Franziska Angerer's production of Joseph Haydn's oratorio is all about creating something you can take part in! General Music Director Leo McFall conducts, the Bach Choir Wiesbaden, the State Theater's extra choir, and children and young people from the Evangelical Singing Academy Wiesbaden take part. And the audience is also asked to take part when, in the weeks and months before the premiere, something new is created directly behind the theater to accompany the production.

The Creation

Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Elisabeth is confident. Although she's currently unemployed, has no business license, and still has a fine to pay, what she can rely on is herself. Or rather, her body. She wants to sell it to the anatomical institute for scientific experiments after her death. In return, she hopes to receive 150 marks immediately. That would be enough money for her business license. And with that, she could start her own business and work again. And once she had a job, the world would be her oyster again! Unfortunately, Elisabeth seems to have been completely misinformed. The institute has no interest in acquiring her body. Times are tough. The lonely taxidermist still wants to help and lends her the money. She, in turn, uses this to pay off her previous conviction. Of course, he would never have given his hard-earned money to a criminal. He reports her for fraud, and Elisabeth is sentenced to prison. Once free again, she joins the long line of job seekers in front of the welfare office. Without success. By chance, she meets the police officer Alfons. The two fall in love, but Elisabeth keeps quiet about her run-in with the law. When this comes out, he abandons her to avoid jeopardizing his career. Elisabeth is alone again. Without prospects and worn down by everyday life, she has lost faith in a better society, her love for Alfons, and her hope that she will still find happiness.

Faith, love, hope

Theater Bonn Opera House

Three norns are sitting at the foot of the world tree, spinning, knotting and severing the threads of life and thus determining the fates of individual mortals. They give life, fashion its course and bring it to an end. As do their mythological sister figures in other cultures, these Germanic goddesses of fate wield the power of life and death over human beings. In our secularised times death is now the No.1 taboo subject, and to temper the awfulness of it all, we make it our personal business to delay its arrival by cultivating “good” habits and living healthily. We make it our mission in life to fend off our own decay and arrest the ageing process.

Sabrina Bosshard

Events

Upcoming events

22 - 30 May, 2026

Finite · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Past events

Jun 19 - Jul 2, 2025

The Creation · Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Nov 8, 2024

Faith, love, hope · Theater Bonn

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