New production. UK professional premiere May 21, 2015. Live from Glyndebourne.

Puccini's Madama Butterfly, one of the most played operas today, is performed on the Seebühne for the first time. Stage director is Andreas Homoki, who together with Michael Levine's magical stage set with it's subtle landscape paintings brings Japanese flair to Lake Constance, supported not at least by Antony McDonald's colorful costumes.

Live from Glyndebourne, a production of Rossini's comic opera.

David McVicar's production of Verdi's 1847 opera Macbeth.

Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of ‘Public Opinion’ falls on deaf ears. The mysterious figure of John Styx tells the story of behind-the-times Orpheus and his hacked-off Eurydice, of gods and goddesses seeking diversion, jaded with humdrum life in Olympus. He tells of the rebellion in the pantheon, which Jupiter adeptly averts by promising an amusement for his entourage. Burning with curiosity to see the beauteous captive and the contest between Jupiter and Pluto for Eurydice’s favour, the illustrious company embarks on an infernal ride to the underworld that culminates in what is surely the most wellknown can-can in the history of music. And what of Eurydice? She ends up putting a spoke in everyone’s wheel…

Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—including the show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes amis,” with its nine high Cs. Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro trade off as the comic Sergeant Sulpice, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.

Marie was found on a battlefield as a baby, and raised by the entire 21st Regiment as their 'daughter'. Her foster-father Sulpice has decreed that she should marry a soldier from the Regiment. When Marie falls for the Tyrolean Tonio, it looks as though she may have to choose between her family and true love.

Lyrical virtuosity, unbridled fantasy and light comedy: an evening of Jacques Offenbach and carefree celebrations with soprano Patricia Petibon and tenor Cyrille Dubois.