Premiers at Estonia National Opera

The national opera house presents performances throughout the autumn, winter and spring season.

Opera JULIUS CAESAR
Premiere: January 27
Handel is one of the greatest composers of the late baroque period and Julius Caesar tells the story of history’s most famous war and love affair in a rich musical and emotional language.
Music Director and Conductor: Andres Mustonen

Concert performance NORMA
Premier: February 11
Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma  is one of the most popular work of the Romantic era, since each generation has discovered it afresh. “If I were shipwrecked,”Bellini wrote to a friend, “I would leave all of my other operas and try to save Norma.”
Conductor Alberto Hold-Garrido (Spain)
 
Dance performance GOD STUDIES. AFTER THE WORLD
Time: February 28
“God Studies” is Roosna’s and Flak’s interpretation of ancient classical mythology. A world in which morality is ambiguous and gods and heroes can be cruel and vindictive.
Choreographer: Kenneth Flak (Norway)
Performance: Külli Roosna and Kenneth Flak
Music: Yann Coppier (Norway)

In the production “After the World” dancers create new meanings, structures and thoughts where the old world stands in ruins.
Choreographers: Külli Roosna and Kenneth Flak
Music: Kenneth Flak

WOMEN’S DAY CONCERT  
Time: March 8 at Tallinn Town Hall
On a beautiful spring day classical melodies are sung by the soloists of the Estonian National Opera Chorus.

Musical MAN OF LA MANCHA
Premiere: March 22
Mitch Leigh’s musical Man of La Mancha is a sparkling amalgam of romance, adventure, humour and tragedy based on Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s novel Don Quixote, the comic tragedy of mankind’s struggle to better both himself and the world in which he lives.
Music Director and Conductor: Jüri Alperten
Conductor: Mihhail Gerts

SPRING CONCERT OF THE ESTONIAN NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS
Time: April 3 and 24 
Soloists of the Estonian National Opera Chorus perform well-known melodies in the Winter Garden of the opera house.

Premiere: April 4
The soloists of the Estonian National Opera will perform popular pieces from opera and ballet repertoire, the performance will be an extravaganza of dry ice and pyrotechnics.
Conductor: Jüri Alperten

Ballet OTHELLO. TIME
Time: April 14 and 19
Marina Kesler’s ballet is inspired  times – William Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy Othello.
Tiit Helimets will stage a ballet about TIME that will make people think about how they use their TIME set to music by Arvo Pärt.

ESTONIAN NATIONAL OPERA’S SYMPHONY CONCERT
Time: April 19

J. Brahms – Violin Concerto in D major and Symphony No. 1 in C minor 

R. Eespere – “Glorietur” for soloists, male choir and symphony orchestra

INTERNATIONAL DANCE DAY BALLET GALA
Time: April 28
Estonian National Ballet pays reverence to the International Dance Day giving a ballet gala with a programme ranging from classical ballet to contemporary dance. 
Artistic Director: Thomas Edur

Ballet MODIGLIANI – THE CURSED ARTIST
World première: May 11
The ballet tells an exciting story of the stormy life of Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), one of the most famous bohemian artists of the 20th century
Choreographer-Stage Director: Thomas Edur

Premiere: September 20
The classic story of the Faust legend is brought to life by Dmitri Bertman’s fantastic staging of one of the most famous operas of all times.

Stage Director: Dmitri Bertman (Helikon-Opera, Moscow)

Ballet CINDERELLA
Premiere: November 9
Marina Kesler brings this magical fairy tale to life in legendary 20th Century composer Prokofiev's ballet.
Choreographer-Stage Director: Marina Kesler
 

Full program available on www.opera.ee. 
Tickets are available at www.opera.ee and www.piletilevi.ee.