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Chicago: deep street canyons between the skyscrapers, gangsters with machine guns in their violin cases, electrifying jazz rhythms wafting out of smoky bars... In this city that is as dangerous as it is seductive, Roxie Hart dreams of becoming famous. And don't we all know the dream of a great career? After she shoots her unfaithful lover, her path leads not to the limelight, but to prison. But Roxie senses her chance... The new production of Chicago offers everything that a great American musical promises: a spectacular stage show, rousing dance numbers and a gripping and socially critical story with lots of passion, sex, intrigue, murder and "all that jazz"!

Sous le ciel de Paris – under the sky of Paris we dream, sing and stroll into the new year. The music that has always been created between the Seine and Montmartre is as beautiful, dazzling and diverse as this much-sung city. Experience moving moments with arias from the works of the French opera masters Ambroise Thomas, Jules Massenet and Jacques Offenbach. Let yourself fall into the picturesque orchestral sounds of Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. And indulge in holiday memories and longings while listening to the most beautiful Parisian chansons. As you rave about and enjoy the sounds that Stephan Zilias, members of the opera ensemble and the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover conjure up on stage, presenter Matthias Brodowy will keep you in the best company as a city guide with new perspectives on the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame as well as charming anecdotes from the city of love.

Great Italian drama! A stage full of "real life", with artificially created, convincing reality: sobbing, wheezing, crying, transformation, exhaustion, garnished with a sugary-sweet "bell choir" and a real fight for the best view of the village theater, which becomes the scene of a bloody tragedy. Pagliacci is a big, glittering, shimmering, escalating show that piles up all the advantages of Italian opera - until at the end everything collapses and only one thing remains: the unvarnished finale. And you never know how close it comes to real life.

The chamber concerts of the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover were founded over 150 years ago as quartet evenings by concertmaster Joseph Joachim and continue to exist as a popular concert series to this day. In 2024/25, various ensembles will also play concerts with programs they have put together themselves. These traditional Sunday concerts in the State Museum will take place twice each from autumn due to high demand. The concert ticket entitles you to entry to the exhibitions on the day of the concert.

A premiere as a stark warning against hatred and repression: The 1972 Olympic Games in Munich were supposed to be a sporting festival in the name of peace. Instead, the catastrophe occurred, eleven Israeli athletes were killed by terrorists. The failure of the security forces and the way the Germans dealt with guilt still have an impact today. In the new opera, the lightness of the play is mixed with anxiety and chaos. The production removes the event from its distance and shows us the ghosts of history in powerful images. The sporting disciplines portrayed in the music and the wild jazz of the Steamboat Switzerland trio, which works together with the orchestra, loosen up the virtuoso time and rhythm structure. Corinna Harfouch is one of the most sought-after German actresses.

The Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sounds wonderfully light and lively. The pure melodic joy of playing is what makes this double concerto so special. In contrast, an unbroken will to live and a wide range between turmoil and enthusiasm can be heard in Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony, nicknamed the "Symphony of Fate" - famous especially for its legendary beginning, which is also known as the "Fate motif". The multifaceted music of the French composer Louise Farrenc builds a bridge between the lightness of Mozart and the weightiness of Beethoven. She was well known and successful in her hometown of Paris in the 19th century. Her varied musical works full of catchy melodies and lively arcs of tension are worth discovering.

Far in the far north, a lonely fisherman is out kayaking when he suddenly discovers something that takes his breath away: a group of seals has shed their fur and turned into human women. He falls in love with one of the seal women and quickly takes her fur. She is actually prepared to leave her native element, the water, and marry the fisherman - on one condition: after seven years, he must give her the fur back. Their child grows up happily, but the seven years are soon over. Will the fisherman keep his promise?

A new creation for Hanover! In 2019, the Cretan choreographer Andonis Foniadakis thrilled the Hanover audience with his athletic dance language in the ballet Kosmos : he explores the spectrum of dance movements with virtuosity and creates such a fascinating, electrifying atmosphere that the room crackles with concentrated dance energy. The choice of the theme is by no means accidental. Icarus, a figure from Greek mythology, embodies man's bold desire to rise beyond his own limits. His story, in which he is equipped with wings and flies too close to the sun against the warnings of his father Daedalus, only to fall and fail, has always inspired the human imagination.

How does everyone involved in a performance or concert in the opera house always know exactly when it's their turn and what they have to do? We'll let you in on the secret: thanks to the stage manager! This person, who sits next to the stage and who you never see from the audience, has everything under control: time, order, performance times, lighting moods - there's basically nothing that the stage manager doesn't announce to the staff during the course of a performance. We take a look behind the scenes, let our stage manager have her say and consider what could go wrong at our concert with music by Joseph Haydn, Gioachino Rossini and Anna Clyne if she wasn't reliably there for everyone!

She loves with a burning passion and rejects love violently. She lives from the power of tango and perishes alone. She dances for her life and is robbed of her happiness. She plays with death and rises again - María from Buenos Aires. In his celebrated tango operetta, the Argentinian composer and father of tango nuevo, Astor Piazzolla, tells of the dark secrets of the tragic female figure who is both figure and spirit, flesh and appearance. With her infinitely sensual mixture of tango and chanson, Latin and classical, poetry and dance, joie de vivre and melancholy, she awakens our deepest feelings.