Semperoper Dresden releases new season 2020/2021. Highlight: Wagner's "Ring"

Semperoper Dresden is one of the most prestigious theatres in Germany. As all German theatres (and in difference to most of the others in the world) the repertory system allows visitors to enjoy different productions in consecutive days which makes a cultural stay in Dresden even more attractive.

Release time : 2020-03-05 17:28:05

source : Dresden Marketing Board

Semperoper Dresden is one of the most prestigious theatres in Germany. As all German theatres (and in difference to most of the others in the world) the repertory system allows visitors to enjoy different productions in consecutive days which makes a cultural stay in Dresden even more attractive.

The high class performances, companied by the Staatskapelle Dresden, founded in 1548 and thus one of the oldest and best orchestras in the world are set in the magnificent Opera House, built by Gottfried Semper in 1878.

In the 2020/21 season, the Semperoper looks forward to a total of 281 performances and eleven premieres (five opera premieres in the Semperoper, two ballets and four in the secondary stage) and 32 repertoire works in all genres. The eleven premieres scheduled for the upcoming seasons, which include two German and three Dresden premieres, in opera, ballet and the Junge Szene programme are dedicated in different ways to how we can find orientation in a world undergoing radical upheaval, in which seemingly fixed norms and ideals are subject to reinterpretation.

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The new productions of Puccini’s »Turandot«, Monteverdi’s »L’Orfeo«, Mozart’s »The Magic Flute«, Zimmermann’s »Weiße Rose« and the new ballet production after Grieg’s »Peer Gynt« choreographed by Johan Inger are great examples of this theme of finding’s one position in the transition from passive endurance to active action. The series of opera premieres for 2020/21 is launched by Gioachino Rossini’s politically timeless and highly topical »Guillaume Tell/William Tell« , conducted by the Italian Giampaolo Bisanti. The Semperoper’s Principal Guest Conductor, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct a peerless cast for the premiere of a new Dresden »Magic Flute«. The new Dresden production of the original version of Claudio Monteverdi’s