A new season for opera and ballet in Vilnius

Forty-two great productions and more than 200 performances are included in this year’s season at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, which is often considered the pride of the country. In its repertoire, it demonstrates quality, excellent technique, dedication and high-class professionalism of performances, which is the result of several centuries of continuous hard work and aspirations to achieve such standards. From September 25, 2009 to May 23, 2010 do not miss the opportunity to attend one of its excellent performances.
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New season at the Royal Danish Theatre

Nine premieres of entirely newly created musical drama, reaching from the spectacular to the intimate and from the classical to the avant-garde are on offer in this Royal Danish Opera 2009/10 season. The ballet menu for this season includes nine wide-ranging and sharply focused productions, embracing everything from grand historical masterpieces to pure abstract neo-classicism, from the lyrically romantic to the demandingly modern, from showbiz to artistic stringency. And there’s more… Eleven grand concerts at the Old Stage, the Takkelloftet and the Koncerthuset demand your attention!
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Lisbon welcomes the new opera and ballet season

Portugal’s two top performing arts institutions are completing the country’s cultural calendar for the 2009/2010 season with some of the year’s most important events. Lisbon’s main opera house, the famed Teatro Nacional de São Carlos is bringing nine opera productions onstage this year and 22 concerts performed by the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa –seven of which at the Centro Cultural de Belém and one at the Teatro Municipal São Luiz. At the same time, the country’s main ballet company, the Companhia Nacional de Bailado presents 8 ballet productions at the Teatro Camões.
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Opera season opening in Bucharest

The 2009/2010 season at the National Opera House in Bucharest opened early this year together with the 19th edition of the annual George Enescu International Festival with four of last season’s best opera productions (Enescu’s Oedipus, Verdi’s Othello and Macbeth, and Puccini’s Manon Lescaut) and one ballet (Swan Lake) in its programme running until the end of September 2009. For the next two months, October and November, the repertoire is rich with past productions you should see if you missed them last year.
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An exciting new season at Teatr Wielki

For over 170 years the Teatr Wielki (Grand Theatre) has been hosting Poland's grandest opera and ballet theatre, which continues its more than 200-year tradition, producing works by Polish composers as well as world classics. Lead by its artistic director Mariusz Treliński, a great stage director whose opera productions constitute highlights of operatic repertoire in Warsaw and overseas, Teatr Wielki presents an exquisite programme for the 2009/2010 season with 21 operas, 18 ballet and dance performances and more than ten concerts and music productions.
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New opera and ballet season in Sofia

The 2009/2010 season for the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Sofia kicks off in a promising and ambitious way with ten opera and six ballet productions occupying the daily calendar of the year’s last quarter. Having exported its best production -Léo Delibes’ Lakmé- to Cyprus in September 2009, Bulgaria’s first lyrical theatre presented the programme for October, November and December 2009, which includes both older productions and new premieres.
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New opera season in Tallinn

The new season of the Estonian National Opera is definitely going to rejoice the visitors with its diverse repertoire and new productions. Fifteen opera productions, two operettas and one musical, eight ballet pieces, a show for the children, and many more delights expect those who will book in advance tickets for this 104th season, which opens September 4 and runs through the summer season in July 2010, with the traditional 3-week wrap-up presentation of the year.
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LNO prelude for the 2009/10 season in Riga

With an impressive programme of opera and ballet productions, the Latvian National Opera kicks off the 2009/10 season, which includes some 32 productions for the months of October, November and December. The rest of the 10 season has not been announced yet, so stay tuned. The season opens in Riga on October 2 with a grand concert for the Latvijas Gāze Annual Award Ceremony, which will be conducted by Normunds Vaicis and Farhads Stade. And there’s more… Six operas and eleven ballet shows are on offer just before the twist of the year.
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An exciting new season at the Slovak National Theater

The excellent productions of opera, ballet and drama in Bratislava’s Slovak National Theatre have captivated not only the Slovak public but also the Viennese. It is no longer unusual to set out from Vienna to go to Bratislava and attend an opera. It takes about an hour to reach the Slovak National Theatre where people can enjoy performances of the highest quality at reasonable prices. In total, 71 productions go onstage during the 2009/10 season that closes in June.
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