenor Andrew Bidlack, voted "Rising Star of 2015" by Opera News, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut at singing Augustin Moser in a new production ...

Ascani, Gabriele

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Gabriele Ascani Dancer Gabriele Ascani is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he danced in recent new productions of Tchaikovsky’s The Sorceress and Handel’s ...

Romaniw, Natalya

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Natalya Romaniw soprano The Welsh soprano Natalya Romaniw is making her debut in Germany at Oper Frankfurt tonight, stepping in at short notice to sing the title role in Tosca , a role she sings ... appeared in recital at venues including the Wigmore Hall and sang in Verdi's Requiem with the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder. Highlights last season included her debut at the Opéra de Rouen Normandie as Jenůfa, ...

Blaich, Tanya

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Tanya Blaich piano Tanya Blaich, who specialises in accompanying, has appeared with singers including Sari Gruber, Thomas Hampson and Klemens Sander in concert halls and festivals in Europe and the USA. A passionate chamber musician, she has appeared ... has coached singers for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Handel and Haydn Society and Odyssey Opera Boston. She studied at the Sorbonne, graduated from Walla Walla College in Washington and gained ...

Plag, Lukas

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Lukas Plag cello Lukas Plag was born in Weimar and started learning the cello in 2008 with Benjamin Jupé before continuing his training ... the Baden-Baden Philharmonie, the  Nord Deutsche Philharmonie in Rostock and Philharmonie Zuidnederland he enjoyed success as a soloist and taking part in radio recordings (BBC Radio). He joined the Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchesters this season for a try out year as a deputy solo cellist. He won scholarships ...

Navarro, Clara

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... Spanish dancer Clara Navarro studied classic and contemporary dance at the Carmen Amaya Conservatoire in her home town of Madrid and is a member of the África Guzmán Dance Project’s company. Various ... After spending three years taking part in the musical Billy Elliot she became increasingly involved in operatic projects, working at places including the Teatro Real de Madrid in productions of Otello, Gloriana, ...

Pollak, Angelo

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Angelo Pollak tenor Angelo Pollak is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, saving the day by stepping in at short notice to sing Lyonel in this ... Dutchman) and he took part in the highly acclaimed world premiere of Ella Milch-Sheriff’s Die Banalität der Liebe / The Banality of Love. He moved to the Vienna State Opera’s Opera Studio in 2019, where ...

Loiko, Lev

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Lev Loiko, Lev Loiko was born in 1991 in Ivanovo and grew up in a family of Russian chemists. His talent for music was spotted in Kindergarten by Naelya Chistyakova, who gave him his first violin lesson when he was five. After eight ... Symphony Orchestra for the 2022/23 season and has been playing deputy solo viola with the Frankfurt Oper and Museumsorchester since 2023. In  his free time he enjoys teaching, reading and delving into history. ...

Löffner, Daniela

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Daniela Löffner director Daniela Löffner has been working as House Director of the Staatsschauspiel in Dresden since 2017 and is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt, directing her first opera: Aribert Reimann’s L’invisible. Born in Freiburg she started ... own productions, including Ibsen’s The Wild Duck and Hermann Hesse’s Demian (nominated for a 2011 DER FAUST theatre prize). She has staged works for theatres including the Residenztheater in Munich, ...

Christian, Oliver

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Oliver Christian trumpet Oliver Christian was born to a musical family in Augsburg in 1993 and started learning the trumpet when he was only five. Whilst a student he studied ... music experience with the Bavarian Youth Orchestra, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and Hamburg State Opera’s Academy. He was also engaged by the Kiel Philharmonic and the Deutsche Oper Berlin and appears ... competitions, including Jugend musiziert, the Elise Meyer Foundation in Hamburg’s competition and Sondershausen’s Rotary International Club’s soloist competition. This young musician was also awarded ...

Selig, Daniela

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Daniela Selig costume designer Daniela Selig is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on this new production of Aribert Reimann’s L’invisible. After ... Dramaten in Stockholm. She also designed costumes for films including Florian Hoffmeister’s 3 Degrees Colder (which won the Silver Leopard in Locarno for »Best Film by a Young Director«), Hal Hartley’s ...

Pobitschka, Viola

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Viola Pobitschka actress Viola Pobitschka is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, acting in this new production of Aribert Reimann’s L’invisible. ... Theater in Zürich and Staatsschauspiel in Dresden and on tour to Peking and Tel Aviv. She spent time under contract to Hessen’s Staatstheater in Wiesbaden and the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf, working ...

10th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts on 07/06/2026

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Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827 Violin concerto in D Major op. 61 Sergei Rachmaninov 1873–1943 Symphony Nr. 2 in E minor op. 27 Daniel ... long-standing chief conductor and artistic manager of the Museumsconcerts, conducting the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchesters for the first time as a guest. With works by two composers dear to his heart. Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the young violinist Daniel Lozakovich, back after a wonderful performances of Brahms' concerto. They're a well-rehearsed team, having played together in one ...

Bäuml, Chiara

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Chiara Bäuml mezzo-soprano Chiara Bäuml is back at Oper Frankfurt to sing an Apprentice in this new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. She joined ... two years later with Laurie Reviol, when she made her debut as a daughter in Humperdinck's Königskinder at Oper Frankfurt. This was followed in later years by the 1st Boy in Die Zauberflöte, Vreli as ...

Zimmermann, Carmen

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Carmen Zimmermann Video The Austrian film makers Carmen Zimmermann and Roland Horvath have been creating videos with their company rocafilm for plays, operas and documentaries since 2010. They have worked regularly with Damiano Michieletto since 2012: ... also seen at La Scala Milan) and La Cenerentola at the Salzburg Festival, Idomeneo at the Theater an der Wien and Die Zauberflöte and Perocco's Aquagranda (2017 Franco Abbiati Award) at the Teatro la Fenice ...

Bolliger, Stefan

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Stefan Bolliger Lighting Designer Zurich born Stefan Bolliger worked as a freelance lighting technician before he was engaged ... has been working as a freelance lighting designer since then. He has worked at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Theater an der Wien, Salzburg Festival, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin and Hamburg state operas, the Semperoper ...

Korte, Thomas

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Thomas Korte Puppeteer Thomas Korte's first job as a puppeteer at Oper Frankfurt was in Peter Mussbach's production of Wozzeck in 1993. This was followed by Oberon, ...

The Tsar wants his Photograph taken / The Clever Woman on 27/06/2026

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Kurt Weill, Rožeň Jiří, Warner Keith, Kastening Katharina, Kudlička Boris, Glarner Kaspar, Sandroni Simone, Bishop John, Corral Matute Álvaro, ... Elizabeth, Trąbka Mikołaj, Faulkner Thomas, Dietrich Magnus, MacNeil Iain, Volle Dietrich, Schneider Gerard, Geyer Sebastian, Reiter Alfred, The Tsar wants his photograph taken Opera Buffa in 1 act Libretto by Georg Kaiser First performed February 18 1928, Neues Theater Leipzig ...

Blood Wedding on 10/05/2026

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... Ollé Àlex, Flores Alfons, Castells Lluc, Corral Matute Álvaro, Horpácsy Zsolt, Mahnke Claudia, Hinterdobler Magdalena, Schönmüller Annette, Švēde Zanda, Makuła Karolina, Zechmeister Barbara, Bengtsson ... Glueckert AJ, Manzel Dagmar, booking opens July 2,c 2½ hrs inc interval,Lyric Tragedy in 2 acts Text by Federico García Lorca, translated into German by Enrique Beck First performed June 8 1957, Städtische Oper, Cologne Sung in German with German & English surtitles Introductory talks (in German) in the Holzfoyer ...

Turandot on 12/04/2026

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Giacomo Puccini, Guggeis Thomas, Breth Andrea, Leiacker Johannes, Renzenbrink Ursula, Koppelmann Alexander, Corral Matute Álvaro, Enderle Maximilian, Heever Elza van den, Guggeis Thomas, Kim Alfred, Yu Guanqun, ... Teatro alla Scala, Milan World premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's prologue: Io tacerò, commissioned by Oper Frankfurt Sung in Italian with German & English surtitles Introductory talks (in German) in the ...

Written on Skin on 01/03/2026

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George Benjamin, Nielsen Erik, Gürbaca Tatjana, Grünberg Klaus, Willrett Silke, Enderle Maximilian, Skovhus Bo, Reiter Elizabeth, Iushkevich Iurii, Hall Cecelia, McCown Michael,  booking ... personal triumph. George Benjamin’s Written on Skin is one of the 21st century’s most successful operas. The libretto, written by Martin Crimp, is based on a Middle Ages legend about the »eaten heart«, ...

Amor vien dal destino on 25/01/2026

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Agostino Steffani, Luks Václav, Schlather R.B., Kirsch Anna-Sofia, Tag Katrin Lea, Hartmann Jan, Wink Mareike, ... this diplomat and high-ranking ecclesiastical dignitary’s music can be heard for the first time at Oper Frankfurt. Amor vien dal destino, and 7 other operas, were written in the 1690s for a new theatre ...

Artistic & Other Administration

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Artistic & Other Administration, , Intendant & General ManagerBernd LoebeHead of Artistic Administration & Deputy IntendantAlmut ... RehkesselArtistic AdministrationSebastian Stüer (director), Firmian Fischer & Julia KalbfleischSpecial Opera ProjectsThomas StollbergerGroup Tours & Special Opera ProjectsChristiane MalburgMarketingLinda ... Lüneburg (director), Catherine Mackensen & Leona FrechDramaturgesDeborah Einspieler | Maximilian Enderele | Zsolt Horpácsy | Konrad Kuhn | Mareike WinkOpera for You! (projects for children and young ...

Restaurants and in-house catering

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Restaurants and in-house catering, , , interval refreshments in opera FOYERS , , , Our in-house catering firm Huber want to make your visit even more enjoyable. Drinks and things to eat during the interval can be ordered from the bars on the ground floor, first floor and third floor (Rangs), or in advance via email ...

Reductions on Tickets

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... the stalls cost 50% of the normal ticket price - the seat next to it, for the person who is accompanying the wheelchair user, is also half price. In the Bockenheimer Depot the best possible positions will ... and shape of the stage. , , , , School Children and Students , , School children and students (under the age of 30) are entitled to a 50% reduction on the price of their tickets (opening night not included). ... tickets! - subject to availability. , , , , School Groups , , School groups: when children visit the opera in a school group their tickets cost only €6. This does not apply to first nights or special ...

Kim, Alfred

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Alfred Kim Tenor Korean born Alfred Kim was a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt from 2008 - 2013, where he made a name for himself with Verdi roles including Henri (Les Vêpres siciliennes), Ismaele (Nabucco), Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra) and ...

Poschner, Markus

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Markus Poschner Conductor Munich born Markus Poschner, winner of the 2004 German Conducting Prize, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2015/16 with a staged production of Handel's Messiah, for ...

Steinberg, Paul

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Paul Steinberg Set Designer Paul Steinburg, who was born in New York City, has designed wonderful sets at Oper Frankfurt for new productions of Berg’s Lulu (Richard Jones), Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber ...

Rae, Brenda

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Brenda Rae soprano Brenda Rae is back in Frankfurt to sing the title role in this new production of Alban Berg's Lulu. Her many roles for the ... her years as a member of the Ensemble.  She made her debuts at the Berlin, Hamburg and Munich state operas singing Zerbinetta and her first Lulu in William Kentridge's production for English National ...

Nagyová, Judita

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Judita Nagyová Mezzo-soprano During the 2025/26 season Slovakian born Judita Nagyová, who joined the Ensemble in 2014/15, can be heard ... Grimes & Weinberg's The (female) Passenger. She studied in Bratislava and spent time in the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf's opera studio and the Staatstheater in Nürnberg's ensemble before coming ... Homburg, Magnard's Guercœur & Wagner's Parsifal. She sang in the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter / The Tenant (commissioned by Oper Frankfurt) and appeared at the Festwochen in Vienna, ...

Rauch, Stephanie

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Stephanie Rauch Set Designer Stephanie Rauch's sets for operas at Oper Frankfurt to date were for this production of Janáček's Das schlaue Füchslein / The Cunning Little Vixen, directed by Ute M. Engelhardt, and Haddad's A Wintery Spring, Zelenka's ...

Sim, Kihwan

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Kihwan Sim Bass-baritone During the 2025/26 season Kihwan Sim, who joined Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in 2012/13, sings Escamillo in Carmen and Uncle Bonze in Madama Butterfly  ... Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher and in the title role of Le nozze di Figaro. The previous season he sang wonderful performances of Ramfis & the King of Egypt in a new Aida, Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Orest in ...

Tasch, Katharina

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Katharina Tasch Costume Designer Katharina Tasch's designed costumes for the highly successful world premiere of Arnulf Hermann's Der Mieter / The Tenant, Mozart's Betulia liberata, this production of Das schlaue Füchslein / Cunning ... Engelhardt – Johannes Erath's Giulio Cesare in Egitto and David Hermann's three short Ernst Křenek operas at Oper Frankfurt. Her costumes were also seen in Erath's Cunning Little Vixen at the Hamburg ...

Lebow, Theo

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Theo Lebow Tenor Theo Lebow has enjoyed success with many roles at Oper Frankfurt since joining the Ensemble, including Jago, followed by the title role (2024), in Rossini's ... Masquerade, the Teacher / 1st Foreman in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - all role debuts - and repeating his wonderful portrayal of Contareno in Rossini's Bianca et Falliero. During the 2025/26 season you can hear ...

Blake, Aaron

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Aaron Blake Tenor The young American tenor Aaron Blake is making his European debut at Oper Frankfurt singing Michel in Martinů's Julietta. He then returns to the Metropolitan Opera in New ...

Engelhardt, Ute M.

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... Engelhardt Director Ute. M. Engelhardt was awarded the renowned Götz-Friedrich Prize for up and coming directors for her 2016 production ofThe Cunning Little Vixen at Oper Frankfurt. Now she's back with the company, where she staged Sallinen's Barabbas Dialoge, Monteverdi's ... University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, graduating in 2006 with a production of Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis, the same year she was awarded a scholarship by the Richard Wagner Foundation ...

Weihrauch, Judith

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Judith Weihrauch Costume Designer Judith Weihrauch studied fashion design and historical stage costumes in Vienna. She worked designing and making costumes and wigs at the Schauspielhaus, Burgtheater and Serapionstheater ... Salzburg Festival before being engaged to be in charge of costumes for certain productions at the Volksoper in Vienna and Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. She has worked as a freelance costume designer and ... prize at the 2016 International Opera Awards), Giulio Cesare in Egitto and Intermezzo at the Theater an der Wien and Jenůfa at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Carydis, Constantinos

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Constantinos Carydis Conductor The Greek artist Constantinos Carydis is back at Oper Frankfurt where he conducted new productions of Xerxes, Carmen and the Dido and Aeneas / Herzog ...

Richter, Hans Walter

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... Richter has directed Menotti’s The Medium, the world premiere of Langemann’s Anna Toll and Stravinsky’s Die Geschichte vom Soldaten / A Soldier’s Tale at Oper Frankfurt. His production of Mercadante’s Francesca da Rimini was first seen at the Tirol Festival ...

Keller, Frank

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Frank Keller Lighting Designer Frank Keller qualified as a Lighting Master in 1996 after training as an electrician and has worked as a lighting designer at Oper Frankfurt since 1989. Productions on which he worked for the company have included Humperdinck's Königskinder, Tosca, Die verkaufte Braut, Die tote Stadt, Manon and Macbeth  in the main house and La Calisto, ...

Cornetti, Marianne

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Marianne Cornetti Mezzo-soprano The American mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the leading Verdi singers in the world, is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. Roles including Azucena, Amneris (Aida), Prinzessin Eboli (Don Carlos), ... Placido Domingo and Cilea's L’Arlesiana, a role she also sang with the New York Opera Orchestra under Eve Queler in the Carnegie Hall.

Köse, Önay

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Önay Köse Bass The Turkish bass Bass Önay Köse is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt, singing Sparafucile in this new production of Rigoletto. He was engaged to join the ensemble ... season immediately after graduating from the Juilliard School in New York. His roles in Berlin include Der Nachtwächter/The Night Watchman in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Gremin in Eugen Onegin, Sarastro ...

Lodahl, Peter

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Peter Lodahl Tenor The Danish tenor Peter Lodahl, who sang the role of Leukippos for the first time in 2014/15, at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. He spent time under contract to Theater Kiel and the Komische Oper Berlin before joining the ensemble at the Royal Danish ...

Pretti, Piero

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Piero Pretti Tenor The Sardinian tenor Piero Pretti is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. He began his career at the opera houses in Ravenna, Rome, Turin, Ferrara, ...

Pral, Barbara

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Barbara Pral Set Designer Vienna born Barbara Pral attended classes in textile design and printing at the Modeschule in Hetzendorf and studied stage and costume design at ... Salzburg. She began her career assisting the directors Claus Peymann and Luc Bondy. Engagements in opera and the straight theatre have taken her to the Burgtheater, the Theater an der Wien and Volkoper in Vienna, the Salzburg Festival, Ruhrfestspielen in Recklinghausen, the Deutsche ...

Ollu, Franck

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Franck Ollu Conductor The versatile conductor Franck Ollu is respected as an expert in contemporary music and French repertoire. He works closely with the Ensemble Modern, leading Oper Frankfurt productions including Matalon's Spectacle Spaces, part of heim.spiele and Goebbels’ ...

Montanaro, Carlo

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Carlo Montanaro Conductor The Italian conductor Carlo Montanaro is a regular guest at Oper Frankfurt, where he recently conducted Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Don Carlos, Mascagni's L’amico Fritz (in concert), Adriana Lecouvreur, La Bohème andTosca. Now he's back to conduct the first revival of ...

Ajdarpasic, Rifail

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Rifail Ajdarpasic set designer Stuttgart born Rifail Ajdarpasic designed sets for Oper Frankfurt for this production of Rigoletto, Enescu's Oedipe with Hans Neuenfels and  Pénélope, Fauré's only opera. Engagements this season include Cecilia Valdés at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and& Cabaret in Klagenfurt. After studying ... sets for Carlos Wagner productions in 2007, which included Un ballo in maschera, La vie parisienne, Der fliegende Holländer and Lohengrin. The opera Gegen die Wand / Up against the Wall won him a 2011 ...

Weissenborn, Katharina

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Katharina Weissenborn Costume Designer Katharina Weissenborn studied at the State Academy for Fine Arts in ... film festivals in Mannheim, Stuttgart, Dortmund and Kiev and is a founding member of Studio Film Bilder Stuttgart. Places where she has worked as a costume designer for opera and plays have included Zurich Opera, the National Opera in Helsinki, the Semperoper in Dresden, ...

Zagrosek, Lothar

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Lothar Zagrosek Conductor Lothar Zagrosek appeared at Oper Frankfurt for the first time in 1954, singing 1st Boy in Die Zauberflöte under Georg Solti. He studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky, Istvàn Kertész, Bruno Maderna and Herbert ...

Ollé, Àlex

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Àlex Ollé Director Àlex Ollé, born in Catalonia, is one of six artistic leaders of the theatre collective La Fura dels Baus, which was founded in 1979 in Barcelona and quickly established itself in the international worlds of drama and opera, producing many operatic productions since the 1990s. Recent projects have inclucded Le Retour ...

Schramm, Jo

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Jo Schramm Set Designer Jo Schramm works as a set designer in opera and drama. Now he's back at Oper Frankfurt, where he works regularly with David Hermann, most ... the 2018 International Opera Awards, for Magnard's Guercœr. They recently Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde / Jelinek's King Bees and Die Frau ohne Schatten at Stuttgart State Opera,  Lohengrin and Parsifal ...

Huestege, Björn

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Björn Huestege Soloists' Coach & Conductor Björn Huestege, who has been working at Oper Frankfurt as a coach since 2012/13, now co-runs the coaching department. This season he will conduct ...

Kirchner, Alfred

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Alfred Kirchner Director Alfred Kirchner is well known to audiences in Frankfurt for his productions of Jenůfa and Die Soldaten (both conducted by Michael Gielen), Un ballo ... highlights in his long and successful career included Khovanshchina with Claudio Abbado at the Vienna State Opera, Tristan und Isolde with Sir Simon Rattle and Ingo Metzmacher in Amsterdam, where he also staged ... Peter Turrini, Heiner Müller, Thomas Bernhard, Herbert Achternbusch, Dario Fo, Maxim Gorki, Hans Zender, Udo Zimmermann and Helmut Lachenmann. This director studied acting at the Max Reinhardt School in ...

Reinhardt, Andreas

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Andreas Reinhardt Set & Costume Designer Andreas Reinhardt died in 2007. After studying in Dresden and at the Deutsche Academy of Arts in Berlin he was under contract to the Berlin Ensemble from 1965 and the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen (both play houses) ... began working as a freelance set and costume designer in 1978 and was engaged by many of the leading opera companies in Europe, including the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Hamburg State Opera, the ...

Kupfer, Harry

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... been one of Germany's most successful and admired directors for many years. He is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, Hamburg Free Academy of Arts and Academy of Arts in Dresden. He has directed more ... London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Moscow, Tokyo and San Francisco. He created a new production of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier for the 2014 Salzburg Festival, which then went to La Scala Milan. Here is another chance to see his production of Berlioz' Fausts Verdamnis / Damnation of Faust at Oper Frankfurt, where he has also directed Prokofiev's The Gambler, Pfitzner's Palestrina (available ...

Tax, Yan

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Yan Tax Costume Designer Yan Tax regularly designs costumes for Harry Kupfer productions, including Glinka's Iwan Sussanin and Berlioz' Fausts Verdammnis/Damnation of Faust at Oper Frankfurt. Their production of Der Rosenkavalier at the 2014 Salzburg Festival was also performed at La Scala Milan. They recently worked ...

Mallwitz, Joana

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Joana Mallwitz Conductor Joana Mallwitz has been General Music Director of the Staatstheater in Nürnberg since 2018/19, where she has conducted new productions of Wagner's Lohengrin, Prokofiev's ... Lydia Steier, at the 2020 Salzburg Festival. She was recently voted »Conductor of the Year 2019« by Opernwelt magazine and »Best Conductor« (Oper! Awards).  She is now back at Oper Frankfurt, following ... included her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2018, with Eugen Onegin and L’elisir d’amore, Der Rosenkavalier at Norske Opera in Oslo, Macbeth at Zurich Opera and Die Zauberflöte, Macbeth, Cavalleria ...

Szabó, Bálint

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Bálint Szabó Baritone Bálint Szabó spent periods under contract to the Hungarian, Romanian and Hamburg state operas before joining the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt, which he left in 2008/09. He is now back again ...

Fletzberger, Matthias

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Matthias Fletzberger Accompanist Prizes won by this Vienna born international pianist and conductor earlier on in his career included the »Busoni« and »Rubinstein« ... Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Renata Tebaldi and Martina Arroyo. Singers with whom he has worked in concert and opera include Daniela Fally, Elina Garanča, Ramon Vargas, Benjamin Bruns and Thomas Hampson; he also ...

Templin, Ralf

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Ralf Templin Guitar The guitarist Ralf Templin, who graduated from the Hanns Eisler University in Berlin, has ... Deutsche Symphonie Orchester, the Rundfunk(radio)orchester Berlin, Filmorchester Babelsberg, the Staatsoperette in Dresden, Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen and, since 2008, is a regular guest at the Komische Oper Berlin. He has performed in productions of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny/The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper ...

Dierksen, Uwe

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Uwe Dierksen Composer & Conductor Uwe Dierksen is back at Oper Frankfurt, after his silent film / revue Ma(i)nhatta (2017), for this very unsual and special project. He has played the trombone in the Ensemble Modern since 1983 and works regularly with other well known musicians, composers, conductors, orchestras ...

Tetzel, Corinna

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Corinna Tetzel Director The director Corinna Tetzel has enjoyed close links to Oper Frankfurt for many years. Her productions of a double bill of Haddad‘s A wintery spring (world ... and worked as an assistant at Oper Frankfurt from 2011 - 2017. Other recent engagements have included Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren / The Devil with Three Golden Hairs at the Prinzregententheater ...

Descharmes, Alexis

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... Alexis Descharmes is one of the greatest talents of his generation. He was a member of the Orchester der Opéra National in Paris before going to the Orchester der Opéra National in Bordeaux in 2016 to lead the cello section. ...

Llompart, Pere

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Pere Llompart, Pere Llompart studied piano, viola and composition in Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona before taking up singing with Werner Hollweg in Freiburg. He joined ... Pere Llompart is equally at home in early and contemporary music. After time spent with the Chamber Opera in Constance, in Freiburg and Nordhausen he joined Oper Frankfurt's Chorus. His operatic repertoire ...

Semieniuk, Vera

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Vera Semieniuk Mezzo-soprano Vera Semieniuk studied at the universities of music in Munich, Detmold nd Augsburg and Bavarian Theaterakademie August Everding. She studied with Edith ... Gabriella Lichter-Maxande and took part in various masterclasses, including ones held by Brigitte Fassbaender, Hedwig Fassbender, Eytan Pessen and Brian Zeger. After completing her studies she was engaged byTheater Dortmund. Guest engagements have taken her to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein,  Staatstheaters in Wiesbaden, Karlsruhe and Braunschweig, Oper Kiel, the Theater Augsburg, the ...

Blumert, Marlene

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Marlene Blumert Video Marlene Blumert studied film and television direction in Potsdam-Babelsberg and has made several short, and two long, films which have been shown at international festivals. She has been working as a video artist for productions of plays and opera since 2003 at theatres including the Thalia Theater in Hamburg with the directors Andreas Kriegenburg ... 2014 and 2017, she worked with Jürgen Kuttner, Tom Kühnel and Stefan Kimmig. She also directed two underwater operas: Die versunkene Stadt / The Sunken City and elementaria and was engaged as a live video ...

Güney, Doğuş

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Doğuş Güney Bass Doğuş Güney is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he sang in Prokofiev's Der Spieler / The Gambler and Křenek's Das geheime Königreich ...

Schulte, Frank

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Frank Schulte Pianist Frank Schulte studied teaching music at the University of Arts in Berlin, then opera coaching and Lieder at Leipzig University, graduating with distinction. His piano teachers were Thomas Menrath and Markus ...

Rositskiy, Anton

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Anton Rositskiy, Anton Rositskiy appeared at Oper Frankfurt for the first time in 2015, singing the role of Bogdan Sobinin in this production of Iwan ... auf Naxos) with the Warsaw Philharmonic. Other recent engagements have taken him to the Opera Vlaanderen Ghent / Antwerp, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Osaka International Festival, Rossini Opera ...

Prior, Alexander

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Alexander Prior Conductor This young conductor is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2017/18 with Verdi's Rigoletto, for Martinů's Julietta. He ...

Shaw, Nicky

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Nicky Shaw Costume Designer Nicky Shaw designed costumes for Oper Frankfurt's Dallapiccola Volo di notte & Il prigioniero double bill and this production of La Cenerentola, both directed by Keith Warner, and Dale Duesing's Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims and Britten's The Rape of Lucretia. She recently worked on La Cenerentola ...

Woods, Annemarie

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Annemarie Woods Set Designer This production of Rinaldo was Annemarie Wood's first work for Oper Frankfurt. This Irish set and costume designer works regularly with Ted Huffman. After Madama Butterfly ... production of Sweeney Todd. She designed the sets and costumes for Eugen Onegin at Scottish Opera and Die Fledermaus at Wermland Opera. Annemarie Woods works regularly at Opera Northern Ireland in Belfast, most ...

Henschel, Jane

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Jane Henschel mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel, who was born in America and is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time singing Auntie in this new production of Peter Grimes, is one of the ... France. An extensive discography, including Mahler 8 with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, documents her long and successful career.

Zeh, Walter

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... Zeh Chorus Master Vienna born Walter Zeh founded the Philharmonia Chor of Vienna, which he has led since 2006, and has worked at the Baden-Baden Festival, the Ruhrtriennale, Salzburg Festival, Théâtre ... Bremen Musikfest, Lucerne Festival and in Madrid, Buenos Aires, Japan and now, for the first time, at Oper Frankfurt. Walter Zeh has also taught singing and worked as a language coach for operas in Paris ...

Wiedenhofer, Katharina

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Katharina Wiedenhofer Dancer The dancer and choreographer Katharina Wiedenhofer is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she recently performed her own choreography again in Capriccio and was choreographer ...

Böer, Roland

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Roland Böer Conductor Roland Böer is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he was Kapellmeister from 2002 – 2008 and recently returned for the previous ... posts of Chief Conductor of the Staat Philharmonie and General Music Director of the Staatstheater in Nürnberg from the beginning of the 2013/24 season. He was named music director of the Cantiere Internazionale ...

Haderer, Klaus

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Klaus Haderer Actor The actor Klaus Haderer is back at Oper Frankfurt to repeat his unforgettable portrayal of his role in the first revival of this new production of Die Lustige Witwe / The Merry Widow. He has worked with ...

La Colla, Stefano

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Stefano La Colla tenor This internationally sought-after Italian tenor is back in Frankfurt, where he thrilled audiences with Radamès ... (Tosca), to sing Cavaradossi in Tosca. Recent engagements have included Calaf (Turandot) at Cologne Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Manrico (Il trovatore) at Zurich Opera and Covent Garden in London ...

Didenko, Nikolay

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Nikolay Didenko Bass Nikolay Didenko is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, singing Gremin in this revival of Eugene Onegin. This Russian bass ... Orchestre National d‘Ȋle-de-France. His extensive discography includes the Grammy winning recording: Penderecki Conducts Penderecki. After studying in Moscow Nikolay Didenko sang roles at the New Opera there ...

Karahan, Murat

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Murat Karahan Tenor The Turkish tenor Murat Karahan is singing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. Recent engagements have included Alfredo (La traviata) and Don José ...

Jost, Frederic

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Frederic Jost Bass Frederic Jost is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut  singing Ordulfo in Trojahn's Enrico, which was followed by ...

