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The Pique Dame-Munich Opera Festival
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The young Uzbek conductor Aziz Shokhakimov can be enjoyed at the Bayerische Staatsoper for the first time as he conducts The Queen of Spades in the 2023/2024 season. Director Benedict Andrews already staged Così fan tutte at the Bayerische Staatsoper in the 2022/2023 season. Recently he has been focussing more on his film projects: Seberg with Kristen Stewart, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019, and Una with Rooney Mara, which featured at the Telluride Film Festival in 2016. As Resident Director at the Sydney Theatre Company and later at the Schaubühne Berlin, Benedict Andrews has consistently staged new drama and British playwriting. He has presented opera works at houses such as De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam, the English National Opera, London, the Komische Oper Berlin and Oper Frankfurt. He shares a long-standing collaboration with costume designer Victoria Behr, who has been accoladed numerous times in the Theater heute monthly magazine as “costume designer of the year”. He now collaborates for the first time with Rufus Didwiszus, who designed his first stage at the Bayerische Staatsoper in the 2021/2022 season for Der Rosenkavalier, directed by Barrie Kosky.
Program and cast
Duration approximately 3 hours 25 minutes
Conductor: Aziz Shokhakimov
Production: Benedict Andrews
Set Design: Rufus Didwiszus
Costume Design: Victoria Behr
Lighting: Jon Clark
Choreography: Klevis Elmazaj
Choruses: Christoph Heil
Dramaturgy: Olaf Roth
Hermann: Brandon Jovanovich
Tomski: Roman Burdenko
Fürst Jelezki: Boris Pinkhasovich
Tschekalinski: Kevin Conners
Surin: Bálint Szabó
Tschaplizki: Tansel Akzeybek
Narumow: Nikita Volkov
Festordner: Granit Musliu
Die Gräfin: Violeta Urmana
Lisa: Lise Davidsen
Polina: Victoria Karkacheva
Die Gouvernante: Natalie Lewis
Mascha: Daria Proszek
Ein Kinderkommandant: Olga Surikova
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
Children's chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
National Theatre Munich
The National Theatre Munich (German: Nationaltheater München) is an opera house in Max-Joseph-Platz in Munich, Germany. It is the home of the Bavarian State Opera and the Bayerisches Staatsballett(Bavarian State Ballet).
The Bavarian State Opera also performs in the Prinzregententheater, which opened in 1901 and, like the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, is built to Richard Wagner's specifications, and in the Cuvilliés Theatre at the Residenz, constructed in 1751–1753 and described by Thierry Beauvert as "a Rococo gem".
The Nationaltheater is very easy to get to both by car and by MVV public transportation.
By MVV public transportation
S-Bahn: S 1 - 8 Marienplatz
U-Bahn: U 3, 6 Marienplatz, U 3 - 6 Odeonsplatz
Bus: 52, 131 Marienplatz, 100 Odeonsplatz
Straßenbahn: 19 Nationaltheater
On the day of the performance, holders of regular tickets are entitled to use public transport provided by the Münchner Verkehrsverbund (MVV). This service starts at 3 pm respectively three hours before the performance commences and ends with the closing hour of the MVV.
By Car
Take the Altstadt-Ring to Maximilianstraße.
Parking garage Max-Joseph-Platz: open Monday to Sunday from 6:00 A.M. to 2:00 A.M.
You can take advantage of the special theatre parking fee of Euro 10,- from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 A.M. by presenting your admission tickets.
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