Schneewitte loves her father, the King, and her beautiful stepmother. Everything is perfect – until one day the girl is all grown up, and a thousand times more beautiful than the Queen. A self-confident teenager, Schneewitte claims the throne. Trouble is brewing: the King is annoyed, and the stepmother wants Schneewitte dead. But suddenly she has seven quick-witted dwarves at her side. »Schneewitte«, which premiered in 2008, is a funny and clever adaptation of the story of Snow White by Sophie Kassies and composer Jens Joneleit. This scintillating piece of musical theatre employs contemporary music as well as jazz and pop to playfully retell the well-known fairy tale. Using only a few props, director Andrea Kramer imaginatively transforms the stage of Semper Zwei into a royal palace with a telephone, a dark forest underlaid with an orchestral soundscape, or simply into the house of the seven dwarves, who by the way also play the instruments of the orchestra.

Snow White

Semper Zwei

At the centre of Giacomo Puccini's Tragedia giapponese, set in Nagasaki at the beginning of the 20th century, is the young geisha Cio-Cio-San, called »Butterfly«. The American Naval Lieutenant Pinkerton enters into a short-term marriage with Cio-Cio-San – according to a possible practice in Japan at the time – and rents the right house for the stay. While for Pinkerton the liaison was planned from the outset as an erotic pleasure, for Cio-Cio-San it means not only the opportunity to escape poverty, but the love of her life ... Even today, the tragic love story, which premiered at La Scala in Milan in 1904, touches hearts, shaken by the realism with which the cultural misunderstandings and their deadly consequences are pointed out. Japanese director Amon Miyamoto, together with star designer Kenzō Takada, presents his own Eastern view of the Japanese-American liaison.

Madama Butterfly

Semperoper Dresden

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly cannot accept that her great love is doomed to end in heartbreak.

Alexander Ritter

Events

Upcoming events

4 - 30 Jan, 2026

Madama Butterfly · Semperoper Dresden

Past events

6 - 12 Sep, 2025

Snow White · Semperoper Dresden

Apr 2 - May 24, 2022

Madama Butterfly · Semperoper Dresden

Future and recently performed repertoire

Dolore in Madama Butterfly by Puccini

Semperoper Dresden

Pinkertons Sohn in Madama Butterfly by Puccini

Semperoper Dresden

Actor in Snow White by Joneleit

Semperoper Dresden

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