Davies, Dennis Russell

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... Dennis Russell Davies took up the posts of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Philharmonie in Brno this season. He built up an impressive and broad repertoire during his years working as a conductor, pianist and chamber musician, with composers including Laurie Anderson, Luciano Berio, William Bolcom, John Cage, Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Hans Werner Henze, Kurt ... Staatstheater in Stuttgart, the Beethovenhalle Orchestra, the International Beethoven Festival and Oper Bonn. He then became Chief Conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber ...

Sharon, Yuval

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Yuval Sharon Director His unconventional, media merging productions have made the US American Yuval Sharon one of the most exciting directors of his generation. He is founder and artistic director of The Industry in Los Angeles, an extraordinary and respected ensemble of artists in various fields who stage opera at unusual venues and in open spaces in built up areas; including the world premieres of Hopscotch, ...

Bruns, Klaus

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Klaus Bruns Costume Designer Klaus Bruns has been designing costumes for plays and operas for nearly 30 years. Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Distant Sound, his debut at Oper Frankfurt, was his fourth production with the ...

Carletti, Alessandro

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Alessandro Carletti Lighting Designer Born in Rome, the lighting designer Alessandro Carletti's work contributed to the huge success of this production of Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Elusive Sound when it opened in 2019, and a new production of Rossini's Otello ... »Knight of Illumination Award« in 2015 for his work on a production of Guillaume Tell at the Royal Opera House in London. He has worked regularly with Damiano Michieletto since 2008. Their many productions ...

Erdl, Florian

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Florian Erdl Conductor Munich born Florian Erdl is back in Frankfurt, where he worked for the first time in 2018/19, conducting Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, assisted Sebastian Weigle on new productions of Strauss' Capriccio and Schreker's Der ferne Klang - and conducted a performance - for the first revival of Schreker's masterpiece. He ... including new productions of Rigoletto, The Bartered Bride and Ariadne auf Naxos in the 2019/20 season.  Operas there this season include new productions of Hänsel und Gretel and Madama Butterfly . He was ...

Foster, Lawrence

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Lawrence Foster Conductor Lawrence Foster was born in America and is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he worked for the first time in 2012/13 on a new production of Khovanshchina, to conduct this wonderful staging of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Night before Christmas. He was General Music Director of the ...

Roy, Bruno

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Bruno Roy Baritone Bruno Roy, who comes from Montreal, is making his European debut singing a servant in the first revival of last season's very successful production of Strauss’ Capriccio. While this Canadian baritone was a member of the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto' Opera Studio, he sang roles in many productions including Graf Larmoral in ... (L’enfant et les sortilèges). Bruno Roy takes part in Carmina Burana with the Ottawa Choral Society under Jean-Sébastien Vallée in 2019.

Morandi, Pier Giorgio

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Pier Giorgio Morandi Conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi, a regular and popular guest, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he has conducted Otello, La fanciulla del West, Simon Boccanegra, Macbeth, Boito’s Mefistofele, Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda (in concert), Rigoletto (2020), La Forza del Destino and Puccini’s Il trittico and performances of ...

Margolin, Zinovy

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Zinovy Margolin Set Designer Belarus born set designer Zinovy Margolin is working in Frankfurt for the ... Grand Macabre. He designed many sets for the Mariinski in St. Petersburg and Bolschoi in Moscow for operas including Tristan und Isolde, Le nozze di Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Verdi’s Otello, Shostakovitch’s ...

Ehm, Dinah

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Dinah Ehm costume designer Dinah Ehm grew up in Augsburg and trained as a cutter for female garments at ... before working as an assistant and head of the costume department at Theater Basel and the Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim. She went to New York as a pattern designer before opening her own costume studio ... Strasbourg, the Ensemble and Schaubühne in Berlin. She has been working free-lance as a costume designer for opera and drama since 2006. Her costumes have been seen at theatres including the Staatstheaters in Stuttgart, ...

Rommelspacher, Lukas

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Lukas Rommelspacher conductor / pianist The conductor and pianist Lukas Rommelspacher joined Oper Frankfurt in 2018/19 as a soloists’ coach, where he made his conducting debut with a new Britten ...

Spreckelmeyer, Irina

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Irina Spreckelmeyer costume designer Costume designer Irina Spreckelmeyer, much sought-after for opera, theatre and film, has enjoyed a close working relationship with the director Nadja Loschky since ... in Mainz (nominated for a 2022 Austrian Music Theatre prize for best set and costumes), Alice in Wonderland at Zurich Opera and Hamlet at the Komische Oper Berlin. She also worked with the director Wolfgang ...

Stofer, Ruth

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Ruth Stofer Video Ruth Stofer is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she worked for the first time in 2020/21 on an online streamed evening of staged Tchaikovsky Lieder: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, for this new production of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. She studied ...

Ivanov, Dimiter

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Dimiter Ivanov violin Dimiter Ivanov has been First Concert Master of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2008. He held the same position with the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico ...

Fischer, Christoph

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... Set Designer Christoph Fischer studied stage and film design at the University for the Applied Arts in Vienna, after which he worked as a freelance set designer’s assistant at places including the Bayerische Staatsoper and Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich and Volkstheater in Vienna before joining Oper Frankfurt in 2018, ... Giovanni). Other recent important projects included an AZRAEL / Edenarabeske double-bill at the Vienna Modern Festival, Ragnar Kjartansson’s Bliss at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Fluxus Festival and Paul ...

Köhr, Stephan

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Stephan Köhr bassoon Stephan Köhr started playing the recorder when he was five. When he was 12, and already very advanced on his instrument, his teacher suggested ... for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt until 1984. In 1985 he was a stand-in at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester and was offered his first permanent post, at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim. ...

Josiger, Peter

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Peter Josiger Double Bass Born in what used to be called Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1986, Peter Josiger started playing the violin and cello ... double bass when he was 19, graduating from the „Hanns Eisler“ University for Music in Berlin under the guidance of Prof. Stephan Petzold (solo double bass player with the Konzerthausorchester) and ... to study with Prof. Christoph Schmidt and attain his diploma, the same year he joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester as deputy leader. He had already gained diverse experience of orchestral ...

Morschel, Richard

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Richard Morschel Bassoon Richard Morschel was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Classical music was part of his life from an early age because his parents ... University for Music in Freiburg in 1987 before being appointed deputy solo bassoonist at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 1991. Chamber music was always closest to his heart: Richard Morschel ...

Porras Garulo, Rodrigo

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Rodrigo Porras Garulo tenor Rodrigo Porras Garulo is back at Oper Frankfurt to repeat his portrayal of Pinkerton in the first revival of our new Madama Butterfly. ... Staatsoper in Astana. He studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Kammersängerin Helene Schneiderman and took private lessons from Antonio Carangelo. He won the International Antonín Dvořák Competition ...

Hauer, Silvia

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Silvia Hauer mezzo-soprano The German mezzo-soprano Silvia Hauer stammt comes from Kehl am Rhein. After studying at the music universities in Freiburg and Vienna she won the 2010 National Singing Competition in Berlin. After time spent at the Komische Oper Berlin she joined the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich's opera studio. She won scholarships to ... Festivals'  „Britten Pears Young Artist Programme“.  She has appeared at the Potsdam'  Winter opera festival under Antonello Manacorda, Theater Bremen under Clemens Heil and Markus Poschner, the Komische Oper Berlin ...

Lindstrom, Lise

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Lise Lindstrom soprano Californian born Lise Lindstrom is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt. This season you can hear her singing Brünnhilde again in Götterdämmerung at Oper Leipzig, ... Brünnhilde (Die Walküre) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and Marie (Wozzeck) at the Theater an der Wien. She studied at San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music ...

Morison, Catriona

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Catriona Morison mezzo-soprano This Scottish/German mezzo-soprano and winner of the 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition's repertoire includes Nicklausse (Les ... Charlotte (Werther), the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Maddalena (Rigoletto) and Cherubino. She was under contract to Oper Wuppertal from 2016–2018 and has appeared in places including Cologne Opera, the National Theater ...

Pitrenas, Modestas

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Modestas Pitrenas conductor The Lithuanian conductor Modestas Pitrenas is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, leading this revival of Manon Lescaut. He made his debut at Cologne ...

Tebar, Ramón

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Ramón Tebar conductor The Spanish conductor Ramón Tebar, who is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, is Principal Conductor of the Association des Orquestra de Valencia ... Gran Canaria, Navarra and Oviedo, and abroad including the London and Prague philharmonias, the Het Gelders Orkest, the Malaysian Philharmonic, Armenian Philharmonic, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen, St. ...

Stockhammer, Jonathan

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Jonathan Stockhammer conductor The American-German conductor Jonathan Stockhammer is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time withThe Cunning Little Vixen. He made his debuts at Opera Vlaanderen this season with Satyagraha and the Staatsballett Berlin with Onegin, and stepped in at short ...

Motseri, Keren

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Keren Motseri soprano The Israeli soprano Keren Motseri studied the cello and biology before graduating from Dutch National Opera’s Academy. Her repertoire ranges from the baroque to contemporary music; including works by Klaas ... Boulez at the Holland Festival, Passion by Pascal Dusapin in the Alte Oper Frankfurt with the Ensemble Modern under Franck Ollu (available on CD), the world premiere of the Pessoa Cycle by Jan van de Putte ...

Feldbauer, Helene

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... mezzo-soprano The Austrian mezzo-soprano Helene Feldbauer studied at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, was awarded a scholarship by the Mozarteum in Salzburg, sang with the Bach’s Society’s ... Vocal and Bach Choir in Salzburg, was taught by Margit Klaushofer and joined Florian Boesch’s Lieder classes. Now she's back in Frankfurt, where she was a member of the Opera Studio in Frankfurt from 2022 - 2024, to sing Pipa / Marquise in this revival of Offenbach's ...

Franke, Richard

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Richard Franke baritone While still a member of the Kreuzchor in Dresden Richard Franke’s solo appearances included concerts at the Konzerthaus in Berlin and with Tokyo Opera City. He sang 1st Boy in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Semperoper ...

Ogilvie, Jenny

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Jenny Ogilvie Choreographer The British born choreographer Jenny Ogilvie is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on this new production of Handel’s Orlando. She works in drama and ... Carmen directed by John Fulljames at Scottish Opera. After studying dance for many years she took up Modern Languages in Oxford, spent ten years gaining experience in acting and gained her masters in Movement ...

Lendorff, Georg

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Georg Lendorff Video The film and video artist Georg Lendorff is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on this new production of Handel’s Orlando. Born in Switzerland, ...

Peteu, Camelia Suzana

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Camelia Suzana Peteu, This soprano, born in Cluj, Romania, graduated from the Music University in Bucharest while singing in the Philharmonie ... she passed her exams whilst working in the chorus at Musical Comedy Leipzig. In 2007/08 she moved to Oper Leipzig and joined the chorus at Oper Frankfurt in 2008/09 where she has sung solo roles including ...

Friederich, David

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David Friederich percussion David Friederich made music from an early age with his parents, who instilled a love ... in Konstanz, Freiburg (SWR) and Essen he went under part-time contract (2016  2018) to the Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester. He joined the Philharmonie in Südwestfalen (Siegen) before returning to ...

Pascu, Emanuela

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Emanuela Pascu mezzo-soprano Emanuela Pascu is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, stepping in at short notice to sing Eboli in Don Carlo. She graduated ...

Mattheis, Julia

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Julia Mattheis mezzo-soprano The mezzo-soprano Julia Mattheis joined Oper Frankfurt's Chorus as soon as she finished her studies. She later decided to leave and take on more ...

Ollikainen, Maria

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Maria Ollikainen piano Maria Ollikainen was born in Finland where she started studying at the Sibelius Academy when ... the Deutsche Kammerorchester Berlin and Frankfurt Chamber Brass. She's also passionate about accompanying Lieder, appearing in recital with people including Paula Murrihy, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner and Julia Dawson.  Maria Ollikainen tutors members of Hessen Radio and Oper Frankfurt's orchestra academies. She qualified as a yoga teacher in 2015, working mainly with musicians ...

Koch, Max

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Max Koch, Max Koch studied directing at the University for Music and Theatre in Hamburg and musicology at Bayreuth University. After ... as a director's assistant, director, and stage manager for houses including the Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Frankfurt, the Bregenz, Erl in Tirol and Castle Ettlingen festivals and the Lautten Compagney ... Johannes Erath, Nico and the Navigators, Stefan Herheim, Simon Stone, Lydia Steier and Brigitte Fassbaender. Productions directed by him include Das Hinterhaus based on the mono-opera The Diary of Anne Frank ...

Kallenberg, Jim Igor

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Jim Igor Kallenberg speaker Jim Igor Kallenberg is a research assistant at the Goethe University in Frankfurt's musicology department. He's doing his doctorate on Richard Wagner and post-war avant-garde ... Gutenberg University in Mainz's Art Research Sound project. He has also worked as a dramaturge for Wien Modern and with composers on new producctions at places including the Heidelberg Spring Festival, Gessnerallee ... Theatertagen in Vienna. Jim Igor Kallenberg also assisted on productions of Wozzeck and Julietta at Oper Frankfurt and has given talks at the universtities in Basel, Prague, Mainz, Frankfurt, Berlin, ...

Orfila, Simón

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Simón Orfila baritone Born on the island of Menorca, Simón Orfila studied in Bulgaria and Madrid and with Alfredo Kraus. His repertoire includes Ramfis, Oroveso (Norma), Raimondo ... and the title role in Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro. He is a regular guest at leading festivals and opera houses around the world including the Teatro Real de Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, ...

Hauser, Elmar

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... countertenor Swiss born Elmar Hauser, one of the most successful young countertenors of his generation, is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt, singing Ruggiero in this new production of Handel's Alcina. He made his debut at the ...

Greulich, Johanna

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Johanna Greulich soprano The young soprano Johanna Greulich was born in Hannover and studied in Frankfurt am Main and Basel. She won special prizes for the interpretation ... including Mannheim, Munich, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Frankfurt, Bern and Wien and classic opera and operetta repertoire at opera houses in Heidelberg, Bern, Chur and Lucerne.  What she loves ...

Zib, Daniela

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Daniela Zib soprano Daniela Zib joins the Opera Studio in 2025/26, making her house debut as Giuturna / Venere in a new production, and first ...

Boehner, Johannes G. R.

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Johannes G. R. Boehner, Johannes G. R. Boehner is an architect and consulting engineer with over 30 years of experience in managing technical aspects in theatres, the special ... theatre ambassador, he combines expertise in design excellence, technical precision, and cultural understanding into an integrative planning approach that makes cultural venues functional and inspiring. After working in Bavaria and Linz, he joined theatres and opera houses in German-speaking countries as specialist for artistic and technical operations. As a ...

7th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts on 08/03/2026

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Guggeis Thomas, Gerstein Kirill, Leonard Bernstein 1918–1990 The Age of Anxiety Symphony Nr. 2 for piano and orchestra Ludwig ... and political threats and upheavals of his time., 7th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts, Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester

5th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts on 18/01/2026

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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847) Violin Concerto in E minor op. 64 Anton Bruckner (1824–1896) Symphony Nr. 7 in E Major Arabella Steinbacher ... culminating in radiant exaltation and redemption. , 5th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts, Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester

4th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts on 14/12/2025

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Grażyna Bacewicz 1909–1969 Concerto for Strings Sergei Prokofiev 1891–1953 Piano Concerto Nr. 2 in G minor op. 16 Peter Tchaikovsky 1840–1893 ... pianist and composer who taught at various conservatoires and wrote stories and books – an all-rounder and important representative of Polish music. Her concerto for strings draws an arc from neo-baroque ... conducted, he immediately made changes, including shor, 4th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts, Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester

3rd Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts on 16/11/2025

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)  Piano Concerto Nr. 2 in B Major op. 19 Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951) Chamber Symphony Nr. 2 in E flat minor op. 38 Franz ... into his twelve-tone technique in later works., 3rd Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts, Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester

1st Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts on 29/09/2025

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old master meets young genius Johannes Brahms 1833–1897 Piano Concerto Nr. 1 in D minor op. 15 Antonín Dvořák 1841–1904 Symphony Nr. 4 in D minor op. 13 Maxim Lando piano ... his debut in this series of Symphonic Concerts., 1st Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts, Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester

Venues & how to get there

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Venues & how to get there, , THE Opera houseIs situated on Willy-Brandt-Platz. It has 1375 seats: 22 rows in the stalls and three circles, the Holz and Wolken foyers and the Chagall Saal.doors open an hour before ... concerts, Opera Extra and introductory talkes before performances begin , , Public Transport , , U-Bahn (underground) lines U1, U2, U3, U4 & U5, trams 11, 12 and the N8 all stop at Willy-Brandt Platz.A ticket ...

General Music Director

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... guggeis , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Thomas Guggeis takes up the posts of General Music Director of Oper Frankfurt and Artistic Director of the Frankfurt Museum Concerts at the beginning of the 2023/24 season. He made his debut in Frankfurt in May 2021 with Mozart's Requiem, which ... Stuttgart from 2018-2020, conducting works including La Bohème, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Madama Butterfly, Der Prinz von Homburg and Der Freischütz. During his time as Staatskapellmeister in Berlin he enjoyed ...

Loebe, Bernd

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Bernd Loebe Intendant & General Manager Bernd Loebe was born on December 15 1952 in Frankfurt, where he studied law and the piano. From 1975 – 1980 he wrote regularly about music and opera for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Neue Musikzeitung and Opernwelt magazine and worked freelance ... Year 2013 at the first ever International Opera Awards in London, and Bernd Loebe won their 2018 Leadership in Opera Award.  He was vice-president of the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste, chairman ...

Porter, Michael

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Michael Porter Tenor Since Michael Porter left the studio to join Oper Frankfurt's ensemble he's been thrilling audiences with roles including Mozart's Pedrillo (Die Entführung ... tutte) and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte). During the 2025/26 season, which he opened by repeating his wonderful portrayal of Ken in Vito Žuraj's Blossoming (»World Premiere of the Year 2023« Opernwelt) in ...

Favela, Maren

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Maren Favela soprano Maren Favela is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she has appeared regularly since her time in the Opera Studio for roles including Giannetta (Le cantatrici villane), Popelka (Martinů’s Komödie auf der Brücke / Comedy on a Bridge), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Cephisa (Telemann’s ...

Gibson, Beau

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Beau Gibson Tenor Beau Gibson has been a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt since 2012/13. During the 2015/16 season he will sing Federico di Frengel in a new production of Stiffelio, the Song Seller / Gherardo in Il trittico, the School ...

Motzke, Mirjam

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Mirjam Motzke, Born in Friedberg (Bayern) Mirjam Motzke started dancing at a ballet school in her home town of Mering. She ... and Sharon Eyal, which was followed by further guest engagements in January 2023. Now she's back at Oper Frankfurt, where she was seen in Claus Guth’s new production of Dialogues des Carmélites to dance ...

Davidsen, Lise

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Lise Davidsen soprano The young Norwegian dramatic soprano Lise Davidsen, who won the 2015 Operalia and Queen Sonja singing competitions, is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. Earlier this season she sang Freia in concert performances with the Odense Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Vedernikov and Ortlinde (role debut) in Die Walküre at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. ...

Križaj, Domen

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Domen Križaj Baritone Slovenian baritone Domen Križaj, who joined Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in 2020/21, enjoyed great success last season with the title roles in new ...

Noll, Moritz

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Moritz Noll Introductory talks' speaker Moritz Noll started studying Musicology and German at the Goethe University ... Bernd Mottl, Sonja Trebes and Markus Dietz and was involved in the world premiere of the children's opera The Wind in the Willows. Since then he has worked closely with the chorus master, conductor and ...

Buczkowska-Ward, Monika

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Monika Buczkowska-Ward Soprano Polish born soprano Monika Buczkowska-Ward made her debut in Germany at Oper Frankfurt in 2019/20, singing Lydie in a new production of Fauré's Pénélope, before joining the ... (Le nozze di Figaro), Papagena in Kosky's Die Zauberflöte and Eurydike (Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld).  Guest engagements have included Prokofiev's Fiery Angel under Kazushi Ōno at the Teatr ...

Baldvinsson, Magnús

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Magnús Baldvinsson Bass The Icelandic bass Magnús Baldvinsson studied at the Söngskólinn in Reykjavik and Indiana University School of Music before being made a San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow. His many roles at Oper Frankfurt have included Verdi's Zaccaria (Nabucco), Massimiliano ... Iolanta and the Woodcutter (a role he sang at the 2021 Tirol Festival in Erl) in Humperdinck's Königskinder (CD available - OehmsClassics) and Monterone in Rigoletto, which were followed in 2022/23 by sang ...

Debus, Johannes

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Johannes Debus Conductor Johannes Debus has been Music Director of the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto since 2009, where he recently conducted Le nozze di Figaro, Siegfried and the ...

Barnes, Alan

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Alan Barnes Choreographer, Director's Assistant, Dancer, He joined William Forsythe's Frankfurt Ballet company as a solo dancer in 1988, and came to Oper Frankfurt in 2004 as a choreographer, dancer and director's assistant. He was born in New York and ... Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, the Het Nationale Ballet Muziektheater Amsterdam, Koninklijk Ballet van Vlaanderen Antwerpen and Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin.

Niechotz, Bernhard

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... the new double bill of Schönberg's Pierrot lunaire / Michael Langemann's Abba Toll (world premiere) in Frankfurt, where he designed Hans Walter Richter's 2012 production of Die Geschichte vom Soldaten/A ... Until 2015 he was deputy stage & costume manager at the Stadttheater in Gießen, working in drama and opera. His most recent productions there were I wanna be loved by you and Linda di Chamonix (director: ... Bernhard Niechotz' free lance work has included Wiener Blut/Viennese Blood, Die Csárdásfürstin and Der Graf von Luxemburg at the Léhar Festival in Bad Ischl, Die Fledermaus in Magdeburg and Regensburg, ...

Aikin, Laura

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Laura Aikin Soprano The American soprano Laura Aikin began her career at the Staatsoper in Berlin, where she was a member of the ensemble from 1992 – 1998 and has sung at many leading ...

Platanias, Dimitri

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... Baritone The Greek baritone Dimitri Platanias is back to repeat his powerful portrayal of Scarpia at Oper Frankfurt, where he recently sang Jago (Otello) and Stankar (Stiffelio). Recent engagements have included his debut at the Hamburg State Opera, as Macbeth, a return to the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich ...

King, Alison

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Alison King Soprano The soprano Alison King joined the Opera Studio at Oper Frankfurt in the 2016/17 season, during which she sang 1st Lady in Die Zauberflöte, ... Carnegie Hall in New York. Conductors with whom she has worked have included Giuseppe Grazioli, Alexander Lazarev, Kurt Moll, Helmuth Rilling and Speranza Scapucci. Born in America, she has enjoyed great ...

Krause, Carlos

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Carlos Krause Baritone Over the years Carlos Krause has sung nearly 100 roles at Oper Frankfurt – the most recent being Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro), Herr Kavi (the world premiere of Lior Navok's An unserem Fluss/By Our River), an Old Gambler (in Harry Kupfer's new production of Der Spieler/The Gambler), Talpa and Simo­ne (Il trittico) Dansker (in Richard Jones' new production ...

Zazzo, Lawrence

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Lawrence Zazzo Countertenor Lawrence Zazzo, one of the most electrifying countertenors in the world, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he recently repeated his unforgettable portrayals of the title role in Tamerlano and ... Battista at the Festwochen for Early Music in Innsbruck, Giulio Cesare in Egitto at the Theater an der Wien and he sang in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in the Concertgebouw and Solomon at the Royal Opera ...

Degout, Stéphane

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Stéphane Degout Baritone The French baritone Stéphane Degout appears in recital, concert and opera at leading venues around the world – he could be heard most recently as Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Oper House Covent Garden in London and the Nationale Opera in Amsterdam under Ivor Bolton and in Mendelssohn's Elijah alongside Julia Kleiter in Bordeaux, conducted by Raphaël ...

Silja, Anja

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Anja Silja Soprano Anja Silja began her career in Braunschweig with roles including Rossini’s Rosina, Strauss’ Zerbinetta and Bizet’s Micaëla. In 1958 she appeared at the Staatstheater in Stuttgart and Oper Frankfurt, where she came to Wieland Wagner’s attention. In 1960 she made her debut, as Senta, ... extraordinary number of roles in her repertoire are astonishingly varied. Many operatic recordings, under the baton of most of the 20th century’s leading conductors, document her artistic achievements. ...

Mulligan, Brian

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Brian Mulligan Baritone The American baritone Brian Mulligan is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he sang Conte di Luna (role debut) in the new production of Il trovatore earlier this season, to sing his first Nelusco in this new production ... Cleveland, Houston and Chicago symphony orchestras. His first solo album was released in 2017 – Lieder by the American composer Dominick Argento.

Fassbaender, Brigitte

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Brigitte Fassbaender Director Brigitte Fassbaender ended her long and illustrious singing career, during which she was a regular guest at leading opera houses and festival all over the world, in 1995. Now she's back at Oper Frankfurt, where she ...

Stöppler, Elisabeth

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Elisabeth Stöppler Director Elisabeth Stöppler, who also directed Neunzehnhundert / Nineteenehundred (an evening with works by Zemlinsky, Schönberg, Mahler and Joneleit) for Oper Frankfurt in the Bockenheimer Depot, has held the post of House Director at the Staatstheater in ...

Müller, Hendrik

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Hendrik Müller Director Born in 1977 Hendrik Müller caught the attention of press and audiences alike with many productions including, ... Street Scene at Theater Münster and his third project in South Korea, Hänsel und Gretel at the Daegu Opera House. He's a regular guest at Theater Regensburg, where he made his debut with Carmen and enjoyed ...

Flores, Alfons

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Alfons Flores Set Designer The award-winning Spanish set designer Alfons Flores has collaborated with Àlex Ollé and La Fura dels Baus for ... have included Le Retour d'Idoménée (based on Campra's Idoménée) at the Opéra de Lille and Staatsoper in Berlin, Rusalka at the National Opera in Bergen, Carmen and Turandot at the New National Theatre ...

Sowa, Michael

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Michael Sowa Set & Costume Designer Michael Sowa is one of the most interesting illustrators in the world today, best known for books including Bilder aus zwei Jahrtausenden / Pictures from Two Thousand Years, Arche Sowa / Sowa's Ark and Der kleine ... Party. Many of his works have been seen in exhibitions. This production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at Oper Frankfurt, which he designed with Vincent Callara, is the first and, to date, only opera he has ...

Orliński, Jakub Józef

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Jakub Józef Orliński Countertenor The Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński is one of the leading countertenors in the world. His extraordinary voice and unique presence brings him invitations to appears at renowned opera houses and concert halls including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebuw Amsterdam, Théâtre ... an Opus Klassik and International Opera Award. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York and Fryderyk Chopin University for Music in Warsaw. He was a member of the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw's Opera Academy and ...

Nolan, Cooper

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Cooper Nolan Tenor The American tenor Cooper Nolan is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt, singing the title ...

Pittas, Dimitri

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Dimitri Pittas Tenor Dimitri Pittas is one of the most sought after tenors in the world. He is now back in Frankfurt, where he sang Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor in 2009/10, for Rodolfo in La Bohème, a role he has sung at the Metropolitan Opera New York, Houston Grand Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto ...

Martineau, Malcolm

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Malcolm Martineau Accompanist Edinburgh born Malcolm Martineau, one of the leading accompanists of his generation, ... Magdalena Kožená, Anne Sofie von Otter, Joan Rodgers and Anne Schwanewilms. He's a regular guest at Oper Frankfurt, where he has appeared in recital with singers including Pavol Breslik, Tanja Ariane ... Michael Schade, Bryn Terfel and, most recently, Cameron Shahbazi. His extensive discography includes Lieder by Britten, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss and the complete songs of Beethoven, Fauré and Poulenc.  ...

Herrmann, Biber

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Biber Herrmann, The singer-songwriter Biber Herrmann is appearing on the operatic stage for the first time, as the narrator in Britten's Paul Bunyan. This Folk and Blues musician ...

Schaudel, Michaela

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Michaela Schaudel soprano Michaela Schaudel studied at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt, graduating in 1998. She intensified her knowledge in the art of Lieder singing with Charles Spencer and Gundula Janowitz. She won 3rd prize as best soprano at the 1992 ... experiences in a chorus and as a soloist (Barbarina, Overseer, Sophie de Palma). She joined the Chorus at Oper Frankfurt in 1998, singing solos including Annina (La Traviata), 2nd Witch (Macbeth), an Alms Sister ...

Zander, Bert

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Bert Zander Video Bert Zander worked at Oper Frankfurt for the first time during the 2015/16 season, on Lachenmann's Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern ...

Burge, Lucy

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Lucy Burge Choreography Lucy Burge worked at Oper Frankfurt for the first time in 2007/08 on this production of Billy Budd, returning for Die Sache ... Munich and Santa Fe Opera. Recent productions were Ariadne auf Naxos at Scottish Opera, Adès’ Powder her face at Irish National Opera, Parsifal at the Opéra National in Paris and Aida am Theater Magdeburg. ...

Macdonald, Rory

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Rory Macdonald Conductor Rory Macdonald is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2017/18 with Così fan tutte, for this revival of Le Nozze ... (Decca). After studying at Cambridge Rory Macdonald began his career assisting Iván Fischer, Mark Elder and Antonio Pappano.

Bayley, Clive

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Clive Bayley Bass Clive Bayley, with a repertoire encompassing Monteverdi, Verdi, Puccini, Berg, Britten and Birtwistle, enjoys a busy career appearing at leading opera houses around the world. This British bass made his debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2007/08 singing ... Billy Budd, returning in later seasons for Dosifej in Khovanshchina, the General in Harry Kupfer's Der Spieler/The Gambler and Swallow in this new production of Peter Grimes. In 2018 he sings the title ...

Pauletto, Deanna

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Deanna Pauletto mezzo-soprano Deanna Pauletto is making her European debut in the world premiere of Saed Haddad's A Wintery Spring, which was commissioned by Oper Frankfurt and the Ensemble Modern. This Italian/Canadian mezzo-soprano sang Tisbe (La Cenerentola) and Bizet's Carmen at the Music ...

