Hamburg

Hamburg State Opera’s 2025-26 season

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[l-r] Dr Ralf Klöter, Tobias Kratzer, Dr Carsten Brosda, Omer Meir Wellber, and Demis Volpi © Kiran West

‘No risk, no fun’
2025/26 season at Hamburgische Staatsoper under new leadership team

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A new generation of leaders takes over at Hamburg State Opera, all in their early to mid-forties: artistic director Tobias Kratzer, general music director Omer Meir Wellber, and Demis Volpi, artistic director of the ballet company (appointed in the summer of 2024). Managing director Dr Ralf Klöter praised their ability to achieve balance of continuity and new departure, while Dr Carsten Brosda, the city state of Hamburg’s senator for culture and media, emphasised how much Hamburg’s citizens were looking forward to the developments at their opera house. Indicative of the collaborative spirit of the season, the opera, ballet and concert departments gave a joint press conference, and their season is represented in a single combined brochure.

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Exciting singing and imaginative staging in Hamburg’s vintage La bohème

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GermanyGermany Puccini, La bohème: Staatsoper Soloists, Chorus, Extra Chorus and Alsterspatzen of Staatsoper Hamburg. Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg / Ramón Tebar (conductor). Staatsoper Hamburg, 17.12.2024. (DM-D)

First scene of the 2006 La bohème © Hans Jörg Michel

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Atmospheric production of Der Freischütz in Hamburg

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GermanyGermany Weber, Der Freischütz: Soloists and Chorus of Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Yoel Gamzou (conductor). Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg, 23.11.2024. (DM-D)

[centre l-r] Clemens Sienknecht (Samiel), Hubert Kowalczyk (Cuno), Maximilian Schmitt (Max) and William Desbiens (Kilian) © Brinkhoff/Mögenburg

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