Engelbert Humperdinck was actually only supposed to set to music a few passages from the fairytale play Hansel and Gretel , which his sister Adelheid Wette had written for a family performance. However, on the enthusiastic advice of his relatives, the small project developed first into a singspiel and finally into a full-length opera about the story of the siblings Hansel and Gretel. Growing up in poverty, their mother sends them into the forest to pick berries out of necessity. There they meet not only the Sand Men and the Dew Men, but also the witch who has sent shivers down the spines of countless children.

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Hansel and Gretel

Staatstheater Mainz

Nabucco, king of the Babylonians, raids the Hebrews and destroys their temples. His daughter Fenena defects to the enemy camp. Her love for the slave Ismaele is a thorn in the side of her half-sister Abigaille. She is not only fighting against Fenena, but against the subjugated Jewish people.

But then Abigaille finds a document that reveals that she is the daughter of a slave and will therefore never be entitled to the crown. Only an intrigue and the mental decline of her power-obsessed father Nabucco can pave her way to the king's throne...

Nabucco

A chamber play about four people searching for a new apartment. What they find are not only cold walls, but also abysses, construction sites and changes of plan, above all within themselves.

Penthouse

Disharmonie Schweinfurt

Probebühne X-Per*iment

A play by Lot Vekemans in a production by the Bürgerbühne Wipfeld: six actors play the lead role of Judas simultaneously on three stages, connected by livestream.

Judas

Bürgerbühne Wipfeld

The twisting comedy by Dietmar Jacobs and Moritz Netenjakob about a funeral that escalates out of control at an old-school German family-owned company.

Stefan Bauer

Events

Upcoming events

6 - 8 Nov, 2026

Cold White Man · OVIGO Theater

Past events

26 - 30 Dec, 2025

Hansel and Gretel · Staatstheater Mainz

Apr 1 - Jun 19, 2023

Nabucco · Staatstheater Mainz

Future and recently performed repertoire

Cast in Cold White Man by Jacobs

OVIGO Theater

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