You, Tito

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Tito You baritone This Korean baritone jumped stepped in to sing the role of Conte di Luna, after the interval, during the last performance of this production ... Trovatore. Recent engagements have included Scarpia (Tosca) and the title role in Rigoletto at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart, where he was a member of the ensemble for many years. Roles with which he enjoyed ...

Levine, Samuel

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Samuel Levine Tenor Samuel Levine is back at Oper Frankfurt, where made his European debut in 2018 in Trojahn's Enrico, which was followed by an Old ... (Jenůfa) at Theater Bremen, Jack (Brokeback Mountain) at the Stadttheater in Gießen, Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser) at the Stadttheater in Klagenfurt and Gary (The First Child)  at Irish ...

Nickel, Philipp

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Philipp Nickel Viola Philipp Nickel has been one of the leaders of the viola section in the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2003/04. He is also a much sought-after guest, appearing with orchestras ...

Klepper, Florentine

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Florentine Klepper Director Florentine Klepper's productions at Oper Frankfurt were Martinů's Julietta, Telemann's Orpheus, Arnulf Herrmann's Wasser (world premiere; co-production with the Munich Biennale and Ensemble Modern) and last season's new production of Smetana's Dalibor. She recently worked on Salome and Norma ...

Dewor, Hannah

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Hannah Dewor dancer Hannah Dewor studied modern and contemporary dance in Cologne and Amsterdam, gaining her masters in Contemporary Dance Education at ... scene (including the Yves Thuwis de Leew/Nevski Prospect, Richard Siegal/The Bakery) she started dancing at Oper Frankfurt in 2015, most recently in The Merry Widow and Dialogues des Carmélites, and now in ...

Engelbracht / impulskontrolle, Peer

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... Video Peer Engelbracht has been an active member of the Videojockey Collective »Impulskontrolle« since 2000 and has worked as a video designer in various forms of theatre in the German speaking world since 2001. He made his debut at the Theater an der Wien with The Rake’s Progress (a co-production with Zurich Opera) in 2008/09. Other operas on which he has worked have included Die verkaufte Braut / The Bartered ...

Goliński, Łukasz

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Łukasz Goliński Bass-baritone The Polish bass baritone Łukasz Goliński is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2019 in the title role of Szymanowski's Król Roger, a role he sang at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, ... Opera in Stockholm, where he also sang Jochanaan in Salome, and Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio Pappano, to sing Scarpia in this revival of Tosca. His roles in Warsaw have included Selim ...

Fantin, Paolo

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Paolo Fantin Set Designer The Italian set designer Paolo Fantin enjoyed great success when he worked at Oper Frankfurt for the first time on our unforgettable production of Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Elusive Sound in 2018/19, which was followed by this production of Rossini's Otello ...

Golovnin, Dmitry

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Dmitry Golovnin Tenor The Russian tenor Dmitry Golovnin is back at Oper Frankfurt where he made his debut in 2019 singing Sergey in this production of Shostakovich’s ... at the Semperoper in Dresden. Other engagements in recent seasons have taken him to the Theater an der Wien (Maiden of Orleans) and the Opéra de Lyon (From the House of the Dead), Grigori at the Concertgebouw ...

Kim, Hyoeun

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Hyoeun Kim conductor She was born in Seoul where she studied the piano before joining Stefan Blunier's classes at Mannheim's State University ... the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, with the Württemberg Philharmonie in Reutlingen, the Ensemble Modern and at the Pfalztheater-Kaiserslautern. She was chosen to join the German Music Council's masterclasses ... at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim and worked for Theater Heidelberg. This season she conducts an opera - Anna Frank's Diary - for the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern.

Kang, Pilgoo

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Pilgoo Kang Bass baritone The South Korean bass-baritone Pilgoo Kang was a member of Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio from 2019/20 - 2021/22, during which time which he appeared in productions of Manon Lescaut and Křenek's Das geheime Königreich ... where he sang a Steward in new production Offenbach's The Bandits last season, to sing a Servant /Murderer / Herald in this new Macbeth (he recently sang the Doctor in this work in Heidelberg). He graduated ...

Akimov, Evgeny

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Evgeny Akimov Tenor This tenor trained in St. Petersburg and is a member of the Mariinsky Theatre where recent roles have included the ... included Golitzin (Khovanshchina) at La Scala Milan and appearance at theatres including San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, Opéra national in Paris, the ...

Tchakachow, Leon

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Leon Tchakachow Baritone The baritone Leon Tchakachow, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he sang Leporello and the title role in Don Giovanni for Children, Nicola in a new production of Giordano’s Fedora, a Servant in Capriccio and a ... a role he sang when making his debut at Hessen's Staatstheater in Wiesbaden in 2022, to sing 2nd Orderly and a Journalist / Clown in new productions of Henze's The Prince of Homburg and Alban Berg's ...

Heise, Andreas

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Andreas Heise choreography Andreas Heise studied dance at the Palucca University for dance in Dresden and went on to become involved in acting, directing and singing.  He started his career ... as a choreographer in 2015, in Paul Curran's production of Britten's Death in Venice at Garsington Opera. This was followed by How I would like to…  and Orfeo (Theater Koblenz) Nachtstück (Stuttgart ...

Kalbhenn-Rzepka, Gesine

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Gesine Kalbhenn-Rzepka violin Gesine Kalbhenn-Rzepka began playing the violin at the age five, and soon ... music course with the Alban Berg Quartet. During her time as a Concert Master of the EUYO and deputy leader of the Staatskapelle in Dresden she gained invaluable experience working with conductors including ... Concert Master at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt in 2000, a position she has held at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2005. She was invited to join the Beaux Arts Trio for chamber music ...

Gierden, Stephanie

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Stephanie Gierden violin Stephanie Gierden was born and grew up in Hessen and started being taught the violin by her parents ... (castle) Concerts, round off her diverse artistic activities. Stephanie Gierden joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2011, after time spent as a regular guest with the hr (Hessen Radio)-Sinfonieorchester.

Hammann, Jörg

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Jörg Hammann violin Jörg Hammann was born in Ludwigshafen and studied with Prof. Uwe Martin Haiberg at the University ... 1998 before moving to the London Symphony Orchestra in 2002, where he played for nearly 20 years under chief conductors Kurt Masur, Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev and Sir Simon Rattle. In London he was ... conducting masterclasses held by Jorma Panula, Trevor Kirk and Mikhail Jurowski. He joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester as leader of the second violins in the 2017/18 season.

Schmitt, Regine

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Regine Schmitt violin Regine Schmitt has been playing with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2008. She studied with Max Speermann and Prof. Herwig Zack in Würzburg. ...

Friedrichs, Elisabeth

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Elisabeth Friedrichs viola Was born in Berlin and comes from a musical family, her mother plays the violin, her father's a cellist with the ... perform with leading orchestras including the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra Mozart Bologna under Claudio Abbado, the Berlin Philharmonic and hr(Hessen Radio)-Sinfonieorchester. She has been a member of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2013.

Nemtsov, Mikhail

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Mikhail Nemtsov cello Mikhail Nemtsov grew up in St. Petersburg and went to Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester after studying at the Rimsky-Korsakow music school. His wonderful professors included Nicholas Jones, Hannah Roberts, Ralph Kirshbaum and Gary Hoffman. Mikhail ... College of Music, where he is an Associate Honorary Artist. He has been a solo cellist with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since August 2019.

Oesterlee, Johannes

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Johannes Oesterlee cello Johannes Oesterlee was born in Lüdenscheid in 1964 and studied the cello with Gerhard Mantel in Frankfurt am Main and Uzi Wiesel ... celebrate Andrea Amati's 500th birthday and is a founding member of the Mahagonny Cello Quartet and Oper Frankfurt's Cello Quartet.

Belmar, Eduard

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Eduard Belmar flute Eduard Belmar, born in Palma de Mallorca, had his first flute lesson at the Conservatoire there with Catalina Roig before ... Eduard Belmar has helped out with orchestras including the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, the Deutsche Oper Berlin's orchestra, the SWR Sinfonieorchester, hr(Hessen Radio)-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, the ...

Grosso, Johannes

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Johannes Grosso oboe Johannes Grosso has been a solo oboist with the Frankfurt Opern-und Museumsorchester since 2015, after spending four years as deputy solo oboist with the Orchestre ...

Bebek, Markus

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Markus Bebek trumpet Markus Bebek was born in Nürnberg. He found his musical roots working with Bavarian trombone choirs. He graduated in orchestral ... the Philharmonic Orchester in Trier in 2001 before taking up the same position with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2005. Markus Bebek has worked with other leading orchestras including ...

Verherve, Françoise

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Françoise Verherve harp Françoise Verherve began learning to play the harp in Marseille, her home town. She then went to Professor Gérard Devos at the Conservatoire ... interpretating works by Maurice Ravel and Yoshihisa Taira. She has played solo harp with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 1990 and is a regular guest with orchestras including the Orchestre ...

Mayr-Winkler, Barbara

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Barbara Mayr-Winkler harp Barbara Mayr-Winkler's first harp lesson was with Ragnhild Kopp-Mues in Munich. In 1982 she ... artists. This resulted in television and radio recordings and lots of concerts. She joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 1993 and has been a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra since 1999, ...

Braham, Maxine

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Maxine Braham Choreographer After a successful career as a dancer in various ensembles Maxine Braham is now a much sought-after choreographer and director for dance, opera and plays. Recent productions have been seen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Mariinski in ... State Opera. They also worked together on Peter Grimes at English National Opera, at Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp / Ghent and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Katja Kabanová and Billy Budd  at English National ...

Heugen, Matthijs

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Matthijs Heugen horn Born in Zürich, Matthijs Heugen started learning to play the horn with Simon Mattmüller at the age of 7.  ... as a soloist with orchestras including the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonie and joined the Frankfurt Opern-und Museumorchester in 2021.

Clifford, Genevieve

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... Clifford comes from Melbourne, Australia. She started piano and cello lessons when she was 5 and playing the horn when she was 9. After studying at the Australian National Academy of Music with various ... full-time contract for 2010/11 with the Essen Philharmonic. She has been a member of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2016/17. She plays regularly with various international orchestras, ... Music in Freiburg. Genevieve Clifford loves playing music by Mozart most of all, is a passionate reader and loves walking in the countryside and up and down mountains. She is also an amateur goldsmith.

Krause, Hartmut

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Hartmut Krause Violin Hartmut Krause was born in Berlin where he went on to study with Prof. Martens at the Hanns Eisler University for Music. He worked as a substitute with the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin when he was 19 before taking on a permanent position with the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchester ...

van Herten, Stef

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Stef van Herten Horn Stef van Herten, born in Herten, the Netherlands, has been a member of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2011. He studied the trumpet before taking up the horn. He graduated from the University for Music in Maastricht, where he studied with Willy Bessems, Prof. Will Sanders and Prof. Erich Penzel and gained invaluable experience taking part in masterclasses held by people ...

Schröder, Peter

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Peter Schröder Actor Peter Schröder trained to be an actor at Hannover University. From 1982 he started working ... von den Eltern / Saying Goodbye to your Parents by Peter Weiss, both one man shows. Now he's back at Oper Frankfurt, where he played Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, to entertain you as the Major Domo (role ...

Haller, Diana

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Diana Haller Mezzo-soprano The Croatian mezzo-soprano Diana Haller is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. She joined the ensemble at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart in 2010/11, ... since when roles have included Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Ruggiero (Alcina), Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Enrichetta ...

Bengtsson, Karolina

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Karolina Bengtsson soprano Karolina Bengtsson joined Oper Frankfurt's Ensemble in 2023/24, during which she jumped in at short notice to sing Barbarina in ... the 2021 Anny Schlemm Competition, won prizes at the International Haydn Competition for Classic Lieder and Arias in Rohrau, the 2020 Singing Competition in Weikersheim and the international »Meistersinger ...

Bell, Julia

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Julia Bell soprano Julia Bell gained her masters at the Shepherd School of Music in Houston and bachelor at the Royal College of Music in London. Solo engagements have included appearances at the Tower of London Music Festival, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Houston Grand Opera, the Staatstheater in Mainz, Theater Bonn and Oper ... the Staatstheater in Mainz from 2012-2015, where roles included Nella (Gianni Schicchi) and the Warder (Elektra). She appeared as a soloist in concerts in Leipzig and Bamberg with the German Arthur Sullivan ...

Rabain, Guillaume

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Guillaume Rabain dancer Guillaume Rabain works internationally as a dancer and acrobat. After this French artist was ... and can often be see in circuses and theatres. He has also made a name for himself as a dancer in operatic productions. Recent projects have included La forza del destino (director: Christof Loy) at the Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, the world premiere of Macbeth Underworld (director: Thomas Jolly) at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and Auber's Le domino ...

Hee, Benjamin Felix

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Benjamin Felix Hee baritone Benjamin Felix Hee recently made his debut at Oper Frankfurt singing Giorgio in Rossini’s La gazza ladra. Born in Alzenau he started his vocal studies with the bass-baritone Friedemann Kunder before studying with Yoo-Chang Nah at Dr. Hoch’s Conservatoire in Frankfurt am Main and graduating ...

Gura, Tamara

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Tamara Gura mezzo-soprano The American mezzo-soprano Tamara Gura, a fixed feature on the international opera and concert circuit, recently sang roles including Carmen, Angelina (La Cenerentola) at the Gärtnerplatz Theater in Munich (dir: Brigitte Fassbaender), Isabella (L’Italiana in Algeri), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Sesto (Giulio Cesare), Maddalena ...

Porter, Jarrett

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Jarrett Porter baritone The American baritone Jarrett Porter left the opera studio to join Oper Frankfurt's ensemble last season, during which he sang a Sergeant, Ormonte ... Major-Domo (Strauss’ Capriccio), Leone (Tamerlano), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Elviro (Xerxes), and the Elder Son / Herald-Courtier & Duke Hoël in a new Benjamin Britten The Prodigal Son / The Burning Fiery ...

Passon, Robin

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Robin Passon Introductory talks' speaker Robin Passon has been studying for his masters, in musicology and ... Rimsky-Korsakov's Die Nacht vor Weihnachten / The Night Before Christmas and Puccini's, Madama Butterfly at Oper Frankfurt, where he also takes on the hair-raising job of running the surtitles during performances ...

Heidinger, Stefanie

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Stefanie Heidinger soprano While Stefanie Heidinger was studying at the University for Music in Würzburg she sang ... Second Woman / First Witch in Dido and Aeneas (Würzburg’s Mozartsommer Festival) and roles in Penderecki’s Der Teufel von Loudun and Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre (dir: Calixto Bieito) at Theater Freiburg. ... Volle. Concert work has included Mendelssohn’s Eliajh and Mozart’s Requiem. She joined the Chorus at Oper Frankfurt in 2013/14, where she has sung an aristocratic orphan in Rosenkavalier several times.

Lin, Yi-Chen

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Yi-Chen Lin conductor Yi-Chen Lin, who was born in Taiwan and grew up in Vienna, is conducting the Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester for the first time in this new Kurt Weill / Carl Orff double bill. In 2020/21 ... Assistant to GMD Sir Donald Runnicles at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she recently conducted Die Fledermaus, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Simon Boccanegra. In May/June she makes her debut at the Staatsoper ...

Lee, Don

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Don Lee bass Don Lee is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt. Born in South Korea he studied in Seoul and at Stuttgart's Music University. Whilst ... Konstanz Philharmonic, Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Thüringen Summer Festival in Sondershausen and Cecco del Vecchio (Rienzi) at the Staatstheater in Meiningen. He was a member of Theater ...

Vassilieva, Tatiana

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Tatiana Vassilieva pianist, coach Tatiana Vassilieva, from St. Petersburg, joined Oper Frankfurt as a soloists' coach in 2022/23. She worked as a pianist and singing teacher at Lyric ... conductors including Harry Bicket, David Robertson, Emmanuel Villaume, James Gaffigan, Ramón Tebar and Jader Bignamini. She worked with Nicholas Carter at the Stadttheater in Klagenfurt after time spent with ...

Dzhaiani, Marika

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Marika Dzhaiani soprano The soprano Marika Dzhaiani comes from Georgia and grew up in the Ukraine. She started studying the piano and singing at the State Academy for the Arts and Culture ... bachelors in teaching singing at the Music Academy in Wiesbaden before studying for her masters in operatic singing at the University of Music in Mannheim with Snezana Stamenkovic. Recent engagements ...

Levit, Dina

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Dina Levit soprano Dina Levit began her career at the music school in Tscheljabinsk, Russia, where she ... Tscheljabinsk’s Tchaikovsky University for Music she joined the Maimonides Academy in Moscow to concentrate on opera and study singing musicals further. After graduating she was engaged by the Basmannaya Music Theatre ... and taken part in masterclasses, including one in Jerusalem, at which she sang Adele in Strauß’ Fledermaus. She has been studying at the University for Music in Mainz with Claudia Eder since 2019 and ...

Ensemble Modern

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Ensemble Modern, The Ensemble Modern is one of the best known groups for modern music. Founded in 1980, and based ... Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) in 2003, to further their educational dreams and have collaborated with Oper Frankfurt for many years on the wonderful series of concerts: Happy New Ears.

Ribeiro, Bernardo

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Bernardo Ribeiro dancer Born in Portugal, Bernardo Ribeiro trained at the Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional in Lisbon and ... including Gabriela Lamb and Sergei Vanaev. After returning to Europe he danced for various dance, drama and operetta productions at theatres including the Musik Theater in Linz and the Tirol Festival in Erl. He ...

Matthews, Stephen

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... Matthews, from Wolverhampton, started his studies on a vocal scholarship from St. John’s College in Cambridge, appearing with the Cambridge University Opera Society and singing roles including Marco in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Starveling in Britten’s ... Our Planet by Christiane Michel-Ostertun in Mannheim in June 2023, followed by Robert Schumann’s Liederkreis op. 24 and Benjamin Britten’s Winter Words in July. He is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt ...

Kutay, Idil

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Idil Kutay soprano Idil Kutay joined Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio in 2023/24, making her house debut with Barbarina in Tilmann Köhler's ... productions of Giannni Schicchi and Rossini's La cambiale di matrimonio directed by Brigitte Fassbaender. She gained her masters at the Dutch National Opera Academy, where she sang roles including Cornelia ...

Laizé, Aurélien

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Aurélien Laizé oboe Aurélien Laizé was born in France and studied with Christian Schmitt and Sébastien Giot at the Académie Supérieure de musique ... including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival orchestra and Gustav Mahler Academy. After time spent under contract as solo cor anglais with the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig he joined the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester for the 2023/24 season.

Rothfuchs, Tabea

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Tabea Rothfuchs video Video artist Tabea Rothfuchs is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on this new production of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. Born in Switzlerland, ... years she has made many video projects come true for renowned institutions including the Theater an der Wien, the Philharmonie in Berlin, Zurich Opera, the Bolschoi in Moscow and Theater Basel, helping ...

Rutigliano, Angela

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Angela Rutigliano piano Angela Rutigliano studied at the Conservatorio Niccolò Piccinni in Bari and Accademia Santa Cecilia in Bergamo. She won many competitions in Italy, where she was ... before working in California and Italy on various research projects. She furthered her studies in coaching opera singers at the University for Music & the Performing Arts in Stuttgart. Her talent as a tango pianist ...

Park, Samuel

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Samuel Park violin Born in Frankfurt am Main, Samuel Park studied in Weimar, Dresden and Aachen before his music career ... Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, the Juilliard and Tokyo string quartets. He gained orchestral experience as leader of the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra and playing with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and for the Staatstheater ... Juilliard Baroque Orchestra and Portland Baroque Orchestra. Samuel Park plays 2nd violin in the Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester.

Ilg, Cornelia

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Cornelia Ilg violin Cornelia Ilg began learning the violin when she was seven. She studied in Karlsruhe and Mannheim, ... she graduated. In addition to a busy concert career with renowned orchestras including the Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester and hr-Sinfonieorchester she is much sought-after as a chamber musician, playing ... Israel, Japan, China, Spain, Russia and the USA. She recently performed the Armenian composer Alexander Arutiunian’s rarely heard violin concerto with Collegium Musicum Frankfurt.

Walter, Clemens

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Clemens Walter video Clemens Walter, born 1981 in the Nordschwarzwald, is a video artist and film editor who is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt with Matthew Wild's new production of Tannhäuser. He studied at the Film University ...

Bridgen, Ken

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Ken Bridgen Dancer Ken Bridgen was a dancer at the Theater in Aachen from 2014 - 2023, where he appeared in musicals and operas includingWest Side Story & Fiddler on the Roof, La traviata, Pique Dame, A Midsummer Night’s ...

Camaño Saavedra, Sebastián Andrés

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Sebastián Andrés Camaño Saavedra conductor Born in Chile, he studied conducting with Stefan Blunier at the University for Music and the Performing Arts ... will be assisting Chief Conductor Michael Francis. These performances of The Huge Word Factory for Oper Frankfurt will be followed by accompanying Stage Fright, another Opera for Children, on tour. He ...

Poppe, Jessica

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Jessica Poppe mezzo-soprano During the 2023/24 season Jessica Poppe can be heard in concerts for young families (Yalla! with the Qantara Trio) and Marie in these performances of Martin Zel's chamber opera The Huge Word Factory at Oper Frankfurt. Her repertoire ranges from classical to trans-cultural ... (Schönerland). She has also sung 2nd Maid (Elektra), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), The Duchess (Powder Her Face), Ottavia (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Angelina (La Cenerentola) and Dorabella (Così ...

Varga, Matej

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Matej Varga double bass Matej Varga has been a solo double bass player in the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester since 2024. He started his career in 2006 in Banska Bystrica / Slovakia, where ...

Sampaio, Márcia

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Márcia Sampaio oboe The oboist Márcia Sampaio, born in Póvoa de Varzim / Portugal in 2000, started music lessons when she was six. She started studying ... Clássica de Espinho, the Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa and the Neue Philharmonie in Westfale. She was under contract to the Duisburg Philharmonic as deputy solo oboist for 2024 and her probationary year as 2nd oboist and cor anglais player with the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester starts this September.

Boukikov, Alexander

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Alexander Boukikov horn Alexander Boukikov was born in Leicester in 1999 and played with the Leicestershire ... Orchestra in 2023/24 before being engaged by the Orchestre National de Lille and joins the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester, once more as solo horn, in September 2024.

Lee, Joonhee

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Joonhee Lee Chorus Master's Assistant Joonhee Lee started assisting the Chorus Master at Oper Frankfurt this season, after holding the same post at Theater Bonn from 2022 - 2024. Born in ...

Déjos, Virginie

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Virginie Déjos Chorus Master Virginie Déjos, who trained the chorus for this new production of Magnard's ... She assists the chorus master of the 2025 Bayreuth Festival. She has conducted symphony concerts and operas in Paris with, amongst others, Chœur Harmonia and the Orchestre Lyrique, the world premiere of Rémi Guillard's Requiem in the La Madeleine church, Britten's The Little Sweep and Weill's Der Jasager at the Théâtre de Rochefort, Das Rheingold in Vendôme and Philipp Glass’ Les enfants ...

Klisović, Franko

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Franko Klisović countertenor Croatian countertenor Franko Klisović is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt, singing Arsace in this new production of Handel's Partenope. He studied conducting ...

Lazzari, Leandro

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Leandro Lazzari oboe Born in Italy in 2001, Leandro Lazzari studied the oboe at the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz in Basel with ... Ferlendis« International Competition and has performed with renowned orchestras including the Teatro dell'opera di Roma, Teatro San Carlo, Teatro alla Scala, and Haydn Foundation's orchestras, the »La Toscanini« ...

Hechler, Tobias

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Tobias Hechler countertenor Tobias Hechler is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt in this new production of Aribert Reimann’s L‘invisible. Earlier this season he took ... at the Volkstheater in Rostock. Other engagements have taken him to places including the Theater an der Wien, the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, Nationaltheater in Mannheim, Hannover State Opera, the Stadttheater ...

Zámečníková, Slávka

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Slávka Zámečníková soprano This Slovanian soprano is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt with this recital. Her powerful voice and artistic versatility have been admired in ... Zauberflöte and Le nozze di Figaro at the Vienna State Opera. She also sang Ilia (Idomeneo) at the Theater an der Wien and the Staatsoper in Berlin. Other engagements in recent seasons included Donna Anna (role ...

Kim, Taehan

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Taehan Kim baritone Taehan Kim joins Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in the 2025/26 season, making his house debut as Guglielmo in the new production ... Seoul and took part in the Last Night of the BBC PROMS Korea with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ryan Wigglesworth. Born in South Korea, he won many important competitions after studying at Seoul ...

Deigner, Bianca

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... costume designer Munich born Bianca Deigner studied at the Brigitte Kehrer school for fashion design in Stuttgart before joining the Staatstheater in Stuttgart in 2002, where she worked as assisting costume ... Henkel and Ulrich Rasche. She started working freelance in 2006, designing costumes for theatres and opera houses including the National Opera in Oslo, the Residenztheater in Munich, the Opera de Lille ...

Matschke, Matthias

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Matthias Matschke actor Matthias Matschke grew up in a village on the skirts of Hessen's Odenwald. He studied German and theology in Frankfurt before going ... further his acting studies. Now one of the most sought-after actors in Germany is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt as the Treasurer in Offenbach's The Bandits. He appears regularly at theatres including ... Pariser Leben. He has been performing at the Burgtheater in Vienna since 2011. His first film was Leander Haußmann's Sonnenallee. This was followed by many films made in Germany and international films ...

Tiberghien, Cédric

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... Tiberghien Accompanist The career of the French pianist Cédric Tiberghien has taken him to venues including the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wigmore Hall and Barbican Center in London, the Salle Pleyel ...

Drake, Julius

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Julius Drake, The British pianist Julius Drake specialises in chamber music. He is a regular guest at festivals and leading concert halls around the world, including ... DiDonato, Christopher Maltman, Anne Sofie von Otter and Matthew Polenzani. Many of his recordings of Lieder, for Wigmore Live, EMI, Onyx and Hyperion have won awards, including a Gramophone Award and BBC Music ...

Stene, Håkon

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Håkon Stene Percussionist / Performer Håkon Stene studied percussion and chamber music in Oslo, Freiburg and San Diego.  He was chosen by state run Concerts Norway for the INTRO for young ... Lislevand baroque ensemble, Nils Økland Band for improvisation and Folk Formation and the Ensemble Modern. He was awarded the Spellemann Prize for chamber music soloists five times and the Norwegian equivalent ...

Wallum, Sibylle

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Sibylle Wallum Costume Designer Sibylle Wallum studied Design for Performance at the Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London before assisting Frida Parmeggiani, on productions including ... for Magnard's Guercœur and they stage a new Don Giovanni later this season at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. She has worked closely with Anne Lenk for many years, on works including Der Menschenfeind / Enemy of the People and Maria Stuart at the Deutsche Theater, which were invited ...

Brochot, Antoine

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Antoine Brochot double bass Paris born double bassist Antoine Brochot studied at the Conservatoire in Argenteuil, ... inspiration from musicians including Pierre Boussaguet, Laurent Coq, Yann Dubost, Banz Oester and Joe Sanders. Antoine Brochot leads a trio bearing his name (with Thomas Mayeras and Germain Cornet), which ...

Orsini, Emanuele

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Emanuele Orsini flute Born in Rieti (Italy), Emanuele Orsini graduated from the Giulio Briccialdi Conservatoire in ...

6th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts on 08/02/2026

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Guggeis Thomas, Guggeis Thomas, Moncado Elias David, Moncado Elias David, Elsa Barraine (1910–1999) Symphony Nr. 2 (1938) Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) Violin Concerto in D Major op. ... in the Soviet Union while Shostakovich was composing his 5th Symphony. Scathing criticism of his operas made Shostakovich fear for his life, so he tried to exonerate himself with his 5th Symphony, ... powers that be as a suitable ‘response to justified criticism’. He later said that nobody had understood the work, you'd have to be an idiot not to hear that the cheers were orchestrated. Korngold ...

Accessibility

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Segna, Martina

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Martina Segna Set Designer Martina Segna studied set design at the University of Arts in Graz and architecture ... and Drama in London. She has been working as a free-lance set designer since 2004, specialising in opera. Engagements have taken her to the Prague State Opera, Theater Basel, the Konzert Theater in Bern, ... Festival, the Opéra de Dijon, the Tirol Festival in Erl and Oper Graz, where her set for Schreker’s Der ferne Klang and Anna Sofie Tuma’s costumes were nominated for Austria’s Theatre Prize for »Best ...

von Trotha, Karen

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Karen von Trotha violin Karen von Trotha joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 1998. Born in Hamburg she started playing the piano before having her ... and chamber music with Walter Levin (LaSalle Quartett). She gained early orchestral experience as leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany. Karen von Trotha performed with the NDR Symphony Orchestra, ...

Krams, Sabine

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Sabine Krams cello Sabine Krams was born in Frankfurt and studied the cello in Freiburg with Prof. Christoph ... of the Staatsorchester in Braunschweig and has held the post of deputy solo cellist at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 1989. She has worked as a solist, as a member of Frankfurt's DKO, at ...

Kästle, Tobias

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Tobias Kästle timpani Tobias Kästle was born in Munich in 1968 and started playing percussion in bands when he was at school. He studied percussion ... a solo timpanist at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern in 1995, a position took up at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 1998. He works with all sorts of chamber music ensembles, often performing ...

Kirsch, Henrike

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Henrike Kirsch bassoon Henrike Kirsch started playing the bassoon when she was at school and received many awards from the Young Musicians' Competition ... Philharmonie and Detmold Chamber Orchestra. Henrike Kirsch has just spent a year as a member of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester's Paul-Hindemith-Orchester Academy and joined the European Union Youth ...

Bogensperger, Jakob

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Jakob Bogensperger Lighting Designer Jakob Bogensperger is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on this production of Adolphe Adams’ Le postillon de Lonjumeau. He qualified as a master of lighting at the Kammerspielen and Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, where he also worked as a lighting designer. Other engagements have taken him ...

For young adults

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For young adults     NEXT LEVEL OPERA - For yOUNG people aged 15 – 21 A new season, nine new productions packed with operatic adventure! ... be in possession of a Junior Card to join this club. Junge OpernCard- FOR YOUNG PEOPLE & adults under the age of 30 If you're under 30, like going to the opera but would rather not go alone; if you'd ...

