Felix Breisach

Der Mann von La Mancha

Felix Breisach

Karl Merkatz, Werner Prinz

Höllenangst

Felix Breisach

Alexandra Henkel, Johannes Krisch

Don Giovanni - Zurich

Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Felix Breisach

Simon Keenlyside, Anton Scharinger

Live performance Zürich, May and July 2006. Modern dress performance which generated mixed reactions.

La Traviata im Hauptbahnhof Zürich

Felix Breisach

Eva Mei, Liuba Chuchrova

Beethoven · Fidelio

Felix Breisach

Günther Groissböck, Alfred Muff

Nikolaus Harnoncourt is the conductor in this 2004 production of Beethoven's only opera staged at the Zurich Opera House. Finnish soprano Camilla Nyland takes the title role, with performances by Jonas Kaufmann, Laszlo Polgar and Alfred Muff.

Fidelio

Christoph Waltz, Felix Breisach

Nicole Chevalier, Eric Cutler

Tosca

Robert Carsen, Felix Breisach

Emily Magee, Jonas Kaufmann

Live from the Zurich Opera House, 2009.

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Grischa Asagaroff, Felix Breisach

Vesselina Kasarova, Reinaldo Macias

Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber into a major event. Pearling coloratura, endless resources of vocal colour and nuance and phenomenal acting versatility became mere means to an end: that of making Rosina into a human being of flesh and blood, with heart, humour and considerable brains.

Ariadne Auf Naxos

Felix Breisach, Susan Anthony

A rich man invites to a banquet at which - at his wish - a new opera, Ariadne auf Naxos, is to be performed simultaneously with the improvised play The Faithless Zerbinetta and Her Four Lovers.

Rigoletto

Gilbert Deflo, Felix Breisach

Piotr Beczala, Leo Nucci

Live performance at Opernhaus Zürich in 2006. Nello Santi conducting Orchester der Oper Zürich and Chor der Oper Zürich. Directed for the stage by Gilbert Deflo.

I am from Austria

Andreas Gergen, Felix Breisach

Iréna Flury, Lukas Perman

"I am from Austria" is a jukebox musical consisting of the songs by the Austrian songwriter Rainhard Fendrich. The musical premiered in September 2017 in Raimund Theater in Vienna. The plot circles around Emma Carter, a Hollywood star with Austrian roots, who who returns to her native country for the Vienna Opera Ball and to promote her new movie.

Die Zauberflöte

Jens Daniel Herzog, Felix Breisach

Georg Zeppenfeld, Mandy Fredrich

Live performance from the Salzburg Festival, 6 August 2012.

Mein Klagenfurt

Felix Breisach

Dieter Kalt, Dieter Kalt

The show legend Dagmar Koller, the disco queen of the seventies and author Penny McLean as well as the Carinthian ice hockey family Kalt lead through the Klagenfurt of their childhood and youth.

Aida

Graham Vick, Felix Breisach

Kevin Short, Iano Tamar

A spectacular production of Aida filmed at Bregenz Festival's lakeside stage in 2009, with Carlo Rizzi conducting the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra and the Polish Radio Choir.

Elektra

Felix Breisach

Eva Johansson, Marjana Lipovšek

The Martin Kušej production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", filmed live at the Opernhaus Zurich on 30 November and 4 December 2005. Eva Johansson stars as Elektra, with Marjana Lipovšek as Klytämnestra, Melanie Diener as Chrysothemis, Rudolf Schashing as Aegisth, and Alfred Muff as Orest. Christoph von Dohnányi conducts.

Pelléas et Mélisande

Felix Breisach

Franz Welser-Möst, Rodney Gilfry

Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known; at once a tale of doomed love and a meditation on the cycle of creation and destruction (adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's 1893 symbolist play), it originally premiered in 1902 to mixed critical reception, but has since become a staple of the operatic repertory and one of the most popular works from Debussy's canon. This particular production emerged from the Opernhaus Zürich in 2004. It stars Rodney Gilfry as Pelléas, Isabel Rey as Mélisande and Michael Volle as Golaud. Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Zurich Opera Orchestra; Sven-Eric Bectholf directs for the stage.