Wiebke Lehmkuhl

Die Zauberflöte (2012)

Live performance from the Salzburg Festival, 6 August 2012.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Felix Breisach  •  Jens Daniel Herzog
CAST:  Georg Zeppenfeld  •  Mandy Fredrich  •  Bernard Richter  •  Julia Kleiter

Live performance from the Salzburg Festival, 6 August 2012.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Felix Breisach  •  Jens Daniel Herzog
CAST:  Georg Zeppenfeld  •  Mandy Fredrich  •  Bernard Richter  •  Julia Kleiter

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele (2018)

The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meistersinger is a triumph: a production of enormous insight and great quality... that plumbs the depths of both the opera and its composer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barrie Kosky
CAST:  Michael Volle  •  Philippe Jordan  •  Klaus Florian Vogt  •  Anne Schwanewilms

The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meistersinger is a triumph: a production of enormous insight and great quality... that plumbs the depths of both the opera and its composer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barrie Kosky
CAST:  Michael Volle  •  Philippe Jordan  •  Klaus Florian Vogt  •  Anne Schwanewilms

The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold (2016)

Frank Castorf’s staging of the Ring, premiered in 2013 and filmed in 2016, provoked controversy right from the beginning. For Castorf, the Rheingold of our days is oil; thus he places the first part of the tetralogy at a gas station on Route 66. Die Walküre is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank Castorf
CAST:  Iain Paterson  •  Markus Eiche  •  Tansel Akzeybek  •  Roberto Saccà

Frank Castorf’s staging of the Ring, premiered in 2013 and filmed in 2016, provoked controversy right from the beginning. For Castorf, the Rheingold of our days is oil; thus he places the first part of the tetralogy at a gas station on Route 66. Die Walküre is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank Castorf
CAST:  Iain Paterson  •  Markus Eiche  •  Tansel Akzeybek  •  Roberto Saccà

The Ring of the Nibelung: Twilight of the Gods (2016)

Frank Castorf’s staging of the Ring, premiered in 2013 and filmed in 2016, provoked controversy right from the beginning. For Castorf, the Rheingold of our days is oil; thus he places the first part of the tetralogy at a gas station on Route 66. Die Walküre is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank Castorf
CAST:  Stefan Vinke  •  Markus Eiche  •  Albert Dohmen  •  Stephen Milling

Frank Castorf’s staging of the Ring, premiered in 2013 and filmed in 2016, provoked controversy right from the beginning. For Castorf, the Rheingold of our days is oil; thus he places the first part of the tetralogy at a gas station on Route 66. Die Walküre is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank Castorf
CAST:  Stefan Vinke  •  Markus Eiche  •  Albert Dohmen  •  Stephen Milling

Händel / Mozart: Der Messias (2020)

Known as a creator of astonishing images, stage director and visual artist Robert Wilson delivers a magnificent production of Mozart’s adaption of Handel’s Messias. Mozart was commissioned by Gottfried van Swieten to modernise the score fifty years after Handel’s ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Wilson  •  Tiziano Mancini
CAST:  Elena Tsallagova  •  Wiebke Lehmkuhl  •  Richard Croft  •  José Coca Loza

Known as a creator of astonishing images, stage director and visual artist Robert Wilson delivers a magnificent production of Mozart’s adaption of Handel’s Messias. Mozart was commissioned by Gottfried van Swieten to modernise the score fifty years after Handel’s ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Wilson  •  Tiziano Mancini
CAST:  Elena Tsallagova  •  Wiebke Lehmkuhl  •  Richard Croft  •  José Coca Loza

Royal Opera House 2023/24: Das Rheingold (2023)

When a precious hoard of gold is stolen from the river Rhine, it unleashes a chain of destructive events, pitting gods and mortals against one another for generations. Wagner’s Ring cycle boasts some of the greatest music ever written for the opera stage. Join us ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barrie Kosky
CAST:  Antonio Pappano  •  Christopher Maltman  •  Christopher Purves  •  Sean Panikkar

When a precious hoard of gold is stolen from the river Rhine, it unleashes a chain of destructive events, pitting gods and mortals against one another for generations. Wagner’s Ring cycle boasts some of the greatest music ever written for the opera stage. Join us ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barrie Kosky
CAST:  Antonio Pappano  •  Christopher Maltman  •  Christopher Purves  •  Sean Panikkar