Stage Director

Small cause - big effect: In paradise, an apple was enough to plunge humanity into misfortune until Judgement Day. In 1972, the East German writer Peter Hacks surprised his audiences in both East and West Germany when he turned the biblical story of the fall of the first human couple into a comedy. It was his eye for the absurdities of existence, trained in everyday life in the GDR, that enabled him to reveal the humor in the story of the fall in linguistic virtuosity. At the same time, with his comedy Adam and Eve, he created a sharp-tongued plea for a concept of freedom that eludes all moral categories. Did Adam and Eve act rightly or wrongly? It doesn't matter - they acted. Mike Svoboda, composer and trombonist, American in Switzerland and a musical crossover between new music, jazz, performance and subtle humor, has so far concentrated as an opera composer on works for young and very young audiences. So trained in the combination of sophistication and lightness, Svoboda is predestined to set Hacks' paradisiacal comedy to music and demonstrate its topicality. Anne-May Krüger wrote the libretto for his music theater Adam and Eve. The composer himself conducts the hr Symphony Orchestra.

Adam and Eve

Rococo Theater

Music theatre in a prologue and three acts by Mike Svoboda (music) and Anne-May Krüger (libretto) based on Peter Hacks' comedy of the same name

Adam und Eva

Schlosstheater Schwetzingen

When Richard Wagner developed his initial ideas for Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in the mid-1840s, he had no intention of writing a monumental "festive opera". The work was intended to be a facile comedy, a jovial and humorous satyr play to place alongside his Tannhäuser, since – like Tannhäuser – reflections on art and artists are its focus. More than two decades later, he had a musical score that was one of the most extensive and multi-layered of his entire repertoire, and that aroused controversy.

The Mastersingers of Nuremberg

Bebelplatz

In Shakespeare’s drama Sir John Falstaff, an aristocratic crook, loses his way and finds himself in Windsor – amongst hard-working citizens, who are now forced to defend everything they have worked for and have earned against Falstaff, that uninvited guest: their money, their children, their wives. Windsor’s women and children, however, have minds of their own and know very well how to help themselves.

Half a century after his first success with Nabucco, 80-year-old Giuseppe Verdi concludes his life’s work with one of world literature’s best musical comedies ever.

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Falstaff

Opernhaus

“I don’t believe in the right to work; I prefer to believe that the greatest right of man is to do nothing,“ said Rossini. Angelina, his Cinderella, is far from that – she performs slave labour in her bankrupt stepfather’s family. How a prince, for whom the bank account and an army of servants work, gets her out of this precarious situation is a world-famous fairy tale from Charles Perrault to Disney. Rossini tells the story of the power of honest feelings to survive without the well-known miraculous elements, but there is one great miracle: love at first sight. Not at the ball, but when the prince, as a servant, inspects the potential brides in advance. Surrounding this is the madness of exalted dreams of ascent and terrible scenarios of descent, which drives Rossini’s characters forward just as much as the insane energy of his music. The young mezzo-soprano Itzeli del Rosario, who is a member of the Stuttgart ensemble since this season, makes her debut in the title role of Cinderella.

La Cenerentola

Stuttgart Opera

In the summer of 1782, in his twenties, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart celebrated his greatest opera success yet. With Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), he composed an enormously significant, pioneering work for the Deutsches Nationalsingspiel that had been founded by the Habsburg emperor Joseph II in Vienna, with inspired music and impressively rendered characters.

Stage Director

Andrea Moses

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 13 - May 22, 2026

La Cenerentola · Staatsoper Stuttgart

Jun 27 - Jul 11, 2026

Die Entführung aus dem Serail · Staatsoper Berlin

Past events

May 4, 2025

Adam and Eve · SWR Symphonieorchester

May 2, 2025

Adam und Eva · SWR Symphonieorchester

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