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Sat
27
Dec
Strauß
Die Fledermaus | Semperoper Dresden
Operetta
1st performance
19:00 – 22:00
Production: Strauß: Die Fledermaus | Semperoper Dresden
"Effervescent irony combined with a sparkling champagne mood to the sounds of the waltz."
Operetta in three acts
Text version after Carl Haffner and Richard Genée based on the vaudeville Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
In German with German and English surtitles
Gabriel von Eisenstein Christoph Pohl
Rosalinde Elissa Huber
Alfred Mario Lerchenberger
Prince Orlofsky Valerie Eickhoff
Adele Katrina Galka
Dr Falke Anton Beliaev
Frank Markus Marquardt
Dr Blind Gerald Hupach
Ida Cornelia Butz, Gundula Rosenkranz
Frog Wolfgang Stumph
Musical direction Marcus Merkel
Production Günter Krämer
Stage Gisbert Jäkel
Costumes Falk Bauer
Lighting Jan Seeger
Choreography Otto Pichler
Choir Jan Hoffmann
Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden
Saxon State Orchestra Dresden
Operetta in three acts
Text version after Carl Haffner and Richard Genée based on the vaudeville Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
In German with German and English surtitles
Gabriel von Eisenstein Christoph Pohl
Rosalinde Elissa Huber
Alfred Mario Lerchenberger
Prince Orlofsky Valerie Eickhoff
Adele Katrina Galka
Dr Falke Anton Beliaev
Frank Markus Marquardt
Dr Blind Gerald Hupach
Ida Cornelia Butz, Gundula Rosenkranz
Frog Wolfgang Stumph
Musical direction Marcus Merkel
Production Günter Krämer
Stage Gisbert Jäkel
Costumes Falk Bauer
Lighting Jan Seeger
Choreography Otto Pichler
Choir Jan Hoffmann
Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden
Saxon State Orchestra Dresden
Thu
01
Jan
Neujahrskonzert "È tutto amore" | Theater Koblenz
Concert
17:00 – 20:00
"Love is the heartbeat of the whole universe" - in Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata", this is the world-explaining recognition of that powerful feeling we call love. There has always been an exceptionally happy relationship between the partners of music and love. The former comforts the latter or cheers her on, expressing her emotions in words and sounds. Love, in turn, returns these gestures by providing inspiration and material for musical masterpieces - and has done so since the beginning of time.
As we enter the year 2026, Koblenz Theatre and the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie invite you to a festive New Year's concert in homage to love - in all its guises. Whether sombre or effervescent, reciprocated or unheard: there is a suitable soundtrack for all facets of this most diverse and most sung-about of all emotions. In a programme that ranges from opera and operetta to musicals, chief conductor Marcus Merkel and soloists from Koblenz Theatre perform an impressive array of the most beautiful love songs and arias.
As presenter, artistic director Markus Dietze will accompany the audience through this homage to love in a witty and warm manner into the new, undescribed year.
As we enter the year 2026, Koblenz Theatre and the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie invite you to a festive New Year's concert in homage to love - in all its guises. Whether sombre or effervescent, reciprocated or unheard: there is a suitable soundtrack for all facets of this most diverse and most sung-about of all emotions. In a programme that ranges from opera and operetta to musicals, chief conductor Marcus Merkel and soloists from Koblenz Theatre perform an impressive array of the most beautiful love songs and arias.
As presenter, artistic director Markus Dietze will accompany the audience through this homage to love in a witty and warm manner into the new, undescribed year.
Fri
02
Jan
Strauß
Die Fledermaus | Semperoper Dresden
Operetta
2nd performance
19:00 – 22:00
Production: Strauß: Die Fledermaus | Semperoper Dresden
"Effervescent irony combined with a sparkling champagne mood to the sounds of the waltz."
