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 February
Feb 19World premiere Wien(Theater). Johannes Kalitzke: Die Besessenen (19-25 Feb)
Feb 22World premiere München(SO). Eotvos: Die Tragödie des Teufels (22 Feb-9 Mar)
Comic-utopian opera in three parts; Lucifer guides Adam and Eve through a world full of conflict, misunderstanding and uncertainty. In the end, Lucifer parts from his body, and his tragedy becomes Man’s tragedy: people cannot assign the evil anymore, and find it in themselves; Libretto: Albert Ostermaier, after 'The Tragedy of Man' by Imre Madách
Feb 24World premiere Boston(OB). Zhou Long: Madame White Snake (24 Feb-2 Mar)
A powerful snake demon gives up her immortality to become a woman and experience human love; Libretto: Cerise Lim Jacobs, after Chinese myth
Feb 25World premiere Braunschweig. Ella Milch-Sheriff: Baruchs Schweigen (25 Feb)
After a man dies, his daughter discovers his diary and the tragedies of his life, coming to a new understanding; After the composer's own father's diary for 1943
Feb 28World premiere Wien(SO). Aribert Reimann: Medea (28 Feb-12 Mar)
Libretto: Aribert Reimann, after Grillparzer
 March
Mar 01World premiere Lyon(Opera). Saariaho: Emilie (1-13 Mar)
It is 1749 and a dying woman writes a farewell letter to her lover, looking back on the passions of her life; Opéra en neuf scènes; Libretto: Amin Maalouf
Mar 04World premiere Dessau(Fest). Moritz Eggert: Bordellballade (4-5 Mar)
A new Threepenny Opera for modern times; Librettist: Franzobel
Mar 05World premiere Hof. Roland Baumgartner: Luther (5 Mar-23 May)
Mar 13World premiere Osnabruck. Nader Mashayekhi: Nizami (13 Mar)
Libretto: Nadja Kayali and Angelika Messner
Mar 14World premiere Basel. Beat Furrer: Wüstenbuch (14 Mar)
The desert as the symbol of the alien and empty, metaphor for nothingness and the loss of memory; Libretto: Beat Furrer and Händl Klaus, after Ingeborg Bachmann
Mar 18Rarity Lyon(Opera). van der Aa: After Life (18-21 Mar)
Mar 19World premiere Bremen(Theater). Bernd Redmann: Die Gehetzten (19 Mar)
'The Hurried Ones'
Mar 25World premiere Lisboa. Holszky: Hybris/Niobe (25 Mar-5 Apr)
Scenic world premiere; Drama for voices, 30’ (Schwetzingen, April 2008); Libretto: Yona Kim
Mar 26World premiere Mannheim. Bernhard Lang: Montezuma, Fallender Adler (26 Mar)
The meeting of Cortez and Montezuma, and the destruction of the Aztec culture by the Christian Spanish -- an opera about disappearance; Libretto: Christian Loidl
 April
Apr 09World premiere Lisboa. Hugo Ribeiro: Os mortos viajam de metro (9-11 Apr)
'The Dead Travel by Metro'; Exploration of the drives linking artistic creativity to suicide, set in an abandoned metro station with the shades of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Sarah Kane
Apr 23World premiere Rouen. Thierry Pecou: L'amour coupable (23-27 Apr)
Opéra in 5 acts; Libretto: Eugène Green, after the play 'La Mère coupable' by Beaumarchais
Apr 24World premiere Antwerpen(Vlaamse). Elena Kats-Chernin: The Rage of Life (24-30 Apr)
Libretto: Igor Bauersima
Apr 24World premiere Regensburg. Franz Hummel: Zarathustra (24 Apr-23 Jul)
Libretto: Sandra Hummel, after texts by Nietzsche and his contemporaries
Apr 27World premiere München(Biennale). Philipp Maintz: Maldoror (27 Apr)
The author of the source text meets his creation, the epitome of absolute evil; Libretto: Thomas Fiedler, after 'Les Chants de Maldoror' by Comte de Lautréamont
Apr 28World premiere München(Biennale). Marton Illes: Die weiße Fürstin (28 Apr)
Scene polidimensionali XVII; After the first draft of the dramatic poem 'The White Princess' by Rainer Maria Rilke
Apr 30World premiere Dallas. Heggie: Moby-Dick (30 Apr-16 May)
An exploration of the lethal power of obsession and the need for human connection
 May
May 04World premiere København(KGL). Edina Hadziselimovic: Waiting in Nowhere (4 May-7 Jun)
Can love and compassion survive within the confines of four walls in no man's land?; Chamber opera on the experiences of asylum seekers in Denmark; Libretto: Rubén Palma
May 05World premiere Luzern(Theater). Georg Graewe: Barbara Strozzi (5-24 May)
A research journey into the life of Barbara Strozzi, a 17th century singer, composer and muse. A musical play with time, perception, reality, memory and speculation.; Musiktheater
May 07World premiere Kaiserslautern. Helmut Bieler: Gestohlenes Leben (7 May-4 Jun)
The events of the night of the 21/22 October 1940, when 50 Jews were deported from Kaiserslautern
May 08World premiere München(Biennale). Klaus Schedl: Amazon (8-12 May)
Music: Klaus Schedl, Tato Taborda; Concept: Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Peter Weibel; Media: Peter Weibel, José Wagner Garcia; Advisors: Davi Kopenawa (shaman), Bruce Albert (anthropologist)
May 08World premiere Seattle. Daron Aric Hagen: Amelia (8-22 May)
Amelia interweaves one woman’s emotional journey, the American experience in Vietnam, and elements of the Daedalus and Icarus myth to explore man’s fascination with flight and the dilemmas that arise when it is used for exploration, adventure, and war; Libretto: Gardner McFall, after a story by Stephen Wadsworth
May 09World premiere München(Biennale). Lin Wang: Die Quelle (9 May)
Problems of preserving and transforming identity, and finding an individual voice in an increasingly multicultural world
May 15Rarity London(Barbican). van der Aa: After Life (15 May)
May 16World premiere Köln. Hoffmann,I: Vom Fischer und seiner Frau (16 May)
Jazzoper für Kinder ab 4 Jahren; Libretto: Barbara Deeken, after the fairy-tale by Philipp Otto Runge
 June
Jun 06World premiere Bonn. Klaus Lang: Buch Asche (6 Jun)
Jun 13World premiere Saint Louis. Peter Ash: The Golden Ticket (13-26 Jun)
Libretto: Donald Sturrock, after Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Jun 18World premiere Warszawa(Wielki). Szymanski: Qudsja Zaher (18-20 Jun)
A poetic tale of remembrance and death which unfolds underwater; Opera in two acts with prologue; Libretto: Maciej Drygas
 July
Jul 02World premiere Neustrelitz. Gunther: Luise (2 Jul-1 Aug)
Operetta to mark the bicentenary of the death of Queen Luise; Libretto: Dirk Heidecke, after the childhood of Queen Luise
Jul 24World premiere Santa Fe. Lewis Spratlan: Life is a Dream (24 Jul-19 Aug)
Libretto by James Maraniss