SEASON
2023/24

Dear audience,

Welcome home! In the new season, the Opera House shall once again become a place where a wide variety of people meet and feel at home. Join us in the search for what community actually means.

Best wishes
Your Viktor Schoner
Artistic Director of the Staatsoper Stuttgart

PREMIERES 2023/24

Premiere
DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN
from October 24, 2023
#StgtFrauohneSchatten
Premiere
DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN
A frame-shattering and ambiguous fairy tale, staged by David Hermann. Cornelius Meister conducts.
#StgtFrauohneSchatten
Premiere
LA FEST
from December 3, 2023
#StgtLaFest
Premiere
LA FEST
In his first musical theater work, dancer and choreographer Eric Gauthier brings to the stage a celebration of life with music by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau & Co.
#StgtLaFest
Premiere
DORA
from March 3, 2024
#StgtDora
Premiere
DORA
A new opera for Stuttgart: composer Bernhard Lang and librettist Frank Witzel formulate the question of the unspent new with the title character Dora.

#StgtDora
Premiere
AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY
from May 11, 2024
#StgtMahagonny
Premiere
AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY
Scrappy songs straight from the pub, operetta hits, blues, baroque passion music and overwhelming opera finales meet in Weill's Mahagonny. Cornelius Meister conducts. Ulrike Schwab directs.
#StgtMahagonny
Premiere
IL TROVATORE
from June 9, 2024

#StgtTrovatore
Premiere
IL TROVATORE
Verdi's dark masterpiece, brought to the stage by conductor Antonello Manacorda and director Paul-Georg Dittrich.
#StgtTrovatore
Premiere
DIE SCHÖNE MÜLLERIN
from June 30, 2024
#StgtSchöneMüllerin
Premiere
DIE SCHÖNE MÜLLERIN
Schubert's famous song cycle with Mingjie Lei and Alan Hamilton, staged by Norbert Bisky and performed at the Schlosstheater Ludwigsburg.

#StgtSchöneMüllerin
World premiere
HOTEL SAVOY
from June 22, 2024
#StgtHotelSavoy
World premiere
HOTEL SAVOY
Hybrid operetta by Franui in co-production with Schauspiel Stuttgart
#StgtHotelSavoy

BACK ON STAGE

Repertoire
FALSTAFF
from September 22, 2023
#StgtFalstaff
Repertoire
FALSTAFF
by Giuseppe Verdi

Musical Direction: Cornelius Meister / Luka Hauser
after a production by: Andrea Moses

With: Lucio Gallo, Paweł Konik, Selene Zanetti / Astrid Kessler a.o.
#StgtFalstaff
Repertoire
CARMEN
from September 23, 2023
#StgtCarmen
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CARMEN
by Georges Bizet

Musical Direction: Friedrich Haider
Stage Direction: Sebastian Nübling

With: Kristina Stanek/Stine Marie Fischer, Attilio Glaser / Atalla Ayan, Łukasz Goliński / David Steffens / Adam Palka a.o.
#StgtCarmen
Repertoire
L’ELISIR D’AMORE
from September 24, 2023

#StgtElisir
Repertoire
L’ELISIR D’AMORE
by Gaetano Donizetti

Musical Direction: Danila Grassi / Vlad Iftinca
Stage Direction: Anika Rutkofsky

With: Claudia Muschio, Kai Kluge / Charles Sy, Johannes Kammler / Elliott Carlton Hines a.o.
#StgtElisir
Repertoire
JENŮFA
from November 12, 2023
#StgtJenufa
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JENŮFA
by Leoš Janáček

Musical Direction: Marx Piollet
Stage Direction: Calixto Bieito

With: Esther Dierkes, Matthias Klink, Elmar Gilbertsson, Rosie Aldridge a.o.
#StgtJenufa
Repertoire
DER RÄUBER HOTZENPLOTZ
from December 8, 2023
#StgtHotzenplotz
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DER RÄUBER HOTZENPLOTZ
by Sebastian Schwab

Musical Direction: Florian Ziemen / Christopher Schumann
Stage Direction: Elena Tzavara

With: Franz Hawlata, Elliott Carlton Hines, Dominic Große a.o.
#StgtHotzenplotz
Repertoire
NIXON IN CHINA
from January 7, 2024
#StgtNixon
Repertoire
NIXON IN CHINA
by John Adams

Musical Direction: André de Ridder
Stage Direction: Marco Štorman

With: Michael Mayes, Shigeo Ishino, Katherine Manley, Alina Adamski a.o.
#StgtNixon
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DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
from January 16, 2024
#StgtZauberflöte
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DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Musical Direction: George Petrou / Vlad Iftinca
Stage Direction: Barrie Kosky, Suzanne Andrade

