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| II 19 |  | Prapremiera
Wien(Theater). Johannes Kalitzke: Die Besessenen (19-25 II)
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| II 22 |  | Prapremiera
München(SO). Eotvos: Die Tragödie des Teufels (22 II-9 III) Comic-utopian opera in three parts; Lucifer guides Adam and Eve through a world full of conflict, misunderstanding and uncertainty. In the end, Lucifer parts from his body, and his tragedy becomes Man’s tragedy: people cannot assign the evil anymore, and find it in themselves; Libretto: Albert Ostermaier, after 'The Tragedy of Man' by Imre Madách
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| II 24 |  | Prapremiera
Boston(OB). Zhou Long: Madame White Snake (24 II-2 III) A powerful snake demon gives up her immortality to become a woman and experience human love; Libretto: Cerise Lim Jacobs, after Chinese myth
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| II 25 |  | Prapremiera
Braunschweig. Ella Milch-Sheriff: Baruchs Schweigen (25 II) After a man dies, his daughter discovers his diary and the tragedies of his life, coming to a new understanding; After the composer's own father's diary for 1943
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| II 28 |  | Prapremiera
Wien(SO). Aribert Reimann: Medea (28 II-12 III) Libretto: Aribert Reimann, after Grillparzer
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| III 01 |  | Prapremiera
Lyon(Opera). Saariaho: Emilie (1-13 III) It is 1749 and a dying woman writes a farewell letter to her lover, looking back on the passions of her life; Opéra en neuf scènes; Libretto: Amin Maalouf
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| III 04 |  | Prapremiera
Dessau(Fest). Moritz Eggert: Bordellballade (4-5 III) A new Threepenny Opera for modern times; Librettist: Franzobel
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| III 05 |  | Prapremiera
Hof. Roland Baumgartner: Luther (5 III-23 V)
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| III 13 |  | Prapremiera
Osnabruck. Nader Mashayekhi: Nizami (13 III) Libretto: Nadja Kayali and Angelika Messner
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| III 14 |  | Prapremiera
Basel. Beat Furrer: Wüstenbuch (14 III) The desert as the symbol of the alien and empty, metaphor for nothingness and the loss of memory; Libretto: Beat Furrer and Händl Klaus, after Ingeborg Bachmann
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| III 18 |  | Rzadkie wydarzenie
Lyon(Opera). van der Aa: After Life (18-21 III)
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| III 19 |  | Prapremiera
Bremen(Theater). Bernd Redmann: Die Gehetzten (19 III) 'The Hurried Ones'
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| III 25 |  | Prapremiera
Lisboa. Holszky: Hybris/Niobe (25 III-5 IV) Scenic world premiere; Drama for voices, 30’ (Schwetzingen, April 2008); Libretto: Yona Kim
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| III 26 |  | Prapremiera
Mannheim. Bernhard Lang: Montezuma, Fallender Adler (26 III) The meeting of Cortez and Montezuma, and the destruction of the Aztec culture by the Christian Spanish -- an opera about disappearance; Libretto: Christian Loidl
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| kwiecień |
| IV 09 |  | Prapremiera
Lisboa. Hugo Ribeiro: Os mortos viajam de metro (9-11 IV) 'The Dead Travel by Metro'; Exploration of the drives linking artistic creativity to suicide, set in an abandoned metro station with the shades of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Sarah Kane
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| IV 23 |  | Prapremiera
Rouen. Thierry Pecou: L'amour coupable (23-27 IV) Opéra in 5 acts; Libretto: Eugène Green, after the play 'La Mère coupable' by Beaumarchais
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| IV 24 |  | Prapremiera
Antwerpen(Vlaamse). Elena Kats-Chernin: The Rage of Life (24-30 IV) Libretto: Igor Bauersima
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| IV 24 |  | Prapremiera
Regensburg. Franz Hummel: Zarathustra (24 IV-23 VII) Libretto: Sandra Hummel, after texts by Nietzsche and his contemporaries
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| IV 27 |  | Prapremiera
München(Biennale). Philipp Maintz: Maldoror (27 IV) The author of the source text meets his creation, the epitome of absolute evil; Libretto: Thomas Fiedler, after 'Les Chants de Maldoror' by Comte de Lautréamont
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| IV 28 |  | Prapremiera
München(Biennale). Marton Illes: Die weiße Fürstin (28 IV) Scene polidimensionali XVII; After the first draft of the dramatic poem 'The White Princess' by Rainer Maria Rilke
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| IV 30 |  | Prapremiera
Dallas. Heggie: Moby-Dick (30 IV-16 V) An exploration of the lethal power of obsession and the need for human connection
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| V 04 |  | Prapremiera
København(KGL). Edina Hadziselimovic: Waiting in Nowhere (4 V-7 VI) Can love and compassion survive within the confines of four walls in no man's land?; Chamber opera on the experiences of asylum seekers in Denmark; Libretto: Rubén Palma
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| V 05 |  | Prapremiera
Luzern(Theater). Georg Graewe: Barbara Strozzi (5-24 V) A research journey into the life of Barbara Strozzi, a 17th century singer, composer and muse. A musical play with time, perception, reality, memory and speculation.; Musiktheater
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| V 07 |  | Prapremiera
Kaiserslautern. Helmut Bieler: Gestohlenes Leben (7 V-4 VI) The events of the night of the 21/22 October 1940, when 50 Jews were deported from Kaiserslautern
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| V 08 |  | Prapremiera
München(Biennale). Klaus Schedl: Amazon (8-12 V) Music: Klaus Schedl, Tato Taborda; Concept: Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Peter Weibel; Media: Peter Weibel, José Wagner Garcia; Advisors: Davi Kopenawa (shaman), Bruce Albert (anthropologist)
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| V 08 |  | Prapremiera
Seattle. Daron Aric Hagen: Amelia (8-22 V) Amelia interweaves one woman’s emotional journey, the American experience in Vietnam, and elements of the Daedalus and Icarus myth to explore man’s fascination with flight and the dilemmas that arise when it is used for exploration, adventure, and war; Libretto: Gardner McFall, after a story by Stephen Wadsworth
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| V 09 |  | Prapremiera
München(Biennale). Lin Wang: Die Quelle (9 V) Problems of preserving and transforming identity, and finding an individual voice in an increasingly multicultural world
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| V 15 |  | Rzadkie wydarzenie
London(Barbican). van der Aa: After Life (15 V)
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| V 16 |  | Prapremiera
Köln. Hoffmann,I: Vom Fischer und seiner Frau (16 V) Jazzoper für Kinder ab 4 Jahren; Libretto: Barbara Deeken, after the fairy-tale by Philipp Otto Runge
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| czerwiec |
| VI 06 |  | Prapremiera
Bonn. Klaus Lang: Buch Asche (6 VI)
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| VI 13 |  | Prapremiera
Saint Louis. Peter Ash: The Golden Ticket (13-26 VI) Libretto: Donald Sturrock, after Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
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| VI 18 |  | Prapremiera
Warszawa(Wielki). Szymanski: Qudsja Zaher (18-20 VI) A poetic tale of remembrance and death which unfolds underwater; Opera in two acts with prologue; Libretto: Maciej Drygas
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| lipiec |
| VII 02 |  | Prapremiera
Neustrelitz. Gunther: Luise (2 VII-1 VIII) Operetta to mark the bicentenary of the death of Queen Luise; Libretto: Dirk Heidecke, after the childhood of Queen Luise
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| VII 24 |  | Prapremiera
Santa Fe. Lewis Spratlan: Life is a Dream (24 VII-19 VIII) Libretto by James Maraniss
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