Music theatre by Bernhard Glocksin and Albert Tola with music by Taner Akyol and Alaa Zouiten After “Bésame mucho”, the new piece by Albert Tola and Bernhard Glocksin: Turkish-Alevi historian Dr Haydar Yıdılrım has spent years researching how music travelled from Persia to Andalusia and from there back to Turkey via the entire Mediterranean region. […]
“Yours is my whole heart, where you are not, I cannot be…” – Can you still say (sing) that today if you are serious about love? How much sentiment, nostalgia, even kitsch is still possible before it becomes ridiculous? Lisa simply tries it out. She wants to know, the thing with love, the dreams that […]
Come in and take part in the future ritual of the goddesses of fate at the turn of the year! Their world is on the verge of collapse this year. Because the earth’s population is growing – and with it the workload of the trio, who have always woven and cut the threads of human […]
So young, so successful. The YOUNG NKO ORCHESTRA is on tour: Sold-out halls. Thunderous applause. But while the euphoric fans stream out of the concert hall, the ensemble drags itself back to the hotel, exhausted and dissatisfied. But is this even the right hotel and was the elevator there this morning? The rooms were at […]
Strange things happen in the lobby of Hotel Heaven. At five in the morning, three guests meet by chance, but is there such a thing as coincidence? While the internationally sought-after brain specialist Prof. Feininger encounters a “light-seer” named Blanche during check-out, the young journalist Raquel is stuck in the elevator. As soon as she […]
“DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN” by Strauss and von Hofmannsthal combines everything that opera has to offer: Love, hate, jealousy, passion, dreams, desires, people, fairy-tale characters. However, if one uncovers the core of the story, which is adorned with ghostly creatures, magic, fantastic worlds and fabulous animal creatures, one discovers something deeply human: three couples who […]
Junior producer Vanessa Edler is faced with an insurmountable task: she has to make a new blockbuster that won’t offend even the most sensitive viewers: A politically correct version of “Snow White.” The management of her streaming provider expects a box office success for everyone. But is that even possible? Can a politically correct fairy […]
The new production of our series of female composers takes us with desert wind sound between pop, baroque and present to almost forgotten compositions by Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Maria Theresia Paradis, Ethel Smyth and Florence Price
What does love mean? What, sending music into the world? Is there such a thing as destiny that connects the two? Bésame mucho – how do we want to translate that: Kiss me often, kiss me hard, kiss me always? – is the hit song that a young Mexican pianist and composer made from a […]
This is the story of the most successful and longest-lived micronation in the world. And it is the story of the Bates family, whose members began as pirates and became princes. It’s the 1960s and the BBC has slept through the social upheaval: it doesn’t play pop music on any of its stations. In order […]
Gizem: The prom tonight is still school, but tomorrow morning it will bereal life.Bo: You mean that it will change at some point, tonight?Fjodor: Click, just like that?Bumblebee: Like the numbers on the clock suddenly jump to zero, but it’s not like that.Debbi: The in-between has already started and will only stop again later.Ash: And […]
The two finalist teams of the Berliner Opernpreis present their works: the development, composition and staging of a half-hour musical theater each, inspired by two short stories by the much-discussed author and criminal defense lawyer Ferdinand von Schirach: Subotnik (Libretto based on motifs by Ferdinand von Schirach) is about the first trial of a young, […]
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