The Scene and the Unseen: Opera in Pictures. Photographs by Monika Rittershaus
  • Discover Monika Rittershaus' profound and dramatic visual compositions
  • Photos from over 70 opera productions from all over the world
  • Scene photography uncovering gentle, touching, and peripheral moments

Photographer Monika Rittershaus is regarded as an inspiring interpreter of today's musical theater in all its diversity, opulence, and drama, but also in its human profundity, uniqueness, and veracity. As a highly sensitive observer, she looks out over the on-stage activity, uncovering gentle, touching, and peripheral moments. Barrie Kosky: “I have often observed Monika at work through the corner of my eye as I sit behind the production desk … She seems to sense the inner world of a moment and to know at exactly the right moment when to click her camera.” In her highly stringent visual compositions, Rittershaus depicts in a personalized and decisive way many influential directors and operas such as:

DAS RHEINGOLD, Richard Wagner, Los Angeles Opera (2009), director: Achim Freyer


COSI FAN TUTTE, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburger Festspiele (2020), director: Christof Loy


TANNHÄUSER, Richard Wagner, De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam (2019), director: Christof Loy


CARMEN, Georges Bizet, Oper Frankfurt (2016), director: Barrie Kosky


SALOME, Richard Strauss, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (2021), director: Claus Guth


ELEKTRA, Richard Strauss, Staatsoper Hamburg (2022), director: Dmitri Tcherniakov


IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Opernhaus Zurich (2020), director: Andreas Homoki


CENDRILLON, Jules Massenet, Opéra National de Paris Bastille (2022), director: Mariame Clément


Text in English and German.

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The Scene and the Unseen: Opera in Pictures. Photographs by Monika Rittershaus
  • Discover Monika Rittershaus' profound and dramatic visual compositions
  • Photos from over 70 opera productions from all over the world
  • Scene photography uncovering gentle, touching, and peripheral moments

Photographer Monika Rittershaus is regarded as an inspiring interpreter of today's musical theater in all its diversity, opulence, and drama, but also in its human profundity, uniqueness, and veracity. As a highly sensitive observer, she looks out over the on-stage activity, uncovering gentle, touching, and peripheral moments. Barrie Kosky: “I have often observed Monika at work through the corner of my eye as I sit behind the production desk … She seems to sense the inner world of a moment and to know at exactly the right moment when to click her camera.” In her highly stringent visual compositions, Rittershaus depicts in a personalized and decisive way many influential directors and operas such as:

DAS RHEINGOLD, Richard Wagner, Los Angeles Opera (2009), director: Achim Freyer


COSI FAN TUTTE, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburger Festspiele (2020), director: Christof Loy


TANNHÄUSER, Richard Wagner, De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam (2019), director: Christof Loy


CARMEN, Georges Bizet, Oper Frankfurt (2016), director: Barrie Kosky


SALOME, Richard Strauss, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (2021), director: Claus Guth


ELEKTRA, Richard Strauss, Staatsoper Hamburg (2022), director: Dmitri Tcherniakov


IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Opernhaus Zurich (2020), director: Andreas Homoki


CENDRILLON, Jules Massenet, Opéra National de Paris Bastille (2022), director: Mariame Clément


Text in English and German.

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The Scene and the Unseen: Opera in Pictures. Photographs by Monika Rittershaus

The Scene and the Unseen: Opera in Pictures. Photographs by Monika Rittershaus

The Scene and the Unseen: Opera in Pictures. Photographs by Monika Rittershaus

The Scene and the Unseen: Opera in Pictures. Photographs by Monika Rittershaus

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  • Discover Monika Rittershaus' profound and dramatic visual compositions
  • Photos from over 70 opera productions from all over the world
  • Scene photography uncovering gentle, touching, and peripheral moments

Photographer Monika Rittershaus is regarded as an inspiring interpreter of today's musical theater in all its diversity, opulence, and drama, but also in its human profundity, uniqueness, and veracity. As a highly sensitive observer, she looks out over the on-stage activity, uncovering gentle, touching, and peripheral moments. Barrie Kosky: “I have often observed Monika at work through the corner of my eye as I sit behind the production desk … She seems to sense the inner world of a moment and to know at exactly the right moment when to click her camera.” In her highly stringent visual compositions, Rittershaus depicts in a personalized and decisive way many influential directors and operas such as:

DAS RHEINGOLD, Richard Wagner, Los Angeles Opera (2009), director: Achim Freyer


COSI FAN TUTTE, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburger Festspiele (2020), director: Christof Loy


TANNHÄUSER, Richard Wagner, De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam (2019), director: Christof Loy


CARMEN, Georges Bizet, Oper Frankfurt (2016), director: Barrie Kosky


SALOME, Richard Strauss, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (2021), director: Claus Guth


ELEKTRA, Richard Strauss, Staatsoper Hamburg (2022), director: Dmitri Tcherniakov


IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Opernhaus Zurich (2020), director: Andreas Homoki


CENDRILLON, Jules Massenet, Opéra National de Paris Bastille (2022), director: Mariame Clément


Text in English and German.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783897906693
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GMBH
Publication date: 08/12/2022
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 8.66(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

Iris Maria vom Hof WHAT IS OPERA’S STATUS TODAY? 6 Barrie Kosky THE THEATRE‘S BUTTERFLY HUNTER 8 PHOTOGRAPHS BY | FOROGRAFIEN VON MONIKA RITTERSHAUS 13 Dirk Allgaier ON HAPPINESS AND OUR HEARTS‘ DESIRE IN THE CAVE 212 SHORT BIOGRAPHIES 214 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 217 GLOSSARY 218
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