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Trip of the Patronatsverein / Prague September 5 – 8, 2025
THREE OPERA HOUSES
The Bartered Bride | Bedrich Smetana | Nationaltheater Prag
This opera full of irony, wit and joie de vivre has been considered the most popular Czech opera for more than 150 years. The current production not only tells the story, but also humorously describes how an opera is rehearsed.
Don Giovanni | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Ständetheater Prag
The Ständetheater was inaugurated in 1783, making it the oldest of the three opera houses in Prague. It was here that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart himself conducted the premiere of his opera “Don Giovanni” on October 29, 1787.
Nabucco | Giuseppe Verdi | Staatsoper Prag
The Staatsoper Prague was founded in 1888, just a few years after the National Theater, and was originally called the “New German Theater”. We see “Nabucco” in the production from 2024, which was described as “elegant, politically clever and dramaturgically coherent”.
Accompanying program: Guided tour of the historic Old Town with a focus on the history of music and through the “Lesser Town” of the historic center, visit to Prague Castle and the Kampa Museum
Smiling through the seriousness of time | St. Pauli Theater
An amusing reminiscence of Heinz Erhardt, the great entertainer who enchanted his audience with his mischievous wit and sometimes enigmatic humor.
The times are racing | Hamburgische Staatsoper
This fascinating ballet evening with the Hamburg Ballet brings together four works by famous choreographers and spans the last 50 years of ballet history.
Tosca | Hamburgische Staatsoper
Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” is one of the world’s most popular and most frequently performed operas. We experience the Italian soprano Carmen Giannattasio in the role of Floria Tosca and the Korean tenor Young Woo Kim in the role of Mario Cavaradossi.
Accompanying program:
St. Michael’s Church with organ tour, visit to the International Maritime Museum, guided tour of HafenCity and Speicherstadt, exclusive harbor tour in your own boat
Die Zauberflöte | Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Production Barrie Kosky
“The Mozart opera, in a production that has cult status from Berlin to L.A.:
Opera meets video animation in perfection” Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Jacques Offenbach
Production Barrie Kosky
“Fast-paced, witty, salacious: Greek saga as a splashy operetta spectacle”
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Visit to the Classic Remise Düsseldorf with guided tour of the classic car exhibition
City tour of Düsseldorf with a focus on architecture including the Media Harbor
Guided tour of the K20 Art Collection: influential artistic trends of the 20th century
Guided tour ‘Langen Foundation’: building by Japanese architect Tadeo Ando, exhibitions “The Four Seasons” (works from the Edo period) and “Beautiful Disasters” by Conny Maier
Das Märchen vom Zaren Saltan | Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg
Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow. Co-production with Opera la Monnaie, Brussels and Theatro
Real Madrid.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Co-production with Oper Halle.
Performed in the original German language. Faust Award Perspektivpreis 2022.Have a look into the wonderful opera house at Nancy following this >>
The journey of Patronatsverein to Strasbourg and Nancy is planned with an attractive
additional program of interesting sightseeing and culinary experiences.
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Opening Concert | Festspielhaus Erl
Works by Ernest Chausson, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Zoltán Kodály
Orchestra and Choir of the Tyrolean Festival Erl
Gioachino Rossini
Unfortunately Corona infection in the ensemble, nevertheless a wonderful replacement programme:
Arias from Bianca e Falliero
Ballet music from the opera Faust by Charles Gounod
Premiere of the opera Die Walküre | Passionsspielhaus Erl
Engelbert Humperdinck
directed by Brigitte Fassbaender
A look behind the scenes at the Festspielhaus Erl,
Guided tour of the Riedel glassworks in Kufstein,
Herb hike at the Aschingeralm
Guided tour of Kufstein Fortress with concert on the Heldenorgan
Trip of the Patronatsverein | Dresden October 10 – 13, 2019
OPERA | THEATRE | DANCE
Opera | Fidelio | Semperoper Dresden
By Ludwig van Beethoven
Welcoming address by the former President
of the Federal Republic of Germany Joachim Gauck
Theatre | The Cherry Orchard | Staatsschauspiel Dresden
By Anton Chekhov, in a new production directed
by Andreas Kriegenburg
Dance | Moto Perpetuo and Alter Ego | Festspielhaus Hellerau
Premiere of a new choreography by Jacopo Godani
Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company
Visit and guided tour of the Garden City Hellerau or visit to the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, guided tour of the historic old town, Residenzschloss, German Hygiene Museum, Pillnitz Palace and Park in Dresden and Bauhaus Museum in Weimar