Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Oldenburg State Theatre in 2025-26

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Oldenburg’s new 2025-26 season Looking back on two thirds of his first season in office, Oldenburg State Theatre’s artistic manager Georg Heckel was full of praise for the openness of Oldenburg’s audiences towards a new administration. This boost of confidence, not necessarily the norm for incoming leadership teams, influenced decisions for the second, 2025/26 season … Read more

Fine singing and a convincing production for Oldenburg’s Les contes d’Hoffmann

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GermanyGermany Offenbach, Les contes d’Hoffmann: Soloists, Chorus, Extra Chorus, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester / Vito Cristofaro (conductor). Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, 6.5.2025. (DM-D)

Dorothee Bienert (Nicklausse/Muse) and Jason Kim (Hoffmann) © Stephan Walzl

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Eye-catching Tristan und Isolde heads for space at the Staatstheater Cottbus

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GermanyGermany Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Chorus and Extras of Philharmonic Orchestra of Staatstheater Cottbus / Alexander Merzyn (conductor). Staatstheater Cottbus, 4.5.2025. (DM-D)

Bryan Register (Tristan) und Catherine Foster (Isolde) © Bernd Schönberger

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Season 2025-26 in Bremen and Bremerhaven

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All-time favourites, comedy and operetta inform the choices for music theatre in Theater Bremen’s 2025-26 season The press conference to announce the 2025/26 season for theatre, music theatre, dance and youth theatre at Theater Bremen (info here) was dedicated to the memory of Michael Börgerding, the company’s former artistic director who passed away in January … Read more

Good singing overshadowed by the production in Hannover’s Tosca

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GermanyGermany Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Chorus, Extra Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Extras of Staatsoper Hannover. Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover / James Hendry (conductor). Staatsoper Hannover, 30.3.2025. (DM-D)

Hannover Opera’s Tosca © Karl und Monika Forster

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