Alain Altinoglu

Wagner: Das Rheingold (2023)

Director and visual artist Romeo Castellucci will tackle this mythological material and project his visions over the course of the journey performed by the characters, representing concretely such key elements of the Ring as water and fire. This symbolic r ...

Henry VIII - SAINT-SAËNS (2023)

Six marriages, two annulments, two beheadings and the founding of his own Church, against the authority of Rome... in his search for a suitable spouse, the notorious Tudor King of England Henry VIII shrank from nothing. Here we focus on the amorous and pol ...

Der Rosenkavalier - La Monnaie / De Munt (2022)

The Marschallin is relishing time with her young lover, when her cousin's sudden arrival ignites a comic chain of events. With honour at risk, social status bartered and happiness illusive, the Marschallin accepts time cannot be stopped and she must set yo ...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie) (2019)

The Tale Of Tsar Saltan (2019)

Tsar Saltan marries the youngest of three sisters, having heard that it is her dearest wish to present him with a heroic son and heir. Her jealous sisters and the old Aunt Barbaricha cannot bear this situation to persist and by trickery see to it that the ...

Tristan und Isolde (2019)

Tristan, King Marke's most loyal vassal, takes the Irish princess Isolde to Cornwall to be married off to his master. During the journey, Isolde uses a deadly poison in an attempt to extinguish the intense but unspoken love between her and Tristan that had ...

Aida (2017)

With war and acts of violence in the background, Aida tells the story of a fascinating and tense love triangle between the Egyptian princess, Amneris, Ramades, an officer, and Aida, a Nubian princess, captured and reduced to slavery. The historical scenes ...

Pelléas et Mélisande (2016)

In this strikingly modern 2016 production from the Zurich Opera House, Tcherniakov transposes the opera's intrigue from forest and castle to living room and psychiatric office. The love story of the original work remains riveting, but Tcherniakov brings an ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Werther (2014)

Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings aching intensity and vocal charisma to the tortured title hero of Massenet's Goethe adaptation. Sophie Koch, in her Met debut, is an appealing and elegant Charlotte, the object of Werther's passionate affection that will le ...

Orphée aux Enfers (2009)

Here is an irreverent take on the tragic story of the lovers Orpheus and Eurydice. With his librettists Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy, Jacques Offenbach creates a wonderful array of characters from the heavens who find themselves caught up in domest ...