Operetta in three acts
Text version after Carl Haffner and Richard Genée based on the vaudeville Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
In German with German and English surtitles
Gabriel von Eisenstein Christoph Pohl
Rosalinde Elissa Huber
Alfred Mario Lerchenberger
Prince Orlofsky Valerie Eickhoff
Adele Katrina Galka
Dr Falke Anton Beliaev
Frank Markus Marquardt
Dr Blind Gerald Hupach
Ida Cornelia Butz, Gundula Rosenkranz
Frog Wolfgang Stumph
Musical direction Marcus Merkel
Production Günter Krämer
Stage Gisbert Jäkel
Costumes Falk Bauer
Lighting Jan Seeger
Choreography Otto Pichler
Choir Jan Hoffmann
Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden
Saxon State Orchestra Dresden
Operetta in three acts
Text version after Carl Haffner and Richard Genée based on the vaudeville Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
In German with German and English surtitles
Gabriel von Eisenstein Christoph Pohl
Rosalinde Elissa Huber
Alfred Mario Lerchenberger
Prince Orlofsky Valerie Eickhoff
Adele Katrina Galka
Dr Falke Anton Beliaev
Frank Markus Marquardt
Dr Blind Gerald Hupach
Ida Cornelia Butz, Gundula Rosenkranz
Frog Wolfgang Stumph
Musical direction Marcus Merkel
Production Günter Krämer
Stage Gisbert Jäkel
Costumes Falk Bauer
Lighting Jan Seeger
Choreography Otto Pichler
Choir Jan Hoffmann
Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden
Saxon State Orchestra Dresden
Sat
03
Jan
Strauß
Die Fledermaus | Semperoper Dresden
Operetta
3rd performance
19:00 – 22:00
Production: Strauß: Die Fledermaus | Semperoper Dresden
"Effervescent irony combined with a sparkling champagne mood to the sounds of the waltz."
Operetta in three acts
Text version after Carl Haffner and Richard Genée based on the vaudeville Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
In German with German and English surtitles
Gabriel von Eisenstein Christoph Pohl
Rosalinde Elissa Huber
Alfred Mario Lerchenberger
Prince Orlofsky Valerie Eickhoff
Adele Katrina Galka
Dr Falke Anton Beliaev
Frank Markus Marquardt
Dr Blind Gerald Hupach
Ida Cornelia Butz, Gundula Rosenkranz
Frog Wolfgang Stumph
Musical direction Marcus Merkel
Production Günter Krämer
Stage Gisbert Jäkel
Costumes Falk Bauer
Lighting Jan Seeger
Choreography Otto Pichler
Choir Jan Hoffmann
Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden
Saxon State Orchestra Dresden
Operetta in three acts
Text version after Carl Haffner and Richard Genée based on the vaudeville Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
In German with German and English surtitles
Gabriel von Eisenstein Christoph Pohl
Rosalinde Elissa Huber
Alfred Mario Lerchenberger
Prince Orlofsky Valerie Eickhoff
Adele Katrina Galka
Dr Falke Anton Beliaev
Frank Markus Marquardt
Dr Blind Gerald Hupach
Ida Cornelia Butz, Gundula Rosenkranz
Frog Wolfgang Stumph
Musical direction Marcus Merkel
Production Günter Krämer
Stage Gisbert Jäkel
Costumes Falk Bauer
Lighting Jan Seeger
Choreography Otto Pichler
Choir Jan Hoffmann
Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden
Saxon State Orchestra Dresden
Fri
09
Jan
Strauß
Die Fledermaus | Semperoper Dresden
Operetta
4th performance
19:00 – 22:00
Production: Strauß: Die Fledermaus | Semperoper Dresden
"Effervescent irony combined with a sparkling champagne mood to the sounds of the waltz."
Operetta in three acts
Text version after Carl Haffner and Richard Genée based on the vaudeville Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
In German with German and English surtitles
Gabriel von Eisenstein Christoph Pohl
Rosalinde Elissa Huber
Alfred Mario Lerchenberger
Prince Orlofsky Valerie Eickhoff
Adele Katrina Galka
Dr Falke Anton Beliaev
Frank Markus Marquardt
Dr Blind Gerald Hupach
Ida Cornelia Butz, Gundula Rosenkranz
Frog Wolfgang Stumph
Musical direction Marcus Merkel
Production Günter Krämer
Stage Gisbert Jäkel
Costumes Falk Bauer
Lighting Jan Seeger
Choreography Otto Pichler
Choir Jan Hoffmann
Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden
Saxon State Orchestra Dresden
Operetta in three acts
Text version after Carl Haffner and Richard Genée based on the vaudeville Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
In German with German and English surtitles
Gabriel von Eisenstein Christoph Pohl
Rosalinde Elissa Huber
Alfred Mario Lerchenberger
Prince Orlofsky Valerie Eickhoff
Adele Katrina Galka
Dr Falke Anton Beliaev
Frank Markus Marquardt
Dr Blind Gerald Hupach
Ida Cornelia Butz, Gundula Rosenkranz
Frog Wolfgang Stumph
Musical direction Marcus Merkel
Production Günter Krämer
Stage Gisbert Jäkel
Costumes Falk Bauer
Lighting Jan Seeger
Choreography Otto Pichler
Choir Jan Hoffmann
Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden
Saxon State Orchestra Dresden
Fri
16
Jan
Strauß
Die Fledermaus | Semperoper Dresden
Operetta
5th performance
19:00 – 22:00
Production: Strauß: Die Fledermaus | Semperoper Dresden
"Effervescent irony combined with a sparkling champagne mood to the sounds of the waltz."
