Saisoneröffnung für alle

oper für alle²

This year’s «Saisoneröffnung für alle» brings with it two editions of «oper für alle»: Saturday evening brings a broadcast of Christian Spuck’s interpretation of the Verdi Requiem to the big screen, and the festival’s high point will take place on Sunday, when the premiere of Richard Strauss’ «Salome» will be broadcast live on the Sechseläutenplatz and simultaneously streamed out to the world.
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Ballet for all! Saturday evening brings a broadcast of Christian Spuck’s interpretation of the Verdi Requiem to the big screen. In images both poignant and poetic, the Ballett Zürich takes on one of mankind’s core emotions, bringing the experience of the wounded and helpless in search of consolation into focus.

The festival’s high point will take place on Sunday, when the premiere of Richard Strauss’ «Salome» will be broadcast live on the Sechseläutenplatz and simultaneously streamed out to the world.  The opera was premiered in 1905, and with its decadent story line of erotic dance and beheadings – it’s no surprise that the work is one of Strauss’ most beloved!

The gates to Sechseläutenplatz will open at 4:30 pm. On Saturday, starting at 6 p.m., as part of training für alle and tanz für alle, you can get up and shake a leg with the ballet company. Tama Vakeesan will accompany the preliminary program and introduce the dancers in conversation. On Sunday, the evening’s pre-program will start at 6.00pm and will be led by Kurt Aeschbacher, who will join live from backstage. In addition to introducing the work, he’ll be in conversation with the evening’s artists. Each evening, the performance will start promptly at 7.00pm.

Sat 11 Sep Free Tickets
Sun 12 Sep Free Tickets

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Das tapfere Schneiderlein

With gigantic giants, a wild boar and a unicorn we welcome big and small children from the age of six on the studio stage at the «Saisoneröffnung für alle».
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Children ages six and older will have their own magical experience – featuring a giant giant, a wild boar, and a unicorn – during their own special Saisoneröffnung für alle event held on the Studiobühne. The young director and puppetry specialist Kai Anne Schuhmacher created imaginative marionettes for her production of Das tapfere Schneiderlein, which were brought to life by our workshops. Four singers and a puppeteer slip into the roles of the Grimm brothers and the various fairytale characters, bringing them to life.

Sat 11 Sep 1.00pm Free Tickets No more Tickets available
Sat 11 Sep 4.00pm Free Tickets No more Tickets available
Sun 12 Sep 3.00pm Free Tickets No more Tickets available

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Concert «Der Nussknacker für Kinder»

Trumpet fanfares, ethereal strains from the celesta, and wild winds sound out on Sunday morning, when we introduce Piotr Tchaikovsky’s dreamlike, beautiful masterpiece Der Nussknacker to our youngest guests.
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The divinely wonderful music that accompanies the Sugar Plum Fairy or the proud trumpet fanfare that heralds the arrival of the Nutcracker – Piotr Tchaikovsky wrote powerfully poetic music for his Nussknacker, creating a world that fascinates young and old alike. In this abridged version for children, the young musicians of our Orchesterakademie bring the score for this magical work to life. Felix Bierich narrates, telling the story of Marie and he wooden nutcracker she receives as a gift. Slowly but surely, her imagination brings him to life, and together they go on the wildest of adventures…

Sun 12 Sep 11.00am Free tickets No more Tickets available

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L’incoronazione di Poppea

With «L’incoronazione di Poppea» Claudio Monteverdi created not just the first opera, but one of the greatest operas of all time. We’re presenting Calixto Bieito’s successful production again this season – and you have the opportunity to sit in on a rehearsal on Saturday morning!
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Featuring a spectacular set that combines stage and audience in an unexpected fashion, the opera’s self-obsessed characters present themselves on a catwalk of vanities while imposing video screens dominate the arena, completing the glamorous world of unending self-adulation. Audience favorite Julie Fuchs sings the confident, sensual Poppea, a woman who won’t allow either setbacks or defeats to stop her from getting what she wants: to be crowned empress. At her side as the emperor Nero is Australian countertenor David Hansen, who proves equal to Fuchs on stage.

Monteverdi’s Poppea would be 370 years old today – but the figures that appear in this work are striking in their modernity, with depths and passions that could be our own. The performance is a theatrical experience that spans the distance between animalistic drive and eroticism, underscored by an all-encompassing musical score!

Sat 11 Sep 11.00am Free Tickets Nore more tickets available

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Free tickets

Free tickets for ballett für alle on Saturday can be booked here, the ones for oper für alle on Sunday here. Tickets for these events are not available via the Billettkasse, nor are they available by phone.

Free tickets for all other events regarding Saisoneröffnung für alle are unfortunately not available anymore.

Protective Measures

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