This winter on The Opera Platform
The Opera Platform’s videos have been viewed over 2 and a quarter million times since the launch 19 months ago. The success of The Opera Platform is contagious. Both opera companies initially involved and newcomers to the project are offering bonus content in the coming months.
Our Christmas show is a Russian tale based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin – Rimsky-Korsakov’s Golden Cockerel, live from Brussels on 23 December. This Laurent Pelly production marks a début for Alain Altinoglu as La Monnaie’s new Music Director.
On New Year’s Day, Komische Oper Berlin brings its revised version of Monteverdi’s original opera Orpheus in a musical adaptation by Elena Kats-Chernin, staged by Barrie Kosky in a joyful and colourful production.
Finnish National Opera offers Kasper Holten’s vision of Wagner’s masterpiece Der fliegende Holländer from 13 January. He brings the production to an urban environment and the tempestuous world of the international art trade, with the Dutchman as a famous Dutch artist who travels the world and feels he is drowning emotionally.
Space Opera was a commission of Opera Poznań last season from Polish composer Aleksander Nowak, born 1979. Its first staging was brought by Ewelina Pietrowiak, a young Poznań-native director. It tells a love story set on the first manned flight to Mars.
Mariss Jansons led the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in this landmark production by Martin Kušej of Shostakovich's subversive opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in commemoration of the composer's centenary in 2006. The magnificent Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek made her long-awaited debut at Dutch National Opera, available on The Opera Platform as of 17 February.
April will bring two further live relays: Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia with the legendary Mariella Devia from Palau de les Arts Valencia on 1 April; and the premiere of Barrie Kosky’s staging of Musorgsky’s rare Sorochinsky Fair from Komische Oper Berlin on 2 April.
The Opera Platform offers opera lovers and curious web-surfers the first part of a carefully curated European Opera Season, bringing the best of what European opera companies have to offer for the enjoyment of all; free, live and on demand.
Dates
23 December Golden Cockerel*
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
La Monnaie/De Munt Brussels
Live
1 January Orpheus
Claudio Monteverdi/Elena Kast-Chernin
Komische Oper Berlin
13 January Der fliegende Holländer
Richard Wagner
Finnish National Opera Helsinki
3 February Space Opera
Aleksander Nowak
Poznan National Opera
17 February Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dutch National Opera Amsterdam
3 March La troupe d’Orphée
inspired by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Opera2Day The Hague
1 April Lucrezia Borgia
Gaetano Donizetti
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Valencia
Live
2 April Sorochinsky Fair*
Modest Musorgsky
Komische Oper Berlin
Live
*Available for 6 months, subtitled in 6 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish) after the live relay
Still available
Until 2 June
The Pearls of Cleopatra
Oscar Straus
Komische Oper Berlin
Until 8 May
The Nose
Dimitry Shostakovich
Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Until 2 May
Goplana
Janusz Wiśniewski
Polish National Opera Warsaw
Until 20 April
La bohème
Giacomo Puccini
Teatro Regio Torino
Until 13 April
La Cenerentola
Gioachino Rossini
Opéra de Lille
Until 6 April
Die Gezeichneten
Franz Schreker
Opéra de Lyon
Until 26 March
Le nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Dutch National Opera Amsterdam
Until 23 March
Otello
Giuseppe Verdi
Teatro Real Madrid
Until 31 January
In Parenthesis
Iain Bell
Welsh National Opera Cardiff
And a great selection of other videos, including in Composers of Russia Collection, Mozart Collection, Puccini Collection, Verdi Collection, Wagner Collection, Festivals Collection and Contemporary Opera Collection!
The Opera Platform is a project supported by Creative Europe, led by Opera Europa, the European association of opera companies and festivals gathering 164 members in 40 countries, in partnership with the Franco-German cultural broadcaster ARTE and fifteen opera companies: Austria: Wiener Staatsoper; Belgium: La Monnaie/De Munt Bruxelles; Finland: Finnish National Opera Helsinki; France: Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Opéra national de Lyon; Germany: Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Stuttgart; Italy: Teatro Regio Torino; Latvia: Latvian National Opera Riga; Netherlands: Dutch National Opera Amsterdam; Norway: Den Norske Opera og Ballett Oslo; Poland: Polish National Opera Warsaw; Spain: Teatro Real Madrid; United Kingdom: Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera.