Operetta in three acts
Text version after Carl Haffner and Richard Genée based on the vaudeville Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
In German with German and English surtitles
Gabriel von Eisenstein Christoph Pohl
Rosalinde Elissa Huber
Alfred Mario Lerchenberger
Prince Orlofsky Valerie Eickhoff
Adele Katrina Galka
Dr Falke Anton Beliaev
Frank Markus Marquardt
Dr Blind Gerald Hupach
Ida Cornelia Butz, Gundula Rosenkranz
Frog Wolfgang Stumph
Musical direction Marcus Merkel
Production Günter Krämer
Stage Gisbert Jäkel
Costumes Falk Bauer
Lighting Jan Seeger
Choreography Otto Pichler
Choir Jan Hoffmann
Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden
Saxon State Orchestra Dresden
Operetta in three acts
Text version after Carl Haffner and Richard Genée based on the vaudeville Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
In German with German and English surtitles
Gabriel von Eisenstein Christoph Pohl
Rosalinde Elissa Huber
Alfred Mario Lerchenberger
Prince Orlofsky Valerie Eickhoff
Adele Katrina Galka
Dr Falke Anton Beliaev
Frank Markus Marquardt
Dr Blind Gerald Hupach
Ida Cornelia Butz, Gundula Rosenkranz
Frog Wolfgang Stumph
Musical direction Marcus Merkel
Production Günter Krämer
Stage Gisbert Jäkel
Costumes Falk Bauer
Lighting Jan Seeger
Choreography Otto Pichler
Choir Jan Hoffmann
Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden
Saxon State Orchestra Dresden
Sat
31
Jan
Massenet
Werther | Theater Koblenz
Opera
Premiere
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Massenet: Werther | Theater Koblenz
Drame lyrique by Jules Massenet - Poetry by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - In French with German surtitles
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
Thu
12
Feb
Massenet
Werther | Theater Koblenz
Opera
4th performance
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Massenet: Werther | Theater Koblenz
Drame lyrique by Jules Massenet - Poetry by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - In French with German surtitles
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
Sat
14
Feb
Massenet
Werther | Theater Koblenz
Opera
5th performance
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Massenet: Werther | Theater Koblenz
Drame lyrique by Jules Massenet - Poetry by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - In French with German surtitles
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
Sun
01
Mar
Massenet
Werther | Theater Koblenz
Opera
7th performance
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Massenet: Werther | Theater Koblenz
Drame lyrique by Jules Massenet - Poetry by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - In French with German surtitles
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
Tue
03
Mar
Massenet
Werther | Theater Koblenz
Opera
8th performance
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Massenet: Werther | Theater Koblenz
Drame lyrique by Jules Massenet - Poetry by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - In French with German surtitles
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
Thu
05
Mar
Massenet
Werther | Theater Koblenz
Opera
9th performance
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Massenet: Werther | Theater Koblenz
Drame lyrique by Jules Massenet - Poetry by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - In French with German surtitles
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
Sun
08
Mar
Mozart
Don Giovanni | Theater Erfurt
Other
15:00 – 18:00
Dramma giocoso in two acts
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
First performed in Prague 1787
In Italian with German surtitles
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
First performed in Prague 1787
In Italian with German surtitles
Thu
12
Mar
7. Sinfoniekonzert am Theater Erfurt
Concert
19:30 – 21:30
Production: 7. Sinfoniekonzert am Theater Erfurt
Camille Pépin: Les Eaux célestes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D major KV 504 "Prague"
Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances for small orchestra Sz. 68 BB 76
Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat major op. 83
Musical direction / Marcus Merkel
Piano / Markus Becker
Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D major KV 504 "Prague"
Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances for small orchestra Sz. 68 BB 76
Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat major op. 83
Musical direction / Marcus Merkel
Piano / Markus Becker
Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra
Fri
13
Mar
7. Sinfoniekonzert am Theater Erfurt
Concert
19:30 – 21:30
Production: 7. Sinfoniekonzert am Theater Erfurt
Camille Pépin: Les Eaux célestes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D major KV 504 "Prague"
Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances for small orchestra Sz. 68 BB 76
Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat major op. 83
Musical direction / Marcus Merkel
Piano / Markus Becker
Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D major KV 504 "Prague"
Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances for small orchestra Sz. 68 BB 76
Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat major op. 83
Musical direction / Marcus Merkel
Piano / Markus Becker
Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra
Sat
21
Mar
Massenet
Werther | Theater Koblenz
Opera
11th performance
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Massenet: Werther | Theater Koblenz
Drame lyrique by Jules Massenet - Poetry by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - In French with German surtitles
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
Fri
10
Apr
Massenet
Werther | Theater Koblenz
Opera
13th performance
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Massenet: Werther | Theater Koblenz
Drame lyrique by Jules Massenet - Poetry by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - In French with German surtitles
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
The young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, who promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Now Charlotte is torn between this promise and the feelings she develops for Werther. When Charlotte finally rejects him again after a moment of closeness, Werther sees no way out of his emotional distress: in a letter, he asks Albert for a pistol. When Charlotte learns of this, she rushes to Werther's flat in horror and finds him badly injured. Werther dies in her arms.
"These stirring scenes, these captivating images", Jules Massenet is said to have exclaimed when he came across "The Sorrows of Young Werther" in 1885. In Massenet's opera, Goethe's epistolary novel from 1774 is a "drama of pure humanity", as librettist Paul Milliet put it, in which Werther ends up desperately reciting Ossian's lyrics in Charlotte's arms, while she also confesses her love for him in the face of death and children sing Christmas carols in the distance. Through subtle orchestration on the one hand and far-reaching dramatic gestures on the other, Massenet manages to realise the basic idea of unanswered passionate love on the operatic stage.
The management team of the Koblenz production has already impressed several times in recent seasons in opera and drama productions with the sophisticated interweaving of the aesthetic levels of acting performance, elements of puppet theatre and the mirroring or magnification of the action by means of the live camera. The meticulous work at the interfaces of the various art forms is tailor-made for Jules Massenet's "Werther" and becomes an intense experience of sound, space and images for the audience.
Wed
13
May
AK Classics IV | Bruckner Orchester Linz
Concert
19:00 – 21:30
The conductor Ingo Ingensand is closely associated with the AK Classics concerts. He has conducted numerous concerts. In 2010, his first symphony with the The conductor Ingo Ingensand is closely associated with AK Classics concerts. He has conducted numerous concerts. In 2010, his first symphony was premiered with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz at AK Classics. At the time, the work was combined with Antonín Dvořák's 7th Symphony. The young, up-and-coming conductor Marcus Merkel combines Ingensand's 2nd Symphony with its big sister - the 9th Symphony. Along with Brahms, Bruckner and Tchaikovsky, Dvořák is considered one of the greatest symphonists of the Romantic period. His "Symphony from the New World" is a well-known jewel in the concert repertoire. With marvellous melodies, the Czech composer transports us to the vastness of America - and yet remains deeply rooted in his Bohemian homeland.