Tancredi on 07/06/2026

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Gioachino Rossini, Carella Giuliano, Schmitt Manuel, Siegl Bernhard, Rose Raphaela, Klein Joachim, Corral Matute ... Sarazans, the King’s daughter Amenaide is charged with high treason for writing a letter to Solamir, leader of the Sarazans, professing her love. Just before her execution Tancredi, a knight banished from ... family feud - Rossini’s music makes it totally clear. At the tender age of 20 Tancredi, his first opera seria, triggered his international career. It was performed from New York to Vienna until the mid-19th ...

Macbeth on 18/04/2026

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... Verdi, Sagripanti Giacomo, Schlather R.B., Pluss Etienne, Lüthi Doey, Fefferman Gal, Horvath Roland, Winter Olaf, Corral Matute Álvaro, Kuhn Konrad, Brownlee Nicholas, Križaj Domen, Faulkner Thomas, Bauer Kanabas Andreas, Heiberg Signe, Abildin Kudaibergen, Schneider Gerard, Bretón Abraham, Yende Nombulelo, Stuart Julia, Porter Jarrett, King Morgan-Andrew, Gatt ... Julia Stuart° Doctor Jarrett Porter Servant / Murderer / Herald Morgan-Andrew King° °Member of the Opera Studio,Macbeth and Banquo encounter weird women, who greet Macbeth with his inherited title of ...

Così fan tutte on 01/11/2025

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Guggeis Thomas, Clément Mariame, Pluss Etienne, Deigner Bianca, Klein Joachim, Corral Matute Álvaro, Horpácsy Zsolt, Todua Teona, Lauritano Kelsey, Kim Taehan, Dietrich Magnus, Tognocchi Bianca, Holender Liviu, Di Felice Simone, Clément Mariame, Pluss Etienne, Deigner Bianca, Klein Joachim, Corral Matute ... Holender / Sebastian Geyer,Mozart and his librettist, and kindred spirit, Lorenzo da Ponte’s third opera revolves around six people. The lives of two couples are thrown into confusion in the space of ...

Tosca on 17/12/2025

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Giacomo Puccini, Grandy Elias, Kriegenburg Andreas, Thor Harald, Hofmann Tanja, Abel Bibi, Keller Frank, Corral Matute ... Hofmann Tanja, Villari Angelo, Thor Harald, Goliński Łukasz, Kriegenburg Andreas, Myrling Aleksander, Mayer Franz, Marsh Peter, MacNeil Iain, Moriuchi Takeshi, Abel Bibi, Keller Frank, Corral Matute ... she leaps from the castle to her death.,booking opens July 2,c 2½ hrs inc interval after c 50 mins,Opera in 3 acts Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica World premiere January 14 1900, Rome This ...

Boris Godunov on 02/11/2025

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Modest P. Mussorgski, Jost Frederic, Guggeis Thomas, Warner Keith, Kastening Katharina, Glarner Kaspar, Cousineau Jorge, Bishop John, ... intimate scenes a national flavour with Russian folk and church music, including bells. After the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg’s board rejected Mussorgsky's work he feverishly set about modifying it, changing ...

Manon Lescaut on 26/10/2025

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Giacomo Puccini, Di Felice Simone, Ollé Àlex, Carrasco Valentina, Flores Alfons, Castells Lluc, Carlier Emmanuel, ... Matteo, Trąbka Mikołaj, Di Felice Simone, Heyningen Erik van, Abildin Kudaibergen, Myrling Aleksander, Dibble Ruby, Bretón Abraham, Thanapat Pete, Brazier Nina, Ollé Àlex, Carrasco Valentina, Flores ... at the beginning of the 18th century. Director Alex Ollé takes this further, transposing Puccini's opera into the present day in his visually stunning production.,Manon Lescaut Ghiulnara Raileanu Des ...

Magda Spiegel - Silenced too soon on 06/09/2025

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Švēde Zanda, Rommelspacher Lukas, Assheuer Birgitta, Heynold Helge, Allihn Karen, de Haas Ingo, Rössel Thomas, Nemtsov Mikhail, Hammann Jörg, remembering a great singer Her fate was shared by many Jewish artists under the National Socialists: Magda Spiegel, born in Prague in 1887, left Dusseldorf to join the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 1917, rising quickly to stardom as a dramatic contralto. Contemporaries praised ...

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Patronatsverein, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , BECOME A MEMBER OF THE PATRONATSVEREIN , , , The Patronatsverein has been supporting Oper Frankfurt for more than a century. More than 1300 people, including 300 members who support us ... joined forces, united through their enthusiasm for opera. They join in adding to the success of this wonderful company with ideas, donations and their hearts.Many productions, supported by the Patronatsverein, ...

Orchestra & Academy vacancies

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Orchestra & Academy vacancies, , The Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester & General Music Director THOMAS GUGGEIS are looking for3rd/1st horn with Wagner tuba dutiesauditions July 2 2025trumpet (solo)audition date not yet known2nd ...

Paul Hindemith Orchestra Academy

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Paul Hindemith Orchestra Academy, , , PAUL HINDEMITH ORCHESTRA ACADEMY , , , This link opens a YouTube video., ... Nurturing future generations of orchestral musicians was so important to members of the Frankfurter Opern -und Museumsorchester that they founded an Orchestra Academy, named after Paul Hindemith, a concert ... thing, learn how to prepare to be able to perform at their best in audition and in competition – under the watchful eye of Karin Boerries, a concert master here for many years and a trained mental coach. ...

Chamber Music

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Chamber Music CHAMBER MUSIC ON SUNDAY MORNINGS A mainstay in Frankfurt for more than a quarter of a century. Come and hear musicians from the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester perform a rich variety of concerts – inspired by new productions, and sometimes ...

Liberovici, Caterina Panti

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Caterina Panti Liberovici Director's Assistant / Director Caterina Panti Liberovici studied the clarinet and ... Teatro Carlo Felice in Genua and the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Her first production for Oper Frankfurt, where she has been working as a director's assistant since 2009, was Fioravanti's Le cantatrici ...

Strong, Jessica

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Jessica Strong Soprano The Canadian soprano Jessica Strong, a former member of Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio, returns again this season as a guest, adding two new roles to her repertoire: the title role in Barber's Vanessa ... Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Susanna (Il segreto di Susanna), Ginevra (Ariodante), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Anne Trulove (The Rake’s Progress) and Helena (A Midsummernight’s ...

Webster, Nathaniel

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Nathaniel Webster Baritone Nathaniel Webster, a member of the Ensemble from 2002 - 2008, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he took part in a new production of La fanciulla del West in 2013. This American baritone has recently appeared at ... and many roles in Bernstein's Candide, and the Munich Opera Festival, where he sang Bill Houston (Ruders’ Selma Jezková). In March 2017 he sings Pierre Fléville in Andrea Chénier at the Bayerische ...

Mariotti, Sergio

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Sergio Mariotti Set Designer Sergio Mariotti studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Brera before joining the Accademia di Teatro alla Scala. This Italian set designer has worked regularly ... seta at the Schloss Theater in Potsdam. Their productions of Fioravanti's Le Cantatrici Villane at Oper Frankfurt opened in 2016, La Favola di Natale for the Teatro Regio di Torino and Impresario in ...

Hartmann, Jan

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Jan Hartmann Lighting Designer Jan Hartmann has worked at Oper Frankfurt since 1999 and became a  lighting master in 2010.  His first production for the company was Nineteenhundred ...

Di Felice, Simone

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Simone Di Felice Soloists' Coach / Kapellmeister Italian born Simone Di Felice is a soloists' coach at Oper Frankfurt who was made a Kapellmeister in 2017/18. During the 2024/25 season he conducts performances of Rigoletto and the new production ... gazzetta in the Bockenheimer Depot, Rinaldo, L'incoronazione di Poppea, Gluck's Ezio, Rigoletto, Maderna's Satyricon, a performance of Rossini's La gazza ladra and Rossini's Bianca e Falliero, which went ...

Egorov, Dmitry

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Dmitry Egorov Countertenor Prize-winning countertenor Dmitry Egorov is back in Frankfurt, where he has enjoyed great success in recent ... Handel's Eustazio (Rinaldo), Radamisto, Nireno (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), a role he sang at the Semperoper Dresden in 2019, and Andronico (Tamerlano) Ascalax (Telemann's Orpheus), the Sorceress in Dido and ... patria. In 2015 Dmitry Egorov sang Adelbert in Telemann's Emma und Eginhard at the Staatsoper Berlin under René Jacobs. Other recent engagments have included Handel's Giulio Cesare in Freiburg, Fürth and ...

Risz, Karoly

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Karoly Risz Set Designer Karoly Risz, who was born in Dresden, learned a lot in workshops in the Semperoper before being engaged as a stage technician. He then went on to study set and costume design at ... Winter Festival in Erl), Frank Martin's Le vin Herbé , this Le nozze di Figaro and last season's wonderful staging of Zemlinsky's Traumgörge / George the Dreamer at Oper Frankfurt. Plays staged by them ...

Abel, Bibi

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Bibi Abel Video Bibi Abel is back at Oper Frankfurt for this new production of Rossini's Bianca e Falliero. Other recent productions for the ... Roger (which is being revived this season), the very successful, visually stunning, world premiere of Der Mieter / The Tenant, Weinberg's Die Passagierin / The (female) Passenger, Das Rheingold,  Die Walküre, ...

Freeman, David

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David Freeman Director The Australian director David Freeman is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, directing his production of Handel's Messiah, which was first performed ... later this year include a production of Alan John's Sydney Opera House – The Opera (The Eighth Wonder), in Australia. Recent projects have included the world premiere of a Chinese musical in Wuhan, China, ...

Kuhn, Konrad

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Konrad Kuhn Dramaturge Konrad Kuhn studied comparative literature and musicology in Berlin. He started working in drama, at theatres including the Burgtheater in Vienna, before working predominantly as an opera dramaturge in 1999, at the Munich Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz and Zurich Opera. Places where he has spent time as a guest dramaturge have included the Theater an der Wien, the Vienna State Opera, Opéra national de Paris, the Teatro Real in Madrid, State Opera in ...

Matviienko, Danylo

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Danylo Matviienko baritone Danylo Matviienko left the Opera Studio to join the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in the 2021/22 season, where he stayed until 2023/24. ... sang Junius (The Rape of Lucretia), in Boesman's Reigen and the Kurt Weill Story, Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus) and a Hunter in Rusalka while a member of the Opéra National de Paris' Opera Studio, and roles ...

Buchenberger, Susanne

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Susanne Buchenberger Actress The actress Susanne Buchenberger is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. She was a member of the ensemble at Schauspielfrankfurt until 2009, ... 2014 as a guest to perform Eunice in Endstation Sehnsucht/A Streetcar Named Desire. She was also under contract to the Schauspiel in Leipzig from 1996 – 2001. Guest engagements in recent seasons have ...

Uhl, Susanne

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Susanne Uhl Costume Designer Susanne Uhl returned to Oper Frankfurt for the seventh time, where she designed costumes for Handel's Teseo (2013), Radamisto (2016), Xerxes (2017), Rossini's Bianca et Falliero (also seen at the 2022 Winter Festival in Erl) and Frank Martin's Le vin Herbé, ... Macbeth (Deutsche Theater Berlin), The Maid of Orleans (Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg) and The Black Spider (Theater Basel). She has worked with the directors Christina Friedrich on many plays in places including ...

Lin, Tianji

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Tianji Lin tenor The lyric tenor Tianji Lin, a member of Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio until 2019/20, is back to repeat his portrayal of  Adolfo of Valladolid ... Roberton in Bellini's Il puritani. The corona situation prevented him from singing 1st Heiduck in Henze's Der Prinz von Homburg. This young Chinese artist studied singing at Beijing Normal University, the University ...

McCown, Michael

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Michael McCown tenor The American tenor Michael McCown, a popular member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt since 2001, has built up a repertoire of more than 100 roles during his career. During the 2025/26 season ... the Bogus Assistant in Weill's The Tsar wants his Photograph Taken. Last season he repeated his wonderful portrayals of Leonard (Nielsen's Masquerade), Paisi (Tchaikovsky's Sorceress - get the DVD!), ...

Becker, Christina

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Christina Becker Video Christina Becker studied audiovisual media in Hamburg. Born in Kirghizia, she began ... She has worked designing lighting and videos for several productions in theatres. Now she is back at Oper Frankfurt for this new production of Eötvös' Tri Sestry / Three Sisters, where she has worked on new productions of Trojahn's Enrico and Riehm's Sirenen (director: Tobias Heyder) and Das schlaue Füchslein / The Cunning Little Vixen (director: Ute M. Engelhardt). Other productions ...

Wink, Mareike

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Mareike Wink Dramaturge Mareike Wink has been working as a dramaturge at Oper Frankfurt since 2013, where she also worked as the director Marco Arturo Marelli's assistant on ... season. Other projects have included collaborating on a complete edition of Gluck for the »Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz« and working as an assistant at the Vienna State Opera. Mareike ...

Ehmann, Markus

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Markus Ehmann Children's Chorus Master / Chorus Master Markus Ehmann has been working at Oper Frankfurt as Deputy Chorus Master and the Children's Chorus Master since 2013/14. During the 2015/16 ...

Keil, Hartmut

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Hartmut Keil Conductor Hartmut Keil was made 1st Kapellmeister of Theater Bremen in 2017/18, after enjoying great success with a new Il tabarro / Gianni Schicchi double bill. This was ... Other future plans include Ariadne auf Naxos at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt. Hartmut Keil worked at Oper Frankfurt from 2002 - 2016, as a coach and, from 2008, Kapellmeister and head of coaching, building ... is back in Frankfurt, where he recently conducted the first performances in Germany of Scartazzini's Der Sandmann / The Sandman, for the first revival of this production of Die lustige Witwe / The Merry ...

Bernardi, Guillaume

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Guillaume Bernardi Director Operas directed by Guillaume Bernardi for Oper Frankfurt in the Bockenheimer Depot were Haydn's L’isola ...

DeFreitas, Peter

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Peter DeFreitas Costume Designer Peter DeFreitas was born in British Guayana in South America and lives in Toronto. During the last five decades he has made a ... director Guillaume Bernardi for a long time. After three joint projects Peter DeFreitas was invited by Oper Frankfurt for another project with Guillaume Bernardi, Haydn's L'isola disabitata, which was followed ...

Mittelhammer, Ludwig

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Ludwig Mittelhammer Baritone Ludwig Mittelhammer joined the Opera Studio at Oper Frankfurt in 2015/16, making his debut in the house as Sergej Mentschikoff in concert performances of Der Graf von Luxemburg which was followed by Carlos in the world premiere of Langemann's Anna Toll. During ...

Bollmann, Gero

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Gero Bollmann Child Soprano Gero Bollmann was born in 2003 and is a member of the choir at Mainz Cathedral, where he rehearses every week and sings at mass. ... member of the Theresia­num School in Mainz's singing class. He has also sung roles in productions of operas at the Staatstheater in Mainz.

Hofmann, Tanja

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... costume and set designer who works at home and abroad, studied at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Graz with Wolfram Skalicki and Hans Schavernoch and assisted at the Bayreuth Festival. ... Bremen), Sigrid Herzog (Berg's Wozzeck in Würzburg), and George Schmiedleitner including productions of Maderna's Satyricon at the 2018 Salzburg Easter Festival and, most recently, Rossini's Guillaume Tell at ... Linz. Projects with Andreas Kriegenburg included this production of Tosca, Don Giovanni at the Semperopera in Dresden, Rigoletto at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk at the 2017 ...

Alkema, Keri

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Keri Alkema soprano Keri Alkema is making her debut in Germany singing Floria Tosca at Oper Frankfurt, a role she recently sang at English National Opera in London and the Canadian Opera Company ...

Traub, Reinhard

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Reinhard Traub Lighting Designer Reinhard Traub, who started working at the Graz Bühnen (stages) in 1992/93, ... Staatstheater in Stuttgart. He has also created concepts for light designs at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Theater an der Wien, the opera houses in Zürich, Brussels, Hamburg, Mannheim, the Bayreuther and Salzburg festivals, ...

Manacorda, Antonello

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Antonello Manacorda Conductor Antonello Manacorda, who was born in Italy, took up the posts of Chief Conductor of the Kammer­akademie Potsdam (Echo prize »Orchestra of the Year 2015«) in 2010 and the Het Gelders Orkest in Arnheim in 2011. Now he's back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2017 with Don Giovanni and returned for Tobias Kratzer's ...

Rea, Barnaby

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Barnaby Rea Bass Barnaby Rea is back in Frankfurt to repeat his portrayal of the Commandant in Janáček's From the House of the Dead and ... OehmsClassics, Saretzki (Eugene Onegin), Mr. Bosun (Billy Budd), Pistola (Falstaff), Bottom in Brigitte Fassbaender’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Sciarrone (Tosca), Konrad Nachtigall (in Johannes ... Britten’s The Burning Fiery Furnace and Hobson in Peter Grimes), a role he also sang at Den Norske Opera in Oslo, at the Bergen, Edinburgh International and Enescu festivals in Bucharest at at the Royal ...

Falk, Holger

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Holger Falk Baritone Holger Falk is equally at home in baroque, classic and contemporary operatic repertoire. Now he is back in Frankfurt, where he enjoyed great success in Eötvös' Der goldene Drache / The Golden Dragon and the title role in a new production of Trojahn's Enrico, ...

Register, Bryan

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Bryan Register Tenor The American tenor Bryan Register is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he appeared for the first time in 2016/17, singing  Énée (role debut) in the first new Trojans in Frankfurt for 34 years, a role ...

Ehlers, Kai

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Kai Ehlers Video Kai Ehlers studied direction and camera at the Film Academy in Baden-Württemberg. His graduation film Country No.1 – Herbst (autumn) 2001 in New York was nominated ... be seen for the first time at the Documentary Film Week in Hamburg. He has designed videos for other operas, including the world premieres of Czernowin's Pnima (Bavarian Theater Prize) and Zaide/Adama at ...

Beczała, Piotr

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Piotr Beczała Tenor The Polish tenor Piotr Beczała, whose roles in Frankfurt have included his unforgettable portrayal of Werther, has been a regular guest at leading opera houses around the world, including the Berlin, Munich and Vienna state operas, La Scala Milan and ... Milan and Oman. His artistic achievements are documented in his extensive discography. He has been under exclusive contract to Deutsche Grammophon since 2012. He studied at the Music Academy in with, amongst ...

Larsson, Anna

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Anna Larsson Mezzo-soprano The Swedish contralto/mezzo-soprano Anna Larsson is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. Recent engagements have included Waltraute / Erda (Wagner's Ring), ... Kundry (Parsifal) in Bologna, Herodias (Salome) in Stockholm and the Waldtaube in Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder at the Nationale Opera Amsterdam. Last summer she sang Carmen at the Dalhalla Opera Festival in Sweden, ...

Teige, Elisabeth

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Elisabeth Teige Soprano Elisabeth Teige is one of Scandinavia's most sought after dramatic sopranos. This Norwegian artist studied in Trondheim and began her career taking part in the Young Artists Programme at Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, where she enjoyed a triumph singing Senta (role debut) in Der fliegende Holländer in 2015, a role she then sang in Tallinn and will be singing at Theater Lübeck ...

Bartels, Irina

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Irina Bartels Costume Designer Irina Bartels' costumes for Oper Frankfurt have been seen in a L'Heure espagnole / La vida breve double bill (dir. David Hermann) ... Schatten for Cologne Opera. Other recent productions were Death in Venice, directed by Herrmann Schneider, a co-production between Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur and Landestheater Linz. Other theatres where ...

Schmieder, Michael

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Michael Schmieder Choreography Michael Schmieder is a choreographer and teaches jazz and modern dance. After training at the Iwanson School in Munich and Palucca School in Dresden and studying in Aarhus and New York ... musical productions. He also appeared at the Bregenz and Salzburg festivals and the Bayerische Staatsoper. He started working as a choreographer in 2000, at theatres including the Semperoper in Dresden, ...

Dziedzic, Wojciech

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Wojciech Dziedzic Costume Designer This Polish costume and fashion designer works all over the world in opera, drama and musicals. Now he is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2016/17 with ... premiere of Dusapin's Penthesilea at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Sweeney Todd at the Nederlandse Reisopera and Fidelio at the Erl Festival. He also designed the costumes for Ginastera's Bomarzo, ...

Pleuler, Nicole

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Nicole Pleuler Costume Designer Nicole Pleuler has been working as a freelance set and costume designer in film, drama, ballet and opera since 2001. Der goldene Drache / The Golden Dragen was the first production she helped create at Oper Frankfurt, ...

Young, Simone

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Simone Young Conductor Simone Young, one of the leading conductors in the world for many years, is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt. After studying in Sydney, where she was born, and working at Cologne Opera, Daniel Barenboim ... concert repertoire ranges from Mozart to Reimann. From early on in her career she was hailed as a wonderful Wagner and Strauss conductor, who has led Ring cycles in Hamburg and at the Vienna and Berlin ...

Nelson, John

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John Nelson Conductor The American conductor John Nelson, appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, enjoys an international reputation for, amongst others, his interpretation ...

Höckmayr, Eva-Maria

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Eva-Maria Höckmayr Director Eva-Maria Höckmayr’s first work at Oper Frankfurt was this production of Delius’ Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe / A Village Romeo and Juliet which was followed by Berlioz’ Les Troyens. Her multidiciplinary productions have included Tosca, Der Freischütz and Janáček’s The Makropoulos Case at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt, Lucia di Lammermoor ...

Rettig, Saskia

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Saskia Rettig Costume Designer Saskia Rettig works as a set and costume designer for plays, opera and ballet. She trained at the Academy for Fine Arts in Vienna with Erich Wonder and designed the costumes for Eva-Maria Höckmayr's productions of Delius' Romeo und Julia auf dem ...

Soustrot, Marc

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Marc Soustrot Conductor Marc Soustrot is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he has conducted concert performances of Puccini's Edgar and La Rondine, and performances of Die Fledermaus, for this Debussy/Honegger double bill. During his time as Chief Conductor & Artistic Director ...

Gloger, Jan Philipp

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Jan Philipp Gloger Director The director Jan Philipp Gloger made his debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2013 with this production of Idomeneo and returned for Betulia liberata. He started ...

Jones, Julia

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Julia Jones Conductor The British conductor Julia Jones is admired for her clear, fresh and sensitive interpretations of many works. Now she's back at Oper Frankfurt, where she conducted Falstaff, La Damnation de Faust, Così fan tutte, Idomeneo, Die ...

Soliman, Gaetano

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Gaetano Soliman Conductor The Italian conductor Gaetano Soliman is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he conducted Verdi's Falstaff in 2016, for this new production of La forza del destino. Born in Verona, he was General Music Director ...

Cunningham, Davy

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Davy Cunningham Lighting Designer Davy Cunningham, who was born in Scotland, has worked as a lighting designer on more than 250 productions of operas at leading opera houses around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Royal ... and Tosca), where he also worked as lighting designer on the world premiere of André Tchaikovsky's Der Kaufmann von Venedig/The Merchant of Venice directed by Keith Warner, with whom he works regularly.

Callara, Vincent

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Vincent Callara Set & Costume Designer Vincent Callara was born in Pennsylvania and studied in Berlin ... Akademietheater in Vienna. He also spent time working in Zurich, Geneva, Cologne Bremen and Schwerin. He was leader of set and costume design at the Schilller Theatre in Berlin from 1990 - 1993, where he worked again ... at the age of only 49, not long after he had finished working on this production of Zauberflöte at Oper Frankfurt.

Boussard, Vincent

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Vincent Boussard Director Vincent Boussard directed Gluck's Ezio, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur and this production of Bellini's I puritani, a co-production with the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, at Oper Frankfurt. After making his debut at the Studio-Théâtre at the Comédie-Française he started ... Hamburg state operas, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Royal Opera in Stockholm, Theater an der Wien, San Francisco Opera, the New National Theatre in Tokyo, Korean National Opera in Seoul and ...

Lacroix, Christian

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Christian Lacroix Costume Designer Christian Lacroix began designing costumes for opera, ballet and plays in the 1980s, while working as a fashion designer. Theatres were he has worked ... Metropolitan Opera New York, Festival Aix-en-Provence, the Munich, Berlin and Vienna state operas, Theater an der Wien and Cologne Opera. He has enjoyed a close working relationship with the director Vincent Boussard ...

Bösch, David

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David Bösch Director David Bösch directed one of his first operas at Oper Frankfurt: Orlando furioso in 2009/10, which was followed by this wonderful production of Königskinder, Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman and Il trovatore. ...

Andrews, Benedict

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Benedict Andrews Director The Australian Benedict Andrews, who lives in Iceland, is one of the world's leading directors of plays and operas. His Shakespeare cycle - The War of the Roses (2009), Great and Small (2011) and The Maids (2013) ... at English National Opera in London, Macbeth in Copenhagen, La Bohème in Amsterdam and Prokofiev's Der feurige Engel/The Fiery Angel at the Komische Oper Berlin, where he will stage Reimann's Medea in ...

Schütz, Johannes

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Johannes Schütz Set Designer Frankfurt born Johannes Schütz is one of Germany's most influential set designers. The set for our recent new production of Handel's Orlando was based on one ... worksmincluding Groß und Klein / Great and Small in Sydney, La Bohème in Amsterdam and Medea at Komische Oper Berlin) and this David Hermann production of From the House of the Dead, for the season's first ...

Venanzoni, Felice

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Felice Venanzoni Soloists' Coach and Conductor Felice Venanzoni, who is now in charge of artistic development of the singers in our Opera Studio, began working at Oper Frankfurt in 1999, where operas he conducted included Teseo, Agrippina, ...

Giunta, Wallis

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Wallis Giunta Soprano This young Canadian singer, who studied at the Julliard School and graduated from the Lindemann Young Artist Development ... Program, sang the roles of Countess Ceprano (Rigoletto) and Olga (The Merry Widow) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and joined the ensemble at Oper Leipzig at the beginning of the 2015/16 season, during ... Roles in Leipzig during the 2016/17 season are Wellgunde in Das Rheingold and Prince Orlofsky Die Fledermaus. Guest engagements that season include Cenerentola at Opera North and Dido in Dido and Aeneas ...

Ballhorn, Arnulf

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Arnulf Ballhorn Double Bass Arnulf Ballhorn studied with Rainer Zepperitz at the University of Arts in Berlin and has been a member of the orchestra at the Komische Oper Berlin since 2001. His great passions are contemporary music, tango and jazz. He has played the ...

Dumno, Hilko

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Hilko Dumno Accompanist Hilko Dumno teaches how to sing Lieder at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt, and was also employed by the University ... Schwarzenberg, the Dresden Music Festival, Lucerne Festival and the Amadeus Festival in Geneva and at Oper Frankfurt. His artistic achievements are documented by recordings for the North German and Hessische ...

Polenzani, Matthew

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Matthew Polenzani, Matthew Polenzani is regarded as one of the leading lyric tenors of his generation. Now he's back in Frankfurt, where he thrilled audiences in 2008/09 ... Frankfurt's celebrations for the birth of democracy in Germany 175 years ago. He won the Metropolitan Opera's 2008 Beverly Sills Artist Award, where he is a regular guest. Recent highlights have included ...

Kim, Eun Sun

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Eun Sun Kim Conductor Korean born Eun Sun Kim made her highly successful debut at Oper Frankfurt with a performance of La Bohème which was followed by concert performances of Der Graf von Luxemburg (available on CD – OehmsClassics) and Die Csárdásfürstin, this production of La Sonnambula and Der fliegende Holländer/The Flying Dutchman. She works regularly ...

Fleischer, Christof M.

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Christof M. Fleischer, Christof M. Fleischer appears regularly at Oper Frankfurt in small roles. Last season operas in which he appeared included the new production of ... Fleischer is also a professional social education worker, a trained drama teacher and a teacher to the elderly.

Bowes, Jeremy

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Jeremy Bowes, The bass Jeremy Bowes - Ben Benny in Paul Bunyan - is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt. He was born in Canada and was a member of the youth ensemble at the Sächsische Staatsoper ... years, which ended in 2011/12, where roles included Colline (La Bohème), Zuniga (Carmen), King (Cuis' Der gestiefelte Kater/Puss in Boots) and George Benton (Heggie's Dead Man Walking). In 2013 Jeremy Bowes ...

Beyer, Jonathan

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Jonathan Beyer Baritone Jonathan Beyer is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he has sung Marcello (La Bohème), Ramiro (L’Heure espagnole) and Comte de Vaudemont in Les Vêpres siciliennes, which he sings again in this revival. This versatile baritone's repertoire ...

Braid, Ambur

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Ambur Braid Soprano The Canadian soprano Ambur Braid made her debut at Oper Frankfurt singing the Queen in Křenek's Das geheime Königreich / The Secret Kingdom before moving ... included Sabina in the world premiere of Rufus Wainwright's Hadrian  at the Canadian Opera Company under Johannes Debus and Schmitt's La Tragédie de Salomé with the hr-Sinfonieorchester under Alain ...

Dvořák, Martin

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Martin Dvořák Choreographer & Dancer The Czech dancer and choreographer Martin Dvořák, who trained at ... has worked at the National Theater in Brno, Laterna Magika in Prague, Prague Chamber Ballet, the Volksoper in Vienna, Bern Ballet, the Tirolean Landestheater in Innsbruck and Landestheater in Linz. He also ...

Gillig, Étienne

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Étienne Gillig Actor The actor Étienne Gillig, born in Strasbourg, is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. He tours Germany with his cabaret programme Die Französisch-Stunde/The ... Passepartout in the musical In 80 Tagen um die Welt/Around the World in 80 Days, Frosch in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus and Herodes in Wilde's Salomé. Engagements have taken him to the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, ...

Bauer, Irene

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Irene Bauer Dancer Irene Bauer, born in Vienna, joined the ballet ensemble at the Vienna State Opera after completing her studies. She danced in classical and contempory works and took part in many ... Landestheater in Linz's Dance Ensemble from 2006-2013, after which she became a member of the ProART Company under the artistic direction of Martin Dvořák. Irene Bauer has also performed at the Bregenz Festival.

