Name: The Marriage of Figaro
Start: 2026-05-06T19:30:00
Location: City Theatre, Bern

William Meinert

Patricia Westley

Inna Demenkova

Jonathan Mcgovern

Seth Carico

Diana Mian

Evgenia Asanova

Claude Eichenberger

Christian Valle

Andrés del Castillo

Noabelle Chegaing

Clément Lonca

Christian Aufderstroth

Zsolt Czetner

Anna Rudolph

Marco Štorman

Rebekka Meyer

Bühnen Bern

For racist reasons, Leonora's father disapproves of her relationship with the stranger Alvaro. The two, however, refuse to let go of each other and decide to flee. In doing so, Alvaro unwittingly becomes the father's murderer. Leonora's brother seeks revenge for his father, and a cycle of violence ensues. La forza del destino is Giuseppe Verdi's most expansive opera: a spectacular portrayal of close family ties in times of war, of the Church, of escapism – like a painting by Brueghel. And no matter how much the protagonists resist, they experience life and the world as determined by fate, without escape and without hope for peace and forgiveness.

La forza del destino

City Theatre, Bern

"Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games," as Guns N' Roses sing. Perhaps one could say that the jungle is the symbol of wildness; that the jungle is where the dividing line between wolf and man runs; that the jungle is a metaphor for the merciless logic by which the body has become a post-digital commodity; that perhaps this body should simply try a little comfort for once—on delivery bikes, in coltan mines, or on the scaffolding of construction sites; and that this body could, after all, be human. Perhaps.

Mowgli

Vidmarhallen

Figaro and Susanna simply want to get married, but this proves more complicated than expected. On their way to wedlock, they must fend off intrigues and suitors, as well as face tests of loyalty and jealousy: Figaro's boss, Count Almaviva, is also courting Susanna, who allies herself with his wife, the Countess; Figaro, meanwhile, believes he has been betrayed – and then there's the lovelorn young Cherubino flitting about. A farcical comedy of disguises and mistaken identities ensues!

The Marriage of Figaro

The future Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse was in the midst of a life crisis when, in 1917, he wrote Demian in a three-week burst of intense writing , publishing it under the pseudonym Emil Sinclair. In it, he describes his coming of age: he experiences humiliations, breaks free from the constraints of his strict upbringing, endures bouts of alcoholism, idealizes a first love, and ultimately finds himself in a World War I military hospital. The older student Demian repeatedly appears at his side, guiding and supporting him in his questions about the connection between good and evil and in his search for his own identity. For both know: the collapse of Europe is imminent, and its rebirth requires new values.

Demian