An Unheard “Carmen”
The new edition of Bizet’s opera Carmen in Apulia and Salzburg

Charlotte Seither was born in Landau/Palatinate in 1965 and studied composition, piano, German studies and musicology in Hanover and Berlin. In 1998 she received her doctorate in philosophy. She has received numerous prizes and awards, including first prize in the international composition competition “Prague Spring” (1995), the sponsorship prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (2003), first prize in the international composition competition “Premi International Ciutat de Palma” (2004 ), the Praetorius Music Prize of the State of Lower Saxony in 2010, the Palatinate Music Prize in 2012 and the German Music Author Prize in the category of contemporary choral music in 2014. at the Cité des Arts Paris (1999), at the Palazzo Barbarigo Venice (1993), at the Villa Aurora Los Angeles (2000) and in 2009 at the Villa Massimo Rome. In 2013 she received a scholarship from the Villa Concordia Bamberg. After a guest professorship at the Bremen University of the Arts (2002), she continued to work there as a lecturer in contemporary music, followed by other teaching assignments and professorships, including the professorship for composition at the Munich University of Music and Theater in 2021. Her works are performed at numerous festivals, e.g. with BBC Symphony Orchestra London, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra Prague, ASKO Kamerkoor, IFWM Festival Seoul, GRAME Festival Lyon, Nuova Consonanza Rome, LACMA Los Angeles and GAUDEAMUS Amsterdam. She is a member of the GEMA Supervisory Board, GEMA Foundation Advisory Board, Bogliasco Foundation Fellow Advisory Council / Italy, Board of Directors of the German Composers Association (DKV), she has been Chairwoman of the Music Advisory Board of the Guardini Foundation Berlin since 2021 and a member of the INMM Darmstadt Board of Directors. She was a jury member most recently: Paul Abraham Composition Prize for contemporary music theater, Music Prize Saxony-Anhalt 2022, Concorso Internazionale di Composizione per Orchestra “2 Agosto” di Bologna 2022, New Start Culture I – support program of the German Music Council, New Start Culture II – support program of the German Music Council, New Culture III – support program of the German Music Council, German Music Competition for Composition, support program for repertoire education of the State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia, EZM support for orchestral music of the German Music Council.
In 2021, the world premieres of “fragend licht” (2021) for 8-part chamber choir and two cellos, anniversary concert for Sophie Scholl’s 100th birthday, Ensemble Vocantare Berlin, conductor: Tobias Walenciak, and of “Ferne Begegnung. Trois Adieux für Ludwig from B.” (2018) for chamber orchestra, German Orchestra Competition Bonn 2020/21, prize-winning orchestra of the competition (corona-related catch-up competition online). In 2022, among other things, “Sisters” (2022) for violin, violoncello and piano, a work commissioned by Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg for the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, was premiered and in the 2023/24 season of the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen the premiere of the stage work “Fidelio Schweigt. Dialog- opera” will take place.
| composer_first_name | composer_last_name | title | date | orchestra | conductor | location | special |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas | Adès | Klavierkonzert | 24.06.2026 | Kirill Gerstein (Klavier), Tonhalle Orchester | Thomas Adès | Zürich (Tonhalle) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Idomeneo | 26.06.2026 | Chelsea Opera Group | Paul Wingfield | London (Cadogan Hall) | konzertant |
