Costume Designer

“Blame it on the champagne, tra la la la la !” That’s the half-truth that the protagonists in Johann Strauss’s THE BAT sign up to at the end of a drink-fuelled night of mistaken identities and erotic escapades. But alcohol is only partly to blame; the confusion is largely due to the wiles of the humiliated Dr Falke, who was once exposed to small-town ridicule dressed in the costume of a bat and is now seizing his chance to avenge himself on his ‘good pal’, bon vivant Gabriel von Eisenstein. And so it is that the maid disguises herself as an actress, the wife as a Hungarian countess and Eisenstein himself as a French marquess and off they trot to Prince Orlofsky’s masked ball. That they end up bewailing their fate in jail early the next morning is less down to champagne than to the natural course of events. In THE BAT Johann Strauss pulled off a work that proved to be the prototypical Viennese operetta, bursting with waltzes and polkas and oozing wicked irony. Inspired by Offenbach’s opéras buffes from Paris, Strauss’s work was merciless in the way it held up a mirror to the bourgeois salon-going public - and many audience members recognised themselves in the absurd antics onstage.

Die Fledermaus

Deutsche Oper Berlin

In an unequal and powerful world, a struggle is being waged – a struggle for youthful liberation with hope and love as weapons. When Parisian director Stéphane Braunschweig takesThe Magic FluteIn our time, actor Anton Lundqvist and young opera singers such as Endre Aaberge Dahl, Clarice Granado and Lovisa Huledal meet on stage.

The Magic Flute

The Folk Opera

What would a child’s room say if it could talk? A boy goes on the rampage because he doesn’t want to do his homework; his mother, of course, blows her top. When the child vandalises his room and even torments his beloved cat, things take a surprising turn: suddenly, the mistreated furniture, cups, books and animals start to speak! And the child finds himself in a world in which he is forced to think about others.

Costume Designer

Thibault Vancraenenbroeck

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 15 - Apr 26, 2026

Das Kind und der Zauberspuk / L’enfant et les sortilèges · Semperoper Dresden

Past events

Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 3, 2026

Die Fledermaus · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Feb 19 - Apr 10, 2025

The Magic Flute · Folkoperan

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