Kammeroper München (Munich Chamber Opera) is an independent ensemble for

chamber opera Chamber opera is a designation for operas written to be performed with a Chamber music, chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra. Early 20th-century operas of this type include Paul Hindemith's ''Cardillac'' (1926). Earlier small-scale operas ...

s in Munich. The troupe was founded by Christiane Steffens, Christophe Gördes and Carlos Dominguez-Nieto. They have played regularly at the Hubertussaal of

Schloss Nymphenburg The Nymphenburg Palace (, Palace of the Nymphs) is a Baroque palace situated in Munich's western district Neuhausen-Nymphenburg, in Bavaria, southern Germany. The Nymphenburg served as the main summer residence for the former rulers of Bavaria ...

from 2008, but also use different venues including the Cuvilliés-Theater. The organisation has engaged young singers to give them the opportunity of stage experience at the beginning of their career. The chamber orchestra players come from Munich stages and orchestras.

Program

The Kammeroper has produced one annual complete opera, as well as additional concerts such as composer portraits and recitals, sometimes with already known singers including

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, Sophie von Kessel,

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, Thomas Loibl,

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and Okka von der Damerau. The operas are often arranged for chamber orchestra, and played with new texts, often in translations into German.

Productions

Complete operas have included: * 2006 ** Cimarosa: ''

Il matrimonio segreto ' (''The Secret Marriage'') is a dramma giocoso in two acts, music by Domenico Cimarosa, on a libretto by Giovanni Bertati, based on the 1766 play '' The Clandestine Marriage'' by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick. It was first performed ...

– Die heimliche Ehe'' * 2007 ** Rossini: ''

La pietra del paragone ' (''The Touchstone'') is an opera, or '' melodramma giocoso'', in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, to an original Italian libretto by Luigi Romanelli. Performance history ''La pietra del paragone'' was first performed at La Scala, Milan, on 26 ...

– Die Liebesprobe'' * 2008 ** Mozart: ''

La finta semplice ''La finta semplice'' (''The Fake Innocent''), K. 51 (46a) is an opera buffa in three acts for seven voices and orchestra, composed in 1768 by then 12-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Young Mozart and his father Leopold were spending the year in ...

– Die Abenteuer des Don Gisberto'' ** Piccinni: ''

La Cecchina ''La Cecchina'' may refer to: * '' La buona figliuola'', or ''La Cecchina'', a 1760 opera buffa by Niccolò Piccinni * Francesca Caccini (1587 – c. 1641), Italian singer and composer, nicknamed ''La Cecchina'' See also * Cecchina, a haml ...

'' * 2009 ** ''Untreue lohnt sich! oder auch nicht'',

pasticcio In music, a ''pasticcio'' or ''pastiche'' is an opera or other musical work composed of works by different composers who may or may not have been working together, or an adaptation or localization of an existing work that is loose, unauthorized, ...

with music by

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* 2010 ** Oscar Straus: '' Die lustigen Nibelungen'' ** Rossini: ''

La gazza ladra ''La gazza ladra'' (, ''The Thieving Magpie'') is a ''melodramma'' or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on ''La pie voleuse'' by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez ...

– Die diebische Elster'' ** Mozart: '' Der Diener zweier Herren'' ** Mozart: ''Truffaldino! – Zwei Herren auf einen Streich'' * 2012 ** Suppé: ''

Die schöne Galathée ' (''The Beautiful Galatea'') is an operetta in one act by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by the composer and 'Poly Henrion' (the pseudonym of Leonhard Kohl von Kohlenegg).* In the early 1860s, French operettas by Jacques Offenbach wer ...

'' /

Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ''The Tales of Hoffmann''. He was a p ...

: ''Häuptling Abendwind'' ** Rossini: ''

La Cenerentola ("Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant") is an operatic in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the libretti written by Charles-Guillaume Étienne for the opera '' Cendrillon'' with music by Nico ...

'' * 2013 **

Antonio Salieri Antonio Salieri (18 August 17507 May 1825) was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period (music), classical period. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subje ...

: ''Ritter Falstaff oder drei Streiche für ein Schepperfass!'' ** Salieri: ''Falstaff'' * 2014 ** Fischer: '' Charleys Tante'' **

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: ''Kaspar Hauser – Ein Traumspiel'' * 2015 ** Mozart: ''

'' * 2016 ** Rossini: ''

Il barbiere di Siviglia ''The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution'' ( ) is an ''opera buffa'' (comic opera) in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy '' ...

– Der Barbier von Sevilla'' * 2017 ** Haydn: '' Die Welt auf dem Mond'' * 2018 ** Mozart: ''

Così fan tutte (''Women are like that, or The School for Lovers''), Köchel catalogue, K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written ...

'' * 2019 ** '' Das Gespenst von Canterville'', comic oper after Oscar Wilde with music by Gershwin,

Purcell Henry Purcell (, rare: ; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, ''Dido and Aeneas''; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's ...

, Dowland and others * 2020 ** Cimarosa: '' Die heimliche Ehe'' * 2021 ** Maria Antonia Walpurgis: '' Talestri'' * 2022 ** Mozart: ''

Le nozze di Figaro ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna ...

'' * 2023 ** Mozart: ''

Die Entführung aus dem Serail ' () (Köchel catalogue, K. 384; ''The Abduction from the Seraglio''; also known as ') is a singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Gottlieb Stephanie, based on Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's . The plot concer ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kammeroper Munchen Opera companies