| Frank | Martin | Messe für zwei vierstimmige Chöre a cappella | 26.06.2026 | Rias Kammerchor | Peter Dijkstra | Berlin (Philharmonie) | |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Eugen Onegin | 26.06.2026 | Lidiya Yankovskaya, Regie: Max Webster | Hampshire (The Grange Festival) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | 27.06.2026 | Thomas Guggeis, Regie: Andrea Moses | Berlin (Staatsoper Unter den Linden) | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | Messe solennelle | 02.07.2026 | Orchestre National de France | Dinis Sousa | Paris (Maison de la Radio) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 02.07.2026 | Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Regie: Clément Cogitore | Aix-en-Provence (Festival) | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 8. Symphonie | 04.07.2026 | Bruckner Orchester Linz | Philippe Jordan | St. Florian (Basilika) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Ariodante | 04.07.2026 | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset | Beaune (Festival Baroque, Hotel-Dieu) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Idomeneo | 04.07.2026 | Felix Pätzold, Regie: Immo Karaman | Kiel | Premiere | |
| George | Benjamin | Three Consorts | 05.07.2026 | Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin | Kent Nagano | Klütz (Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schloss Bothmer) | weitere Termine |
| Joseph | Haydn | Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz | 05.07.2026 | Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz | Michael Francis | Speyer (Gedächtniskirche) | |
| Giselher | Klebe | Mignon | 07.07.2026 | Detmolder Kammerorchester | Stanley Dodds | Detmold (Hochschule für Musik) | |
| Camille | Saint-Saëns | Samson et Dalila | 09.07.2026 | Slovenian Philharmonic | Charles Dutoit | Cankarjev (Gallus Hall) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 7. Symphonie | 12.07.2026 | Staatsorchester Stuttgart | Lothar Zagrosek | Stuttgart (Liederhalle) | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel XXXVII (so nimm denn meine hände) für orgel solo | 15.07.2026 | Martin Kückes (Orgel) | Templin (Maria-Magdalenen-Kirche) | ||
| Hector | Berlioz | Harold en Italie | 16.07.2026 | Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra | Andrew Manze | Elmshorn (Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival) | weitere Termine |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 19.07.2026 | Adrian Kelly, Regie: Corina Würsch | Buxton (International Festival, Opera House) | Premiere | |
| Philipp | Maintz | jag die hunde zurück! | 20.07.2026 | Accademia Musicale Chigiana | Lorenzo Donati | Siena (Chiesa della Ss. Annunziata) | |
| Antonín | Dvorák | Rusalka | 23.07.2026 | Petr Popelka, Regie: Martin Kusej | München (Münchner Opernfestspiele) | ||
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen, Fassung 1874 | 25.07.2026 | Fabio Luisi, Regie: Denis Krief | Martina Franca (Festival della Valle d’Itria) | Szenische Erstaufführung | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel XXXVII (so nimm denn meine hände) für orgel solo | 25.07.2026 | Martin Kückes (Orgel) | Berlin-Spandau (Orgelsommer, St. Nikolai) | ||
| Václav | Trojan | Märchen | 26.07.2026 | Heilbronner Sinfonie Orchester | Alois Seidlmeier | Heilbronn (Deutschhof) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 26.07.2026 | Teodor Currentzis, Regie: Gabriela Carrizo (Peeping Tom) | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | Premiere | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 29.07.2026 | Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie | Alain Altinoglu | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Viola Concerto „No templates“ | 31.07.2026 | Studierende der Orchesterakademie | Lü Jia | Lugano (Palazzo dei Congressi) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | 31.07.2026 | Evan Rogister, Regie: David McVicar | Glyndebourne (Opera Festival) | Premiere | |
| L'ubica | Cekovska | Maison de la musique en sept périodes | 01.08.2026 | Japan Century Symphony Orchestra | Andreas Ottensamer | Osaka | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Lucio Silla | 02.08.2026 | Mozarteum Orchester | Adam Fischer | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Le Cinesi | 06.08.2026 | Collegium 1704 | Václav Luks | Cesky Krumlov | |
| Joseph | Haydn | Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz | 06.08.2026 | Le Concert d’Astrée | Emmanuelle Haim | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 06.08.2026 | Joana Mallwitz, Regie: Christof Loy | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | Premiere | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel XXXII (wer nur den lieben gott läßt walten) für orgel solo | 06.08.2026 | Angela Metzger (Orgel) | München (St. Markus) | ||
