Bavarian State Opera tickets 12 April 2025 - An evening of modern ballets "Wings of Memory": Bella figura. Faun. Das Frühlingsopfer (The Rite of Spring) | GoComGo.com

An evening of modern ballets "Wings of Memory": Bella figura. Faun. Das Frühlingsopfer (The Rite of Spring)

Bavarian State Opera, National Theatre, Munich, Germany
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Important Info
Type: Modern Ballet
City: Munich, Germany
Starts at: 17:00
Acts: 3
Intervals: 1
Duration: 2h 10min

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Cast
Performers
Conductor: Andrew Litton
Ballet company: Bavarian State Ballet
Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra
Creators
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Composer: Alessandro Marcello
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Composer: Claude Debussy
Composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Composer: Lukas Foss
Choreographer: Jiří Kylián
Choreographer: Pina Bausch
Librettist: Igor Stravinsky
Librettist: Nicholas Roerich
Overview

The three-part evening Wings of Memory with works by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jiří Kylián and Pina Bausch is the focus point of the 2025 Ballet Festival Week with a one-off series of performances over six days.

Bausch's epoch-making interpretation of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps takes centre stage. First performed at the Wuppertal Opera House in 1975, the 35-minute work is now one of the signature pieces of the dance theatre legend, who died in 2009. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's version of Claude Debussy's instrumental work Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune and Bella Figura by Jiří Kylián can also be seen as part of this three-part programme.

"Das Frühlingsopfer" ("The Rite of Spring")  is a co-production of the Bayerisches Staatsballett and the Pina Bausch Foundation.

History
Premiere of this production: 29 May 1913, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris

The Rite of Spring (French: Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.

Bella Figura is a one-act ballet by Jiří Kylián, first presented in 1995 by Nederlands Dans Theater.

Premiere of this production: 22 December 1894, Paris, France

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, known in English as Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration. It was composed in the year 1894, the same year that the piece was first performed. It was first performed in Paris on 22 December 1894, conducted by Gustave Doret. The flute solo was played by Georges Barrère.

Venue Info

Bavarian State Opera - Munich
Location   Max-Joseph-Platz 2

The Bavarian State Opera or the National Theatre (Nationaltheater) on Max-Joseph-Platz in Munich, Germany, is a historic opera house and the main theatre of Munich, home of the Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, and the Bavarian State Ballet.

During its early years, the National Theatre saw the premières of a significant number of operas, including many by German composers. These included Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (1865), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868), Das Rheingold (1869) and Die Walküre (1870), after which Wagner chose to build the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth and held further premières of his works there.

During the latter part of the 19th century, it was Richard Strauss who would make his mark on the theatre in the city in which he was born in 1864. After accepting the position of conductor for a short time, Strauss returned to the theatre to become principal conductor from 1894 to 1898. In the pre-War period, his Friedenstag (1938) and Capriccio were premièred in Munich. In the post-War period, the house has seen significant productions and many world premieres.

First theatre – 1818 to 1823
The first theatre was commissioned in 1810 by King Maximilian I of Bavaria because the nearby Cuvilliés Theatre had too little space. It was designed by Karl von Fischer, with the 1782 Odéon in Paris as architectural precedent. Construction began on 26 October 1811 but was interrupted in 1813 by financing problems. In 1817 a fire occurred in the unfinished building.

The new theatre finally opened on 12 October 1818 with a performance of Die Weihe by Ferdinand Fränzl, but was soon destroyed by another fire on 14 January 1823; the stage décor caught fire during a performance of Die beyden Füchse by Étienne Méhul and the fire could not be put out because the water supply was frozen. Coincidentally the Paris Odéon itself burnt down in 1818.

Second theatre – 1825 to 1943
Designed by Leo von Klenze, the second theatre incorporated Neo-Grec features in its portico and triangular pediment and an entrance supported by Corinthian columns. In 1925 it was modified to create an enlarged stage area with updated equipment. The building was gutted in an air raid on the night of 3 October 1943.

Third theatre – 1963 to present
The third and present theatre (1963) recreates Karl von Fischer's original neo-classical design, though on a slightly larger, 2,100-seat scale. The magnificent royal box is the center of the interior rondel, decorated with two large caryatids. The new stage covers 2,500 square meters (3,000 sq yd), and is thus the world's third largest, after the Opéra Bastille in Paris and the Grand Theatre, Warsaw.

Through the consistent use of wood as a building material, the auditorium has excellent acoustics. Architect Gerhard Moritz Graubner closely preserved the original look of the foyer and main staircase. It opened on 21 November 1963 with an invitation-only performance of Die Frau ohne Schatten under the baton of Joseph Keilberth. Two nights later came the first public performance, of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, again under Keilberth.

Important Info
Type: Modern Ballet
City: Munich, Germany
Starts at: 17:00
Acts: 3
Intervals: 1
Duration: 2h 10min
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