Lanik, Tina

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Tina Lanik, This production of La sonnambula was Tina Lanik's first opera at Oper Frankfurt. Recent productions have included La traviata and Eugen Onegin at Theater Dortmund. ...

Hageneier, Stefan

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Stefan Hageneier, Stefan Hageneier worked at Oper Frankfurt for the first time on this production of La sonnambula. This set and costume designer works regularly with the director Tina Lanik (recent productions have included La traviata at Theater Dortmund, Junk at the Residenztheater ...

McDonald, Antony

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Antony McDonald Set & Costume Designer Antony McDonald, voted »Best Set Designer« at the 2013 International Opera Awards, has worked regularly with Richard Jones for many years. Their production of Billy Budd ... projects, on which he worked as co-director and co-set designer, were L’Enfant et les Sortilèges and Der Zwerg / The Dwarf at the Opéra National in Paris and La Bohème and Un ballo in maschera at the ...

Muresan, Anthony

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Anthony Muresan, Anthony Muresan, who was born in Pforzheim in 2002, started piano lessons when he was four. He joined the Aurelius Sängerknaben (boy's ... he appeared as a soloist on SWR television. He has sung at the Opéra National in Paris, the Staatsoper Berlin and Semperoper in Dresden in operas including Mozart's Zauberflöte and Cavalieri's Rappresentationen ...

Myrling, Aleksander

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Aleksander Myrling bass-baritone This young bass-baritone left the Staatsoper in Stuttgart's opera studio to join Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in 2025/26, during which roles include ...

Bühler, Konstantin

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Konstantin Bühler Actor Konstantin Bühler, born in Düsseldorf, completed his acting studies at the University ... Théâtre National du Luxembourg, in the Sophiensaelen Berlin, Centraltheater Leipzig and the Staatsoper in Berlin. He is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt.

Müer, Julia

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... Designer The costume and set designer Julia Müer works regularly with Keith Warner, most recently designing costumes for Jenůfa for Norske Opera Oslo, the set for La forza del destino and costumes for Doctor Faust at the Semperoper in Dresden, ... the world premiere of Wahnfried at the Staatstheater in Karlsruhe. They also worked together on Murder in the Cathedral and this production of Hänsel und Gretel at Oper Frankfurt, where she also worked ...

Bochmanova, Maria

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Maria Bochmanova Soprano The Russian soprano Maria Bochmanova is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she made her debut in 2016, singing Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. She sang the role of Tatiana for the first time in Yekaterinburg ... She also sang in a concert performance of Prokofjev's Semjon Kotko in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam under Vladimir Jurowski. Maria Bochmanova, who studied in Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg, was a member ...

Brown, Justin

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Justin Brown Conductor The British conductor Justin Brown is General Music Director of the Badische Staatstheater ... Orchestra. He is internationally admired, and won many awards for his interpretation of symphonic music and operas. He recently rounded off Karlsruhe's new Ring with Götterdämmerung and enjoyed great success ...

MacNeil, Iain

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Iain MacNeil Baritone The Canadian baritone Iain MacNeil joined Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in 2019/20. During the 2025/26 season you can hear him as Andrei Tchelkalov ... Tristan Mickleford (Flotow's Martha), Olivier (Capriccio), the Minstrel in Humperdinck's Königskinder (which he sang for the first time at the 2021 Tirol Festival in Erl) Werschinin (Eötvös’ Tri ...

Christoyannis, Tassis

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Tassis Christoyannis baritone The Greek baritone Tassis Christoyannis is back in Frankfurt, where he made his debut singing Rodrigo in Don Carlos, to sing Conte di Luna in this new ... ballo in maschera) and Ford (Falstaff). He has also sung Giorgio Germont in La traviata at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and the Glyndebourne Festival. ... recordings include Bajazete (Tamerlano), Danaus (Les Danaïdes), Oreste (Andromaque) and two albums of Lieder by Félicien David and Edouard Lalo.

Bannwart, Patrick

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... Bannwart Set Designer Patrick Bannwart has worked closely and regularly with the director David Bösch since 2004, including new productions of Humperdinck's Königskinder (available on CD - OehmsClassics) and Der fliegende Holländer at Oper Frankfurt. They have produced many new productions of plays and operas in Essen, Bochum, the Thalia ...

Huffman, Ted

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Ted Huffman Director The American director Ted Huffman made his debut in Germany with a stunning production of Rinaldo in the Bockenheimer in Frankfurt, returning to the company ... Aix-en-Provence Festival, the world premiere of Stefan Wirth's Girl with a Pearl Earring at Zurich Opera (voted »World Premiere of the Year« 2022 by Opernwelt) andThe Time of our Singing at theThéâtre ...

Weinert, Adam

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Adam Weinert Choreographer Adam Weinert, a choreographer and dancer from New York, made his debut at Oper Frankfurt with this production of Rinaldo last season. His productions and installations have been seen all over the world at places including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate and Tate Modern in London. He has also produced and choreographied a series ...

Martin-Davis, Ashley

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Ashley Martin-Davis Set Designer British born Ashley Martin-Davis is internationally sought-after as a set and costume designer. He returns to Oper Frankfurt later this season, where he worked for the first time on this wonderful production of Peter Grimes, directed by Keith Warner, which was followed by Eötvös' Tri sestry ...

Morrell, Jon

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Jon Morrell Costume Designer The award winning set and costume designer Jon Morrell studied at the Central School of Art and Design in London. ... Gallen, Otello at ENO and the Teatro Real in Madrid, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Maometto II in Santa Fe and an Olivier Award winning production of Jenůfa at Houston Grand Opera. Recent works for which he designed the sets and costumes include Gotta Dance and Cinderella at the Royal Danish Ballet and Carmen, Madama Butterfly and Undine for Oper Graz's Ballet. ...

Petersen, Anja

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Anja Petersen Soprano The soprano Anja Petersen, who is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, has been much in demand for repertoire ranging from baroque to the ... the New European Festival in Stuttgart and the Klangspuren Festival in Innsbruck, with the Ensemble Modern. She was a member of the Neuen Vocalsolisten in Stuttgart and has been a member of the RIAS Chamber ...

Clark, Graham

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Graham Clark Tenor A long and extraordinary career has taken the British tenor Graham Clark to leading opera houses all over the world. Now he is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he sang the Fool in Reimann's ...

Heyde, Marcel

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Marcel Heyde Lighting Designer Marcel Heyde made his debut as a lighting designer at Oper Frankfurt in 2017/18 with a new production of Trojahn's Enrico, which was followed by A Wintery ...

Tönne, Britta

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Britta Tönne Set Designer Britta Tönne is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. While studying indoor architecture she designed the set for Der Sprachabschneider (directed by Lars Reichow) at the Staatstheater in Wiesbaden. She then began working ...

Rodríguez, Juan Jesús

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Juan Jesús Rodríguez Baritone The Spanish baritone Juan Jesús Rodríguez is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. He is one of the most impressive baritones in the world and much sought ...

Spiegel, Mario

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Mario Spiegel Video Mario Spiegel's first videos for Oper Frankfurt were seen in the 2015 world premiere of Lior Navok's An unserem Fluss / By our River. ...

Hong, Jihun

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Jihun Hong tenor This South Korean tenor joined Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio this season, making his debut as the Dance Master / Lamplighter in Manon ...

Ruhe, Henning

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Henning Ruhe, The pianist Henning Ruhe was born in Hamburg. He studied at the »Franz Liszt« University ... Philharmonia. Henning Ruhe also studied artistic management and has worked in this capacity at the Staatsoper Berlin, Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, at IMG Artists in New York and Bayerische Staatsoper in ...

Middleton, Joseph

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Joseph Middleton, Joseph Middleton was described in BBC Music Magazine as »one of the brightest stars in the world of songs and Lieder«. In 2016 he became the first accompanist to receive a Young Artist Award from the Royal Philharmonic ... Christiane Karg, Christopher Maltman and Mark Padmore at venues including the Wigmore Hall and Royal Opera House in London, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Philharmonie in Cologne and ...

Mc Carthy, Orla

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Orla Mc Carthy Dancer Orla Mc Carthy is appearing in her first production at Oper Frankfurt. This Irish born artist works as a dancer, performer and trainer in Frankfurt am Main, ...

Henseler, Nikolaus

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Nikolaus Henseler Children's Chorus Master / Assistant to Chorus Master Nikolaus Henseler joined Oper Frankfurt in 2017/18 as Assistant to the Chorus Master. This season he trains the children's ... many masterclasses, including ones held by Marcus Creed, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Daniel Reuss, Frieder Bernius and Sebastian Tewinkel (conducting) and Thomas Hecht and Günter Ludwig (piano).

Yakovlev, Arseny

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Arseny Yakovlev Tenor The young Russian tenor Arseny Zakovlev is making his debut in Germany singing Lenski in this revival of Eugene Onegin at Oper Frankfurt, a role he has sung at the Lithuanian National Opera in Riga and in Belgrade. He recently ...

Andrew, Bianca

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Bianca Andrew Mezzo-soprano New Zealand born mezzo-soprano Bianca Andrew joined the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2019/20. During the 2025/26 season she sings Carmen and Charlotte (role debuts) in ...

Suprun, Anatolii

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Anatolii Suprun Bass The bass Anatolii Suprun joined the Opera Studio last season, making his house debut as the Steward in Adriana Lecouvreur. During the 2018/19 ... Zauberflöte, the Herald in Otello and an Army Doctor in La forza del destino and a Policeman in Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Distant Sound - both new productions. Before coming to Frankfurt he was a member ...

Eder, Lukas

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Lukas Eder bass-baritone Baritone Lukas Eder is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut singing 2nd Servant in Strauss' Capriccio, which he sang again ...

Braun, Manuel

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Manuel Braun Video This much sought-after director and video artist is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he designed videos for Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine and Verdi’s La forza del destino, for this new production of Rudi Stephan’s Die ersten Menschen ... (Fidelio), the Théâtre royal de la Monnaie in Brussels (Lucio Silla and Il trittico) and Theater an der Wien (La gazza ladra). He also designed videos for Tannhäuser at the 2019 Bayreuth Festival, which ...

Voigt, Raimund Orfeo

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Raimund Orfeo Voigt Set Designer Set designer Raimund Orfeo Voigt made his debut at Oper Frankfurt with this thrilling production of Norma. It was his first production with Christof Loy, with whom he also created Strauss’ ... Florentine Tragedy / Gianni Schicchi double bill at the Nationale Opera Amsterdam with Jan Philipp Gloger, Der Freischütz at La Scala Milan, La Bohème and Fidelio at the Grand Théâtre de Genève with Matthias ...

Tonauer, Anna-Katharina

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Anna-Katharina Tonauer Mezzo-soprano Austrian mezzo-soprano Anna-Katharina Tonauer is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she made her debut singing Tisbe in 2017/18, to sing Nancy in Flotow's Martha. ... Fontana and Karlheinz Hanser. She took part in masterclasses, including ones held by Brigitte Fassbaender, Anne Sofie von Otter and Helmut Deutsch.   

Thompson, Jason H.

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Jason H. Thompson Set / Video / Lighting Designer Jason H. Thompson designs lighting and projections for opera, dance, drama, open-air events, museums and architecture. Lost Highway, his debut at Oper Frankfurt, ...

Lanzillotta, Francesco

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Francesco Lanzillotta Conductor Italian born Francesco Lanzillotta, one of the most interesting conductors of his generation, is back in Frankfurt, where he led a concert performance of ... Chief Conductor of the Orchestra Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma and Music Director of the Macerata Opera Festival is a regular guest at leading opera houses and festivals. This season he made his debut ...

Westerbarkey, Adriane

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Adriane Westerbarkey Costume Designer Adriane Westerbarkey works regularly with the director Florentine Klepper. Their productions at Oper Frankfurt were Arnulf Herrmann's Wasser / Water, Telemann's Orpheus, Martinů's Julietta and Smetana's Dalibor. She also designed costumes for their productions of Salome, Norma and Der ferne Klang / The distant Sound at Graz Opera, Die tote Stadt / The Dead City and Giulio Cesare in ...

Lauritano, Kelsey

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Kelsey Lauritano Mezzo-soprano The Japanese-American mezzo-soprano Kelsey Lauritano left the opera studio to join the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2020/21. During the 2025/26 season roles include Dorabella in this ... and "Bogus" Boy in Kurt Weill's The Tsar wants his Photograph Taken. Last season she repeated her wonderful portrayals of Lichas in Handel's Hercules and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and sang two new ...

Robson, Isabel

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Isabel Robson Video Isabel Robson has been making videos for plays, operas, performances and installations since 2002 mostly, in Germany. She has worked with the director ... co-production between the Salzburg Easter Festival and the Semperoper in Dresden, Candide and Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny / The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Staatsoper in Berlin (Schillertheater) ...

Marcon, Andrea

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... Andrea Marcon is an acknowledged specialist for early music. He founded the Venice Baroque Orchestra in 1997, one of the leading baroque ensembles in the world. He has been running the La Cetra Baroque ... the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada in 2013/14. His long and successful career has taken him to leading opera houses, concert halls and festivals in Europe, the USA and Japan. Recent projects have included ...

Rebeka, Marina

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Marina Rebeka soprano One of the world's leading opera singers is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt. This Latvian soprano's been a regular guest at ... Gatti, Gustavo Dudamel and Lorenzo Viotti since making her breakthrough at the 2009 Salzburg Festival under Riccardo Muti. Her repertoire ranges from the baroque, bel canto and Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Britten. ...

Cambreling, Sylvain

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Sylvain Cambreling Conductor The French conductor Sylvain Cambreling is highly respected all over the world ... has been Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra since 2018/19. He shaped and influenced Oper Frankfurt from 1993 – 1997 as Artistic Intendant and General Music Director, which was voted »Opera ... orchestral works which one him many prizes. Sylvain Cambreling was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (order of merit cross for services to Germany) in 2012.  

Danker, Nelly

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Nelly Danker Director Nelly Danker comes from a German / Japanese, musical family. She has directed operas and other forms of staged music at placed including the Philharmonie Berlin, Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Kansai Nikikai in Osaka, Theater Luzern, ... University for Music Berlin she worked closely with Hans Neuenfels from 2002 - 2006. She is a co-founder of the KinderMusikTheater in Heidelberg (KiMuTH). Nelly Danker was awarded scholarships by the Akademie ...

Becker, Dirk

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Dirk Becker Set Designer Dirk Becker, who studied set and costume design at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, works in drama, ballet and opera. He was house set designer at the Staatstheater in Stuttgart from 2001 – 2003. Frankfurt audiences ...

Kłubczuk, Mariusz

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Mariusz Kłubczuk Pianist and Coach The young Polish pianist Mariusz Kłubczuk joined Oper Frankfurt in the 2017/18 as a soloists' coach. He studied at the Frédéric Chopin Music University ...

Grüter, Andreas

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Andreas Grüter Lighting Designer Andreas Grüter, head of the lighting department at Cologne Opera since 2010, made his debut at Oper Frankfurt with this production of Rusalka. He has lit many productions ... Cardiff, Die verkaufte Braut / The Bartered Bride at the Volksoper in Vienna, Idomeneo at the Theater an der Wien, Tannhäuser at the Teatro Perez Galdos Las Palmas and Der Ring des Nibelungen for the 2008 ...

Koenigs, Lothar

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Lothar Koenigs Conductor Lothar Koenigs, who is a regular guest at leading opera houses all over the world including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Vienna, Munich, Dresden ... Elektra at Zurich Opera, Lulu at the Met, Salome in Stuttgart, Elektra, Daphne and Capriccio in Brussels, Der Kreidekreis in Lyon and Die tote Stadt in Warsaw. The many orchestras with whom he appears in concert ...

Afkham, David

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... Afkham Conductor David Afkham, Chief Conductor of the Spanish National Orchestra & Chorus, is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, conducting Hänsel und Gretel.  Born in Freiburg, he conducted ... Madrid and concert performances of Elektra and Bluebeard's Castle. In 2019 he conducts Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart and has been invited to ...

Bishop, John

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John Bishop Lighting Designer Award winning British lighting designer John Bishop has worked on around 200 play, operas and ballets around the world. Now he’s back at Oper Frankfurt, where he worked for the first ... National Theatre in Prague and Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, An Old Lady pays a Visit at the Theater an der Wien, Doktor Faust and The Great Gatsby at the Semperoper in Dresden, Tannhäuser and Le roi Arthus ...

Noisternig, Markus

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... Sound Design / Live Electronics Markus Noisternig works as a researcher and computer musician at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), the Centre National de la Recherche ... European and international festivals. He as worked with Olga Neuwirth for many years, and is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time.

Nouno, Gilbert

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Gilbert Nouno Sound Designer Gilbert Nouno is a composer, sound artist, performer and researcher. In 2011 he was awarded the Prix de Rome (Villa Medici) and in 2007 the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto's scholarship. His music is inspired by visual and digital art and design. As an artist he researched, under the pseudonym Til Berg, interdisciplinary, the synaesthetic relationships between individual art ...

Lee, David DQ

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David DQ Lee Countertenor The Canadian countertenor David DQ Lee is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he jumped in at short notice to sing Ruggiero in Vivaldi's Orlando furioso in 2010, to sing Mascha in this new ... and ensembles. Future engagements include concert performances of Orlando furioso at the Theater an der Wien, a repeat of his portrayal of Disinganno in Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno at the Stanislawski ...

Pütthoff, Christoph

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Christoph Pütthoff Actor While Christoph Pütthoff was still studying at the August Everding Bavarian Theatre Academy in Munich he took part in productions directed by ... Mephisto (director: Claudia Bauer) and he took part in the online series Eternal Peace (director: Alexander Eisenach). He has taken part in many productions at Oper Frankfurt, including the incredibly exposed, sung, role of the Blind Singer in Aulis Sallinen's ...

Burrell, Jeff

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Jeff Burrell Actor The American actor Jeff Burrell is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, as Fred in the first performances in Germany of Olga Neuwirth's Lost ...

Pintzou, Sofia

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Sofia Pintzou Dancer / Actress This new production of I puritani is Sofia Pintzou's fourth production with the director Vincent Boussard. The first three were Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny / The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Staatsoper in Berlin, Otello at the Semperoper in Dresden and at the Salzburg Easter Festival, and Le Prophète ...

Gaul, Samantha

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Samantha Gaul soprano Samantha Gaul is a member of the Ensemble at Theater Freiburg, where roles have included Adele (Die Fledermaus), Musetta (La Bohème), Olympia (Hoffmanns Erzählungen / The Tales of Hoffmann) and the title ... sang at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt, Theater Gießen and the Münchener Biennale for Contemporary Opera. This award winning artist currently studies wit Cristiane Iven at the University for Music and ...

Karg, Christiane

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Christiane Karg Soprano Christiane Karg is one of the most sought-after sopranos in the world. She was a treasured member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt from 2008 - 2013, where she sang many of the roles with which she thrills audiences in Vienna (State Opera and Theater an der Wien), Berlin, Munich, London, Chicago, New York, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Salzburg and Baden-Baden ...

Sehling, Steffie

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Steffie Sehling Extra Steffie Sehling is back to repeat her compelling performance of Grete as an older woman in this fantastic production of Schreker’s Der ferne Klang / The Elusive Sound. She has been ... working as an extra for the Städtischen Bühnen since 2007, appearing regularly on stage in plays and operas, including Urs Troller’s production of Medea and Michael Thalheimer’s Ödipus / Antigone in ...

Teti, Carla

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... Abbado, Andrei Konchalovski and Andrea Breth. She has designed costumes for productions at many leading opera houses and festivals including Il trittico and Idomeneo at the Theater an der Wien, Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci and Guillaume Tell at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden ...

Mattei, Peter

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... Swedish baritone Peter Mattei started the 2021/22 season off with a triumphant portrayal of Amfortas in Parsifal under Philippe Jordan at the Opéra National de Paris, a city he returns to this winter for the Count in Le nozze di Figaro. Other engagements this season include Don Giovanni and the Count at the Semperoper in Dresden and the title role in Wozzeck, a role he sang for the first time at the Met in 2019/20, ...

Lobbes, Marcus

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Marcus Lobbes Director Marcus Lobbes has ben working as a director, designer and author in drama and opera since 1995. He is also director of the Academy for Theater and Digitality, founded in 2019, and ...

Mackert, Pia Maria

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Pia Maria Mackert Set Designer Pia Maria Mackert has been working as a set and costume designer for plays and operas at theatres including the Hamburg Schauspielhaus, Vienna Akademietheater, Schauspiel Frankfurt, ... Dusseldorf, Nationaltheater in Mannheim and Theater Dortmund since 1993. She was nominated for a German DER FAUST theatre prize. She designed the set for the first Axel Springer Award for digital journalism ...

Voges, Kay

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Kay Voges Director Kay Voges was made Intendant of the Schauspiel in Dortmund in 2010, moving to the Volkstheater in Vienna as Director at ... founding director of the Academy for Theatre and Digitality in Dortmund. He started directing plays and operas in 1998. His work has been seen at theatres including the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Staatsschauspiel ... He directed Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar named Desire (2014) at Schauspielfrankfurt and Weber's Der Freischütz (2015) at the Staatsoper in Hannover. Schauspiel Dortmund was voted second best theatre ...

McVicar, David

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David McVicar Director David McVicar‘s Don Carlo has drawn record audiences since it first opened in Frankfurt in 2007/8 and was recently seen at the Teatro Real in Madrid. He recently directed Rusalka at the Canadian Opera Company. He was born in Glasgow where he studied acting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland ...

Borras, Jean-François

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Jean-François Borras Tenor The French tenor Jean-François Borras back at Oper Frankfurt to sing Don José in Carmen, the role with which he made his debut here in 2019/20. He ...

Löcker, Marek

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Marek Löcker Actor Marek Löcker made his acting debut in the Bockenheimer Depot, where he was involved inMINA (and opera written and performed by young people), in this production of Menotti's The Medium when it first ...

Bill, Sami

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Sami Bill Video Sami Bill, of German and Finnish birth, studied scenic arts at Hildesheim University. His scenographics, sets, videos and stage ... free scene, to Theater Koblenz, the Stadttheater in Augsburg, the Wuppertal Bühnen and the Theater an der Parkaue in Berlin and, later on, to places including the Staatsschauspiel in Dresden, the Maxim Gorki ... Krakow. Recent work with the directors Jan Philipp Gloger has included Il turco in Italia at Zurich Opera, Junk at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Die Troerinnen at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe, ...

Kiechle, Alexander

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Alexander Kiechle Bass The young bass Alexander Kiechle is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. He joined Zurich Opera's international Opera Studio in 2017/18, since ...

Choi, Seungwon

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Seungwon Choi Bass Seoul born bass Seungwon Choi is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he took part in an »Opera for Children« version of Donizetti’s Der Liebestrank / The Love Potion in 2019/20 which was followed by his debut as a Flemish Deputy in Don ...

Ruszó, Alexandra

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Alexandra Ruszó Soprano Alexandra Ruszó studied in Budapest at places including the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. She has appeared with orchestras ... Symphony, Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Concert Budapest, the National Philharmonic Orchestra and Hungarian State Opera House Orchestra. Operatic engagements have taken her to the Pécs National Theater (Annius in ...

Roma und Sinti Philharmoniker

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Roma und Sinti Philharmoniker The Roma Philharmonic The Roma Philharmonic is made up of professional Roma and ... venues such as the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Staatstheater and Kurhaus Wiesbaden,  the Alte Oper, hr-Sendesaal (Hessen Radio Studio) and Paulskirche in Frankfurt, the Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam and Frauenkirche in Dresden. They became known to an even wider audience when they performed Roger Moreno Rathgeb's „Requiem for Auschwitz“ in many European ...

Voigt, Robi

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Robi Voigt Video Art Robi Voigt studied audio visual media in Hamburg and set design in Zürich and started experimenting with video and interactivity early on. ... in Zurich since 2006, working on multimedia installations and has been involved in many theatre and opera productions as a video and lighting designer, set designer, film maker or a mixture of everything, ...

Bärenklau, Voxi

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Voxi Bärenklau Lighting Designer Voxi Bärenklau has been working as a cameraman for film and television since 1987, with directors including Helge Schneider, Christoph Schlingensief and Adolf Winkelmann and as a lighting and video designer for plays and opera since 2002. Schlingensief engaged him as a lighting designer and cameraman in 2000 at the Volksbühne ...

Albrecht, Frank

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Frank Albrecht Actor Frank Albrecht was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1958 and joined the Ruth von Zerboni drama school in Munich before spending periods under contract to the Städtische Bühnen in Augsburg, Theater Bremen, Schauspiel Cologne and Theater Freiburg. ... logotherapist in a group practice in Baden-Baden, in addition to his work on stage.  Now he’s back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut last season as Vespone in Pergolesi’s La serva padrona which ...

Paker, Ekin Su

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Ekin Su Paker Soprano After having a baby, Turkish soprano Ekin Su Paker is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she was a member of the Opera Studio from 2020 - 2022, singing roles including Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro), a role she recently sang at the Theater an der Wien, Pipetta and the Duchess (Offenbach's The Bandits), Sylviane (The Merry Widow) and Rosina (The ...

Hendry, James

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... Hendry Conductor This young British conductor, who took up the post of 1st Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper in Hannover in 2020/21, where he has conducted operas including Carmen, Sweeney Todd, Eugene Onegin, ... Parker Young Artists Programme as a conductor and soloists’ coach, working on works including Oreste, Der Rosenkavalier, Adriana Lecouvreur, Madama Butterfly, Otello, Hänsel und Gretel and Turandot.

Velourfilm AB

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Velourfilm AB, Velourfilm AB is a Swedish company based in Stockholm. Founded by Nils Fridén, Hobi Jarne and Emil Gotthard in 2007, it is actively involved ... set designers and experimental artists. Recent projects have been seen at places including the Royal Opera in Stockholm (Aida), the National Theatre in Bergen, the Nature History Culture Museum in Gränna ...

Zoller, Siegfried

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Siegfried Zoller Costume Designer Siegfried Zoller has been in charge of costume design at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart since 2003, where he designed costumes for many productions including Voyeur, Escamotage, ...

Yende, Nombulelo

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Nombulelo Yende Soprano This season South African soprano Nombulelo Yende, who joined the ensemble in 2024/25, can be heard singing Michaëla again in Carmen and two new roles: Angèle ... roles in Schreker's Elusive Sound. She made her European debut here in 2021/22, while a member of the Opera Studio, singing the Guardian of the Temple's Threshold / Falcon in Die Frau ohne Schatten, took ...

Tuma, Anna Sofie

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Anna Sofie Tuma Costume Designer Anna Sofie Tuma is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she designed costumes for Claus Guth productions of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera and Puccini's Il Trittico and Florentine Klepper's production of Arnulf Herrmann's Wasser ... Festival and La Scala Milan. Recent productions with Florentine Klepper have included Arabella and Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman at the Semperoper in Dresden, Der ferne Klang / The Distant ...

Rehlis, Agnieszka

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Agnieszka Rehlis mezzo-soprano Agnieszka Rehlis is back at Oper Frankfurt to repeat her portrayal of Amneris in last season's new production of Aida, in which she sang the role when making her debut with the ... du Capitole in Toulouse. She also enjoys a busy concert career and works regularly with Krzystof Penderecki, in whose works, under his baton, this singer regularly appears, including the recording »Penderecki ...

Mărgean, Bianca

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Bianca Mărgean soprano The Romanian soprano Bianca Mărgean is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt, singing the title role in Tosca. She studied at the University for Music in Bucharest with Eleonora Enăchescu and Maria Slătinaru-Nistor and continues her vocal development under the guidance of Ira Siff, Liora Maurer and Lucy Arner.  She's a member of Bucharest State Opera's ...

Suh, In Sun

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In Sun Suh pianist & coach The Korean pianist In Sun Suh, who joined Oper Frankfurt as a soloists' coach in 2011/12, is currently playing for performances of Hänsel und ...

Grünfelder, Csaba

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Csaba Grünfelder Children's Chorus Master Csaba Grünfelder joined Oper Frankfurt in the 2020/21 season to assist the chorus master and be in charge of the children's chorus. ...

Dowsley, Anna

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... mezzo-soprano Anna Dowsley is one of the most sought-after artists of her generation. Last season she sang Olga in a revival of Eugene Onegin at Oper Frankfurt, where she can now be heard as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro. She made her debut in ... She made her debut in the UK singing Meg Page in Falstaff with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Vasily Petrenko. She recently sang Dorabella again at Opera Queensland, her first Adalgisas (Norma) ...

Kim, Haesu

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Haesu Kim Tenor Tenor Haesu Kim, who sings a Servant in this revival of Capriccio at Oper Frankfurt, where he sang Don Ramiro (2018) in La Cenerentola and Rodolfo (2019) in La Bohème in ... last season included Bastien in Bastien und Bastienne, Beobachter (spectator) in Keine Stille außer der des Windes / No stillness apart from the Wind's  and 4th Squire in Parsifal.

Podlesny, Artur

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Artur Podlesny violin Artur Podlesniy was born in Kharkiv/Ukraine in 1980. He studied at the Gnessin Music Academy in Moscow ... (Hessen Radio)-Sinfonieorchester in 2008. He has been Deputy First Concert Master of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2016/17.

AbdelRahim, Basma

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Basma AbdelRahim violin Basma AbdelRahim comes from a musical family in Cairo, where she was given her first violin lesson ... she received a DAAD scholarship in 1984 and her diploma in 1987, after which she joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester. A Fulbright scholarship enabled her to further her studies in Bloomington ...

Katz, Sergio

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Sergio Katz violin Sergio Katz was born in Rio de Janeiro and took up the violin at the age of eight, with Alberto Jafé and Frederik Stephany. He won many prizes at competitions and a DAAD scholarship in 1979 before studying at ... violin in the Tempo giusto chamber music orchestra in Bern he joined the first violins in the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 1987. He has played regularly with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the ...