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Wesendonck-Lieder | 06.08.2026 | Catherine Foster (Sopran), Mitglieder des Orchesters der Bayreuther Festspiele | Bayreuth (Festspiele) | auch 11.8. | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | König Karotte | 09.08.2026 | Mattias Straub (Erzähler), Orchester der Sommeroperette Heldritt | Manuel Grund | Bad Rodach (Waldbühne Heldritt) | |
| Antonio | Salieri | Cublai, gran Kan de’ Tartari | 10.08.2026 | Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento | Stefano Ferrario | La Villa (Badia) | weitere Termine |
| Hector | Berlioz | Grande messe des morts | 15.08.2026 | London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra | Antonio Pappano | London (Proms, Royal Albert Hall) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 16.08.2026 | Scottish Chamber Chorus and Orchestra | Maxim Emelyanychev | Edinburgh (International Festival) | konzertant |
| Hector | Berlioz | Grande messe des morts | 19.08.2026 | Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao | Erick Nielsen | San Sebastian (Musikfestivals Quincena, Auditorio Kursaal) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La finta giardiniera | 20.08.2026 | Massimiliano Caldi, Regie: Maria Sartova | Danzig | Premiere | |
| Bernd Alois | Zimmermann | Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu | 20.08.2026 | Orchestre des Jardins Musicaux | Valentin Reymond | Cernier | |
| Beat | Furrer | Canti della tenebra, In mia vita da vuolp, Presto für Flöte und Klavier, Melodie für Flöte solo, Studie für Klavier | 26.08.2026 | Elina Viluma-Helling (Sopran), Cornelia Sonnleithner (Alt), Maria Iazia (Klavier) Iva Kovac (Flöte), Gerald Preinfalk (Saxophon) | St. Gallen (Burg Gallenstein) | ||
| Joseph | Haydn | Orlando Paladino | 28.08.2026 | Orfeo Orchestra | György Vashegyi | Fertöd (Haydneum Concerts at Esterházy Palace) | |
| Gustav | Holst | The Planets | 03.09.2026 | Robert Schumann Philharmonie | Benjamin Reiners | Chemnitz | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 4. Sinfonie | 08.09.2026 | Staatskapelle Berlin | Christian Thielemann | Berlin (Philharmonie) | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 11.09.2026 | Marie Jacquot, Regie: Tatjana Gürbaca | Kopenhagen | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Die verlorene Melodie | 12.09.2026 | Staatskapelle Weimar | Weimar (Theaterfest) | ||
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 12.09.2026 | Sebastiano Rolli, Regie: Martina Gredler | Magdeburg | Premiere | |
| Régis | Campo | Lumen | 13.09.2026 | Stuttgarter Philharmoniker | Rémy Ballot | Besancon (Festival de Musique) | |
| Arnold | Bax | Octet | 14.09.2026 | Ensemble Kontrapunkte | Gottfried Rabl | Wien (Musikverein) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Boost | 16.09.2026 | Tonhalle-Orchester | Paavo Järvi | Zürich (Tonhalle) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 3. Symphonie | 17.09.2026 | Essener Philharmoniker | Bertrand de Billy | Essen (Alfried Krupp Saal) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 8. Symphonie in c-Moll | 17.09.2026 | Gewandhausorchester | Herbert Blomstedt | Leipzig (Gewandhaus) | |
| Ambroise | Thomas | Hamlet | 18.09.2026 | Michael Schönwandt, Regie: Krzysztof Warlikowski | Paris (Opéra National) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 19.09.2026 | Andreas Wolf, Regie: Walter Sutcliffe | Halle | Premiere | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Violation | 20.09.2026 | Tonhalle-Orchester | Julia Kurzydlak | Zürich (Tonhalle) | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel XXXIII (in te domine speravi) für orgel solo | 20.09.2026 | Roman Summereder (Orgel) | Hannover (Nazarethkirche) | Uraufführung | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel VIII (aus tiefer not schrei ich zu dir), choralvorspiel XL (te deum laudamus), choralvorspiel XLVI (morgenglanz der ewigkeit), choralvorspiel LI (kyrie XI, orbis factor) | 23.09.2026 | Hansjörg Albrecht (Orgel) | Berlin (Kathedrale St. Hedwig) | Uraufführung (choralvorspiel VIII) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Mitridate, re di Ponto | 24.09.2026 | Riccardo Frizza, Regie: Claus Guth | Neapel | Premiere | |
| Matthias | Pintscher | NUR | 25.09.2026 | Inon Barnatan (Klavier), Utah Symphony | Matthias Pintscher | Salt Lake City (Abravanel Hall) | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 25.09.2026 | Jakub Przybicien, Regie: Matthias Kitter | Nordhausen | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | La damnation de Faust | 26.09.2026 | Johannes Braun, Regie: Lorenzo Fioroni | Graz | Premiere | |
