Dutch National Opera Movie Trailers

Berg: Wozzeck Trailer (2018)

11 January 2018

Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a grimly tragic narrative of violence and murder into one of the most powerful and original operas of the 20th century.

Les Contes d'Hoffmann Trailer (2018)

03 June 2018

The “superb, sinister” Tales of Hoffmann at the Dutch National Opera with “excellent soloists, the impressive John Osborn” (Theaterkrant) and “Christine Rice, a vocally and physically voluptuous Giulietta” (bachtrack.

Schönberg: Gurre-Lieder Trailer (2019)

01 June 2019

Rarely has a theatrical world premiere been so warmly received as Dutch National Opera’s production of Arnold Schönberg’s late-Romantic Gurre-Lieder in 2014.

Ritratto: Dutch National Opera Trailer (2020)

21 March 2020

Ritratto - the Italian word for 'portrait' is the title of a new opera by Willem Jeths, who was fascinated by a painting depicting Luisa Casati.

Berlioz: Les Troyens Trailer (2010)

01 April 2010

After a siege of ten years, the Greeks leave Troy. A giant wooden horse has been left on the beach. Despite Cassandra's dark premonitions, the offering is borne into the city.

Boris Godunov Trailer (2025)

25 July 2025

Nobleman Boris Godunov accumulates power in Russia, first as regent, then as tsar. But the ghosts of the past catch up with him and he ends up losing not only his power but his sanity.

Georg Friedrich Handel: Giulio Cesare At the Dutch National Opera Trailer (2024)

18 February 2024

In Amsterdam, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm and director Calixto Bieito take on Handel’s famous Giulio Cesare.

Rudi Stephan: Die ersten Menschen Trailer (2021)

25 June 2021

The 2021 production by the Dutch National Opera of the work by German composer Rudi Stephan (1887–1915) "Die ersten Menschen" ("The First Humans"), completed in 1914 to a libretto by Otto Borngräber interpreting the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden through symbolism and the then nascent science of psychoanalysis.