Estonian National Opera

Operas

New Year's Eve Ball

New Year's Eve Ball – Big City Lights

We are welcomed by elegant Vienna, dazzling New York and ever so mysterious Paris. Together we will samba through Rio de Janeiro and by midnight, we will be back at our favourite city Tallinn!
Georges Bizet’s opera

Carmen

An opera in which passion rules over all...
Comic opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Don Pasquale

Since its premiere, “Don Pasquale” has delighted audiences worldwide. At the time when opera buffa was on the wane, with its stock characters drawing largely on Pantalone, Harlequin, Pierrot, etc Donizetti created a thoroughly comic situational comedy with psychologically differentiated, highly contradictory individuals packed with emotional vulnerability. Giorgio Bongiovanni’s exhilarating production shows how contemporary the characters still are and how immediate and touching the story remains.
Children’s opera based on Eno Raud’s eponymous story

Three Jolly Fellows

This story will certainly melt the hearts of both children and their parents and it will never grow old because the best cure for everything is always true friendship, cleverness, and warm-hearted humour (not to mention Iceland moss tea).
Comic opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Le nozze di Figaro

“Le nozze di Figaro” follows the Almaviva household through a single turbulent day as the Count’s page Cherubino fools around with the gardener’s daughter Barbarina, but adores the Countess, who loves the Count, who goes after Susanna, who is engaged to Figaro, who has promised to marry Doctor Bartolo’s wife Marcellina, who is old enough to be his mother… and all this on the eve of Figaro’s marriage!
Opera by Giacomo Puccini

Madama Butterfly

Music that is more beautiful than love. A passion that is larger than life.
Richard Wagner’s romantic opera

Lohengrin

There are ideals worth fighting for. There are secrets worth dying for. And there is LIFE.
Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Magic Flute

Masterpiece combining fantastic fairy tale elements, a mischievous play, moving ideas of humanity and enlightenment, and the composer’s beautiful melodies into a stunning allegory.
Ballet by Igor Stravinsky and opera by Maurice Ravel

Pulcinella and L’Heure Espagnole

How many lovers can you fit into one single grandfather clock?
Dramma lirico by Giuseppe Verdi

Giovanna d’Arco

A women who dared...
Stage fever before the premiere

Stage fever before the premiere: Stravinsky's ballet and Ravel's opera: "Pulcinella and L’Heure Espagnol"

Dinner and discussion with members of the creative team of the new production
Romantic opera by Eino Tamberg

Cyrano de Bergerac

“Cyrano de Bergerac” was written in 1974 by Eino Tamberg to the libretto of Jaan Kross and it is one of the most beautiful and most widely known Estonian operas.
Opera by Charles Gounod

Romeo and Juliet

In this famous love story, stage director Stephen Barlow focuses on the fate of two feuding families, integrating it into contemporary Paris society. Through the futile feud of Capuleti and Montecchi families, the the love of two young people is the ray of light spreading the message of everlasting love.
An evening of Ravel’s magical realm

Ravel:Ravel

“Ravel:Ravel” is a poetic game, full of fantasy, where you can cheat for beauty and where Ravel’s affair with music ends up in a crazy whirlwind of spectacle, dreamt of by children and yearned for by grown-ups.
Opera by Claude Debussy

Pelléas et Mélisande

An enigmatic woman with no past. A love that has no future.
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Il trovatore

“Il trovatore” captures the heart of anyone who loves a good story, great melodies, fantastic voices and big choruses. The “Anvil Chorus,” Azucena’s “Stride la vampa” and Manrico’s stirring call to arms “Di quella pira” are just a few of the fabulous highlights that the opera offers.

Popular stagings

Operas Operettas / Musicals Concerts

New Year's Eve Ball – Big City Lights
Repertoire Ballets For young audience

The Nutcracker
Repertoire Ballets

Light from the End of the World
Repertoire Ballets

The Corsair
Concerts

Estonian National Opera symphony concert
Ekskursioon teatrimajas For young audience

Guided Tour