Events
Lohengrin
Richard Wagner’s romantic opera (1850)
Stage director, set and lighting designer: Michiel Dijkema
Costume designer: Jula Reindell
Estonian National Opera chorus and orchestra
Lohengrin
Richard Wagner’s romantic opera (1850)
Stage director, set and lighting designer: Michiel Dijkema
Costume designer: Jula Reindell
Estonian National Opera chorus and orchestra
Le Corsaire
Music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Léo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo
Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier based on a poem “The Corsair” by Lord Byron
Choreographer and stage director: José Carlos Martinez
Designer: Inaki Cobos
Lighting: Rasmus Rembel
Estonian National Ballet and Orchestra
Schönberg 150- Ode to Napoleon
Ludensemble
Tamar Nugis (baritone)
Arnold Schönberg
3 pieces for piano op.11
Phantasy for violin and piano op.47
Two songs op.1
6 pieces for Piano Four Hands
Ode to Napoleon
The Nutcracker
Ballet by P.I.Tchaikovsky, libretto by M.Petipa based on the fairy-tale by E.T.A.Hoffmann and A.Dumas
Choreographer and stage director: Gyla Harangozó
Designer: Kentaur
Estonian National Ballet and orchestra
Source: https://opera.ee/en/staging/pahklipureja-2/?show_id=1826
Light from the End of The World (world premiere)
New ballet by Alisson Kruusmaa and Jevgeni Grib. “Light from the End of the World” tells a story about the creation of the world, the birth of mankind, the loss of harmony, the greed, the destruction of the old world – and the possibility of a new world.
Choreographer: Jevgeni Grib
Composer: Alisson Kruusmaa
Librettist: Eero Epner
Set Designer: Kristjan Suits
Costumes Designer: Tanel Veenre
Lighting Designer: Priidu Adlas
Estonian National Ballet and orchestra
Light from the End of the World
Choreographer: Jevgeni Grib
Composer: Alisson Kruusmaa
Librettist: Eero Epner
Set Designer: Kristjan Suits
Costumes Designer: Tanel Veenre
Lighting Designer: Priidu Adlas
Estonian National Ballet and orchestra
Il trovatore
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Stage director: Neeme Kuningas
Costumes and design: Anna Kontek
Estonian National Opera soloists, chorus and orchestra
Light from the End of the World
Choreographer: Jevgeni Grib
Composer: Alisson Kruusmaa
Librettist: Eero Epner
Set Designer: Kristjan Suits
Costumes Designer: Tanel Veenre
Lighting Designer: Priidu Adlas
Estonian National Ballet and orchestra
Il trovatore
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Stage director: Neeme Kuningas
Costumes and design: Anna Kontek
Estonian National Opera soloists, chorus and orchestra
Le Corsaire
Music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Léo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo
Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier based on a poem “The Corsair” by Lord Byron
Choreographer and stage director: José Carlos Martinez
Designer: Inaki Cobos
Lighting: Rasmus Rembel
Estonian National Ballet and Orchestra
ZAPPA!
Vaiko Eplik, Valter Soosalu
Ludensemble XL, conductor Kaspar Mänd
Concert is organised by Jazzkaar
The Nutcracker
Ballet by P.I.Tchaikovsky, libretto by M.Petipa based on the fairy-tale by E.T.A.Hoffmann and A.Dumas
Choreographer and stage director: Gyla Harangozó
Designer: Kentaur
Estonian National Ballet and orchestra
Source: https://opera.ee/en/staging/pahklipureja-2/?show_id=1826
Carmen
Opera by Georges Bizet, libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Music director: Arvo Volmer
Stage director, set and costume designer: Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau
Lighting designer: Gilles Gentner
Estonian National Opera chorus, boys’ choir and orchestra
Carmen
Opera by Georges Bizet, libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Stage director, set and costume designer: Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau
Lighting designer: Gilles Gentner
Estonian National Opera chorus, boys’ choir and orchestra
Sounds that Speak- Schönberg 150
Estonian National Opera Orchestra
Kristel Pärtna (soprano)
Arnold Schönberg
“Verklärte Nacht” for String Sextet
Vier Lieder op.2
Cabaret songs
Chamber Symphony no.1
Madama Butterfly
Opera by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
International co-production with the participation of Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia, Teatro Sociale di Como – As.Li.Co., Fondazione Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, Fondazione Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli di Cremona, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, Estonian National Opera.
Premiere in Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia on July 20, 2023
Premiere in the Estonian National Opera on May 24, 2024
Stage Director: Rodula Gaitanou (Greece)
Designer: Takis (Greece)
Lighting Designer: Fiammetta Baldiserri (Italy)
Estonian National Opera chorus and orchestra
Anna Karenina
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choreographer: Marina Kesler
Estonian National Opera ballet and orchestra
Black and White
Short ballets by Katarzyna Kozielska and Serge Lifar.
