Singer

After the death of his girlfriend, Jonah has withdrawn into an artificial world where he surrounds himself with humanoid robots. With Alma, he has created a seemingly perfect new companion, whose memory he erases every night. Inspired by his friendship with a child, however, she develops her own desires and demands her right to self-determination. A dangerous game of life and death erupts between human and android.

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humanoid

Staatstheater Mainz

A moment of carelessness leads a young vixen to be captured. She grows up on a forester's farm, surrounded by pestering children, a misunderstood dachshund, and a flock of chickens whose eagerness to serve only further encourages the vixen to give in to her hunting instinct. After escaping to freedom, she encounters a fox, with whom she starts a family—not without some forest dwellers commenting indignantly on the young couple's courtship. But in the forest, not only fox and badger, but sometimes also forester and schoolmaster say "good night" to each other when they meet on their way back from the pub. And when the paths of humans and animals cross, the animals often come out on the short end...

The clever little fox

Anyone who has an eagle for a father dreams of flying. The young Duke of Reichstadt, nicknamed "L'Aiglon" ("the young eagle"), is the only legitimate male descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte and wants to follow in his famous father's footsteps and make history himself. Encouraged by war veteran Flambeau, he wants to escape the golden cage in Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, where Austrian Chancellor Metternich is keeping him imprisoned: Napoleon's son with Marie-Louise of Austria wants to regain control of France. But the young bird's wings break when he sets foot on a battlefield for the first time in his life and hears the ghostly voices of the fallen. He begins to understand what the reality of war really means.

L'Aiglon

Can artificial intelligence develop consciousness? Where is the boundary between man and machine? Does only humans have the right to a self-determined existence? The science fiction opera humanoid tells a gripping story about the relationship between people and technology, about diving and getting lost in digital worlds.

Humanoid

Composer Julia Kerr, mother of Judith Kerr, who wrote down her moving emigration story from a child's perspective in When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit , always carried her opera score The Chronoplan with her while fleeing the Nazis . On the restless journey through Europe, however, parts of her composition were lost and remained missing until a few years ago. Made possible by extensive reconstruction work, the stage premiere of the opera is now being staged.

Mezzo-soprano

Katharina Sebastian

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 24, 2026

The Chronoplan (UA) · Staatstheater Mainz

Past events

7 - 28 Nov, 2025

humanoid · Staatstheater Mainz

Oct 11 - Nov 29, 2025

The clever little fox · Staatstheater Mainz

Future and recently performed repertoire

Woodpecker in The Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček

Staatstheater Mainz

A marchioness in L'Aiglon by Honegger

Staatstheater Mainz

Vivienne in humanoid by Evers

Staatstheater Mainz

3rd lady in Der Chronoplan by Kerr

Staatstheater Mainz

Lisa Passavant in Der Chronoplan by Kerr

Staatstheater Mainz

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