Ingo Ingensand
Symphony No. 2, op. 20
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Marcus Merkel | Conductor
Ingo Ingensand
Symphony No. 2, op. 20
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Marcus Merkel | Conductor
Fri
19
Jun
Beethoven
Fidelio | Theater Koblenz
Opera
Premiere
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Beethoven: Fidelio | Theater Koblenz
Opera by Ludwig van Beethoven - Concert performance
Christoph Plessers, Don Fernando
Don Pizarro
Nico Wouterse
Heiko Trinsinger
Florestan
Tobias Haaks
Leonore
Adréana Kraschewski
Rocco
Jongmin Lim
Marcelline
Hannah Beutler
Jaquino
Piotr Gryniewicki
Christoph Plessers, Don Fernando
Don Pizarro
Nico Wouterse
Heiko Trinsinger
Florestan
Tobias Haaks
Leonore
Adréana Kraschewski
Rocco
Jongmin Lim
Marcelline
Hannah Beutler
Jaquino
Piotr Gryniewicki
Sun
21
Jun
Beethoven
Fidelio | Theater Koblenz
Opera
2nd performance
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Beethoven: Fidelio | Theater Koblenz
Opera by Ludwig van Beethoven - Concert performance
Christoph Plessers, Don Fernando
Don Pizarro
Nico Wouterse
Heiko Trinsinger
Florestan
Tobias Haaks
Leonore
Adréana Kraschewski
Rocco
Jongmin Lim
Marcelline
Hannah Beutler
Jaquino
Piotr Gryniewicki
Christoph Plessers, Don Fernando
Don Pizarro
Nico Wouterse
Heiko Trinsinger
Florestan
Tobias Haaks
Leonore
Adréana Kraschewski
Rocco
Jongmin Lim
Marcelline
Hannah Beutler
Jaquino
Piotr Gryniewicki
Tue
23
Jun
Beethoven
Fidelio | Theater Koblenz
Opera
3rd performance
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Beethoven: Fidelio | Theater Koblenz
Opera by Ludwig van Beethoven - Concert performance
Christoph Plessers, Don Fernando
Don Pizarro
Nico Wouterse
Heiko Trinsinger
Florestan
Tobias Haaks
Leonore
Adréana Kraschewski
Rocco
Jongmin Lim
Marcelline
Hannah Beutler
Jaquino
Piotr Gryniewicki
Christoph Plessers, Don Fernando
Don Pizarro
Nico Wouterse
Heiko Trinsinger
Florestan
Tobias Haaks
Leonore
Adréana Kraschewski
Rocco
Jongmin Lim
Marcelline
Hannah Beutler
Jaquino
Piotr Gryniewicki
Thu
25
Jun
Beethoven
Fidelio | Theater Koblenz
Opera
4th performance
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Beethoven: Fidelio | Theater Koblenz
Opera by Ludwig van Beethoven - Concert performance
Christoph Plessers, Don Fernando
Don Pizarro
Nico Wouterse
Heiko Trinsinger
Florestan
Tobias Haaks
Leonore
Adréana Kraschewski
Rocco
Jongmin Lim
Marcelline
Hannah Beutler
Jaquino
Piotr Gryniewicki
Christoph Plessers, Don Fernando
Don Pizarro
Nico Wouterse
Heiko Trinsinger
Florestan
Tobias Haaks
Leonore
Adréana Kraschewski
Rocco
Jongmin Lim
Marcelline
Hannah Beutler
Jaquino
Piotr Gryniewicki
Sat
27
Jun
Beethoven
Fidelio | Theater Koblenz
Opera
5th performance
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Beethoven: Fidelio | Theater Koblenz
Opera by Ludwig van Beethoven - Concert performance
Christoph Plessers, Don Fernando
Don Pizarro
Nico Wouterse
Heiko Trinsinger
Florestan
Tobias Haaks
Leonore
Adréana Kraschewski
Rocco
Jongmin Lim
Marcelline
Hannah Beutler
Jaquino
Piotr Gryniewicki
Christoph Plessers, Don Fernando
Don Pizarro
Nico Wouterse
Heiko Trinsinger
Florestan
Tobias Haaks
Leonore
Adréana Kraschewski
Rocco
Jongmin Lim
Marcelline
Hannah Beutler
Jaquino
Piotr Gryniewicki
Sun
28
Jun
Beethoven
Fidelio | Theater Koblenz
Opera
6th performance
19:00 – 21:30
Production: Beethoven: Fidelio | Theater Koblenz
Opera by Ludwig van Beethoven - Concert performance
Christoph Plessers, Don Fernando
Don Pizarro
Nico Wouterse
Heiko Trinsinger
Florestan
Tobias Haaks
Leonore
Adréana Kraschewski
Rocco
Jongmin Lim
Marcelline
Hannah Beutler
Jaquino
Piotr Gryniewicki
Christoph Plessers, Don Fernando
Don Pizarro
Nico Wouterse
Heiko Trinsinger
Florestan
Tobias Haaks
Leonore
Adréana Kraschewski
Rocco
Jongmin Lim
Marcelline
Hannah Beutler
Jaquino
Piotr Gryniewicki