With: Mingjie Lei / Charles Sy, Claudia Muschio / Natasha Te Rupe Wilson, David Steffens / Goran Jurić, Beate Ritter / Alma Ruoqi Sun a.o.
#StgtZauberflöte
Repertoire
HÄNSEL UND GRETEL
from February 11, 2024
#StgtHaensel
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HÄNSEL UND GRETEL
by Engelbert Humperdinck

Musical Direction: Karsten Januschke / Christopher Schumann
Stage Direction: Axel Ranisch

With: Eliza Boom/Esther Dierkes, Ida Ränzlöv/Linsey Coppens a.o.
#StgtHaensel
Repertoire
DON CARLOS
from March 10, 2024
#StgtDonCarlos
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DON CARLOS
by Giuseppe Verdi

Musical Direction: Valerio Galli
Stage Direction: Lotte de Beer

With: David Junghoon Kim, Olga Busuioc,Johannes Kammler, Diana Haller, Adam Palka, a.o.
#StgtDonCarlos
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TOSCA
from March 14, 2024
#StgtTosca
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TOSCA
by Giacomo Puccini

Musical Direction: Markus Poschner
Stage Direction: Willy Decker

With: Ewa Vesin, Atalla Ayan, Gerardo Bullón a.o.
#StgtTosca
Repertoire
RIGOLETTO
from March 21, 2024
#StgtRigoletto
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RIGOLETTO
by Giuseppe Verdi

Musical Direction: Nil Venditti
Stage Direction: Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito

With: Devid Cecconi, Beate Ritter, Kai Kluge a.o.
#StgtRigoletto
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ELEKTRA
from March 27, 2024
#StgtElektra
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ELEKTRA
by Richard Strauss

Musical Direction: Cornelius Meister
Stage Direction: Peter Konwitschny

With: Irène Theorin, Violeta Urmana, Simone Schneider a.o.
#StgtElektra
Repertoire
DAS RHEINGOLD
from April 20, 2024
#StgtRheingold
Premiere
DAS RHEINGOLD
by Richard Wagner

Musical Direction: Marek Janowski / Nicholas Carter
Stage Direction: Stephan Kimmig

With: Goran Jurić, Michael Mayes, Moritz Kallenberg, Diana Haller a.o.
#StgtRheingold
Repertoire
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
from May 5, 2024
#StgtGötterdämmerung
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GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
by Richard Wagner

Musical Direction: Cornelius Meister
Stage Direction: Marco Štorman

With: Christiane Libor, Daniel Kirch, Patrick Zielke a.o.
#StgtGötterdämmerung
Repertoire
LA SONNAMBULA
from July 7, 2024
#StgtSonnambula
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LA SONNAMBULA
by Vincenzo Bellini

Musical Direction: Andriy Yurkevych
Stage Direction: Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito

With: Claudia Muschio, Adam Palka, Helene Schneiderman a.o.
#StgtSonnambula

SPECIALS 2023/24

Special
Belonging together
A concert gala

September 17, 2023
Special
Belonging together
A concert gala

An evening between pop, opera and classical music: For the season’s opening gala, musician PeterLicht has come up with a very special program, together with the young Israeli conductor Keren Kagarlitsky and members of the ensemble.
Special
Homecoming Concert
Max Herre & Joy Denalane with MIKI's Takeover! Ensemble

December 26, 2023
Special
Homecoming Concert
For Christmas, Stuttgart hip-hop and singer-songwriter legend Max Herre and soul singer Joy Denalane take over the stage together with MIKI's Takeover! Ensemble take over the stage in the Littmann Building.
Special
Oper meets HipHop
Presented by HipHop Open Festival

June 14, 2024
Special
Oper meets HipHop
Presented by the HipHop Open Festival

Local zeitgeist meets classic high culture - you can be curious!
Special
Staatsoper presents: XATAR feat. Heavytones
Rap meets TV-Instrumental-Band

June 15, 2024
Special
Staatsoper presents: XATAR feat. Heavytones
At the same time as our new production of Verdi's Il trovatore and a version of Die schöne Müllerin: live at the opera house, current singers and songwriters who speak from our souls with completely different ways of singing.

Presented by Chimperator Live & Im Wizemann
Special
The Littmann Sessions
Presented by Staatsoper Stuttgart and Pop-Büro Region Stuttgart

June 22, 2024
Special
The Littmann Sessions
Presented by Stuttgart State Opera and Pop Office Stuttgart Region

At live concerts of the current pop fellows on the big stage in the opera house - the so-called Littmann-Bau - experimental sounds, moving rhythms and stirring basses shine in a new guise!
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