Germany Richard Strauss, Salome: Soloists of Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor). Hamburg State Opera, 7.10.2025. (DM-D)
Asmik Grigorian is exceptional in Hamburg’s revival of Salome
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Auspicious start to the Kratzer and Wellber Hamburg tenure with Robert Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri
Germany Robert Schumann, Das Paradies und die Peri: Soloists, Hamburg State Opera Chorus, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor). Hamburg State Opera, 30.9.2025. (DM-D)
Witty production enhances beautiful singing in Hamburg’s Le nozze di Figaro revival
Germany Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists and Chorus of the Staatsoper Hamburg. Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg / Nicholas Carter (conductor). Staatsoper Hamburg, 29.6.2025. (DM-D)
Hamburg’s Così fan tutte revival is exuberant fun
Germany Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists and Chorus of Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra / Alexander Joel (conductor). Hamburg State Opera, 22.6.2025. (DM-D)
Kent Nagano’s superb Tristan und Isolde crowns his last appearance as Hamburg’s General Music Director
Germany Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists and Chorus of Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano (conductor). Hamburg, 15.6.2025. (DM-D)
Unsuk Chin’s new Hamburg opera is a puzzling and, in many ways, frustrating experience
Germany Unsuk Chin, Die dunkle Seite des Mondes: Soloists, Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra / Kent Nagano (conductor). Hamburg State Opera, 18.5.2025. (MB)
The dark world of Parsifal is a visual spectacle in Hamburg
Germany Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists and Chorus of Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Patrick Hahn (conductor). Hamburg State Opera, 21.4.2025. (DM-D)
Hamburg State Opera’s Falstaff revival in its ‘Italian Opera Weeks’ is the ‘Best of British’
Germany Verdi, Falstaff: Soloists, Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper, Philharmonishces Staatsorchester Hamburg / Finnegan Downie Dear (conductor). Staatsoper Hamburg, 6.4.2025. (SRT)