Schwarzmayr, Christine

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Christine Schwarzmayr violin Christine Schwarzmayr was born and grew up in Switzerland. She went to America ... Stuttgart (SWR), the Staatstheater in Stuttgart and Zurich Chamber Orchestra. She joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2000. Passionate about chamber music, she is involved in various ensembles, ...

Ritts-Kirby, Freya

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Freya Ritts-Kirby violin Freya Ritts-Kirby, the youngest of seven children in England, started playing the violin with Faith ... Orchestra and Orquesta Ciudad de Granada. She then made her way to Germany, where she joined the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt for nine years, appearing in a great many concerts, on tour, recordings and operatic projects at home and abroad. She then joined the first violins of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester ...

Tsankov, Tsvetomir

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Tsvetomir Tsankov violin Tsvetomir Tsankov studied the violin in his homeland of Bulgaria with Blagorodna Taneva and then ... in Bulgaria. He was a member of the Essen Philharmonic, Duisburg Philharmonic, the Bayerische Staatsoper München and WDR Sinfonieorchester in Cologne. Tsvetomir Tsankov is a member of the Orchester der Klangverwaltung Munich and joined the first violins at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester ...

Hausmann, Guntrun

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Guntrun Hausmann violin Guntrun Hausmann studied violin and chamber music at the University of Music in Leipzig with Prof. Gerhard Bosse. She joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in Frankfurt in 1989, where she has led the second violins since 2011, after ...

Laubstein, Susanna

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Susanna Laubstein violin Susanna Laubstein was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and started learning the violin ... people including Pinchas Zukerman, Boris Levinsohn and Alfred Lipka. Susanna Laubstein was deputy leader of the Stadttheater in Gießen's Philharmonic Orchestra from 1999 – 2001, the year she joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester.

Wilken, Donata

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Donata Wilken violin Donata Wilken studied orchestral music in Karlsruhe and the University in Cologne, where she received her diploma in 2001, the year she joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester. Baroque music is just as close to her heart as operatic repertoire. She ...

Yamaguchi, Nobuko

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Nobuko Yamaguchi violin Japanese born Nobuko Yamaguchi started learning the violin when she was six years old at the Toho ... the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt. Curious about performing early music properly, she studied further with Prof. Petra Müllejans. Masterclasses run by people including Igor Ozim, ...

Schulz, Sara

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Sara Schulz violin Sara Schulz' father started teaching her the violin at home in Hameln. At a young age she was impressed ... Symphony and NDR Sinfonieorchester provided further inspiration. She has been a member of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2011.

Faraut, Guillaume

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Guillaume Faraut viola Guillaume Faraut was born in France in 1987 and studied at the Hanns Eisler University for Music in Berlin with Stefan Hempel and Kolja Blacher. He joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2014, and was appointed one of the leaders of the viola section in 2023/24,  and is often invited to lead other groups of musicians. Guillaume ...

Attula, Wolf

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Wolf Attula viola Wolf Attula was born in Berlin and grew up in Thüringen. He realised his love for music after time spent playing with the German String Philharmonic under Michael Sanderling, and joined the Belvedere Music School in Weimar, where he was taught violin by ... the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin and Staats Philharmonie Nürnberg before joining the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester as deputy leader of the violas in the autumn of 2016.

Hampe, Ludwig

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Ludwig Hampe viola Ludwig Hampe grew up in a musical family in Munich. After studying the history of art and archeology he started learning to ... was later inspired by the violinist Rainer Kussmaul and the Amadeus Quartet. He has been deputy leader of the violas in Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 1985. Unforgettable operatic highlights for him over the years included ...

Lauer, Martin

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Martin Lauer viola Martin Lauer was born in Offenbach am Main in 1956 and studied violin with K.A. Herrmann, ... of the Staatsorchester in Hannover from 1986 - 2000 and has been deputy first viola at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2001. He was a member of the Bachkollegium in Stuttgart from 1983 – ...

Günther, Fred

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Fred Günther viola Fred Günther was born in Kiel in 1968 and was interested in music from a young age, gaining early experience in the school ... Antiqua Cologne and other ensembles for early music. He has been a member of the violas at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 1995.

Bienroth, Susanna

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Susanna Bienroth viola Susanna Bienroth grew up in a musical family in Regensburg, and was five years old when she had her first violin lesson. Five ... joined classes for exceptionally talented young people in Bavaria, being taught by Prof. Conrad von der Goltz. This, and the fact there was nobody to play the viola at home, made her decide to concentrate ... 2007/08 season as a apprentice with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, and the next one with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester, which she joined in 2009.

Voigt, Ariane

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Ariane Voigt viola Ariane Voigt was six years old when she had her first violin lesson. She went to operas and concerts at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt regularly as a child with her family – her favourite ... Die Zauberflöte. She still loves playing for Mozart operas. When she was 12 she went to Schloss Belvedere Music School in Weimar. This was followed by studies at the University for Arts in Graz and University ...

Clauß, Rüdiger

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Rüdiger Clauß cello Rüdiger Clauß was born in Ludwigshafen in 1968. He began playing the piano when he was six, had his first cello lesson when ... was taught by Jörg Baumann. He was appointed solo cellist at the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Flanders (Antwerpen) in 1994 and, two years later, the same position with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester, where he is to this day. He is also sought-after for solo and chamber music ...

SalahEldin, Kaamel

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Kaamel SalahEldin cello Kaamel SalahEldin was born in Cairo to a musical family. He started taking cello lessons at ... Canada from 1982-1985, where he also assisted Harvey Shapiro. He has been a member of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 1988. Since 2000 he has worked regularly and closely with conductors ...

Fischer, Florian

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Florian Fischer cello Florian Fischer has been a member of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2007. He studied the cello at the universities for music in Hamburg ...

Riemer, Mario

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Mario Riemer cello Mario Riemer, born in Bonn in 1988, and had his first cello lesson when he was five. After being taught by Prof. Claus Reichardt ... Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf he went to Frankfurt am Main to study with Prof. Michael Sanderling in 2007, passing his finals with flying colours in 2014, and his concert exams, with the help ... Rheinland-Pfalz Foundation. After temporary contracts with the Dresden Philharmonic and Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich Mario Riemer joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2014. He is a member ...

Brnič Uhrhan, Nika

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Nika Brnič Uhrhan cello Nika Brnič, born in Ljubljana (Slovenia), studied with Prof. Miloš Mlejnik at the Music Academy there, Prof. Troels Svane ... Ministry for Culture, DAAD and the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation. She joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in September 2014.

Matros-Büsing, Hedwig

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Hedwig Matros-Büsing double bass When she was 14 Hedwig Matros-Büsing was fascinated by the huge instrument at the back ... in Frankfurt am Main, with Prof. Günter Klaus, prepared her for this and she joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 1989. Chamber music with the Mutare Ensemble and colleagues from the orchestra, ...

Enger, Philipp

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Philipp Enger double bass Philipp Enger was born in Dresden in 1980. His parents were glad he wanted to play the violin because they loved making music ... Staatskapelle in Dresden. He spent time with the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra before joining the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2008.

Hommel, Jean

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Jean Hommel double bass The Luxemburger double bass player Jean Hommel played in all sorts of bands, from jazz to punk, when he was young. After leaving school he went to study the ... then Prof. Božo Paradžik in Freiburg, where he obtained it in 2013. He joined the Bayerische Staatsoper's academy not long afterwards, and then played with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. ... Orchestra, the Staatsorchester in Stuttgart, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the Ensemble Modern and Bayerische Staatsorchester, as well as with his band, The Disliked, for which he also composes. ...

Louvion, Sarah

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Sarah Louvion flute Sarah Louvion was born in the north of France and studied the flute and chamber music at the Conservatoire National de Musique ... in Geneva. She was awarded the 2011 Pro Musicis in Paris. She has been 1st flute with the Frankfurt Opern-und Museumsorchester since 2002. She is also sought-after worldwide for solo work, chamber music ...

Turré, Almuth

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Almuth Turré flute Almuth Turré was born in Halle and grew up in Leipzig. After the reunification of Gemany she was strongly influenced musically as a scholarship holder with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Kurt Masur – and inspiring work under Claudio Abbado with the ... Leipzig, preferably Bach – and Mozart everywhere. Apart from her happy and busy work in the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester Almuth Turré is a real family person, and passionate Frankfurter. Since ...

Gandolfo, Giovanni

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Giovanni Gandolfo flute Giovanni Gandolfo was born in Enna, Sicily. He has been playing the flute / piccolo with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2019, where he held the post of deputy solo flute for a year. He played ... the Bamberg Symphony and was invited to play at the Bayreuth Festival. Giovanni Gandolfo has worked under many of world's leading conductors, including Claudia Abbado, Thomas Adès, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre ...

Becker, Nanako

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Nanako Becker oboe Nanako Becker was born in Japan and joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2011 as solo oboist. She had her first oboe lesson when she was 13. She ... Becker joined the University for Music in Karlsruhe 2008 to further her studies with Prof. Thomas Indermühle.

Bischof, Jens

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Jens Bischof clarinet Jens Bischof comes from Gelsenkirchen and had his first clarinet lesson at the music school there. ... of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the Orchester Adademy in Munich for his time at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester, where he has been solo clarinettist since 2001. He continues to play with ...

Schneider, Diemut

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Diemut Schneider clarinet Diemut Schneider started learning the clarinet when she was nine, with her sisters, who ... Competition in Munich and the German Music Competition. She has been deputy solo clarinet at the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester since 1989, so her dream came true.

Descours, Lola

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Lola Descours bassoon In 2019 Lola Descours made history by becoming the first woman to win a prize at the (16th) International Tchaikovsky Competition in St. Petersburg. She joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2017 as a solo bassoonist, after ten years with the Orchestre de Paris. ...

Tremuth, Claude

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Claude Tremuth horn Claude Tremuth was born in Luxemburg. He spent the first years of his musical training at the Conservatoir in Esch, Alzette, ... Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival's Orchester Academy and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. Claude Tremuth went under temporary contract to the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2011 and was then offered a fixed post with the Staatsorchester in Hannover. ...

Guggenberger, Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Guggenberger trumpet Wolfgang Guggenberger studied the trumpet with Prof. Kurt Nagel in Mannheim. He has been a member of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 1986. Wolfgang Guggenberger has performed at many festivals and with ...

Mentens, Jeroen

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Jeroen Mentens trombone The trombonist Jeroen Mentens, who was born in Belgium in 1982, won prizes at the International Competition for easy listening music in St. Gallen ... the WDR Sinfonieorchester, hr(Hessen Radio)-Sinfonieorchester and Bamberg Symphony. He has worked under conductors including Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons and Pierre Boulez. He played with the Brussels and Essen philharmonics before joining the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2010 as a solo trombone. This passionate chamber musician is co-founder ...

García Casas, Miguel

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Miguel García Casas trombone Miguel García Casas, born in Les Coves de V., Spain, in 1994, started studying music at the university in his home town with Israel ... co-found the Nineties Trombone ensemble and And the Brass. He has been a solo trombonist at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2018. He also enjoys playing with colleagues in Frankfurt Chamber Brass

Friedrich, Hartmut

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Hartmut Friedrich trombone Hartmut Friedrich has played with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester with enthusiasm for more than 30 years. He was born in Weindorf, Baden, where he made his first attempt on the instrument in a trombone choir. Hartmut Friedrich ...

Friedel, Jürgen

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Jürgen Friedel percussion Born in Konstanz in 1963, Jürgen Friedel spent his childhood and youth in the Hilpertsau, Baden / Nordschwarzwald. ... Music in Trossingen with Prof. Hermann Gschwendtner from 1983 - 1987, the year he joined the Frankfurt Opern-und Museumsorchester.

Uryupin, Valentin

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Valentin Uryupin Conductor Valentin Uryupin's back at Oper Frankfurt where he enjoyed great success in 2021/22 with the Stravinsky / Tchaikovsky Oedipus Rex ... Bregenz Festival (Eugene Onegin and Siberia) and was a popular guest at the Tirol Festival in Erl. Under his guidance, as artistic director from 2015 - 2021, the Rostov Symphony Orchestra advanced to one ...

Beltrame, Alberto

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Alberto Beltrame Set Designer The architect and set designer Alberto Beltrame is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt with this new production of Handel's Amadigi. He and the director Andrea Bernard have ...

Beccaro, Elena

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Elena Beccaro Costumer Designer The costume designer Elena Beccaro is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on this new production of Handel's Amadigi.  She has worked closely ...

Schmitz, Corinna

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Corinna Schmitz Cello Corinna Schmitz studied in Munich, at the University for Music in Vienna with Prof. ... Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Bamberg Sinfoniker, before joining the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchest as a cellist in August 2003.

Ozaki, Toshinori

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Toshinori Ozaki lute Toshinori Ozaki began his career as a guitarist, winning a prize at the 1981 Kyushu ... L'arpa festante in Munich, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, Le Parlement de Musique and at leading European opera houses (in Zürich, Vienna, Frankfurt, Ljubljana, Dortmund, Mainz, Darmstadt, Giessen, Kaiserslautern, ...

Chan, Kinsun

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Kinsun Chan Choreographer Kinsun Chan was born in Vancouver and studied dance, art and graphic design in the USA. Ballet companies to which he has belonged included Zurich Ballet under Heinz Spoerli and Basel Ballet under Richard Wherlock. He danced solo in productions by people including ... Singapore Dance Theatre, the Tirol Landestheater, Theater in Lucerne, Hong Kong Ballet, the State Opera in Hannover's Ballet, the Royal Ballet School in Antwerp, the John Cranko Ballet School, Hong Kong ...

Edwards, Charles

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Charles Edwards Set Designer Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and trained at the Central School of Art and Design in London Charles Edwards ... Europe and the USA, working with companies including the Teatro alla Scala Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Komische Oper Berlin and Lyric Opera ...

Bernstein, Thomas

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Thomas Bernstein Horn Thomas Bernstein, born in Leipzig in 1958, studied in Cologne with Prof. Erich Penzel Horn. After ... year with the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra he took on the post of deputy solo horn with Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 1983, also performing with various chamber music ensembles and making ...

Braun, Ran Arthur

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Ran Arthur Braun Flying Choreography, Stunt coordination Ran Arthur Braun is one of the world's most sought-after stunt coordinators and action designers. He has worked on more than 300 productions so far, at leading opera hosues including Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Komische Oper Berlin, Royal Opera ...

Kronthaler, Stephan

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Stephan Kronthaler Clarinet Clarinettist Stephan Kronthaler, from Traben-Trarbach, on the Mosel, started learning music when ... Bremen, a permanent position with the Gürzenich Orchester in Cologne and his joining the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2012. He is much sought-after as a solo and chamber musician and by other ...

Vogt, Jean-Marc

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Jean-Marc Vogt Viola Jean-Marc Vogt, born in 1963, grew up in a family of musicians and German scholars. His father gave him his first violin lesson ... the University for Music in Freiburg with Prof. Ulrich Koch and then Prof. Kim Kashkashian. He went under contract to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1988 and joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 1991. Tours with leading ...

Ring, Dominik

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Dominik Ring Trumpet Born in Lower Franconia, Dominik Ring started learning music with his father and at ... diplomas in teaching music, being a musician and an advanced concert diploma. He joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2001 while he was still a student. He has been teaching at the University for Music in Würzburg under Prof. Helmut Erb, since 2007, and Prof. Jürgen Ellensohn, since 2020. He has already appeared with ...

Tremuth, Ulla

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Ulla Tremuth viola Ulla Tremuth was born in Offenbach am Main in 1975. She had her first violin lesson when she was five, moving to the viola ... was followed by further study with Prof. Hartmut Rohde in Bern. Ulla Tremuth joined the Frankfurt Opern - und Museumsorchester in 1999. Time spent playing part-time in other leading orchestras (including ...

Kisch, Bogdan Michael

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Bogdan Michael Kisch cello Bogdan Michael Kisch, born in Cluj-Napoca /Romania in 1990, grew up near Bodensee and started learning the cello when he was six. ... Wolfgang Boettcher, the Jean Paul Trio and Fauré- and Belcea Quartett. He is a member of the Frankfurter Opern und Museumsorchesters and plays an instrument made by the Freiburger violin making master Ersen ...

Richter, Anna Lucia

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Anna Lucia Richter Mezzo-soprano Anna Lucia Richter is singing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. She studied with Prof. Kurt Widmer in Basel before going to Cologne University, where she graduated under Prof. Klesie Kelly-Moog. Plans include Zerlina in Don Giovanni at the 2021 Salzburg Festival and ...

Horn, Roland

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Roland Horn Cello Roland Horn studied at the Conservatoire in Strasbourg with Jean Deplace and the University for Music in Heidelberg-Mannheim with Michael Flaksman ... Monighetti and the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt with Prof. Michael Sanderling he appeared as a soloist in concert with orchestras including the New York Metropolitan Chamber ... was solo cellist with the Koblenz Philharmonic from 2006-2007. He has been a member of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2008. He co-founded the Adorno Quartet and Frankfurt Piano.

Ulbrich, Joachim

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Joachim Ulbrich violin Joachim Ulbrich studied the violin at Stuttgart Music University with Prof. Ricardo Odnoposoff. He ... scholarship by Baden Württemberg's cultural foundation. Joachim Ulbrich held leading posts at the Staatsoper in Hannover and in the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester. He has been a member of the Bayreuth ... 1999 and has been playing with the Skyline Symphony in Frankfurt (chief conductor: Prof. Michael Sanderling) since 2010. He enjoys a busy career as a chamber musician and is a sought-after teacher. He ...

Tanasii, Natalia

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Natalia Tanasii soprano The Moldavian soprano (Micaëla in Carmen January 9 & 13 2022) is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time. Later this season she can be heard singing Tatjana (Eugene Onegin) ...

Culebras, Gorka

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Gorka Culebras dancer Gorka Culebras studied dance and musical in his home town of Madrid and now works internationally as a dancer and performer. He took part in Dreams ... festival (director: José Antionio Ruiz; choreographer: Patrick de Bana). He also works regularly on oper productions at leading theatres. He has collaborated with the directors Robert Carsen for some time ...

Ortí, Pascu

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Pascu Ortí dancer Pascu Ortí studied the performing arts in Paris, London and New York. He has worked on many international musical production as a dancer ... Python's Spamalot, The Producers and Peter Pan in London. He also appears as a dancer regularly in operatic productions at the Teatro Real de Madrid, with internationally renowed directors including Stefan ...

Lemma, Gabriella

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Gabriella Lemma, Gabriella Lemma was born and grew up in Canosa, in Apulia. She studied ballet and contemporary technique at the Centro Teatro Danza in ... in Osnabrück from 2019 - 2021. She now works freelance, appearing at theatres including the Semperoper in Dresden, Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, Oper Frankfurt and with various dance projects. In 2021 ...

Kim, Eui Kyung

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Eui Kyung Kim soprano This Korean soprano fell in love with music as a child, because her father was a singer. She studied in her home town Seoul at Yonsei ... University and passed her bachelors with distinction. She came to Germany in 2015 to study for her masters in opera singing at the University for Music in Karlsruhe with Prof. Maria Venuti, during which time she ... Röschmann. During her studies she took part in many masterclasses, including ones held by Brigitte Fassbaender, Regina Werner, Dorothea Röschmann and the director Stefan Herheim. She enjoyed great success in ...

Schmidt, Lukas

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Lukas Schmidt tenor The tenor Lukas Schmidt is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he appeared in the new production of Giordano’s Fedora this season, to sing ...

Camburn, Todd

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Todd Camburn piano Todd Camburn studied piano in the USA with Martin Katz and graduated in coaching and chamber music. He has worked as a pianist ... Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Salzburg Festival and was invited to the Tanglewood Festival to coach Lieder singing. He has been working as a soloists' coach at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva since 1996. Many ...

Subacchi, Agostino

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Agostino Subacchi bass The Italian bass Agostino Subacchi studied with Maria Laura Groppi at the Conservatorio ... masters at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt with Michelle Breedt. He made his operatic debut in 2017, singing Colline in Puccini’s La Bohème in Piacenza. This was followed by Dottore ... Italy, in music by composers including Bach, Buxtehude und Donizetti. He took part in Brigitte Fassbaender’s production of L’italiana in Algeiri at the 2021 Bregenz Festival, while a member of the Opera ...

Abildin, Kudaibergen

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Kudaibergen Abildin tenor Kazakhstan born tenor Kudaibergen Abildin made his debut at Oper Frankfurt  in the summer of 2022, singing Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi. He joined the Ensemble in ... Foreman in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a Messenger in Aida, Lukasch again in The Sorceress, a singer in Der Rosenkavalier, Drunk Prisoner in Janáček's From the House of the Dead and Malcolm & 1st Knight ...

Borchers, Christian

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Christian Borchers video Film maker, script writer and video artist Christian Borchers lives in Vienna at the moment, working mostly in Germany and Austria. He worked as a professional photographer ... various magazines and artists for more than 10 years. He is currently working at various theatres and opera houses with directors including Amélie Niermeyer and Ebru Tartici Borchers. He wrote the script for his first feature film Hopper - Das Ende der Sonne (Hopper – The End of the Sun), which reached the semi-final of the 2020 Cinequest Screenwriting ...

Nickel, Maximilian

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... talks Maximilian Nickel learned how to teach music at Frankfurt's University for Music and the Performing Arts and music theory at Würzburg's University for Music and is currently working for his masters ... also works teaching music at a school in Offenbach and as a chorus master. After being apprenticed at Oper Frankfurt in 2019 he started giving regular pre-performance talks for the house.

Seidenberg, Sulamith

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... horn Sulamith Seidenberg studied the horn with Christian-Friedrich Dallmann at the University of Arts in Berlin before joining the Bavarian Radio Orchestra’s Academy in 2018 / 2019 and then the Berlin Staatsoper’s Academy. She gained further experience performing with Potsdam’s Chamber Academy, the Munich ...

Žuraj, Vito

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Vito Žuraj composer Blühen is the Slovenian composer Vito Žuraj’s second opera. World premieres of his works, which embrace all kinds of genres and formations, were performed by leading orchestras around the world including the New ... Pintscher, François-Xavier Roth and Simone Young. He enjoys a close relationship with the Ensemble Modern, who have given first performances of many of his works and dedicated a portrait concert to him ...

Wendeberg, Michael

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Michael Wendeberg conductor Conductor and pianist Michael Wendeberg has a rich and varied concert and operatic repertoire, ranging from the baroque to contemporary music. He's back at Oper Frankfurt to conduct Vito Žuraj's Blühen ... Theater Dortmund, toured with Klangforum Wien in Tongyeong, conducted the Remix Ensemble in Porto, Zender's Winterreise with Julian Prégardien and the Ensemble Modern and Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin  ...

Ivanova, Elizaveta

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Elizaveta Ivanova flute Born in Tallin, Elizaveta Ivanova went to study with Felix Renggli at the University of Music in Basel in ... the jury of the 2019 Maxence Larrieu International Flute Competition (Nice). She joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester as deputy solo flute in 2022.

Costanzo, Vincenzo

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Vincenzo Costanzo tenor The tenor Vincenzo Costanzo joined the children’s chorus at the Teatro San Carlo ... Generation Tenor Award) in Doha, Qatar. This young singer has appeared at theatres including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Guangzhou Opera House in China (Alfredo in La Traviata), the Gran Teatro ...

Salomon, Alina

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Alina Salomon Speaker Alina Salomon is studying for her masters in theatre and orchestra management at ... programmes for hr(Hessen Radio)2. She has regularly given introductory talks before performances at Oper Frankfurt since assisting the dramaturge for the new production of Król Roger in 2019. 

Macker, Jonathan

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Jonathan Macker bass-baritone Jonathan Macker is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he enjoyed great success last season as Starveling / the Moon in a wonderful new production of Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Bockenheimer Depot, to sing ...

Kuhn, Anne

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Anne Kuhn Assistant Set Designer Anne Kuhn is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she worked for the first time on Dallapiccola's Ulisse, for this new production of Halévy's La Juive. She was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) and studied Applied Musicology in Giessen. After assisting designers ...

Kwon, Kiduck

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Kiduck Kwon tenor South Korean born Kiduck Kwon is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he sang a Servant in Capriccio, an Apprentice in our new Die Meistersinger von ... Schicchi), Tamino, including a university production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (2020), Alfred (Die Fledermaus) and Wenzel (Die verkaufte Braut / The Bartered Bride).

Balota, Istvan

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Istvan Balota tenor Istvan Balota's back in Frankfurt, where he sang a Servant in Capriccio, an Apprentice in a new Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, a ... Conspirator in Weill's The Tsar wants his Photograph Taken, a Noble from Brabant in Lohengrin and an Orderly in the new production of Henze's The Prince of Homburg earlier this season to sing the Shadow ... masterclasses held by Rudolf Piernay, Thomas Heyer and Noelle Turner. He appeared in concerts and opera productions, including Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, whilst ...

Djenic, Dalila

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Dalila Djenic mezzo-soprano During Oper Frankfurt’s 2022/23 season Dalila Djenić can be heard singing the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel ... appeared in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust (in concert) in the Staatsoper Stuttgart’s Liederhalle and joined Creative Europe’s ensemble for the world premiere of Crossopera, which involved ...

Rudolph, Micha B.

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Micha B. Rudolph Extra Micha B. Rudolph has been working as an extra at the Städtischen Bühnen Frankfurt since 2016. Now you can see him again at Oper Frankfurt, where he has appeared in productions including Martha, Dialogues des Carmélites, Bianca ... ohne Schatten and Lohengrin, as Tamino as an old man in our new Die Zauberflöte and Fritz, as an older man, in the first revival of Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Elusive Sound. In plays next door he ...

Viotti, Marina

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Marina Viotti mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti was awarded Switzerland’s 2022 Music Grand Prix fo »extraordinary ... technical and interperative versatility«. Come and hear it in her recital, and first time on stage at Oper Frankfurt, titled About Last Night. She loves coming up with evenings of things which at face value ... plans include Gluck‘s Alceste at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the title role in La Périchole under Marc Minkowski at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Mozart’s Dorabella in Bilbao, Muse/Nicklausse ...

Zibert, Maria

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Maria Zibert mezzo-soprano Maria Zibert was born in Nischni Novgorod, Russia, where she studied choral singing. After passing all her exams at the Academy ... in Wiesbaden with Richard Staab. After gaining her bachelors she is now attending a master course in operatic singing at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main with Michelle ...

Jürgens, Manon

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Manon Jürgens mezzo-soprano Manon Jürgens was born in France. After studying the violin she joined Marie-Anne Losco’s singing classes at the Rainier III ... Academy in Monaco, gaining her bachelor in singing at the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg under the guidance of Mélanie Moussay and Marie-Madeleine Koebelé, where she also sang roles including Noctilia/Queen of the Night in Franck Villard’s fairy tale opera L’enfant et la nuit and took part in Berlioz’ Les nuits d’été. Manon Jürgens worked intensively ...

Schmid, Hubert

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Hubert Schmid tenor Hubert Schmid is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in the world premiere of Vito Žuraj’s Blühen (voted "World ... Opernwelt magazine) to sing 1st Man in this new production of Aribert Reimann's Melusine, both in the wonderful Bockenheimer Depot. He studied at the Richard Strauss Conservatoire and Bayerische Theaterakademie ...

Ko, Younjin

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Younjin Ko baritone The baritone Younjin Ko is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he sang in the world premiere of Vito Žuraj's Blühen earlier in the season, for ... Falstaff, Baron Mirko Zeta in Lehàr’s Die Lustige Witwe / The Merry Widow, Frank in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Belcore in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress ...

Zeppenfeld, Georg

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Georg Zeppenfeld bass Georg Zeppenfeld, one of the world's most sought-after basses, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he appeared for the first time stepping in at short notice to sing Veit Pogner, which he was singing at the Vienna State Opera at the time, ... 4 or 5 roles a summer, including Hunding, Daland, King Marke, Gurnemanz, Landgraf Hermann, Heinrich der Vogler and Viet Pogner, and is a regular guest at leading opera houses around the world including ...

Piccolo, Annalisa

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Annalisa Piccolo dancer Born in Italy Annalisa Piccolo joined the Accademia nazionale di Danza in Rome when she was 15, training in ... Amor, Phonometrie and Ballo Sport. After finishing her training she joined the ballet at the Staat Operette in Dresden. Later engagements included work with the Posterino Dance Company, Cologne Opera ...

Kim, Andrew

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Andrew Kim tenor South Korean tenor Andrew Kim, Korean name Hyunjung Kim, was a member of Frankfurt's Opera Studio from 2023-25, making his house debut singing Yamadori in Madama Butterfly. This was followed by a Shepherd in Daphne, ...

Mkosana, Sakhiwe

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Sakhiwe Mkosana baritone Sakhiwe Mkosana, from South Africa, joined Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio in 2023, making his debut in a new production of Kurt Weill's The Tsar ...

Kost, Lennart S.

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Lennart S. Kost bass The bass Lennart S. Kost is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in a new production of Kurt Weill’s The Tsar wants his Photograph ...

Winn, Alexander

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Alexander Winn baritone American baritone Alexander Winn, who studied at Amarillo College and the University of Northern Colorado, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut singing a Conspirator in Kurt Weill’s The Tsar wants his ...

Henska, Gideon

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Gideon Henska baritone The baritone Gideon Henska gained early musical experience with the Thoman Choir in Leipzig. He is studying singing at the State University ... (2021) with Mannheim’s University for Music, Dancaïro in Bizet’s Carmen (2021) at the International Opera Academy in Weikersheim and Ettlingen Castle Festival (2022), Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan ...

Kutzner, Maximilian

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Maximilian Kutzner Dancer Maximilian Kutzner joined Oper Frankfurt's team of extras in 2023. After appearing in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, Stephan's Die ...

Dietrich, Magnus

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Magnus Dietrich tenor Magnus Dietrich left the Staatsoper in Berlin’s opera studio to join Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in 2023/24, where he jumped in at short notice to sing Leukippos in our wonderful Daphne, sang Basilio / Don Curzio in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro, 3rd Jew in, Salome, ...

Ryan, Michelle

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Michelle Ryan soprano The Australian soprano Michelle Ryan  is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, stepping in at very short notice to sing 4th Maid in our new production ... (Ariadne auf Naxos). She also sang Zerlina at the Prague Summer Nights Festival, Adele in Die Fledermaus with the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra (Cuskelly School of Music Summer Programme) and Suor ...