Producers: Stephanie Roublot, Charles Jude
Lighting: Charles Jude, Rasmus Rembel
Costume designer: Marja- Liisa Pihlak
Georges Bizet Symphony in C major
Edouard Lalo “Namouna”
Estonian National Ballet and orchestra
Black and White
Short ballets by Katarzyna Kozielska and Serge Lifar.
Producers: Stephanie Roublot, Charles Jude
Lighting: Charles Jude, Rasmus Rembel
Costume designer: Marja- Liisa Pihlak
Georges Bizet Symphony in C major
Edouard Lalo “Namouna”
Estonian National Ballet and orchestra
hommage à Kaija Saariaho
Jean-Baptiste Barrière - „Contemplation“
Kaija Saariaho – „Miranda' s lament“
Kaija Saariaho – „Petals“
Helena Tulve – “vers l’autre clarté” (world premiere)
Kaija Saariaho – „Lichtbogen“
Jean-Baptiste Barrière (electronics and video), Maria Valdma (soprano), Leho Karin (cello), ansambel U: , Estonian Electronic Music Association ensemble EMA, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Kaspar Mänd (conductor)
https://www.filharmoonia.ee/kontserdid/kontsert/1721-hommage-a-kaija-saariaho#event-readmore
Anna Karenina
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choreographer: Marina Kesler
Estonian National Opera ballet and orchestra
Fachwerk: Novakovic/Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Momir Novakovic (accordion)
Esa-Pekka Salonen “Stockholm Diary”
Leoś Janacek Suite for Strings
Sofia Gubaidulina “Fachwerk”
Alice in Wonderland
Production created for the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples with original choreography by Gianluca Schiavoni
Created after Lewis Carroll’s novel of the same name
Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Aram Khachaturian and Alberto Nanetti, arranged by Alberto Nanetti
World premiere on May 14, 2017 in San Carlo Theatre
Estonian National Ballet and orchestra
Source: https://opera.ee/en/staging/alice-imedemaal/?show_id=1766
Don Pasquale
Comic opera by Gaetano Donizzetti, libretto by Giovanni Ruffini
Stage Director: Giorgio Bongiovanni
Set and Costume Designer: Carla Ricotti
Lighting Designer: Claudio de Pace
Estonian National Opera soloists, chorus and orchestra
Anna Karenina
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choreographer: Marina Kesler
Estonian National Opera ballet and orchestra
Kaunas Symphony Orchestra
International Chaim Frenkel Villa Summer Festival Closing Concert
Christian Segmehl (saxophone)
Kaunas Symphony Orchestra
Suppé, Milhaud, Iturralde, Bizet, Piazzolla, Kodaly
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Estonian National Opera and Von Krahl Theatre begin the season with an exciting co-project, Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera “The Emperor of Atlantis” (Der Kaiser von Atlantis”) that has never been performed in Estonia before.
Ullmann wrote the opera in the Theresienstadt concentration camp together with his fellow prisoner librettist Peter Kien in 1943–1944.
Music Director and Conductor: Kaspar Mänd (Estonian National Opera)
Stage Director: Peeter Jalakas (Von Krahl Theatre)
Designer: Kristel Zimmer
Lighting Designer: Priidu Adlas
Estonian National Opera soloists and Orchestra
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Estonian National Opera and Von Krahl Theatre begin the season with an exciting co-project, Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera “The Emperor of Atlantis” (Der Kaiser von Atlantis”) that has never been performed in Estonia before.
Ullmann wrote the opera in the Theresienstadt concentration camp together with his fellow prisoner librettist Peter Kien in 1943–1944.
Music Director and Conductor: Kaspar Mänd (Estonian National Opera)
Stage Director: Peeter Jalakas (Von Krahl Theatre)
Designer: Kristel Zimmer
Lighting Designer: Priidu Adlas
Estonian National Opera soloists and Orchestra
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Estonian National Opera and Von Krahl Theatre begin the season with an exciting co-project, Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera “The Emperor of Atlantis” (Der Kaiser von Atlantis”) that has never been performed in Estonia before.
Ullmann wrote the opera in the Theresienstadt concentration camp together with his fellow prisoner librettist Peter Kien in 1943–1944.
Music Director and Conductor: Kaspar Mänd (Estonian National Opera)
Stage Director: Peeter Jalakas (Von Krahl Theatre)
Designer: Kristel Zimmer
Lighting Designer: Priidu Adlas
Estonian National Opera soloists and Orchestra
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Estonian National Opera and Von Krahl Theatre begin the season with an exciting co-project, Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera “The Emperor of Atlantis” (Der Kaiser von Atlantis”) that has never been performed in Estonia before.
Ullmann wrote the opera in the Theresienstadt concentration camp together with his fellow prisoner librettist Peter Kien in 1943–1944.
Music Director and Conductor: Kaspar Mänd (Estonian National Opera)
Stage Director: Peeter Jalakas (Von Krahl Theatre)
Designer: Kristel Zimmer
Lighting Designer: Priidu Adlas
Estonian National Opera soloists and Orchestra
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Estonian National Opera and Von Krahl Theatre begin the season with an exciting co-project, Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera “The Emperor of Atlantis” (Der Kaiser von Atlantis”) that has never been performed in Estonia before.
