2014-2015 season at the Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen

The following operas will feature in the 2014-2015 season at the Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen  :

There will be 6 new productions :

- Giacomo Puccini : Manon Lescaut, conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, directed by Stefan Herheim (coproduction with Graz and Dresden where it was premiered in March 2013, erroneously announced as a new production) ;
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Idomeneo, conducted by Tomas Netopil, directed by Francisco Negrin (new production) ;
- György Ligeti : Le Grand macabre, conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk, directed by Mariame Clément (new production) ;
- Richard Strauss : Die schweigsame Frau, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, directed by Guy Joosten (new production) ;
- Antonin Dvorak : Rusalka, conducted by Tomas Netopil, directed by Lotte de Beer (new production) ;
- George Benjamin : Into the little Hill, conducted by Manuel Nawri, directed by Kay Link (new production).

There will be 14 revivals :

- Giuseppe Verdi : Nabucco, directed by Andreas Baesler ;
- Leos Janacek : Jenufa, directed by Robert Carsen (first performed in Essen in May 2014, but previously staged for the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and Mulhouse) ;
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Cosi fan tutte, directed by Johannes Schaaf (first performed in July 2011) ;
- Johann Strauß : Die Fledermaus, directed by Gil Mehmert (first performed in December 2011) ;
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Die Zauberflöte, directed by Ezio Toffolutti (already performed in December 2011) ;
- Jules Massenet : Werther, directed by Carlos Wagner (first performed in November 2013) ;
- Giuseppe Verdi : Luisa Miller, directed by Dietrich W. Hilsdorf ;
- Giacomo Puccini : Turandot, directed by Tilman Knabe ;
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Die Entführung aus dem Serail, directed by Jetske Mijnssen (first performed in June 2012) ;
- Richard Wagner : Die Walküre, directed by Dietrich W. Hilsdorf (already performed in July 2011) ;
- Giuseppe Verdi : La Traviata, directed by Josef Ernst Köpplinger (first performed in May 2012) ;
- Ludwig van Beethoven : Fidelio, directed by Dietrich W. Hilsdorf ;
- Georg Friedrich Haendel : Ariodante, directed by Jim Lucassen (first performed last month) ;
- Giuseppe Verdi : Falstaff, directed by Dietrich W. Hilsdorf ;

4 of the 20 operas (in 6 languages) have been composed in the last 100 years.