Ulf has a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a tadpole in a jar, two euros, four golf balls, a friend and a grandpa. A grandpa is great! But it's unfair that his best friend Berra doesn't have one. So the two boys decide: "We'll find one!" But where do lots of grandpas and grandmas run around? Sure, in the old people's home. So Berra and Ulf set off and meet Nils, a real grandpa. A grandpa who listens to pop songs - "Can you whistle, Johanna ..." With him, Berra can finally build kites, celebrate birthdays, steal cherries and learn to whistle. But how much time do they have left together?

Gordon Kampe

Opera Stabile Werk/Wirkbühne of the State Opera

Under the face of the wandering moon, spirit and body quarrel in all their greatness and wretchedness until the blood of two bodies flows. Strauss remains close to Wilde's re-creation of the biblical material, which leads Salome from her mother's tool to autonomy. It is she who, in her unfulfilled desire for the liberatingly different, the body of the prophet Jochanaan, seeks revenge and demands his head - a price the male-dominated society around Herod is willing to pay for their dance. Now that Salome holds his severed head in her hands, she can kiss Jochanaan, possess him if not alive, then dead. As if under a burning glass, Strauss pours Oscar Wilde's demonic dramaturgy into sound like an eruption of the psyche, accompanying his protagonist from her failed escape from the decadence of her existence to her death.

Karl Hummel

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7 - 18 Jun, 2025

Salome · Staatsoper Hamburg

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3 - 11 Oct, 2024

Gordon Kampe · Staatsoper Hamburg

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