The idyllic holiday scene seems perfect. But the water level of the lake is dropping while the temperatures rise. The regulars studiously ignore this and indulge in their vacation. Ava, a journalist who has come to the resort for research, has a less sentimental view of the weather; while the interpersonal relationships themselves are causing quite a stir. Soon, the meteorological phenomena attract national attention, and the Chancellor promises solutions. When bodies are discovered at the bottom of the lake, even the most hardened souls feel a chill run down their spines. Theresa Thomasberger delves into this absurd drama.

On the necessity of a lake disappearing: by Anna Neata

Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden

King Peter wants to pass the power to his son Leonce. But Leonce, paralyzed by melancholic boredom, rejects every social office. When his wedding to the unknown Princess Lena is imminent, Leonce flees to Italy. Lena, too, wants to determine her own life and also flees her arranged marriage. The two royal children meet by chance and fall in love – without knowing each other's true identities. They cannot escape their predetermined fates. Director Stefan Pucher, who thrilled audiences with "Woyzeck," uses Büchner's comedy, a blend of satire and farce, as the basis for continuing his success story in Wiesbaden.

Leonce and Lena: Comedy by Georg Büchner

“I freed myself from your father and thought everything would be better now.” After “A Woman’s Freedom,” Édouard Louis returns to his mother’s story. To a woman who has already freed herself once. From alcohol, violence, and shame, from silence. And whose story threatens to repeat itself when she calls her son one night while her new partner rudely berates her in the background. Step by step, the son plans her escape with her, a new beginning succeeds, but how does life go on when you have never learned freedom? The Nestroy Theatre Prize-winning director Sara Ostertag stages – for the first time at the Hessian State Theatre Wiesbaden – the continuation of Monique Bellegueule’s story.

Monique breaks out: based on the book by Édouard Louis

The Antichrist makes his entrance into a godless world. Sent by Lucifer into the world, he adopts many guises. Mankind is tested and tempted by pride, lust, lies, despondency and hatred in an “all-against-all altercation”. Langgaard’s opera is suffused with fin de siècle atmosphere and pessimism, warning of catastrophe and denouncing the vices of the modern age: egotism, arrogance, frivolity. Langgaard, though, was also an optimist, convinced of the transformative, transcendental power of art and the importance of music as a thread connecting people to the godhead. So it is that the world is freed of all evil and sorrow in the culminating chorus scene in ANTIKRIST.

Antichrist

Deutsche Oper Berlin

In this wild comedy, everything that can go wrong on stage goes wrong - and that is a huge theatrical treat. "The Play That Goes Wrong" is not just the subtitle of this fast-paced comedy, but also the program: Actors who only know their lines inadequately, stage elements that fall down and a wild mix-up of props are an integral part of this performance, in which the murderer of the master of Haversham Castle is actually to be hunted down.

Murder at Haversham Castle: The Play That Goes Wrong

Konstantin not only looks after his little sister Lada when his mother is on the phone late into the night, but also cleans her kitchen. Devoted and meticulous. Is it contemplation? Obsession? Or an attempt to restore order in a world of alienation?

He Cleans

At first glance, the relationship between Connor and Felix seems to be going well. But now the famous film producer Felix is ​​being accused of abuse. Connor has to decide whether to stick with him. Nobody suspects that Connor is carrying a dark secret from the past.

Double Serpent: by Sam Max

The surprise hit of Deutsche Oper Berlin for the past few seasons: Completed almost ten years before the Second World War, the only opera by Danish composer Rued Langgaard oracularly foreshadows an approaching apocalypse. Antikrist is a unique work in music history, in which powerful sounds kaleidoscopically intertwine with an enigmatic language. Only staged in 1999, almost 50 years after its creator's death, the work is an absolute rarity on international operatic stages. Ersan Mondtag's production brings Antikrist to the stage in unprecedented splendour. The director and exceptional interdisciplinary artist has received numerous awards for his monumental works and his impressive creative power; in this production, he has horrific figures appear amidst pop-cultural references and dance an infernal choreography around them. Langgaard's apocalyptic mystery is thus brought to life as an expressionistic moving image. With Martyn Brabbins, one of the most interesting conductors of 20th-century music returns to Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Jonas Grundner-Culemann

Events

Upcoming events

16 - 27 May, 2027

Antikrist · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Past events

Apr 17, 2026

On the necessity of a lake disappearing: by Anna Neata · Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Feb 18 - Mar 27, 2026

Leonce and Lena: Comedy by Georg Büchner · Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Future and recently performed repertoire

God’s Voice in Antikrist by Langgaard

Deutsche Oper Berlin

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