Schuen, Andrè

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Andrè Schuen baritone Andrè Schuen's love of singing began in picturesque La Val in South Tirol, Italy, where he grew up triingual - Ladin, Italian ... Brănișteanu and Prof. Wolfgang Holzmair, after which he spent time as a member of the Ensemble at Oper Graz before embarking on an exciting international operatic and concert career. He appears in opera ... season he sings the title role in Jaromír Weinberger's Schwanda the Bagpiper at the Theater and der Wien. He also sings Wolfram in Tannhäuser, a role he sang for the first time at the Staatsoper Unter ...

Pop, Stefan

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Stefan Pop tenor The Romanian tenor Stefan Pop is back in Frankfurt, where he sang Alfredo in La Traviata (2012/13) and Elvino in La sonnambula (2014/15), for Pinkerton in the first revival of last season's new Madama Butterfly.  This Operalia prize winner returns to Covent Garden this season for Rodolfo in La Bohème before singing ...

Mentuccia, Giuseppe

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Giuseppe Mentuccia conductor The Italian conductor Giuseppe Mentuccia is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he appeared for the first time in March 2024 conducting Carmen, for this revival of Rigoletto.  He has worked with leading houses ... artistic director of the children's opera orchestra, a joint project between twelve regions in the federal state of Berlin and the Staatskapelle Berlin. He pursued his fascination with the relationship ...

Wild, Matthew

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Matthew Wild Director Matthew Wild is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt withTannhäuser. Productions staged by this South African director have enjoyed great ... Giovanni and Puccini's La bohème in Bern. His production of Gershwin's Porgy & Bess at the Theater an der Wien was nominated for four 2022 Austrian Music Theatre prizes, including best production. He recently ...

Sekgapane, Levy

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Levy Sekgapane tenor Levy Sekgapane was born in Kroonstad, South Africa, and studied with Kamal Khan and Hanna van Niekerk at Cape Town University's South African College of Music before joining the Semperoper in Dresden's young ensemble in 2015. Although early in his career there are two roles he's much ... singing in the first New Year's Eve Gala Concert when the hall first opened, with Olga Peretyatko under James Conlon. He has also sung Adina at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Enrico di Borgogna ...

Gerndt, Oliver

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Oliver Gerndt Presenter Oliver Gerndt is studying for his musicology bachelors degree alongside studying educational skills at  the Goethe University Frankfurt ... graduating as a curative nurse he taught guitar at the music university in Mörfelde-Walldorf. He worked at Oper Frankfurt for the first time assisting on last season's new production of  Handel's Orlando, since ...

Marquard, Janis

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Janis Marquard cello Janis Marquard studied with Prof. Michael Sanderling and Prof. Jan Ickert at Frankfurt's University for Music and the Performing Arts. He was under part-time contract to the Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester in 2019/20 season joining the orchestra. Janis Marquard was a member of Hessen ...

Hensges, Ursula

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Ursula Hensges mezzo-soprano Ursula Hensges is studying for her masters at the State University for Music and the Performing Arts in  Mannheim with Prof. ... including KS Prof. Christiane Iven and Prof. Rudolf Piernay. A member of the ensemble at Mannheim's opera school she appears regularly on stage, most recently as Dido and the Sorceress in Purcell's Dido ... Oper Frankfurt, where she she was part of the vocal ensemble in Handel's Xerxes. She loves singing Lieder and in concerts, most recently Mozart's concert aria Chi‘io mi scordi di te… with the Kurpfälzischen ...

Femenía Martínez, Ramón

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Ramón Femenía Martínez clarinet Madrid born clarinettist Ramón Femenía Martínez studied with Francisco Gil, José Dávila ... SWR Sinfonieorchester and apprenticed to the Stuttgart Philharmonic from 2022 - 2023. He joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in the 2023/24 season for a try-out year.

Rusch-Jung, Hyemi

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... mezzo-soprano The South Korean mezzo-soprano Hyemi Rusch-Jung graduated from the University for Music in Mainz with distinction with the help of Prof. Thomas Dewald. She sang  2nd Lady (Die Zauberflöte) ... Alessandro Scarlatti's La Giuditta and the contralto role in the world premiere of Søren Nils Eichberg's opera Schönerland at Hessen's Staatstheater in Wiesbaden. She was a member of the Staatstheater in ...

Rozinskaite, Vaida

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Vaida Rozinskaite viola Whilst still studying with Hariolf Schlichtig, Diemut Poppen and Thomas Riebl, Lithuanian ... and the Nørre Vosborg Chamber Music Festival. She was also invited to perform with the Ensemble Modern, Ensemble MidtVests, the Bamberg Symphony, Bayerische Staatsorchester, hr-Sinfonieorchester and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and plays in the Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester during the 2023/24 season.

Ickert, Jan

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Jan Ickert cello Jan Ickert studied at Dr. Hoch's Conservatoire in Frankfurt before going to the universities for music in Wuppertal, Berlin and Frankfurt to work with professors Susanne Müller-Hornbach, Andreas Greger and Michael Sanderling, and then Joseph Schwab. He gained further experience attending many masterclasses. He founded ... and Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic. He also plays regularly with the hr-Sinfonieorchester, the Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester and the Wiesbaden State Theater Orchestra. His greatest passion is passing ...

King, Morgan-Andrew

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Morgan-Andrew King bass Morgan-Andrew King made his debut at Oper Frankfurt during the 2024/25 season singing Potap in a revival of Tchaikovsky's The Sorceress, which was followed by Bourdon and the Ogre in wonderful new productions of Le Postillon de Lonjumeau  and Reimann's Melusine. During the 2025/26 season ...

Lippi, Matteo

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Matteo Lippi tenor The Italian tenor Matteo Lippi, from Genoa, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut last season singing Macduff in our Macbeth, to sing Cavaradossi inTosca and Des Grieux in this revival of Manon ...

Yi, Beomseok

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... Yi, who conducted this production of Adolphe Adams' Le postillon de Lonjumeau at the Tirol Festival in Erl when it first opened, is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt. He studied conducting in Graz, where he graduated with distinction in orchestral conducting, under the guidance of Professor Martin Sieghart, while studying coaching with Professor Günter Fruhmann. ...

Hatae, Marina

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Marina Hatae violin Born in Tokyo, Marina Hatae started playing the violin when she was four, with Maki ... join the Paul Hindemith Orchesterakademie (April 2023 - August 2024) and joined the Frankfurter Opern und Museumsorchester's 2nd violin section in September.

Tsuchiya, Yuko

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Yuko Tsuchiya soprano The internationally sought-after Japanese soprano Yuko Tsuchiya is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt this evening, stepping in to sing Venus in our new productionTannhäuser. During 2022 she enjoyed great success singing the title role in Puccini's Turandot under Daniele Abbado at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago and, a year later, at the Tokyo Nikikai ...

Cuenca, Javier

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Javier Cuenca gitarre Javier Cuenca was born in Salta, Argentina, in 1993 and became fascinated with his country's rich musical tradition when he ... Lady at the 2023 Burg Festival in Bad Vilbel and the Lucerne Festival Academy with the Ensemble Modern's International Academy  (IEMA). He has won many prizes and scholarships, including ones from ... Argentina, a Deutschlandstipendium, Stibet III and Yehudi Menuhin's Live Music Now. He is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time.

Naujoks, Wicke

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Wicke Naujoks Costume Designer Wicke Naujoks is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on this new production of Henze’s The Prince of Homburg. She was ... Future plans include Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and Mein Jahr der Ruhe und Entspannung at the Volkstheater in Munich.

Gatto, Silvia

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Silvia Gatto, Italian-born Silvia Gatto joined Oper Frankfurt at the beginning of the 2024/25 season as a director's assistant and to rehearse revivals. ...

Daniels, Marie

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Marie Daniels, Marie Daniels, born in Texas in 1991 shares her passion for music by playing the viola, performing and teaching. She was a member of the Bremen Philharmonic from 2018 - 2023 and joined the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester in 2024. She’s been running the annual Woodlands ChamberFest, a chamber ...

Werner, Melanie

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Melanie Werner saxophone Melanie Werner, born in Duisburg, has been engaged by many theatres since studying the clarinet in Essen and Hannover. She's ... musical or swing, which she has played in symphony orchestras including the WDR Radio Orchestra, at Oper Frankfurt and theatres in Aachen and Hagen.

Ros, Adrián

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... School of Ballet. Early on his career he worked freelance with various Spanish companies before moving to Germany where he has danced solo at the Staatstheater in Nürnberg, the Theater Plauen/Zwickau ... since 2021 on various projects at places including the Tanz(dance)laboratory in Ulm, Theater Trier, Oper Bonn, Taiat Dansa, Estancias Coreográficas, Producciones Bucles, Hojarasca Danza and the B&M Compagnie. ...

Adams, Robin

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Robin Adams, Robin Adams, one of the leading interpreters of contemporary music, is jumping in to save the ... in the last performance this season of Henze's The Prince of Homburg, a role he sang at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart and was nominated for »Best Singer« of the year 2021 by Opernwelt and an Opus ... Later this season you can hear him in the title role in Berg's Wozzeck in Antwerp (Opera Ballet Vlaanderen). His repertoire includes contemporary music and leading roles including Mozart's Don Giovanni, ...

Antić, Jelena

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Jelena Antić viola Born in Serbia, Jelena Antić started on the piano before taking up the violin at the Music School for talented ... including the Dresden Philharmonie, the hr-Sinfonieorchester, DSO Berlin, Ensemble Resonan and the Niederbayerische Philharmonie. She has taken part in many national and international competitions for viola ... Zimmermann at the University for Music & the Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main and joined the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester in the 2024/25 season. She is passionate about chamber music and loves teaching ...

Leitner, Gundula

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Gundula Leitner cello Born in Linz, Gundula Leitner studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She was deputy solo cellist at the Royal Opera House in London from 2022-24 and, as a guest, with the London Symphony Orchestra and plays regularly ...

Cho, Hyewon

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Hyewon Cho dancer The South Korean dancer Hyewon Cho started learning to dance ballet when she was 10 at the ballet school in Ulsan, in the south east of her home country.  Curious ... creative opportunities to work with artists from different backgrounds, and is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt in the first revival of this production of Nielsen's Masquerade.

Petrasová, Zuzana

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Zuzana Petrasová, Zuzana Petrasová was born and grew up in Prague. She studied the piano before discovering a passion for singing. She studied at the Anton ... Prof Kateřina Beranová and a term abroad in Italy in Prof Umberto Chiummo's class. She joined the Opera Studio at the Landestheater in Linz after gaining her bachelors. Whilst still a student she took ...

Gard, Björn

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Björn Gard cello Björn Gard studied at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University for Music and Tanz in Leipzig with Valentino Worlitzsch and Prof Peter Hörr from 2021-24 before going to be taught by Jan ... Leipzig's chamber music competition. He has also been stepping in regularly to play in music comedies at Oper Leipzig since 2023. He gained further invaluable inspiration taking part in masterclasses held by ...

Polifka, Gerhard

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Gerhard Polifka Chorus Master Gerhard Polifka is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on this new production of Parsifal. He took up the post of deputy ... direction at the University for Music in Würzburg. He gained further advice and inspiration from Frieder Bernius and Martin Steidler. As soon as he embarked on his studies he was running various ensembles, ...

Bootz, Stephan

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Stephan Bootz bass Stephan Bootz is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, as the Little Prisoner, Cekunov / Blacksmith in this revival of Janáček’s ... Ensemble at the Staatstheater there in 2014, where you can hear his this season in revivals of Carmen and Der Rosenkavalier and new produtions of Turandot and The Cunning Little Vixen. Guest engagments during ...

Jung, Leo Jaewon

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Leo Jaewon Jung tenor The Korean tenor Leo Jaewon Jung is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he took part in a new production of Rossini’s La gazzetta, to sing a Very Old ... National University and his masters at the State University for Music & the Performing Arts in Mannheim, under the guidance of Prof Snežana Stamenković and Prof Burkhard Fritz.

Lalinský, Rastislav

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Rastislav Lalinský baritone Rastislav Lalinský has been a member Oper Frankfurt’s Chorus since 2023/24 and you can hear him now as the Pope / Prisoner in this revival ...

Souček, Otakar

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Otakar Souček tenor Otakar Souček joined Oper Frankfurt’s Chorus in 2018 and you can hear him as a Young Prisoner in this revival of Janáček’s ... Parson in Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen. Otakar Souček gained his masters at the HAMU in Prague under the guidance of Prof Magdaléna Hajóssyová, during which time he sang roles including Kockarev ...

Avagyan, Alina

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Alina Avagyan soprano Alina Avagyan joins the Opera Studio in the 2025/26 season, during which you can hear her as Ismene in a new production of Mozart's Mitridate, ...

Yi, Younji

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Younji Yi soprano Younji Yi joins Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio in the 2025/26 season, during which you can hear her as Yvette in a revival ... singing roles including Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Servillia (La clemenza di Tito), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and Valletto (L’incoronazione di Poppea). She was a member of Daegu Opera House's opera ...

Dibble, Ruby

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Ruby Dibble mezzo-soprano American mezzo-soprano Ruby Dibble joins Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio in the 2025/26 season, making her house debut as a Musician in Manon Lescaut, ...

Müller, Jonas

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Jonas Müller baritone The German baritone Jonas Müller joined Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio this season, during which he makes his house debut singing Ferrando in ... Butterfly. He sang the title role in J. S. Kusser' opera Adonis at »Winter in Schwetzingen« 2024 under Jörg Halubeck's direction and Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro for Munich Chamber Opera in 2022 in ...

Clément, Mariame

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... Clément Director This new production of Così fan tutte is Mariame Clément's first production for Oper Frankfurt. During the 2024/25 season this French director's productions included Roméo et Juliette  at the Staatsoper ... de Chile (Lulu), Oviedo (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Strasbourg (La Belle Hélène, Werther, Platée, Der Rosenkavalier, La Calisto), Antwerp / Ghent (Giasone, Agrippina, Armida), Graz (Faust, Die Zauberflöte), ...

Raileanu, Ghiulnara

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Ghiulnara Raileanu soprano Moldovian soprano Ghiulnara Raileanu is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt, singing the title role in Manon Lescaut. She studied at the St. Neaga College of Music ... of her careeer she has worked with conductors including Andriy Yurkevych, Nicolae Dohotaru, Alexander Samoila, Manuel Busto, Cristian Florea, Akiro Mori, Peter Blackwood, Ondrej Olos, Vincenzo Milletari ...

Tsymbalyuk, Alexander

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Alexander Tsymbalyuk bass Ukrainian bass Alexander Tsymbalyuk is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt singing the title role in this new production of Boris Godunov, a role he has sung at ...

Brdiczka, Christiane

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Christiane Brdiczka speaker Born in Constance, Christiane Brdiczka studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. While under contract to the Pfalz Theater in Kaiserslautern, the Städtische Bühnen in Münster and at Staatstheater in Kassel she appeared in many works including The Threepenny Opera, Emilia Galotti, Hedda Gabler, as Sophokles' Antigone and in many other roles. She's been working ...

Mynenko, Yuriy

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Yuriy Mynenko countertenor Ukrainian countertenor Yuriy Mynenko is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt singing the title role (for the first time) in Giulio Cesare in Egitto - you can hear ... singing it again in Leipzig next June.  Other engagements this season include Medoro in Orlando under Marc Minkowski at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and Tolomeo (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), ...

Yamane, Nanami

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Nanami Yamane Kla The Japanese pianist Nanami Yamane, born in Yamaguchi, has been working as a soloists' coach at Theater Heidelberg since 2023. Before going their she spent time at places including the Komische Oper in Berlin's opera studio and Staatstheater Braunschweig. She trained as a concert pianist at the ...

Bender, Felix

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Felix Bender conductor Felix Bender has held the post of General Music Director of Theater Ulm since 2021/22, ... internationally acclaimed world premiere of Tournemire's La Légende de Tristan. He was a regular guest at Oper Leipzig, where he conducted operas including Tannhäuser, Madama Butterfly, Faust, Turandot, Don ...

Kraatz, Katharina

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Katharina Kraatz costume designer Katharina Kraatz, born in Potsdam-Babelsberg, studied costume design at the ... Neue Musik. After completing her set designing studies she worked as a costume designer's assistant at Oper Frankfurt for three years. She's been working as a free-lance costume designer and designer's assistant ...

Azrak, Thalia

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Thalia Azrak mezzo-soprano Thalia Azrak, born in Mainz, sang the Sandmann in Hänsel und Gretel at the Burg Festival in Bad Vilbel whilst still a student, and her first Barbarinas in The Marriage of Figaro at the Opera Academy in Bad Orb in 2019. Since then engagements have included a staged version of Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben under Roland Schwab's direction and the Dog in Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen. She took part in various ...

Jacq, Philippe

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Philippe Jacq actor The actor Philippe Jacq is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut last season as the Master of Ceremonies and Duc de Bedford in Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher, to play Dr Crabbe in this revival of Peter Grimes.  Born in ... El Presidente in Uruguay directed by Armando Bo, and Nuremberg, in Hungary directed by James Vanderbilt. He appears on German and Austrian television in series including Tatort, Der Staatsanwalt, ...

Happy New Ears

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Happy New Ears The first of four fascinating portraits this season, continuing this series, and cooperation with the Ensemble Modern (EM) and HfMDK, its title coined by John Cage wishing his audiences Happy New Ears, is dedicated ...

For children and families

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For children and families                     Concerts for babies, Opera Merry-go-Round and the much loved Operas for Children  - our Opera for You! programme for children and families has lots to offer for tiny tots and bigger children, to help them learn more about operatic music, how instruments are played ...

orchestra of the year!

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orchestra of the year! Opernwelt voted the Frankfurt Oper & Museumsorchestra »Orchestra of the Year«, for the 2nd time running, & Anna Nekhames »Rising Star of the Year« - CONGRATULATIONS! Critics from the specialist magazine Opernwelt ... award since 1995. AND ensemble member Anna Nekhames was voted »Rising Star of the Year« for her wonderful performances of, amongst others, Reimann's Melusine im Bockenheimer Depot. .

Christoph von Dohnányi 1929 –2025

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Christoph von Dohnányi 1929 –2025 Oper Frankfurt mourns the death Christoph von Dohnányi, a former GMD and Opera Director who influenced the history of the house. Christoph von Dohnányi was a leading figure in the international ... when things got difficult. During his time in Frankfurt he and Hans Neuenfels paved the way for modern music theater – but on this production they couldn’t, and didn’t want to, travel this path ...

Theatre Management

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Theatre Management, , Intendant & Managing Director  Bernd LoebeGeneral Music Director Thomas GuggeisArtistic Director & Deputy ...

Stockhausen, Marie

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Marie Stockhausen Choreography The dancer and choreographer Marie Stockhausen trained at the Staatliche Ballettschule in Berlin. Theatres where she has worked have included the Staatstheater in Saarbrücken and Staatsoper in Hannover. She has danced in productions by Enrique Gasa Valga, Mats Ek, Marco Goecke, Yuki Mori, ... where she danced the lead role in Frida Kahlo. Pasión por la vida – which won a »Goldenen Schikaneder« as best dance production of 2013. Her first full length dance production Charlie Chaplin won Marie ...

Ommer, Norbert

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Norbert Ommer Sound Director Norbert Ommer studied piano and clarinet in Cologne and music and creating news programmes music in Düsseldorf, where he graduated as a ... sound engineer. He has worked in radio and television and collaborated closely with the Ensemble Modern (of which he has been a partner since 1997) since 1990, the WDR Big Band as sound engineer and, ...

Cesari, Matteo

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... is much sought after around the world as a soloist and chamber musician. He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, won many prizes including the Kranichsteiner Music Prize and is passionate about contemporary ...

Kuschmann, Sebastian

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Sebastian Kuschmann Actor Sebastian Kuschmann studied at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Stuttgart. His first contracts came in 1997, for work in Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Dresden. He worked freelance at theatres including the Schauspielhaus in Bochum from 2008 - 2010, going under contract in Dortmund in 2010 while working as a guest at the Staatsoper in Berlin. He has been a member of the ensemble at Schauspiel Frankfurt since 2017. He has performed ...

Mania, Florian

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Florian Mania Actor Florian Mania was born in Darmstadt in 1984. After studying theatre and film at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz he ...

Steen-Andersen, Simon

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Simon Steen-Andersen Composer Simon Steen-Andersen was born in Denmark in 1976, lives in Berlin and has an interdisciplinary ...

Gießer, Andreas

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Andreas Gießer Actor Andreas Gießer was born in 1992, grew up in Munich and studied theatre, language, literature and culture at the LMU in Munich ... year in Schauspiel Frankfurt's studio, and was seen in many plays, including the Christmas fairy tale Der kleine dicke Ritter / The Little Fat Knight, directed by Fabian Gerhardt, and Rausch, directed by ...

Krukow, Annabelle

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Annabelle Krukow Extra Annabelle Krukow studied German and Theatre at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and has appeared regularly on stage as an extra for many years. Works in which she appeared ...

Ouyang, Beili

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Beili Ouyang horn Born in China in 2003, Beili Ouyang started studying the horn when he was 7, with Xianguang Han, Xiaoming ... competition. He played with China’s Youth Orchestra in 2017 and 2019 and won 1st prize at the 2021 Alexander China French Horn Competition. He has been a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Tirol ...

Zoelen, Andreas van

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Andreas van Zoelen saxophone The internationally renowned saxophonist, composer, conductor and teacher Andreas van Zoelen studied at the Conservatoire in Brabant before delving even deeper into the wonders of his instrument with Carina Raschèr, daughter of the renowned saxophonist Sigurd Raschèr. He ...

Vollmer, Sophia Esmeralda

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Sophia Esmeralda Vollmer dancer While Sophia Esmeralda Vollmer was studying at the Palucca University for Dance in Dresden she gained experience with Leipzig Ballet and ... Sharon Eyal, Marco Goecke, Marie Chouinard and Korsia. She has performed at places including the Semperoper in Dresden, the Stadttheater in Bern and the Tafelhalle in Nürnberg.

Nagy, Zoltan

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Zoltan Nagy clarinet Zoltán Nagy has been studying in Prof Laura Ruiz-Ferrere's classes at the University for Music and ...

Wittiber, Sebastian

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Sebastian Wittiber flute Sebastian Wittiber was born in Frankfurt and played with the Hessen and European (ECYO) youth orchestras. He joined the hr-Symphony ...

THE TRIUMPH OF TIME & TRUTH on 13/06/2026

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Georg Friedrich Händel, Di Felice Simone, Kastening Katharina, Martin-Davis Ashley, Hartmann Jan, Wink Mareike, Buczkowska-Ward Monika, Yi Younji, Magiera Katharina, Porter Michael, THE TRIUMPH OF TIME & TRUTH, Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester

BACKSTAGE TOURS on 03/11/2025

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Always wanted to know what goes on back stage in a theatre? Always secretly longed to set foot on: » ... all the world's a stage"« ? Then come ... 15,booking opens October 15,booking opens September 15,c 1½ hrs,Exploring, ... backstage!, Treffpunkt Opernpforte gegenüber dem Märchenbrunnen, BACKSTAGE TOURS

9th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts on 17/05/2026

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Bengtsson Karolina, Dietrich Magnus, Guggeis Thomas, Steffens David, Joseph Haydn 1732–1809 The Four Seasons Hob. ... little tiddly when he wrote it remarking: ‘I call the final fugue the drunken fugue’. These two wonderful oratorios have one thing in common: they celebrate the great gift and preciousness of the natural ... Cäcilienchor Frankfurt Figuralchor Frankfurt Frankfurter Kantorei Frankfurter Singakademie Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester

Werther on 06/03/2026

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Jules Massenet, Bender Felix, Decker Willy, Gussmann Wolfgang, Klein Joachim, Corral Matute Álvaro, Osborn John, Andrew ... Nekhames Anna, Bengtsson Karolina, Geyer Sebastian, Thanapat Pete, Mayer Franz, Marsh Peter, Werther, Oper Frankfurt's Children's Chorus Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester

Tristan und Isolde on 22/03/2026

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Richard Wagner, Guggeis Thomas, Thoma Katharina, Leiacker Johannes, Bartels Irina, Winter Olaf, Corral Matute Álvaro, Wink Mareike, Jentzsch Marco, ... Andreas, Mahnke Claudia, Brownlee Nicholas, Kim Taehan, Lebow Theo, Thanapat Pete, Tristan und Isolde, Oper Frankfurt's Chorus Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester

Madama Butterfly on 06/02/2026

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Giacomo Puccini, Passerini Lorenzo, Schlather R.B., Leiacker Johannes, Lüthi Doey, Kamimura Sonoko, Winter Olaf, Corral Matute Álvaro, Kuhn Konrad, Princeva Anna, Schneider Gerard, Schlather R.B., Križaj Domen, Passerini Lorenzo, Lauritano Kelsey, Marsh Peter, Avagyan ... Makuła Karolina, Marsh Peter, Avagyan Alina, Kim Taehan, Sim Kihwan, Müller Jonas, Madama Butterfly, Oper Frankfurt's Chorus Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester

The (female) Passenger on 01/02/2026

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Mieczysław Weinberg, Hussain Leo, Weber Anselm, Haß Katja, Walter Bettina, Barnes Alan, Abel Bibi, Winter Olaf, Corral ... Zanda, Lauritano Kelsey, Yi Younji, Nagyová Judita, Lascarro Juanita, Barnes Alan, Myrling Aleksander, Reiter Alfred, King Morgan-Andrew, Zechmeister Barbara, The (female) Passenger, Oper Frankfurt's Chorus Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester

Carmen on 13/12/2025

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Georges Bizet, Bignamini Jader, Pichler Otto, Kosky Barrie, Tag Katrin Lea, Pichler Otto, Klein Joachim, Corral Matute Álvaro, ... Faulkner Thomas, Barnes Alan, Bretón Abraham, Bretón Abraham, Bretón Abraham, Bretón Abraham, Carmen, Oper Frankfurt's Chorus & Children's Chorus Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester

Mitridate, re di Ponto on 07/12/2025

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hussain Leo, Guth Claus, Schmidt Christian, Kudrna Ursula, Ulrickson Sommer, Winter Olaf, Kuhn Konrad, Murray ... Burlet Gala G6mez, Oliviere Sara, Pazos Julen, Pelleg Dan, Poaros Evie, Punko Andrii, Weigert Marko, Valderas lnes, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester

THE BANDITS on 07/11/2025

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Jacques Offenbach, Werkueberschrift, King Morgan-Andrew, Januschke Karsten, Thoma Katharina, Pluss Etienne, Bartels Irina, Wiedenhofer Katharina, ... Álvaro, Kuhn Konrad, Porter Michael, Saelens Yves, Abernethy Jonathan, McCown Michael, Myrling Aleksander, Reiter Elizabeth, Makuła Karolina, Abildin Kudaibergen, Feldbauer Helene, Bengtsson Karolina, Marsh ... Werkueberschrift, Kim Eui Kyung, Schlaud Konstanze, Mattheis Julia, Rusch-Jung Hyemi, THE BANDITS, Oper Frankfurt's Chorus Frankfurter Opern and Museumsorchester

The First People on 16/11/2025

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Rudi Stephan, Moriuchi Takeshi, Kratzer Tobias, Sellmaier Rainer, Braun Manuel, Klein Joachim, Bartz Bettina, Kuhn Konrad, Bauer Kanabas Andreas, Braid Ambur, MacNeil Iain, Koziara Ian, Brazier Nina, The First People, Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester

Giulio Cesare in Egitto on 30/10/2025

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Georg Friedrich Händel, Cummings Laurence, Loschky Nadja, Pluss Etienne, Spreckelmeyer Irina, Klein Joachim, Gebauer Yvonne, Wink ... Lawrence, Heyningen Erik van, Thanapat Pete, Iushkevich Iurii, Koch Max, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester

Peter Grimes on 18/09/2025

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Benjamin Britten, Guggeis Thomas, Warner Keith, Martin-Davis Ashley, Morrell Jon, Winter Olaf, Corral Matute ... Michael, Porter Jarrett, King Morgan-Andrew, Weidauer Axel, Jacq Philippe, Fritschi Jakob, Peter Grimes, Oper Frankfurt's Chorus Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester

Yuchanan, Olga

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Olga Yuchanan violin Olga Yuchanan was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and started learning to play the violin as a child. ... 2001, the year she began studying at the University for Music in Nürnberg. She has been deputy leader of the second violins at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2006.

Suys, Bruno

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... double bass Bruno Suys comes from Ghent/Belgium and has been lead solo double bass at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 1991. He also specialises in playing the singing saw. In his spare time he enjoys working with wood, ...

Erten, Tuna

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Tuna Erten Horn Tuna Erten was born in 1984 in Istanbul, where he studied at the Mimar Sinan University for Music. He was solo horn with the Istanbul Symphony Orchestra 2008 – 2013, when he joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester. Life away from the stage and orchestra pit belongs to his family. He also ...

Reisbach, Kristin

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Kristin Reisbach Violin Kristin Reisbach was born and grew up in Mainz. Her father gave her her first violin ... University for Music in Mainz while still at school. She spent 1986 as a stubstitute at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester, of which she has been a member since 1990.

Hoffmann, Rainer

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Rainer Hoffmann Trombone Peter Hoffmann, who was born in Radevormwald in 1964, studied at the Music University ... Arts in Berlin (now University of Arts). He has been a trombonist / bass trombonist in the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 1984. He likes spending his spare time with his family and hiking in ...

Mokiievets, Alona

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Alona Mokiievets extra Alona Mokiievets, who graduated in opera direction from the Ukrain's Peter Tchaikovsky National Music Academy in Kyiv in 2021, has been ...

Chen, Yan Lei

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Yan Lei Chen bass Born in Peking, Yanlei Chen studied singing with Kammersängerin Elisabeth Lachmann at the University for Music in Detmold from 1992 - 1998. He has been part of Oper Frankfurt’s Chorus since 1998, where he has clocked up more than 100 chorus parts and sang a solo ...

