Leipzig’s Summer of Opera

Giulio Cesare in Egitto«, a celebrated production by opera director Damiano Michieletto, is featured in the summer programs of both the Handel Festival in Halle and the Leipzig Bachfest. Rubén Dubrovsky conducts the Gewandhausorchester in this Handel opera, a Leipzig co-production with Paris, Montpellier and Toulouse. The fateful story of power and retribution is performed by countertenor Yuriy Mynenko (Cesare), soprano Olga Jelínková (Cleopatra) and Kammersängerin Ulrike Schneider (Cornelia), among others. Operatic talents will also dazzle in several revivals in June and July at Leipzig: Madama Butterfly, Carmen and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg will return to the Opera House on Augustusplatz, while Lortzing’s Wildschütz and Prinzessin Nofretete make their return to the Musikalische Komödie. A first look ahead of the festival Lortzing 26: The whole weekend of 10 and 11 June with »Wildschütz« and »Undine« and a new Insta account @albert-lortzing are now dedicated to the German composer.

ClubFusion and a spooky fairy tale

On June 1, advance public ticket sales for 2023/24 begin at Oper Leipzig; the current season ends on July 9, 2023. Until then, the city’s stages also, and especially, belong to the theatre clubs: ClubFusion, the joint festival of the Schauspiel, Opera and TDJW (Theatre of the Young World) theatre clubs, enters into its third season this summer from June 23 to July 4, 2023! A festival line-up featuring 15 clubs in 39 events with nearly 250 performers awaits audiences on the stages at the three venues. Oper Leipzig joins in with some very promising titles: »LIEBE! MICH!«(“Love! Me!”) by the Musical Youth Theatre Club, »Die Zauberschlange und die gestohlenen Träume« (“The Magic Snake and Stolen Dreams”) a presentation by the Children’s Opera Club, and »Das Ende der Träume« (“The End of Dreams”) by the Senior Opera Club. Beyond the festival program, the opera’s children’s and youth choir is once again looking forward to cooperating with the Schaubühne Lindenfels to present the spooky fairy tale »Das Geheimnis der Schwarzen Spinne (“The Secret of the Black Spider”).

Ticket information

All ticket requests can be accommodated online at oper-leipzig.de or via the Oper Leipzig visitor service Tue – Fri 10 am to 6 pm, Sat 12 noon to 6 pm, at both the box office in the Opera House and by telephone under + 49 (0)341-12 61 261.