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Every Monday you can refine your dance moves with techniques from breaking and contemporary dance under the professional guidance of dancer Pihla Jaala.

The "White Horse Inn" is a place of longing for all kinds of different characters. The waiter Leopold is trying to win the favor of his boss, the landlady Josepha Vogelhuber, who has her eye on her regular customer, lawyer Dr. Siedler. He, in turn, is interested in Ottilie, who is staying at the "White Horse Inn" with her father, the Berlin knitwear manufacturer Giesecke. Sigismund Sülzheimer, the son of Giesecke's competitor, has also arrived. He is to marry Ottilie in order to put an end to the legal dispute between the two companies. Sigismund, however, prefers to try to win the favor of the charming Klärchen, the daughter of poor Professor Hinzelmann.

A world in which everything turns out for the best? In which forgiveness and generosity triumph over greed and malice? Who wouldn't want that? In Rossini's opera buffa, this dream becomes reality on stage. The title character Angelina does not have an easy life under the arrogance and resentment of her stepfamily. But even her stepfather, the impoverished nobleman Don Magnifico, cannot prevent her transformation from Cinderella into a mysterious beauty: At the prince's ball, Angelina enchants everyone present. But it is not just Cinderella's disguise that causes confusion - the prince himself also poses as a servant and causes all sorts of comical mix-ups.

When a pregnant Joseph Goebbels meets Julius Caesar... then we are in the middle of Heiner Müller's brilliant historical trip through time. With Germania Death in Berlin, he created a visually powerful phantasmagoria in 1978 that travels through around 2000 years of German history. Historical and fictional events are mixed together, alongside figures from the Nibelungen saga there are Hitler and a circus clown who believes he is Frederick the Great. Like a kaleidoscope, Germania moves from one German historical fault line to the next:

Aux armes! Aux armes! – To arms! The performance of Daniel Auber's "La muette de Portici" in August 1830 at the Brussels Opera House so enraged the audience that they rose up, stormed out of the theater and started a revolution that led to the founding of the Belgian state.

Ten. Nine. Look at how many rockets are being launched into space right now! And none of them are looking for the little dog that was there first. Seven. Six. Suddenly something moves.

Life is not a children's birthday party. But sometimes it is! After the great success of "blau" by Felix Berner in the past seasons, the Hessian State Ballet is planning another dance piece for the audience of the day after tomorrow. In keeping with the company's tenth anniversary, there will be a lot to celebrate.

"Man is an abyss, it makes you dizzy when you look down." With incomparably stirring, moving music, Alban Berg focuses on the inner life of a person who is neither a hero, nor a privileged person, nor a chosen one: the penniless soldier Wozzeck could hardly be worse off. Derided, mistreated and abused by society, he barely has enough to feed Marie and their illegitimate child. The progressive deterioration of his physical and mental health leads to catastrophe.

It is hard to imagine today: in 1926, after the premiere of the ballet “The Miraculous Mandarin” in Cologne, the then mayor Konrad Adenauer banned the work because of its “immoral” plot. The “Mandarin” paints a picture of the modern city, which was not always idyllic in 1920. Arabella Steinbacher has been one of the world’s most famous violinists for years. She works regularly with orchestras in New York, Boston, Chicago, Leipzig, NDR Elbphilharmonie and the BRSO in Munich.

Chloris has a goal - she wants to marry Thyris instead of her current lover Filen. She will do anything to achieve this. Spurred on by her rival Chloris, Nice can no longer take her friend Thyris' declarations of love seriously and questions his loyalty. Meanwhile, Chloris continues to rage, without regard for Filen, who follows her faithfully and whom she now uses for the game.