Keller, Dajana

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Dajana Keller, She worked for many years as an architect after completing her studies before her passion for costume design brought her to Oper Frankfurt in 2017, where she has since assisted many costume designers on plays and operas.

For Adults

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For Adults Events for (young) people new to opera, workshops and lots more!

Schwarz, Ole

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Ole Schwarz piano Frankfurt born pianist and singer Ole Schwarz started piano lessons when he was six. He has been studying jazz at the University ... experience with Michael Quast and his »Barock am Main« Festival when he was 11 and made his debut at Oper Frankfurt in Mina, an opera written and performed by young people in the Bockenheimer Depot in ...

Horpácsy, Zsolt

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Zsolt Horpácsy Dramaturge Zsolt Horpácsy studied musicology at the University for Theatre and Film in Budapest and musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin with Dr. Gerd Rienäcker. He began his career working at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest and the Staatstheater in Cottbus. Zsolt Horpácsy has been working as a dramaturge ...

Kelsey, Quinn

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Quinn Kelsey Baritone The Hawaiian baritone Quinn Kelsey sings the title role in this new production of Rigoletto at Oper Frankfurt, where he received enormous acclaim when he made his debut here in 2012/13 singing Guy ... Verdi's Les Vêpres siciliennes, which was followed by Enrico Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor and a wonderful recital. He has thrilled audiences with Rigoletto, which he sings again soon at San Francisco ...

Zierer, Sebastian

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Sebastian Zierer Kapellmeister & Soloists' Coach During the 2016/17 season Sebastian Zierer conducts further performances of Carmen, Die Zauberflöte and La Bohème. He joined Oper Frankfurt as a soloists' coach in 2008, and was named Kapellmeister in 2013/14. He recently conducted ... of Adriana Lecouvreur, Chabrier's L’Étoile, Die Hochzeit des Figaro/Le nozze di Figaro and Die Fledermaus. Sebastian Zierer has also worked with the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the Stuttgart, Pforzheim ...

Reimer, Thomas

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... Reimer Video Thomas Reimer has worked closely with Harry Kupfer and Hans Schavernoch for many years, and in Frankfurt on Prokofiev'sThe Gambler and this production of Glinka's Iwan Sussanin and. He recently collaborated with Kupfer on Lady Macbeth von Mtsensk at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Der Rosenkavalier at the 2014 Salzburg Festival, which then went to La Scala Milan, Parsifal at the New ...

Gebauer, Yvonne

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Yvonne Gebauer Dramaturge Born in 1972 in Berlin, Yvonne Gebauer studied German, philosophy and religious studies at the Freie University in Berlin. She has been working as a dramaturge for opera and plays 1998 and with the director Hans Neuenfels for more than twenty years. She works regularly ... She was a professor for dramaturgy at the University for Applied Science in Hamburg (Reinhard von der Thannen's costume classes), the Academy for Applied Arts in Vienna (Erich Wonder's set design ...

Schreiber, Friederike

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Friederike Schreiber Actress The actress Friederike Schreiber made her debut at Oper Frankfurt when this production of Die Passagierin / The (female) Passenger first opened in 2014/15. She trained as a nurse before going to study acting ...

Boy, Jonas

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Jonas Boy Tenor The tenor Jonas Boy studied at the University for Music in Mainz, where he graduated in September 2017, with Andreas Karasiak. During his time there he sang ... little sweep and Mozart's La finta giardiniera. In 2015 he sang Amindo in Scarlatti's Die Irrungen der Liebe at Hessen's Staatstheater in Wiesbaden. He also took part in many projects run by the Exzellenz ... Konrad Junghänel, Masaaki Suzuki and Ton Koopman, and has sung at the Schwetzing Festival and Cologne Opera. He sang in the chorus in new productions of Xerxes and Betulia Liberata at Oper Frankfurt last ...

Scheibinger, Mara

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Mara Scheibinger Set & Costume Designer Mara Scheibinger studied set and costume design at the University for Fine ... which was performed in Dresden and Gießen, the set and costumes for the world premiere of Mina at Oper Frankfurt and the set for Così fan tutte at Theater Aachen (2019). She designed set, costumes ...

Horvath, Roland

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Roland Horvath Video The Austrian film maker Roland Horvath has been creating videos (often teaming up with Carmen Zimmermann) for the company rocafilm for plays, operas and documentaries since 2010. Working regularly with, amongst others, Damiano Michieletto since ... Staatsoper in Munich, Don Carlo at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Handel's Orlando at the Theater an der Wien, the world premiere of Chaya Czernowin's Heart Chamber at the Deutsch Oper Berlin, Khovanschina ...

Schmidt, Cornelia

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Cornelia Schmidt Costume Designer Cornelia Schmidt began gaining experience in theatres before studying architecture in Dresden. After assisting on dance productions ... Bluthochzeit and Föhn – Ein zyklisches Wetterspiel / A Cyclical Weather Game  (director: Christian Zehnder). She was costume assistant at Schauspiel Frankfurt for two seasons (2015/16 & 2016/17) for whom ... Graz's 2017 Ring Award for her set and costume designs for Don Pasquale. She now works freelance on operas and plays.

Sator, Amélie

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Amélie Sator Costume Designer Stuttgart born Amélie Sator, a freelance costume designer since 2008, worked at Oper Frankfurt for the first time on this production of Rusalka. From 2005-2008 she worked as a costume assistant in opera and drama at the Bühnen der Stadt Cologne, where she also designed costumes for, amongst others, the children's opera Der gestiefelte ...

Pietras, Kaitlyn

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Kaitlyn Pietras Set / Video / Lighting Designer The US American Kaitlyn Pietras is making her debut in Germany with this production of Lost Highway at Oper Frankfurt. This projection designer has created scenery and sets for theatre, dance and open air ...

Moriuchi, Takeshi

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... Moriuchi Conductor Takeshi Moriuchi, conducts the first new production of the season - Henze's The Prince of Homburg. Last season he conducted a rivival of Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve (get the DVD!),  performances ... Manon Lescaut. He  also jumped in at very short notice to conduct the 4th Museumskonzert in the Alte Oper in December 2022, a performance of Handel's Tamerlano in the Bockenheimer Depot and performances ... Philharmonic Orchestra. A year later he assisted Sebastian Weigle there on a very successful production of Der Rosenkavalier. This was followed by a concert performance of I puritani in September 2019 in Japan. ...

Enderle, Maximilian

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Maximilian Enderle Dramaturge Maximilian Enderle started working as a dramaturge at Oper Frankfurt, where he had been giving pre-performance talks, in 2020/21. From 2017 - 2019 he assisted ...

Brunner, Vladislav

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Vladislav Brunner violin Vladislav Brunner was born in 1963 in Bratislava and had his first violin lessen when he was eight ... rounded off his studies with Herman Krebbers in Amsterdam from 1986 - 1990. He joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 1985.

Plum, Dorothee

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Dorothee Plum violin Dorothee Plum studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London with Prof. Yfrah Neaman from ... with the Gürzenich Orchester in Cologne from 1998 – 2000 and has been a member of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2000.

Brajović, Jefimija

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Jefimija Brajović violin Jefimija Brajović was born in Belgrade and joined a music school for exceptionally talented young ... the Staatsorchester Hamburg and Munich Philharmonic before joining the first violins at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester. Jefimija Brajović is a much sought-after soloist and chamber musician at ...

Müller, Gisela

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Gisela Müller violin Gisela Müller was born in Hannover in 1979 and took up the violin when she was seven years old. She studied with Jens Ellermann at the University for Music in Hannover, then Ulf Schneider, graduating in 2005. She gained early orchestra experience with the German String Philharmonic and ... leader of the European Union Youth Orchestra. Gisela Müller joined the first violins at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2006.

Ye, Lin

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Lin Ye violin Lin Ye moved from Shanghai to Germany to continue his studies with Prof. Kurt Guntner at the University for Music in Munich, where he graduated. He then went under contract to the Staatsoper in Munich for a year, getting to know c. 40 operas in just one season. This is how he discovered ...

Plieninger, Frank

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Frank Plieninger violin Frank Plieninger had his first violin lesson when he was five years old. He studied at the ... Charles Hennen Chamber Music Competition in the Netherlands. Frank Plieninger joined the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2003, after several years spent as deputy leader of the second violins at the Hagen Philharmonic. He devotes a lot of voluntary time as a member of ...

ter Voert, Lutz

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Lutz ter Voert violin, Lutz ter Voert was born in Ludwigsburg in 1980. He started learning to play the violin at the Städtische Music School in Markgröningen in 1984 before having private lessons with Margarete Mederus in 1986. He joined Prof. Winfried Rademacher's class at the University for Music in Trossingen ... and abroad since 1996. Many live and television recordings exist. Lutz ter Voert joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 2008.

Rössel, Thomas

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Thomas Rössel viola Thomas Rössel, who was born in Spremberg in 1975 and grew up in the country, took the plunge and started attending the Hanns Eisler ... appointed lead violist with the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig, a position he has held at the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2003. His real passions ‒ alongside operas by Richard Strauss and ...

Saito, Miyuki

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Miyuki Saito viola Miyuki Saito had her first violin lesson when she was nearly three in her home town of Mito-shi in Japan. She changed to the viola when ... Führlinger in Vienna, obtaining her diploma with distinction in 1984. She has been a member of the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 1986/87.

Kuckuk, Matthias

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... Kuckuk double bass When Matthias Kuckuk was 14 he decided to learn the double bass, he was already playing bass guitar in a band, because there wasn't one in the school orchestra. After a year being taught by Alwin Meynecke he went to Hans-Günther Heinrichs, a former double bass player at Hannover Opera. He then set off on a journey which took in stops at the Regional Youth Orchestra in Niedersachsen and National Youth Orchestra and Junged Deutsche Philharmonie. He started studying with Prof. ...

Berger, Márta

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Márta Berger oboe Marta Berger began her studies at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, moving to Stuttgart in 2003 to further her studies there. She received a two year scholarship ... Academy in 2007. She has been playing with the Budapest Festival Orchestra since 2003 and the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 2007.

Dresel, Claudia

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Claudia Dresel clarinet Claudia Dresel studied at the University for Music and Theater in Hannover with Prof. Johannes Peitz ... clarinet at the NDR Radio Philharmonic in Hannover. She has been a solo clarinettist with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since February 2015, a post she has held at the Duisburg Philharmonic, the ...

Höfer, Matthias

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Matthias Höfer clarinet Matthias Höfer comes from Herten, Westfalia, and studied in Essen, Hannover and Basel. Before joining the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester as bass clarinet in 2000 he gathered experience at the orchestras in Hildesheim, ...

Beer, Eberhard

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Eberhard Beer bassoon Eberhard Beer was born in Lahr, Schwarzwald, and had his first bassoon lesson in 1975, at the Youth Music School in Neu-Isenburg. ... Performing Arts in Frankfurt. He has been playing the bassoon and contrabassoon with the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester since 1988. He also played for the 1997 Bayreuth Festival.

Uhrhan, Steffen

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Steffen Uhrhan percussion Steffen Uhrhan studied with Prof. Franz Lang at the University for Music in Trossingen. Whilst still a student he joined the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and Schleswig Holstein ... first job came in 2008, with the Nordwest Deutsche Philharmonie in Herford. He moved to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Duisburg Philharmonic two years later. Steffen Uhrhan joined the Frankfurt Opern- und ...

Weber, Ulrich

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Ulrich Weber timpani Born in 1975 in Mainz, Ulrich Weber studied at the Spielmannszug in Gimbsheim and the Jugendmusikschule in ... and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg he took up the same post with the Frankfurt Opern snd Museumsorchester in 2003, since when he has held a professorship at the University for Music ...

Mörth, Guénaelle

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Guénaelle Mörth mezzo-soprano Guénaelle Mörth was born in 1998 and grew up in Mainz. She's currently studying with Prof. Michelle Breedt at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt. She was awarded a scholarship by the Fritz Wunderlich Music Society in 2021. She's just been singing Wendy in Julian Mörth’s Peter Pan for Youth Opera Rhein-Main. She made her debut at Oper Frankfurt, as an Apprentice, in a new production of Wagner’s ...

Jähnig, Christopher

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Christopher Jähnig bass Christopher Jähnig is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in the extremely successful world premiere of Vito Žuraj’s ... Don Magnifico in Rossinis La Cenerentola, the same year he was awarded a scholarship by the Fritz Wunderlich Society. During the 2021/22 season he sang a Flemish Deputy in Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Staatstheater ...

Kufer, Rafael

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Rafael Kufer double bass Rafael Kufer started lessons with Heinrich Braun in 2016 at the HfMT in Munich before embarking upon his masters there in 2021, after passing his bachelor with flying colours. He gained experience from time spent with the Staatsoper in Stuttgart’s children’s chorus, the National Youth Orchestra and performing with the Bavarian ...

Brachmann, Moritz

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Moritz Brachmann, Moritz Brachmann assisted Brigitte Fassbaender on Blühen and is overseeing the performances, so is best placed to step in to act the role of Ken ... Hans Neuenfels, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Mariame Clément and, most recently, Herbert Fritsch at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera and the Staatstheater in Darmstadt, where he ...

Longstaff, Joseph

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Joseph Longstaff horn Born in Watford (England) Joseph Longstaff plays horn in the Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester during the  2023/24 season. He was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic’s ...

Frank-Dessauer, Tamas

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Tamas Frank-Dessauer double bass Born in Hungary in 1986 Tamas Frank-Dessauer studied double bass at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest and Hanns Eisler University for Music in Berlin. After time spent with the Deutsche Oper in Berlin he played with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 2011 - 2014. He was a member of ...

Kovalova, Marta

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Marta Kovalova violin Marta Kovalova, from the Ukraine, started playing the violin when she was five. She studied in Ivano-Frankivsk ... her own arrangements and compositions for violin, voice and electronics. She joined the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester in the 2024/25 season.

Durand, Tamara

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Tamara Durand viola Born in the south of France, Tamara Durand had her first viola lesson when she was three. She went to study ... 2020 and her first album of works for viola and piano has been released. She joined the Frankfurter Opern and Museumsorchester for the 2024/25 season.

Yang, Yejin

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Yejin Yang viola Yejin Yang was born on Jeju island, South Korea, and started playing the violin when she ... philharmonics, Hamburg's Philharmonic State Orchester and the Düsseldorf Symphony. She joined the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester at the start of the 2025/26 season.

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c 2 hrs,how a design turns into a costume!,Shoemaking, artistry, millinary, tailoring, storing fabric, painstaking work, dressing ...

tour our WORKSHOPS on 27/11/2025

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booking opens August 15,booking opens January 15,booking opens March 15,booking opens November 15,booking ... probably never even thought of, like making synthetic hands and face masks. Come and be amazed at our wonderful painting hall, guided by experts in their fields. Tickets available (only 4 per person, because ...

Cast Changes

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Cast Changes, , GUGLIELMO in COSÌ FAN TUTTEis sung by Jonas Müller  (September 21, 28, October 2 & 4), Taehan Kim (October  12, ...

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Production Teams, , directorsAndrea Breth, Mariame Clément, Willy Decker, Brigitte Fassbaender, Tatjana Gürbaca, Claus Guth, Katharina Kastening, Barrie Kosky, Tobias Kratzer, Andreas Kriegenburg, Nadja Loschky, Wolfgang Nägele, Àlex ...

Gminder, Knut

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Knut Gminder, Knut Gminder directs works for the stage and makes films. His films have included sensitive documentaries ...

Corlay, Dylan

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Dylan Corlay Conductor Dylan Corlay, winner of the 2015 International Jorma Panula Conducting Competi­tion in Finland, studied with conductors ... furthered his bassoon studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and played in many leading European orchestras under conductors including Tugan Sokhiev, Philippe Jordan, Myung-Whun Chung and Pierre Boulez. He is also ...

Martin, Josh Jürgen

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Josh Jürgen Martin Sound Designer Josh Jürgen Martin has worked closely with Arnulf Herrmann for many years, and was ...

Sahiti, Riccardo M

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Riccardo M Sahiti Conductor Riccardo M Sahiti came to Frankfurt in 1992 and has been at the helm of the Roma Philharmonic since 2001.  He grew up in what used to ...

Nassehi, Armin

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Armin Nassehi Author & Sociology Professor Armin Nassehi was born in Tübingen in 1960 in and grew up in ...

Wintercroft, Steve

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Steve Wintercroft Designer Steve Wintercroft and his wife Marianne have been designing and making masks - Wintercroft ...

Müntefering, Franz

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Franz Müntefering, Franz Müntefering, born in Neheim in Sauerland in 1940, was a member of the Bundestag for many years, former parliamentary party leader and federal chairman of the SPD, which he joined in 1966, cabinet minister and former vice-chancellor. ...

Krumbiegel, Sebastian

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Sebastian Krumbiegel, Sebastian Krumbiegel, who was born in 1966, is a musician, writer, composer and co-founder of Die Prinzen, a band who had many hits and celebrated its 30th birthday in 2021. He is also much ...

Munzer, Bettina

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Bettina Munzer Costume Designer The stage and costume designer Bettina Munzer, who trained at the University of Arts in Berlin, has worked closely with Brigitte Fassbaender since 1991. Their recent productions have included La Bohème at the Landestheater Coburg, Don Pasquale ...

Lubman, Brad

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... acclaim, all over the world, is recent decades for his versatility, impressive technique and sensitive interpretation. Much sought after by orchestras in Europe and America, he has enjoyed long working relationships ... leading European and American ensembles specialising in contemporary music, including the Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Klangforum Wien, the Asko | Schönberg Ensemble Amsterdam, Ensemble Resonanz, ...

Witt, Robin

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Robin Witt Concept & Director Robin Witt began his stage career in late 2000, as a member of an international ...

Deutsch, Helmut

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... Deutsch Accompanist Helmut Deutsch is one of the most sought after accompanists of our times, appearing regularly at leading venues around the world. Earlier on in his career he worked closely with Brigitte Fassbaender, Irmgard Seefried and Hermann Prey. Today he works regularly with singers including Mauro Peter, ...

Rasetta, Antonio

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Antonio Rasetta Dancer This Italian dancer graduated in Modern Jazz Dance at the Centro Studi Musical and IALS in Rome and the École Harmonique in Paris before ...

Sarnowski, Marek

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Marek Sarnowski Actor Theatres where Marek Sarnowski has performed have included Hessen's Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern, Stadttheater in Koblenz, ...

Letarnec, Vivien

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Vivien Letarnec Dancer French born Vivien Letarnec is co-artistic director of the Les Pas Indispensables Company, where he works as a dancer and choreographer. He has worked assisting the choreographer ...

McGinn, James

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James McGinn Dancer American James McGinn has been working at the cutting edge of performance, dance, theatre ...

Rainey, Davon

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Davon Rainey Dancer Davon Rainey, who was born in Memphis / Tennessee, works as a dancer and performer in New ...

Reinhardt, Erik

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Erik Reinhardt Tenor The young tenor Erik Reinhardt is studying singing and church music at the University for ... singing. He is also a student member of the Exzellenz programme »BarockVokal«, which is run by Claudia Eder.

Elsaygh, Mohamed

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Mohamed Elsaygh cello The cellist Mohamed Elsaygh, from Alexandria / Egypt, is much in demand as a passionate chamber musician, appearing regularly with renowned musicans and orchestras ... Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Young Euro Classic in Berlin, Shanghai, Vienna and Cairo. He has been under contract to the Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg since 2022/23 and is a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. ...

Ruf, Juliane

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... works regularly with Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, most recently at La Scala Milan and the Wigmore Hall in London, and their first recording - Traumgekrönt / Crowned with Dreams (belvedere) - was released in 2017. She and the baritone Michael Nagy were awarded first prize at the Hugo ...

Prinz, Maria

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Maria Prinz Piano This pianist makes music with singers including Ludovic Tézier, Krassimira Stoyanova, Margarita ... Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo. Highlights in her career have included concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic under Riccardo Muti and Seiji Ozawa. She worked closely Sir Neville Marriner for many years, which is documented ...

Bauni, Axel

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Axel Bauni Piano Axel Bauni is equally known and respected for his many Lieder projects as he is as an accompanist. He has appeared in venues all over the world with artists including Claudia Barainsky, Stella Doufexis, Mojca Erdmann, ...

Kesting, Jürgen

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Jürgen Kesting Music Critic & Author Jürgen Kesting was born in Duisburg in 1940 and studied German, English language ...

Rudorf, Sonja

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Sonja Rudorf Librettist The Frankfurt born author Sonja Rudorf was awarded the Literary Colloquium Berlin's renowned studio scholarship in 1997. Her first novel, Die zweite Haut / Second Skin, was published ...

Tchakarova, Doriana

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... Tchakarova pianist Doriana Tchakarova performs regularly as an accompanist and chamber musician at leading concert halls, including ones in Berlin, Vienna, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Hannover, Freiburg, Lugano, Bayreuth and renowned festivals including the Heidelberg Spring, the Lieder Festival in Oxford, the Dresden and Würzburg music festivals and the Schubertiada in Barcelona. ...

Kubin, Anna

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Anna Kubin Actress Anna Kubin studied at the University for the Arts in Berlin. Her acting career has taken her ... including Sebastian Baumgarten, Nora Schlocker, Herbert Fritsch, Volker Lösch, Nicolas Stemann, Alexander Eisenach, Miloš Lolić, Claudia Bauer and Kay Voges. She won the 2006 audience prize in Bad Hersfeld ...

Lücker, Martin

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Martin Lücker, There are probably very few organists who have such an enormous repertoire at their fingertips ... competitions in the early 1970s laid the foundation for a rich and varied career as an organist, juror, holder of masterclasses and editor. A busy concert career took him all over Europe and to North America, ...

Kretzschmar, Hermann

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Hermann Kretzschmar Piano Hermann Kretzschmar studied music and German and then piano with Bernhard Ebert in Hannover. He joined the Ensemble Modern in 1985. He, Catherine Milliken and Dietmar Wiesner founded HCD-Productions in 1994. Releases on ...

Pickers, Jonathan

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Jonathan Pickers lighting designer Jonathan Pickers trained at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt as an event technician from ... head technician in the Kammerspiel there. In this capacity he lit productions including Kleist’s Der Prinz von Homburg in 2015 (which was invited to the Festival Radikal Jung at the Volkstheater in ...

Keller, Manfred

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Manfred Keller trombone Manfred Keller, born in Landsberg am Lech, started studying music at the University of Music in Augsburg with Markus Blecher ... Rückert, until 2006. He plays with other orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Bayerische Staatsoper Orchester, the NDR and SWR symphonie orchestras. He is a sought-after chamber musician at home and ...

Tharaud, Alexandre

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Alexandre Tharaud Piano The pianst Alexandre Tharaud has carved an unmistakable profile out for himself during his 25 year international career. He appears regularly with leading orchestras including the Orchestre ...

Fray, David

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... sought-after musicians of his generation, especially when it comes to Bach. His repertoire reflects a certain penchant for composers in the great German-Austrian tradition, but also Chopin, Ravel and contemporary ... Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra and Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Solo concerts in the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris, a ...

Ecks, Heidi

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Heidi Ecks Actress Heidi Ecks trained at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Hamburg before spending time under contract in Gießen, Mainz, Düsseldorf and Leipzig. She joined the Ensemble at Schauspiel Frankfurt ...

Uslu, Merve

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Merve Uslu violin This Turkish violinist was born in Istanbul and started her studies at the state conservatoire there ... further study in Essen, Munich und Hamburg, with Mintcho Mintchev, Ingolf Turban and Tanja Becker-Bender, amongst others. She took part in masterclasses in Bulgaria, Germany, Greece and Turkey and appeared ...

Martínez Valgañón, Jon Mikel

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Jon Mikel Martínez Valgañón double bass Jon Mikel Martínez Valgañón was born in Fonzaleche, a tiny village in Spain with 98 inhabitants, and grew up in La Rioja. He started playing ...

Masala, Prof. Dr. Carlo

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Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala Professor for International Politics, miliary expert After studying political science and German and Romanian philology ... Director of their research department in 2006. He has been teaching international politics at the German Federal Armed Forces University in Munich since 2007. He also co-edits the Newspaper for Politics (ZfP), ...

Buyx, Prof. Dr. med. Alena

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... Dr. med. Alena Buyx Doctor & Medical Ethicist Prof. Dr. med. Alena Buyx is a professor for Ethics in Medicine and Health Technology and Director of the Institute for the History and Ethics in Medicine ... challenges posed by biotechnological innovation and medical research and ethical and justice issues in modern health care systems. She collaborates with colleagues, lawyers, social scientists, philosophers, ...

Drahos, Balázs

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Balázs Drahos trumpet Born in 2001 in Kaposvár (Hungary) Balázs Drahos started music lessons in his home town with Gábor Bogáthy. ...

Kim, Miri

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Miri Kim violin The Korean violinist Miri Kim was born in Tokyo. She gained her bachelors at the Toho Gakuen School ... Koichiro Harada, her masters at the University for Music, Theatre and Media in Hannover with Ulf Schneider and postgraduate studies with Silvia Marcovici at the Accademia Perosi in Italy and University of ...

Schweizer, Prof. Dr. Katinka

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Prof. Dr. Katinka Schweizer, Katinka Schweizer is a Sexologist and Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at ... Oxford and Hamburg universities she gained her doctorate and qualified as a professor researching gender identification and recognition of inter-sexuality and variants of gender developement at Hamburg ...

Riess, Thomas

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Thomas Riess Dancer Thomas Riess was born in Vienna, where he studied ballet and jazz dance at Performing Center Austria before joining a private ... regularly as a dancer in music theatre productions, which this season included Candide at the Theater an der Wien. This was preceded by works including Die Walküre at the Tirol Festival in Erl, Die Fledermaus ...

Rieger, Wolfram

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Wolfram Rieger piano Wolfram Rieger comes from Waldsassen (Oberpfalz/Bayern) and started learning to play the piano at home, and then with Konrad Pfeiffer in Regensburg. He then studied with Erik ... Werba and Helmut Deutsch at the University for Music in Munich, with whom an increasing love for Lieder developed, graduating with distinction. Masterclasses held by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hans Hotter ...

Hanschel, Roger

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Roger Hanschel saxophone Born in Wolfsburg, this internationally sought-after saxophonist and composer studied at the University for ... played with the Klaus König Orchestra and presented his compositions for saxophone and string quartet under the title Years of the fifth period. Roger Hanschel, Steffen Schorn and Dirk Mündelein formed the ...

Klein, Henri

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Henri Klein Dancer Henri Klein started studying for his bachelors in contemporary and classic dance at the University ... Frankfurt in 2023/24, taking part in projects including those run by the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company under Ioannis Mandafounis. He and his year appeared at the 2024Winter Dance Project in the Gallus Theater, ...

Eidinger, Lars

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Lars Eidinger actor Lars Eidinger joined the Berliner Schaubühne’s ensemble in 1999, where he has enjoyed ... great success with roles including Hamlet, Richard III and Peer Gynt. He played Hofmannsthal’s Jedermann at the 2022 Salzburg Festival. His breakthrough on the silver screen was in Maren Ade’s Alle ...

Reese, Oliver

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Oliver Reese Director Oliver Reese was born in Paderborn in 1964. After assisting directors he joined Bavaria's State Schauspiel in 1989 as a dramaturge. ...

Münkler, Prof. Herfried

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Prof. Herfried Münkler Political Scientist Herfried Münkler was born in 1951 in Friedberg, Hessen and studied political sciences, phi-losophy and German at the Johann Wolfgang ... wrote a thesis on Niccolò Machiavelli for his doctorate in 1981 and a study on the Idee und Begriff der Staatsraison in der Frühen Neuzeit for his professorship in 1987. After time spent assisting and ...

Fournier, Lara

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Lara Fournier dancer Lara Fournier was born in Switzerland. After graduating from the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in 2019, where ...

Llussà, Ariadna

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Ariadna Llussà dancer Ariadna Llussà trained as a ballet dancer at the María de Ávila Studio in Zaragoza and Central School of Ballet in London. ... before joining the Ballet Junior de Genève, dancing in works choreographed by Wayne McGregor, Alexander Ekman, Stjin Celis and Jo Stromgren. She has also performed under the direction of Olivier Dubois, ...

Wielgórecka, Klaudia

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Klaudia Wielgórecka double bass Klaudia Wielgórecka was born in 1994 in Tarnowskie Góry (Poland) and started playing the double bass when she was 13 at the Bytom ...

Aksionov, Ilja

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Ilja Aksionov tenor The Lithuanian tenor Ilja Aksionov started his career as a boy, singing the title role in Rachel Portman's The Little Prince and as soloist in Leonard Bernstein's ... Jardin des Voix, touring Europe and North America with a production of Purcell's The Fairy Queen under William Christie and Paul Agnew. This young singer's repertoire includes Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), ... Eurydice in Enschede. He recently sang in the semi chorus in Brett Dean's Hamlet at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich under Vladimir Jurowski. He has won various awards, including 1st prize at the 2015 Kaunas ...

Weber, Leon

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... and musican forges bridges between celectronic music and classical music from previous centuries, giving his own touch to their scores, be it a symphony by Beethoven, a string quartet by Ravel of some of Steve Reich's minimal music. The live adjustments he makes to instruments with the use of modern techniques allow the listener to experiences well known pieces in a totally new way thanks to Weber's ...

Theveßen, Elmar

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Elmar Theveßen journalist Elmar Theveßen is a well-known journalist, anchorman and anaylist since he started working for ZDF television in 1991. He worked at their studio in Washington as correspondent from ... international politics for many years, he has also written several bestsellers, the most recent being Kampf der Supermächte (battle of superpowers) - Amerika and China auf Konfrontationskurs, and his next one, ...

Hübner, Karen

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Karen Hübner baroque horn Karen Hübner studied horn at the Conservatoire in Amsterdam and natural horn at the Formation Supérieure in Saintes in France with Claude Maury. Internationally ...

Hübner, Ulrich

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Ulrich Hübner baroque horn Ulrich Hübner studied at the University for Music in Cologne with Erich Penzel before joining the Staatstheater in Mainz’ Orchestra, which he left in ...