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The Merry Widow is Hanna Glawari. She has inherited a lot and can now live it up and make the salons of the Parisian upper class unsafe. If only it weren't for all her admirers who have their eyes on her fortune! Because now she sees the chance to marry her childhood sweetheart Danilo - but he of all people doesn't want to get the reputation of marrying out of greed.

Nothing is more improbable than the love between Tristan and Isolde: In a fight, Tristan murders her fiancé, then lets her heal his own wounds without being recognized. Tristan soon returns to Isolde and asks for her hand in marriage: not for himself, but in the name of King Marke. But something seems to be smoldering between the two, irreconcilable, on the border between love and hate. When Isolde plans to kill herself and Tristan, Isolde's servant Brangäne exchanges the poison for a love potion - the moment of impending death becomes the birth of a love that transcends everything.

After Yaroslav Ivanenko's acclaimed version of Sergei Prokofiev's "Cinderella" in the last season, three choreographers will present new dance pieces to the Lübeck audience in "The Fleeting Moment" in 2024/25, once again celebrating the immense richness of the dance scene.

Scotland in the 17th century: Lucia Ashton loves Edgardo from the rival Ravenswood family. After a change of power, her brother Enrico finds himself on the wrong side: only Lucia's marriage to the noble Arturo can save him from losing his power and his life. The wedding is carried out under duress. But the party is faced with a horrific scene when Lucia emerges from the bridal chamber covered in blood: she has stabbed her husband.

They look as if they were invited to a state banquet: tailcoat, cufflinks, pocket handkerchief, combed hair. But watch out! A lot of things are different here than they seem, because the three men who come across as so gentlemanly are actually up to no good. Equipped with the finest outfits, they offer musical comedy of a particularly offbeat kind. They blow on garden hoses and beer bottles, parody stars of the German and international music scene and marry Alpine yodeling with Spanish castanets and flamenco sounds.

Together with his sister Maria Anna, known as Nannerl, who was also a gifted pianist, Mozart played his Concerto for Two Pianos, composed in Salzburg in 1779. It represents an important stage in his development of the piano concerto, the genre in which he was particularly successful during his years in Vienna, from 1781 onwards. The high point and conclusion of this phase is the Piano Concerto in C minor, composed in 1786. Of all Mozart's piano concertos, this one most clearly shows him to be a pioneer of Romanticism.

Summer is coming and the theater spirit is now really gripped by the travel bug. Get on board and off you go on the Trans-Siberian Ghost Train! But where is it going? First, it treats itself to a short stop in Kiev. There, a famous gate leads to another world: the old witch Baba Yaga flies around on her broom, the blind Princess Iolanta dreams of seeing, a group of merchants travels through the steppe and a happy wedding party dances a wild sabre dance.

Thomas Mann was an insatiable record listener. When Süddeutsche Rundfunk interviewed him in 1954 for a broadcast of the series "Who wishes what?", he put together the program for his personal "request concert." To mark the 150th birthday of the world-famous writer from Lübeck, the Philharmonic Orchestra is giving a new performance of these favorite works by Thomas Mann - on the stage of the theater in his hometown.