| Anders | Hillborg | Cello Concerto | 26.09.2026 | Ariel Barnes (Cello), Nürnberger Symphoniker | Jonathan Darlington | Nürnberg (Meistersingerhalle) | |
| Arnold | Bax | Tintagel | 28.09.2026 | Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven | Florian Ludwig | Bremerhaven | |
| Beat | Furrer | Neues Werk (2026) für Bass & Baritonsaxophon | 29.09.2026 | Ulfried Staber (Bass), Gerald Preinfalk (Saxophon) | Graz (BRUSEUM/Neue Galerie) | Uraufführung | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Zaide | 30.09.2026 | George Petrou, Regie: David Hermann | Frankfurt | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 7. Symphonie | 01.10.2026 | Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino | Thomas Guggeis | Florenz | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 02.10.2026 | Michele Spotti, Regie: Ted Huffman | Valencia (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Idomeneo | 02.10.2026 | Stefan Vladar, Regie: Philipp Himmelmann | Lübeck | Premiere | |
| Umberto | Giordano | Andrea Chénier | 03.10.2026 | Daniel Cohen, Regie: John Dew | Darmstadt | Premiere | |
| Pietro Mascagni / | Ruggero Leoncavallo | Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci | 31.10.2026 | Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Regie: Pamela Recinella | Hagen | Premiere | |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Dornröschen | 03.10.2026 | Carlo Benedetto Cimento, Choreographie: Reginaldo Oliveira | Palermo (Teatro Massimo) | Premiere | |
| Fromental | Halévy | La Juive | 03.10.2026 | Felix Bender, Regie: Marco Storman | Ulm | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 5. Symphonie | 04.10.2026 | Philharmonia Orchestra | Herbert Blomstedt | London (Royal Festival Hall) | |
| Jacques | Offenbach | Les contes d'Hoffmann | 04.10.2026 | Sejoon Park, Regie: Anja Nicklich | Koblenz | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Alcina | 06.10.2026 | Emmanuelle Haim, Regie: Ewelina Marciniak | Lille | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Alcina | 09.10.2026 | Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo | Iván López-Reynoso | Neapel (Teatro di San Carlo) | konzertant |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Eugen Onegin | 10.10.2026 | Hermes Helfricht, Regie: Matthew Ferraro | Erfurt | Premiere | |
| Beat | Furrer | Herbst, Enigma I-IV & VI, Enigma V, Enigma VII | 10.10.2026 | Cantando Admont | Cordula Bürgi | Graz (Helmut List Halle) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Ottone | 11.10.2026 | Václav Luks, Regie: Jetske Mijnssen | Frankfurt | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 13.10.2026 | Pablo González, Regie: Marta Pazos | Teneriffa (Auditorio) | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Riccardo primo, Re d’Inghilterra | 14.10.2026 | Les Arts Florissants | Paul Agnew | Dijon (Grand Théatre) | weitere Termine |
| Andrea Lorenzo | Scartazzini | Torso - Epitaph | 14.10.2026 | Luzerner Sinfonieorchester | Michael Sanderling | Luzern (KKL) | |
| Beat | Furrer | Konzert für Klavier und Orchester | 15.10.2026 | Orquesta Sinfónica de l'ESMUC | Ernest Martínez Izquierdo | Barcelona | |
| Gioachino | Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | 15.10.2026 | Chloe Rooke, Regie: Annabel Arden | Glyndebourne (Opera Festival) | Premiere | |
| Bernd Alois | Zimmermann | Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu | 15.10.2026 | Münchner Philharmoniker | Anja Bihlmaier | München (Isarphilharmonie) | |
| Torsten | Rasch | Die wunderbaren Jahre | 16.10.2026 | Christian Blex, Regie: Nora Bussenius | Dresden | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 5. Symphonie | 17.10.2026 | NHK Symphony Orchestra | Herbert Blomstedt | Tokio (NHK Hall) | |
| Salvatore | Sciarrino | Gesualdo senza parole | 17.10.2026 | Klangforum Wien | Sylvain Cambreling | Wien (Konzerthaus) | |
