Opera
Welcome
Artistic diversity is at the heart of opera at Theater Basel. Great classics, from baroque to contemporary, meet new creations and redeveloped pieces. Directors and conductors with their own unique styles shape the programme. The opera ensemble, the Theater Basel choir, the opera studio OperAvenir and guest singers of international renown can be experienced on all the stages of Theater Basel. We collaborate continuously with the various orchestras and ensembles of the musical city of Basel, such as Sinfonieorchester Basel, Kammerorchester Basel, Barockensemble La Cetra and Ensemble Phoenix Basel. The head of opera is the artistic director and opera director Benedikt von Peter.
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Wiederaufnahmen 21/22
Mediathek
Klassikermaschine
1 hour, 1 artist, 1 classic
«Limitations reveal the master.» Goethe
Hamlet, Käthchen, Othello, Medea. The theatre department is taking its educational mission seriously. Every month we will be performing a different work of the classical canon. Reworked as a solo performance. On a specially designed small stage in the foyer. The run time is one hour. Budget-friendly admission. The ballet and opera departments are also involved in this cross-disciplinary project within the framework of ‹Klassikermaschine spezial›. Revolving around the most fundamental of all theatre questions: What has it got to do with me?
Night café
The night café is legendary. Its new home after 14 November 2020 will be in the recently opened theatre café. Surprise formats of all kinds perform on the newly installed café stage. Every 3rd Friday of the month. At eleven in the evening. Dance, performance, music or show.
Opera Ensemble
Team Oper
Künstlerische Direktion
- Benedikt von Peter (Künstlerischer Leiter)
- Jean Denes (Operndirektor)
- Michael Clark (Chordirektor)
Dramaturgie
- Roman Reeger (Leitender Dramaturg Oper)
- Meret Kündig
- Niels Nuijten
Musikalische Einstudierung
- Hélio Vida (Leiter OperAvenir)
- Thomas Wise (Studienleiter und Dirigent)
- Nadejda Belneeva (Pianistin für den Chor)
- Leonid Maximov (Solorepetitor)
- Iryna Krasnovska (Solorepetitorin)
Regieassistenz
- Karsten Barthold
- Caterina Cianfarini
- Ulrike Jühe
- Maria-Magdalena Kwaschik
Musikalische Leitung
- Ivor Bolton
- Tito Ceccherini
- Clemens Heil
- Johannes Keller
- Francesc Prat
- Jonathan Stockhammer
- Hélio Vida
- Thomas Wise
Gastensemble/Musik
- Knabenkantorei Basel
- I Musici de la Cetra
- Les Reines Prochaines & Friends
Regie
- Romeo Castellucci
- Caterina Cianfarini
- Herbert Fritsch
- Krystian Lada
- Simon McBurney
- Wolfgang Nägele
- Benedikt von Peter
Mitarbeit Regie
- Silvia Costa
- Josie Daxter
- Ruth Sullivan
Bühne/Kostüme
- Márton Ágh
- Geraldine Arnold
- Victoria Behr
- Romeo Castellucci
- Silvia Costa
- Nicky Gillibrand
- Didzis Jaunzems
- Michael Levine
- Marion Andrea Menziger
- Bente Rolandsdotter
- Katrin Wittig
Lichtdesign
- Tamás Bányai
- Stefan Bolliger
- Romeo Castellucci
- Mike Gunning
- Jean Kalman
- Susanne Reinhardt
Video
- Jane Michelmore
- Finn Ross
Sounddesign
- Gareth Fry
- Matthew Herbert
- Mathieu Maurice
Choreographie
- Evelin Facchini
Sängerinnen und Sänger
- Nathan Berg
- Rebecca Bottone
- Noel Bouley
- Katarina Bradić
- Karl-Heinz Brandt
- Nicole Chevalier
- Raphael Clamer
- Jason Cox
- James Creswell
- Paul Curievici
- Arthur Espiritu
- Jasmin Etezadzadeh
- Rachel Harnisch
- Meike Hartmann
- Théo Imart
- Kai Kluge
- Rainelle Krause
- Michael Laurenz
- Jamez McCorkle
- André Morsch
- Regula Mühlemann
- Andrew Murphy
- Günter Papendell
- Ena Pongrac
- Rolf Romei
- Alex Rosen
- Judith van Wanroij
- Hubert Wild
- Patrick Zielke
OperAvenir
- Alex Banfield
- Kali Hardwick (OperAvenir Plus)
- Paull-Anthony Keightley
- Stefanie Knorr
- N.N.
Chor
- Monika Anderhuber-Lichtenberg
- Ingo Anders
- Victor Andrés Barbagelata Contreras
- Martin Baumeister
- Boguslaw Bidzinski
- Eva Buffoni
- Carmela Calvano Forte
- Nadia Catania
- Krzysztof Debicki
- Giulia Gautschi-Del Re
- Sonja Ilona Goltz
- Karin Hellmich
- Piotr Jan Hoeder
- Antoni Kasprzak
- Georgia Knower
- Hendrik Köhler
- Svetlana Korneeva
- Martin Krämer
- Jacek Krosnicki
- Ewa Leska-Burska
- Flavio Fernando Mathias
- Evelyn Meier
- Mkhanyiseli Mlombi
- Doris Monnerat
- Markus Moritz
- Monika Noll-Talenta
- Eckhard Otto
- Elisabeth Picello
- Marco Pobuda
- Esther Randegger
- Heike Roggenkamp
- Constantin Rupp
- André Nicolas Schann
- Donovan Elliot Smith
- Vladimir Vassilev
- Lisa Westermann
- Frauke Cornelia Willimczik-Mäder
- Vivian Zatta
- Xiaohui Zhang
Opernchorakademie
- Stephanie Denzel-Hoffman
- Emily Jane Dilewski
- Cécilia Roumi
Extrachor
- Rahel Bänziger
- Patrice Battistelli
- Tarik Benchekmoumou
- Margrit Bietenholz
- Roman Blazejewski
- Cornelia Bühler
- Karin Diacon
- Manuela Gaggiotti
- Beat Hediger
- Pamela Herzog
- Ursula Küpfer
- Andreas Laue
- Sylvia Marian
- Claudia Marugg
- Erika Nuber
- Dominik Nüscheler
- Maurus Quinter
- Karl Rillig
- Alfredo Robles
- Edith Röthlisberger
- Antonie Santschi
- Volker Scheuber
- Renata Simon
- Dorothea Steiner
- Kurt Stöcklin
- Mirjam Stritt
- René Tena
- Roger Wirz
- Manfred Zanger
Inspizienz
- Jean-Pierre Bitterli
- Martin Buck
- Arthur Kimmerle
- Thomas Kolbe
- N.N.