New season 2014-2015 at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim

During the 2014-2015, the Nationaltheater in Mannheim will perform 27 operas : 21 revivals and 6 new productions, including a world première.

The six new productions are :

- Alfredo Catalani : La Wally, conducted by Alois Seidlmeier, directed by Tilman Knabe ;
- Franz Lehar : Die lustige Witwe, conducted by Joseph Trafton, directed by Renato Zanella ;
- Christoph Willibald Gluck : Alceste, conducted by Rubén Dubrovsky, directed by Dietrich Hilsdorf ;
- Hector Berlioz : La Damnation de Faust, conducted by Alois Seidlmeier, directed by Vasily Barkhatov ;
- Lucia Ronchetti : Esame di mezzanotte, conducted by Johannes Kalitzke, directed by Achim Freyer (world première) ;
- Franz Schreker : Der ferne Klang, conducted by Dan Ettinge, directed by Merle Fahrholz.

The following productions will be revived :

- Georges Bizet : Carmen, directed by Gabriele Rech ;
- Gaetano Donizetti : L'elisir d'amore, directed by Andrea Schwalbach ;
- Engelbert Humperdinck : Hänsel und Gretel, directed by Wolfgang Blum ;
- Pietro Mascagni : Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo : Pagliacci, both directed by Roland Velte ;
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Die Zauberflöte, directed by Joachim Schloemer and Le nozze di Figaro, directed by Johannes Schaaf ;
- Sergei Prokofiev : The Love for Three Oranges, directed by Cordula Däuper ;
- Giacomo Puccini : La Bohème, directed by Friedrich Meyer-Oertel, Tosca, directed by Renate Ackermann and Turandot, directed by Regula Gerber ;
- Johann Strauß : Die Fledermaus, directed by Friedrich Meyer-Oertel ;
- Richard Strauss : Salome, directed by Gabriele Rech ;
- Giuseppe Verdi : Falstaff, directed by Christof Nel, La Traviata, directed by Achim Freyer, Otello, directed by Chris Alexander and Stiffelio, directed by Regula Gerber ;
- Richard Wagner : Die Walküre, directed by Achim Freyer and Parsifal, directed by Hans Schüler ;
- Carl Maria von Weber : Der Freischütz, directed by Armin Holz ;
- Mieczyslaw Weinberg : Der Idiot, directed by Regula Gerber.

There are no baroque operas in Mannheim this year, but the season covers opera history from Mozart and Gluck to 21st century. Too bad, only three languages are to be used in these operas : German, Italian and French. But there is a nice touch of modern opera, with Weinberg, Schreker and of course, Ronchetti.