| Charles | Gounod | Faust | 20.10.2026 | Daniele Rustioni, Regie: Johannes Erath | Mailand (Teatro alla Scala) | Premiere | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Viola Concerto „No templates“ | 23.10.2026 | John Stulz (Viola), Ensemble Intercontemporain | George Benjamin | Paris (Cité de la Musique) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Flavio, Re de’ Langobardi | 23.10.2026 | Camille Delaforge, Regie: Max Emanuel Cencic | Meiningen | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Semele | 23.10.2026 | Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Rinaldo Alessandrini | Bologna (Teatro Comunale) | konzertant |
| Benjamin | Britten | Young Apollo | 24.10.2026 | Camerata Bern | Alexander Melnikov | Bern (Zentrum Paul Klee) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Semele | 25.10.2026 | Orchestra, Coro e Tecnici del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Rinaldo Alessandrini | Bologna (Teatro Comunale) | |
| Matthias | Pintscher | Assonanza | 29.10.2026 | Leila Josefowicz (Violine), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra | Matthias Pintscher | Stockholm (Konserthuset) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 29.10.2026 | N.N., Regie: Nilufar K. Münzing | Klagenfurt | Premiere | |
| Dieter | Ammann | glut | 30.10.2026 | Estonian National Symphony Orchestra | Gregor A. Mayrhofer | Tallinn (Festival AFEKT, Estonia Concert Hall) | |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Schwanensee | 31.10.2026 | Camerata Louis Spohr | Bernd Peter Fugelsang | Düsseldorf | |
| Pietro Mascagni / | Ruggero Leoncavallo | Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci | 31.10.2026 | N.N., Regie: Neil Barry Moss | Coburg (Globe) | Premiere | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Turn | 04.11.2026 | Tonhalle-Orchester | Paavo Järvi | Zürich (Tonhalle) | auchh 5./6.11. |
| Anton | Bruckner | 4. Symphonie | 06.11.2026 | Bamberger Symphoniker | Jakub Hrusa | Brünn (Janácek-Theater) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | glut | 06.11.2026 | hr-Sinfonieorchester | Michael Wendeberg | Frankfurt (hr-Sendesaal) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Core | 07.11.2026 | Orchester der Oper Zürich | Gianandrea Noseda | Zürich | |
| Pietro | Mascagni | Cavalleria rusticana | 07.11.2026 | N.N., Regie: Gil Mehmert | Dortmund | Premiere | |
| Beat | Furrer | Neues Werk für Orchester | 07.11.2026 | Kammerorchester Basel | Pierre Bleuse | Basel (Stadtcasino) | Uraufführung |
| Engelbert | Humperdinck | Dornröschen | 08.11.2026 | Markus Poschner, Regie: Anna Bergmann | Hamburg | Premiere | |
| Camille | Saint-Saëns | Samson et Dalila | 13.11.2026 | Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Roberto Abbado | Bologna (Teatro Comunale) | konzertant |
| Beat | Furrer | a sei voci für 6 Frauenstimmen | 15.11.2026 | Cantando Admont | Cordula Bürgi | Münchendorf (Musiksalon) | |
| Václav | Trojan | Märchen | 21.11.2026 | Kammerorchester der TUD | Florian Streich | Groß-Umstadt (Stadthalle) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 21.11.2026 | Hélio Vida, Regie: Nikolaus Habjan | Basel | Premiere | |
| Henry | Purcell | Dido and Aeneas | 21.11.2026 | Daniel Geiss, Regie: Seollyeon Konwitschny-Lee | Neubrandenburg | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 25.11.2026 | David McVicar, Regie: Bettina Neuhaus | Barcelona | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Das Mondklavier | 29.11.2026 | Beate Bachmann (Sprecherin), Jenaer Philharmonie | Jena (Volkshaus) | ||
| Giovanni | Sollima | Violoncelles, vibrez! | 02.12.2026 | Münchener Kammerorchester | Daniel Giglberger | Olten (Stadttheater) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Gehörte Form - Hommages | 03.12.2026 | Trio Sola | Zürich (Tonhalle) | ||
| Georges | Bizet | Les Pêcheurs de Perles | 05.12.2026 | Marc Minkowski, Regie: Pierre-André Weitz | Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Nils Holgersson | 06.12.2026 | Erik Brünner (Sprecher), Jugendsinfonieorchester Heinrich-Schütz-Konservatorium, Dresdner Philharmonie | Milko Kersten | Dresden (Kulturpalast) | auch 7.12. |
| Francesco | Filidei | I funerali dell’anarchico Serantini | 09.12.2026 | Studierende der Hochschule | Karlsruhe (Hochschule für Musik) | ||
| Miroslav | Srnka | Smoke | 10.12.2026 | NHK Symphony Orchestra | Maxim Emelyanychev | Tokio (Suntory Hall) | Uraufführung |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 13.12.2026 | Marta Gardoli?ska, Regie: Jetske Mijnssen | Genf (Bâtiment des Forces Motrices) | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | La damnation de Faust | 17.12.2026 | Bertrand de Billy, Regie: Lydia Steier | Wien (Staatsoper) | Premiere | |
