2024 is sure to be a great Puccini year to mark the hundredth anniversary of his death. The Opernhaus Zürich has decided not to wait, programming La rondine, a delicate masterpiece that will be performed for the very first time in Switzerland! From 17 September 2023, the sensitive Ermonela Jaho and the magnificent Benjamin Bernheim […]

The director Ted Huffman is flying from success to success. After his acclaimed Monteverdi in Aix-en-Provence last summer, his new production is eagerly awaited at the Oper Zürich, especially as it is a Shakespearean drama. From 10 April to 18 May 2023, Charles Gounod‘s masterpiece Romeo and Juliet will be conducted by Roberto Forés Veses […]

For December 2022, Oper Zürich has chosen safety by programming three great opera masterpieces: Puccini’s La bohème, Verdi’s La traviata and Puccini’s Tosca, but as it is almost Christmas, Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann (alternating with Yusif Eyvazov) and Bryn Terfel are the gifts that adorn Tosca. Cherry on the Christmas tree, Juan Diego Flórez performs […]

While Matthias Schulz, the new director of the Oper Zürich, one of Europe’s most prestigious Opera House, will only be in charge from the 2025/26 season onwards, he has just taken his first decision by requesting the extension of the contract of conductor Gianandrea Noseda, who will remain until at least the 2027/28 season. Noseda […]

A new production is highly expected at the Oper Zurich. From April 7, 2019, Massenet’s other masterpiece Manon will be directed by Floris Visser and conducted by Marco Armiliato. But the most thrilling is certainly the cast with the great tenor Piotr Beczala who a great Werther as Des Grieux and an ideal as the […]

Extravaganza: Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, extravagant opera is performed at the Zürich Opera from February 3rd, 2019. The new production from the famous Tatjana Gürbaca is conducted by the expert Tito Ceccherini. A wind of madness is blowing on Zurich!

From 9 to 23 December 2018, the blood floods the Zurich Opera stage thanks to Steven Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. As the monstrous Barber, incredible baritone Bryn Terfel will terrify the audience with his fellow mezzo Angelika Kirchschlager as Mrs. Lovett. Andreas Homoki directs and David Charles Abbell conducts.

On 4 november 2018, at the Opernhaus Zurich Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte will be premiered with a bitter taste. It is so unusual for a Theater director to be under house arrest. For more than a year, Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has been kept in Moscow. Thanks to the distance work accomplished with his co-director […]

The return of great baritone Bryn Terfel is expected at Zurich Opera in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer in Andreas Homoki production, from 18 March.

At Zurich Opera from 25 February Wagner is at the top with the revival of Parsifal staring Nina Stemme as Kundry.