Count Almaviva walks on suitor's feet. The object of his latest desire: Susanna, his wife's chambermaid and fiancée of his valet Figaro. Shortly before the wedding, the young couple has to use all their ingenuity to avoid Susanna's erotic advances from her aristocratic employer - turbulence is inevitable!

The Marriage of Figaro

Theater Duisburg

German Oper am Rhein

Of course, it's much more fun to play than to help with housework! Hänsel and Gretel know that too. It's just a shame that they smash the milk churn during their boisterous games and ruin their dinner. What should the poor family put on the table now? The mother scolds her children and sends them into the forest to look for berries. However, what begins as an adventure soon turns serious at dusk: the siblings get lost and soon fall into the clutches of the wicked witch. Now they have to summon up all their courage and ingenuity to free themselves.

Hansel and Gretel

While the grimy back yards of the Weimar Republic were filled with unemployed singers practicing their skills in the hope of earning enough for a warm meal, night after night the revue theatres of the Kurfürstendamm would present glittering golden dreams to an audience of millions hungry for entertainment. Amid the glitz of the roaring 1920s, the fame of the Comedian Harmonists burned especially brightly: modelled on the American vocal quartet The Revelers, the six-strong ensemble made up of Ari Leschnikoff, Erich Abraham-Collin, Harry Frommermann, Roman Cycowski, Robert Biberti and pianist Erwin Bootz thrilled German audiences with mixture of sassy and entertaining lyrics set to the latest music and sung in perfect close harmony. With hits such as “Veronika, der Lenz ist da”, “Ein Freund, ein guter Freund” and “Wochenend und Sonnenschein” they conquered the concert halls of Europe at record speed and thanks to the modern mass medium of gramophone records they soon became a fixture in living rooms across Germany.

Come­dian Harmo­nists – Best of

Two peoples find themselves in the barbaric grip of war after Nabucco and his troops attack Jerusalem. The Babylonian ruler and Zaccaria, the leader of the Hebrews, do not budge an inch from their opposing viewpoints in this profound conflict, while the daily grind of war continues to bring new suffering to both peoples. The seemingly hopeless conflict does not even stop at their own families: Zaccaria holds Nabucco's favorite daughter Fenena hostage, while she has long since changed sides out of love for Ismaele and lives among the enemy people. Nabucco's other daughter, Abigaille, envies her sister's happiness and her father's throne and forges disastrous plans...

Nabucco

In 1821, the unemployed wigmaker Johann Christian Woyzeck stabs his sweetheart to death in Leipzig. The trial against him drags on for years until, after his sanity has been examined twice, all appeals for clemency are rejected and Woyzeck is sentenced to death. Alban Berg saw Georg Büchner's dramatization of this case at the Vienna Kammerspiele in 1914. In the face of the outbreak of the World War I, the signs of human denaturation, which Berg addresses in his opera without turning them into blatant social criticism, became more evident.

Wozzeck

With the sadistic police chief Scarpia, Giacomo Puccini enriched opera literature by one of its most abysmal characters. The painter Cavaradossi falls into his hands when he helps a political prisoner to escape. But for Scarpia, Cavaradossi is just a decoy through which he hopes to finally make the celebrated singer Tosca submissive. A perfidious game of cat and mouse begins for the life of her lover. In an unleashed frenzy of sound, Puccini mercilessly drives his protagonists through a hurricane of emotional states of emergency that has lost none of its power to this day.

Florian Simson

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 4, 2025 - Jun 14, 2026

Nabucco · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Nov 28, 2025 - May 21, 2026

Comedian Harmonists – Best of · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Jan 25 - May 24, 2026

The Marriage of Figaro · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Jun 2 - Jul 1, 2026

Wozzeck · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

3 - 16 Jul, 2026

Tosca · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Past events

Jan 25 - May 24, 2026

The Marriage of Figaro · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Dec 6, 2025 - Jan 18, 2026

Hansel and Gretel · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Future and recently performed repertoire

Shuttle in Tosca by Puccini

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

The Fool in Wozzeck by Berg

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Witch in Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Basil in The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Abdallo in Nabucco by Verdi

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

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Florian Simson

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 4, 2025 - Jun 14, 2026

Nabucco · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Nov 28, 2025 - May 21, 2026

Come­dian Harmo­nists – Best of · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Jan 25 - May 24, 2026

The Marriage of Figaro · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Jun 2 - Jul 1, 2026

Wozzeck · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

3 - 16 Jul, 2026

Tosca · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Past events

Jan 25 - May 24, 2026

The Marriage of Figaro · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Dec 6, 2025 - Jan 18, 2026

Hansel and Gretel · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Future and recently performed repertoire

Shuttle in Tosca by Puccini

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

The Fool in Wozzeck by Berg

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Witch in Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Basil in The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Abdallo in Nabucco by Verdi

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

About

Florian Simson hasn't added a bio

Comedian Harmonists – Best of · Deutsche Oper am Rhein