There is hardly a daydream passing through the heads of those wide awake more frequently (and more secretly) than staging one’s own disappearance. This ...
Premiere: Fri 18. Sep. 2015 | no further performances this seasonBerlioz‘ reading of Virgil’s Aeneid reduces the story of the mythical founding of Rome by Aeneas to the tragic conflict between two dispossessed persons. In ...
Premiere: Sat 19. Sep. 2015 | no further performances this seasonDuring times of historical upheaval, the victors are filled with euphoric jubilation while fear spreads on the side of the losers. When cheerfulness grips the ...
Premiere: Sun 15. Nov. 2015 | no further performances this seasonA hill. The view broadens. The sea. Claudia stands here often recently, ever since her husband Takashi and her son Max died. Lanterns bobbing on the sea for the ...
Premiere: Sun 24. Jan. 2016 | no further performances this seasonThe love between Arnold, son of a Swiss subject, and Mathilde, daughter of an Austrian despot, hardly has a chance of survival. Tell leads the rebels ...
Premiere: Sun 06. Mar. 2016 | no further performances this seasonThe art of Romeo Castellucci is traversed by the tension involved in creating images that cut through the knowledge of the unconscious, piercing the heart of ...
Premiere: Thu 21. Apr. 2016 | no further performances this season“The feast is strange to me, strange,” Daphne says to Leukippos, her childhood friend who desires her, on this day of ecstatic celebrations honouring ...
Premiere: Sun 05. Jun. 2016 | no further performances this seasonThe Levant – that is Dea Loher’s place of action: Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, West Bank, Gaza. Mira, a 14-year-old girl, her grandfather Zeno, her mother ...
World Premiere: Sun 20. Sep. 2015 | no further performances this season“Sam is the white boy and sweep is his job, his father has sold him to cruel Black Bob. Today is his black day, today he must climb a chimerney stack for the ...
Premiere: Sat 05. Dec. 2015 | no further performances this seasonA bar at rush-hour, lots of people: lonely people, desperate people, unrecognised genius, fragile people in need of love. Who likes whom, who will end up with ...
Premiere: Fri 19. Feb. 2016 | no further performances this seasonThe underworld turned on its head: in three languages and with a female lead, the myth of Orpheus as depicted by Telemann becomes the story of a revenge-driven ...
Premiere: Fri 08. Jul. 2016 | no further performances this season