Gábor Bretz
Biography: Gábor Bretz is an Hungarian operatic bass-baritone and actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1974
Deathday: N/A
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Fidelio
2021-10-01
Fidelio
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-10-01
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Hunyadi László - Hungarian State Opera
2023-07-21
Hunyadi László - Hungarian State Opera
Overview: Hunyadi László is a historical grand opera from Hungary. The epic covers the life and death of the 15th-century soldier and politician, Hunyadi László, son of János Hunyadi who defended Hungary against the attacks of the Ottoman Turks. When the new weak King, László V, takes a shine to Mária, László's fiancée, the young man is arrested and his fate is sealed. The executioner’s axe falls - several times - on one of opera’s most grizzly finales.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-21
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Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie)
2019-12-20
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie)
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-20
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Wagner: Die Walküre
2024-03-06
Wagner: Die Walküre
Overview: If in ‘Das Rheingold’ the curtain fell with the hegemony of the gods in Valhalla, the second part of ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ opens with a mortal who, alone on Earth, faces a raging storm. Siegmund is called the hunted warrior, and when he briefly finds peace in a concealed hut, he meets the beautiful but equally hapless Sieglinde. An ardent and natural passion blossoms, but at the same time a hidden past surfaces that will seal their fate.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-06
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Salzburg Festival 2023: The Greek Passion
2023-01-01
Salzburg Festival 2023: The Greek Passion
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-01-01
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The ROH Live: Carmen
2015-11-14
The ROH Live: Carmen
Overview: The young soldier Don José intends to marry Micaëla, a girl from his home village. But when he meets the sensual and high-spirited Carmen, he sacrifices everything to be with her. Carmen grows tired of Don José and falls in love with the toreador Escamillo. Unable to bear her leaving him, Don José tracks Carmen down to a bullring where Escamillo is fighting and murders her.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-14
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Rigoletto - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
2014-07-12
Rigoletto - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Overview: In celebration of Verdi's 200th birthday in 2013, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence produced the composer's colorful masterpiece Rigoletto for the first time in its history. Verdi expert Gianandrea Noseda conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in a production that marked the return of the Canadian stage director Robert Carsen to the festival following a 17 year hiatus. Carsen sets his interpretation of this classic opera in the cutthroat world of the circus. Based on Victor Hugo's play Le roi s’amuse, Verdi's opera in three acts Rigoletto premiered in 1851. Similar to the play that inspired it, the opera faced censorship because of its controversial subject of libertinism at court. The opera’s tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunchbacked court jester Rigoletto, and the jester’s beautiful daughter, Gilda.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-07-12
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
2018-09-27
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Overview: Die Zauberflöte is one of Mozart’s most famous works and one of the most beloved of the entire operatic repertoire. Generations of spectators have been fascinated by the melodies and adventures of Papageno, the Queen of the Night, Tamino, and Pamina, the ordeals faced by the young lovers, and the work’s inexhaustible allegorical depth. The director Romeo Castellucci has deliberately stepped back from the narrative dimension of the opera in order to explore its raw emotion and its philosophical heart. For his part, the conductor Antonello Manacorda brings Mozart’s immortal music to life with the help of an outstanding cast that includes Sabine Devieilhe, one of today’s finest interpreters of the Queen of the Night.
Genres: Music Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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Salome
2020-09-20
Salome
Overview: Based on Oscar Wilde's lurid play, it is an intense exploration of the Salome story. Its sumptuous vocal and orchestral writing seethes and pulsates as Strauss conjures up the brutality of Herod's corrupt court. Richard Strausss opera at the Salzburg Festival, staged by Romeo Castellucci at the Felsenreitschule, was nothing short of a sensation. Debuting in the title role, Asmik Grigorian propelled herself to international stardom with her mesmerizing singing and acting abilities. The exceptional soprano recently won the International Opera Award as best singer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-09-20
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Fidelio
2020-03-16
Fidelio
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-03-16
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Lohengrin
2018-04-19
Lohengrin
Overview: ‘In reality, this Lohengrin is an entirely new phenomenon for the modern consciousness!’ Richard Wagner himself understood the innovative character of his sixth piece of music theatre, completed in 1848, the year of revolutions. Although it is reckoned among his ‘romantic operas’, his new vision of musical drama is already clearly heralded in this work. In his hands, the mediaeval saga of the Knight of the Swan becomes a meditation on the true love that asks no questions. Alain Altinoglu, our Music Director, who has already conducted this work in Bayreuth, guarantees the quality of the music, while the director Olivier Py, known at La Monnaie for his brilliant productions of Les Huguenots and Hamlet, can be relied on not to downplay Wagner’s revolutionary political side. Wagner’s own opinion was that ‘one can only understand Lohengrin if one can liberate oneself from any modern-looking, generalising form of representation so as to see the phenomena of real life’. A challenge to us all?
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-19
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
2023-11-11
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Overview: Director and visual artist Romeo Castellucci will tackle this mythological material and project his visions over the course of the journey performed by the characters, representing concretely such key elements of the Ring as water and fire. This symbolic reading will concentrate on essential aspects of the libretto, inviting spectators to forge their own interpretation. Avoiding irony, Castellucci will treat each protagonist with equal importance, highlighting the aspirations, emotions and thoughts that animate them: absolute love and the conquest of power.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-11-11
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