Ullmann wrote the opera in the Theresienstadt concentration camp together with his fellow prisoner librettist Peter Kien in 1943–1944.
Music Director and Conductor: Kaspar Mänd (Estonian National Opera)
Stage Director: Peeter Jalakas (Von Krahl Theatre)
Designer: Kristel Zimmer
Lighting Designer: Priidu Adlas
Estonian National Opera soloists and Orchestra
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Estonian National Opera and Von Krahl Theatre begin the season with an exciting co-project, Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera “The Emperor of Atlantis” (Der Kaiser von Atlantis”) that has never been performed in Estonia before.
Ullmann wrote the opera in the Theresienstadt concentration camp together with his fellow prisoner librettist Peter Kien in 1943–1944.
Music Director and Conductor: Kaspar Mänd (Estonian National Opera)
Stage Director: Peeter Jalakas (Von Krahl Theatre)
Designer: Kristel Zimmer
Lighting Designer: Priidu Adlas
Estonian National Opera soloists and Orchestra
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Estonian National Opera and Von Krahl Theatre begin the season with an exciting co-project, Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera “The Emperor of Atlantis” (Der Kaiser von Atlantis”) that has never been performed in Estonia before.
Ullmann wrote the opera in the Theresienstadt concentration camp together with his fellow prisoner librettist Peter Kien in 1943–1944.
Music Director and Conductor: Kaspar Mänd (Estonian National Opera)
Stage Director: Peeter Jalakas (Von Krahl Theatre)
Designer: Kristel Zimmer
Lighting Designer: Priidu Adlas
Estonian National Opera soloists and Orchestra
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Estonian National Opera and Von Krahl Theatre begin the season with an exciting co-project, Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera “The Emperor of Atlantis” (Der Kaiser von Atlantis”) that has never been performed in Estonia before.
Ullmann wrote the opera in the Theresienstadt concentration camp together with his fellow prisoner librettist Peter Kien in 1943–1944.
Music Director and Conductor: Kaspar Mänd (Estonian National Opera)
Stage Director: Peeter Jalakas (Von Krahl Theatre)
Designer: Kristel Zimmer
Lighting Designer: Priidu Adlas
Estonian National Opera soloists and Orchestra
Anna Karenina
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choreographer: Marina Kesler
Estonian National Opera ballet and orchestra
Anna Karenina
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choreographer: Marina Kesler
Estonian National Opera ballet and orchestra
Sleeping Beauty
Libretto by Marius Petipa and Ivan Vsevolozhsky based on Charles Perrault’s fairy tales
Premiere at the Estonian National Opera on November 14, 2014
Original choreography: Marius Petipa
Choreographer and Stage Director of the new redaction: Thomas Edur
Designer: Peter Docherty
Lighting Designer: Anton Kulagin
Estonian National Ballet and orchestra
Sleeping Beauty
Libretto by Marius Petipa and Ivan Vsevolozhsky based on Charles Perrault’s fairy tales
Premiere at the Estonian National Opera on November 14, 2014
Original choreography: Marius Petipa
Choreographer and Stage Director of the new redaction: Thomas Edur
Designer: Peter Docherty
Lighting Designer: Anton Kulagin
Estonian National Ballet and orchestra
Madama Butterfly
Opera by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
International co-production with the participation of Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia, Teatro Sociale di Como – As.Li.Co., Fondazione Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, Fondazione Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli di Cremona, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, Estonian National Opera.
Stage Director: Rodula Gaitanou (Greece)
Designer: Takis (Greece)
Lighting Designer: Fiammetta Baldiserri (Italy)
Estonian National Opera chorus and orchestra
Madama Butterfly
Opera by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
International co-production with the participation of Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia, Teatro Sociale di Como – As.Li.Co., Fondazione Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, Fondazione Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli di Cremona, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, Estonian National Opera.
Premiere in Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia on July 20, 2023
Premiere in the Estonian National Opera on May 24, 2024
Stage Director: Rodula Gaitanou (Greece)
Designer: Takis (Greece)
Lighting Designer: Fiammetta Baldiserri (Italy)
Estonian National Opera chorus and orchestra
Anna Karenina
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choreographer: Marina Kesler
Estonian National Opera ballet and orchestra
Il Trovatore
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Stage director: Neeme Kuningas
Costumes and design: Anna Kontek
Estonian National Opera soloists, chorus and orchestra
Il Trovatore
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Stage director: Neeme Kuningas
Costumes and design: Anna Kontek
Estonian National Opera soloists, chorus and orchestra
Ludens: Nocturnal Migrants
Luigi Dallapiccola “Piccola musica notturna”
György Ligeti Kammerkonzert
Madli Marje Gildemann “Nocturnal Migrants”
Philippe Hersant “Rondes de nuit”
Ludens sinfonietta