Watch Bayerische Staatsoper Performances Live Online

Keenlyside and Denoke as Wozzeck and Marie, 2009

© R. Walz, Opera National de Paris

In 2013/14, the Bayerische Staatsoper will present its second season of selected performances as live streams, free of charge online via STAATSOPER.TV– and, for the first time, in full HD. These will include all of the new productions by the new General Music Director Kirill Petrenko. 

2013/2014 Season

October 6, 2013

7.00 P.M. (C.E.T.)

Alban Berg

Wozzeck

Conductor Lothar Koenigs

Director Andreas Kriegenburg

With Simon Keenlyside, Angela Denoke a.o.

December 1, 2013

6.00 P.M. (C.E.T.)

Richard Strauss

Die Frau ohne Schatten

New production
Conductor Kirill Petrenko

Director Krzysztof Warlikowski

With Johan Botha, Adrianne Pieczonka, Deborah Polaski, Wolfgang Koch, Elena Pankratova a.o.

Věc Makropulos – Salzburg 2011 (Part 3: Give Me Alchemy or Give Me Death)

In the course of Věc Makropulos, we learn that Emilia is in fact rather bored with living so long, constantly reinventing herself, and finding a new life and lover. She sings in her final aria that the relative brevity of life is what gives human existence its joys and meaning. Never-ending life seems to blur and ultimately render meaningless the differences between good and evil, happiness and sadness, and even life and death.