The spirit of Advent will unfold in the opera house this year with »La Bohème«, »Tristan and Isolde«, »La Traviata« and »The Magic Flute« – Mozart’s fairytale work presented in a new, family-friendly version, suitable for children aged 8 and over, and the performance on December 17 will even include a hands-on parcours experience and audio description. In addition to opera vouchers, tickets for the Gala on December 30 and New Years Eve are particularly popular Christmas gifts: the renowned television host Juri Tetzlaff leads us on a musical journey around the world from Seville to New York via the Salzkammergut in Austria. At the end of the year, the Leipzig Ballet presents »Paradise Lost« and »Chaplin«, two choreographies by Mario Schröder. The Musikalische Komödie presents a wide selection of musicals and operettas in December, as well as Advent concerts in the Museum der Bildenden Künste and the Old Town Hall. And a gift idea to consider for operetta aficionados might just be the swinging upbeat New Years Concert on January 6 and 7! The two Oper Leipzig venues extend a particular invitation to their young and youngest of audiences in December to the productions of »Gold«, »Peter and the Wolf«, »Alice in Wonderland« and the Baby Concerts. And for those who don’t really need any Christmas harmony, we recommend the Venus Nights and especially »Korfmachers Giftschrank«, where Leipzig’s leading music critic Peter Korfmacher showcases the very worst items from his collection of recordings.
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. Admission to the city archives is free.
The Leipzig Opera follows the tradition of over 330 years of musical theatre in Leipzig: in 1693, the first opera house on the Brühl was opened as the third civic music theatre in Europe after Venice and Hamburg. Since 1840, the world-renowned Gewandhaus Orchestra has played for all performances of the opera and the Leipzig ballet. In addition to today’s opera house on Augustusplatz, built in 1960, Leipzig Opera includes the Musikalische Komödie, a special venue for musical and operettas. With around 680employees, it is the city’s largest in-house cultural institution and comprises five mainstays: the opera, Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig Ballet, their 360° outreach and educational programme, and the craft studios which work for all of the city’s theatres.
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Presseassistentin
Telefon: +49 (341) 1261-244
E-Mail: Alma.Paschke@oper-leipzig.de
