Oksana Volkova

The imperious Onegin rejects naive Tatiana's proposal of love and also incites a duel with his best friend turned rival Lenski (Piotr Beczala). This sets the scene for a dramatic story of love, loyalty and betrayal. Acclaimed theatre director Deborah Warner presents this lavish new interpretation of the timeless tale. Set in the 19th century and moving episodically from farmhouse to ballroom, the production culminates in an unforgettable finale set during a snowstorm.

Of Shostakovich’s initial undertaking – a trilogy on the tragic destinies of Russian women through the ages – only one opera was ever written: the hard-hitting Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Although one of the mainsprings of the work, the Shakespearean parallel is here bitterly ironic: unlike Lady Macbeth, Katerina Ismaïlova who, in the remote reaches of rural 19th century Russia, falls in love with one of her husband’s employees and is finally forced to commit suicide, is less a manipulator than a victim of a violent and patriarchal society. Krzysztof Warlikowski liberates all the subversive power of this scorching and scandalous work, which marked the early years of the Opéra Bastille.

La production acclamée de Michael Mayer, présentée pour la première fois au cours de la saison 2012-2013, situe l’action du chef-d’œuvre de Verdi en 1960 à Las Vegas, un monde éclairé au néon dirigé par l’argent et des hommes puissants et impitoyables. Piotr Beczała est le duc, un artiste populaire et propriétaire de casino qui ne recule devant rien pour obtenir ce qu'il veut. Željko Lučić chante Rigoletto, son acolyte et comédien, et Diana Damrau est la fille innocente de Rigoletto, Gilda. Lorsqu'elle est séduite par le duc, Rigoletto se lance dans une tragique vengeance meurtrière. Štefan Kocán est l'assassin dirigé par Sparafucile et Michele Mariotti.

Sergei S. Prokofiev's monumental setting of Leo N. Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace. The composer and his wife Mira have compressed the plot, set during Napoleon's Russian campaign, into a powerful sequence of scenes in which the love story between Natasha Rostova and Andrei Bolkonsky and the description of the Russian army's fight against the French invasion alternate in rich contrast, and at the same time are closely interwoven. All is related by the music in its fullness of splendid themes and touchingly quiet moments. Prokofiev's musical-dramatic masterpiece combines social drama and historical chronicle in its 13 scenes to form an exuberant panorama. In this production by Dmitri Tcherniakov , this opera is performed in in Munich for the first time ever.