One morning, the barber Yakovlevich finds a nose in his breakfast sandwich. At the same time, the assessor Kovalyov looks in the mirror – and finds that his ...
Premiere: Saturday 07. Sep. 2019 | next performance: Tuesday 20. Apr. 2021
In the beginning was a murder. Before, after, and in between: women — Italian, German, French, Spanish women, chambermaids, countesses, peasants, princesses, ...
Premiere: Sunday 20. Oct. 2019 | next performance: Friday 02. Oct. 2020
Sir John Falstaff is an anarchist who obeys only the reign of his own enjoyment, an egoist who feeds only his power-hunger and his own flesh, and who would ...
Premiere: Sunday 19. Jan. 2020 | next performance: Thursday 06. May. 2021
In the darkness of a forest, a priestess entreats the goddess of the moon for peace. There is war everywhere: between men and women, father and daughter, a ...
Premiere: Sunday 08. Mar. 2020 | next performance: Sunday 15. Nov. 2020
The war is over, and tragedy takes its course: the mother and her lover murder the father upon his return. The daughter hides her brother, keeping him safe. – ...
Premiere: Saturday 02. May. 2020 | next performance: Monday 05. Apr. 2021
Why love ugliness? Why praise naturalness? Why entreat heaven to be allowed to experience pain? – Between dream worlds and faith, half of this world and half ...
Premiere: Saturday 16. May. 2020 | no further performances this season
The years between the death of Ivan the Terrible and the ascension of the Romanov family to the throne are known in Russia as the “Time of Troubles”. During ...
Premiere: Saturday 05. Sep. 2020
What happened? Two friends attended a masked ball. At the end of the night, the retiree Eisenstein, aka The Butterfly, played a prank on the notary Dr. Falke, ...
Premiere: Sunday 18. Oct. 2020
A nunnery or love? Love or money? Money or death? – On her way to the monastery, the young Manon is wooed by men. When Chevalier Des Grieux turns up, they ...
Premiere: Sunday 24. Jan. 2021
Lucia loves Edgard, the last heir of the house of Ravenswood, her family’s enemy clan. They are in danger, as Lucia’s dreams reveal: she sees a dead woman, ...
Premiere: Sunday 07. Mar. 2021
A forest, idyllic and clear, here an inn, there cheerful huntsmen, and in their midst the bride – hope, the future. A forest, dark and damp, here a chasm, ...
Premiere: Sunday 18. Apr. 2021
Agrippina wants to take advantage of the death of her husband, the Roman emperor Claudio, to install Nerone, her son by a first marriage, on the throne. ...
Premiere: Sunday 23. May. 2021
After Hitler seized power, the poet Else Lasker-Schüler fled to Zurich and lived in Jerusalem from 1939 until her death in 1945. Her eloquent and bitterly ...
World Premiere: Sunday 03. Nov. 2019 | no further performances this season
We are in a forest. It is quiet, with a scent of moss and earthworms, and moths flutter through the night. From afar, we hear music, a wedding song – or is it ...
Premiere: Saturday 08. Feb. 2020 | no further performances this season
In order to save her father’s film production company from dire financial straits, Marylou has a brilliant, groundbreaking idea. She wants to produce the ...
Premiere: Saturday 02. May. 2020 | no further performances this season
This opera by Telemann does not exist – but there is an aria whose title might have been taken from a Heinz Erhardt sketch. Perhaps the development of his ...
Premiere: Friday 19. Jun. 2020
A small town – nice enough, predictable, nothing doing, lame parties, annoying teachers. Infatuation, jealousy, necking. Here we have Elin and her older ...
World Premiere: Friday 20. Nov. 2020
We go into our workshop to hammer out an operetta: our procedure is practical, artisanal, organized and well-planned. Our tools: old sketches, music and ...
World Premiere: Friday 09. Apr. 2021
Although the moon shines, it does not use any energy. Its surface reveals a man, bent under a heavy burden. However, it is merely the play of shadows and light. ...
World Premiere: Friday 18. Jun. 2021