| Jules | Massenet | Thaïs | 18.12.2026 | Pierre Dumoussaud, Regie: Olivier Lepelletier-Leeds | Liège | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Flavio, Re de’ Langobardi | 19.12.2026 | Karsten Januschke, Regie: Tilmann Köhler | Frankfurt (Bockenheimer Depot) | Premiere | |
| Georges | Bizet | Les Pêcheurs de Perles | 29.12.2026 | Victorien Vanoosten, Regie: Mirabelle Ordinaire | Toulon (Zénith) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Thamos, König in Ägypten | 12.01.2027 | Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento | Christophe Rousset | Bozen (Auditorium) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | glut | 13.01.2027 | Tonhalle-Orchester | Gianandrea Noseda | Zürich (Tonhalle) | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 16.01.2027 | Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg | Christopher Schumann | Nürnberg | konzertant |
| Richard | Dubugnon | Sonnenring | 20.01.2027 | Janine Jansen (Violine), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande | Jonathan Nott | Genf (Victoria Hall) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Orlando | 21.01.2027 | Daniel Espasa, Regie: Rafael Villalobos | Teneriffa (Auditorio) | Premiere | |
| Antonín | Dvorák | Rusalka | 23.01.2027 | Francesco Angelico, Regie: Vasily Barkhatov | Graz | Premiere | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | 23.01.2027 | Eric Staiger, Regie: Aileen Schneider | Oldenburg | Premiere | |
| Giovanni | Sollima | When We Were Trees | 24.01.2027 | Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester | Reto Bieri | Pforzheim (CongressCentrum) | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Nils Holgersson | 24.01.2027 | Oliver Moumouris (Sprecher), Württembergische Philharmonie | Hans Grischkat | Reutlingen (Georgensaal) | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | 29.01.2027 | Aapo Häkkinen, Regie: Tero Saarinen | Helsinki | Premiere | |
| Engelbert | Humperdinck | Königskinder | 30.01.2027 | Justus Thorau, Regie: Angela Denoke | Saarbrücken | Premiere | |
| Antonín | Dvorák | Rusalka | 30.01.2027 | Jiri Rozen, Regie: Caterina Cianfarini | Basel | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 30.01.2027 | Marco Alibrando, Regie: Marcos Darbyshire | Weimar | Premiere | |
| Jean-Philippe | Rameau | Les Boréades | 05.02.2027 | Camille Delaforge, Regie: R.B. Schlather | Dublin (Irish National Opera) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 10.02.2027 | Thomas Hengelbrock, Regie: Netia Jones | London (Royal Opera House) | Premiere | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 11.02.2027 | Nathalie Stutzmann, Regie: Robert Carsen | Paris (Opéra National) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 13.02.2027 | Gerrit Prießnitz, Regie: Anna-Sophie Mahler | Innsbruck | Premiere | |
| Camille | Saint-Saëns | Samson et Dalila | 13.02.2027 | Marco Comin, Regie: N.N. | Bremerhaven | Premiere | |
| Ludwig van | Beethoven | Fidelio | 17.02.2027 | Kensho Watanabe, Regie: Ruth Knight | Glasgow | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Rinaldo | 22.02.2027 | Philippe Jaroussky, Regie: Valentina Carrasco | Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) | Premiere | |
| Oliver | Leith | Last Days | 27.02.2027 | André de Ridder, Friedrike Scheunchen, Regie: Lily Kuhlmann | Freiburg | Premiere | |
| Bedrich | Smetana | Die verkaufte Braut | 28.02.2027 | Tómas Netopil, Regie: Laurent Pelly | Köln | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 05.03.2027 | Kaspar Zehnder, Regie: Joel Lauwers | Metz | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Serse | 06.03.2027 | Clément Lonca, Regie: Lorenzo Fioroni | Bern | Premiere | |
| Ambroise | Thomas | Hamlet | 07.03.2027 | Seok-Won Hong, Regie: Nicola Berloffa | Teneriffa (Auditorio) | Premiere | |
| Bohuslav | Martinu | Konzert Nr. 2 für Violine und Orchester | 15.03.2027 | Kirill Kobantschenko (Violine), Sinfonia Academica | David Holzinger | Wien (Mozartsaal) | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Iphigénie en Aulide | 20.03.2027 | Ivan Demidov, Regie: Jochen Biganzoli | Augsburg | Premiere |
Leonore is no longer a victim. In “Fidelio schweigt” the character who was merely a lover becomes an active subject and in so doing, emancipates herself from the well-known, all-too-familiar subject matter.
Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio” is unique on the theatre stage. What had to be established for other operas in the course of their performance history was true for Fidelio from the very beginning: the opera takes place in the here and now. The contradictions of the work, which Beethoven himself battled with, still apply today: the text, the narrative style, the historical theatrical form, the characters, the spoken dialogues – all these seem to resist a contemporary treatment of the work to the present day, so some stronger leverage has to be found.
“The victim is the person who does not take the initiative”, says the composer Charlotte Seither on the guiding principle of Leonore, the protagonist in her new stage work “Fidelio schweigt” (Fidelio is silent). “Together with Hermann Schneider, I have put aside precisely what for me restricts the subject matter historically, in order to make space for what interests me – removing the pressure for women to be victims.
In my work Leonore is no longer a victim. She is no longer just a lover, no longer the adjunct of a man – she becomes an active subject who, at the end, stands above traditional role models on a level with all the other powerful characters who surround her. Hope indeed remains hollow – as it does also with Beethoven – when it is not followed by action. That alone would justify such a work as a theme. As a woman, Leonore steps out of her context and is capable of power in that she acts. Yet in so doing she remains vulnerable. Empathy and power are not ruled out if a person is really capable of action. That is what I am interested in.”
The music theatre work “Fidelio schweigt” begins at this interface with Beethoven’s original, a “dialogue opera” as the composer herself describes her music-theatrical form. The many years’ study which Beethoven himself devoted to the subject and the form is simply re-thought here, making the content itself into a transitory object: the work begins with the second act, half of the work is shortened. “Where action takes place”, says the composer, “unusual interventions also have to be made and seemingly indispensable structures overridden.” The original (Beethoven) and the interpolations (Seither) thus follow each other in a new sequence, thereby opening a separate narrative thread which refers forwards and looks back at the same time: “Form is the present”, says Charlotte Seither: “Only when we do not know whether the end conceals a new beginning, or the beginning conceals a new end will we continue to do justice to the form of opera today.”
Together with the librettist and director Hermann Schneider, the composer places the emphasis on Leonore, whose disguise as a man in “Fidelio schweigt” has become obsolete. Leonore acts, she goes into the world and shapes it. The duplicity of Fidelio – the model of assuming a male pattern of behaviour – is thus finally overcome, it is silenced. And in the rest of the narrative, the core of the plot concentrates on the four main characters, whilst subsidiary roles have been omitted. “Where action takes place, then the familiar must also be let go, one also has to be able to name truth in clear language, even if that is sometimes very direct or can be hurtful” (Charlotte Seither).
“I decided”, says the composer, “to approach Beethoven’s method of composition with a sharp dissecting knife. In so doing I left his music in the original, but made clear vertical cuts into which I inserted my own music. It was important to me that both Beethoven’s original numbers as well as my music largely sounded ‘pure’, apart from the final conclusion. I rejected quotations, the anecdotal, and any kind of historicising artistic device.”
At the end of the dialogue opera there are various overwritings, the sound levels cross out each other at ever-shorter distances. “If you like, the form of the piece is an abstract replica on the discursive thinking in Beethoven’s late works; it therefore ends in the small, the contemporary, expected by no-one, in the here and now and perhaps nevertheless in a very personal form of utopia which continues to drive me on today” (Charlotte Seither).
Stephan Steinmetz/Charlotte Seither
(from [t]akte 1/2024 – translation: Elizabeth Robinson)
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