Angry over the sharp rise in food prices, Antonia and Margherita decide to raid the supermarket. At home, they hide the goods from their equally unsuspecting yet law-abiding husbands. When the police begin searching their apartments, things get tense. A rapid-fire game of confusion ensues, and a socially critical farce unfolds, featuring exploding inflation rates, economic crises, and political lies.

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Experience a festive Christmas program full of sonic splendor! The State Orchestra brings musical stories about puppets and a snowman to life. Touching, inspiring, and surprising – like the perfect Christmas gift for the whole family!

Christmas concert

The Cat in the Hat ends up in Stackeln an der Kruke by chance. She moves into an old, empty house where the grumpy brewery director Maulwisch spent his unhappy childhood. The cat promises to make the house a thoroughly happy place. But that's impossible on her own – so little by little she takes in a bunch of homeless people, orphans, and oddballs: Marianne the Dudelhuhn, Captain Knaak, the Zappergeck, Baby Hübner the musical pig, the Stolpervogel, and the Erbsenstein brothers. Together they turn the house completely upside down and open the doors to happiness. But with so many protégés, there's naturally no money left for the rent. Brewery director Maulwisch immediately makes a fuss!

Cat with hat

Bastian Balthasar Bux is a completely normal boy, or at least that's what he always thought... until one day his whole life changed.

The Neverending Story

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The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

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The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

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The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

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Engelbert Humperdinck was actually only supposed to set to music a few passages from the fairytale play Hansel and Gretel , which his sister Adelheid Wette had written for a family performance. However, on the enthusiastic advice of his relatives, the small project developed first into a singspiel and finally into a full-length opera about the story of the siblings Hansel and Gretel. Growing up in poverty, their mother sends them into the forest to pick berries out of necessity. There they meet not only the Sand Men and the Dew Men, but also the witch who has sent shivers down the spines of countless children.

Hansel and Gretel

Viola is separated from her brother Sebastian in a shipwreck and comes ashore in Illyria. Here, disguised as a page, she decides to enter the service of Duke Orsino under the name Cesario. The Duke takes a liking to the young nobleman and sends him as a messenger to Olivia, whom he adores. Viola, who has fallen in love with the Duke, suffers under these errands. To her delight, Olivia rejects Orsino's advances, as she has sworn to mourn her deceased brother for seven years – but then falls in love with the supposed youth Cesario. This leads to turbulent complications, which are further exacerbated by the appearance of Sebastian, who was also rescued in the shipwreck and who bears a striking resemblance to Viola. A melancholic jester accompanies the numerous amorous adventures and the pranks of the colorful group surrounding Squire Tobias with his wisdom. He also participates in a prank played by Tobias and his lady-in-waiting, Maria, on the snooty steward Malvolio: They trick him into believing Olivia loves him, whereupon he makes such a fool of himself that Olivia thinks he's crazy. He is imprisoned and, deeply offended, plots revenge...

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Princess Turandot never wants to belong to a man. To deter her suitors, she has passed a cruel law: anyone who wishes to marry her must first solve three riddles. If they fail, they are executed. Countless men have already met their deaths this way. Nevertheless, Prince Calaf feels attracted to Turandot. Ignoring the urgent warnings of his father and Liù, who loves him selflessly, he faces the riddles – and succeeds in solving them! But instead of taking Turandot as his wife against her will, he now gives her a riddle of his own…

Turandot

When his parents go dancing on Saturday nights, ten-year-old Anton Bohnsack settles in at home with his favorite books. He loves reading vampire stories—the scarier, the better. But when a real vampire suddenly appears on his windowsill one evening, it gives him a real fright. It's a good thing this little bloodsucker, Rüdiger von Schlotterstein, and his younger sister, Anna the Toothless, are more interested in friendship than in Anton's blood. If only it weren't for the adults! Human children should probably stay hidden from Rüdiger's relatives. Anton's parents don't really believe in vampires, but they're determined to invite their son's strange new friends over for cake. And then there's the nasty Geiermeier, who wants to make the cemetery vampire-free...

The Little Vampire

Gerda and Kay are best friends. But when Kay gets a splinter in his eye, everything suddenly changes. He finds Gerda and his other friends annoying and boring and follows the alluring voice of the icy-beautiful Snow Queen. Gerda sets out to find her friend – and finds herself: In the mysterious and shrill realm of the Flower Queen, at the golden court of a lovesick prince and princess, and in the dangerous and harsh world of the Robber Queen, she learns to stand up for herself and her friends. With the help of the crow and the reindeer, she ultimately discovers her way and, with the true power of friendship – laughter – is able to free Kay from the Snow Queen's cold hands.

The Snow Queen

Uli and Svenja are actually working together on an encyclopedia about forest creatures. But while Uli carefully tries to gather photos and factual information, Svenja suddenly questions all the truths she thought were certain. And then she also claims to have seen an incredible animal in the moor, so incredible that it defies description. Is that possible? Uli wants to see it with her own eyes. But suddenly, completely different mysterious things start happening, and the moor itself transforms into a magical labyrinth in which everyone is stuck together. Will they succeed in freeing themselves?

The encyclopedia for everything (UA)

The popular version of the biblical proverb "Whoever enters danger will fall in it" (Sirach 3:26) is reflected in the saying "He who walks in danger will perish in it." And indeed, art often carries a touch of risk for those involved. Whether with a safety net or a false bottom, whether authentic or merely illusionistic – every true piece of art requires transcending boundaries and carries the risk of falling and failure. This is where the dancers are called upon, not as gamblers addicted to thrills and the ultimate adrenaline rush, but rather in their professionalism, their mutual trust, and their vulnerability. Gravity takes us into the wonderful world of their "risk space."

Gravity (UA)

Angelina dreams of a better life. Since her mother's death, she has been treated condescendingly by her stepfather Don Magnifico and his daughters Clorinda and Tisbe. Under no circumstances is she, Cinderella, allowed to go to the prince's party, who is looking for a bride and for whose attention Clorinda and Tisbe are vying. Angelina doesn't want to see the prince there, but rather his servant, with whom she has fallen head over heels in love. What she doesn't realize is that the servant is actually the prince himself. In order to find a woman who will love him for himself, he has swapped roles with his servant. But before Angelina can be happy with her prince, many a trick and disguise is necessary. Fortunately, the wise philosopher Alidoro is on her side to help her.

La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, tells of a woman's courageous fight for freedom and justice: Leonore disguises herself as Fidelio in order to free her husband from the unjustly imprisoned dungeon. Her path to the story's happy ending is as arduous as Beethoven's compositional process. He revised the entire work four times, writing a separate overture for each new version. While the first three overtures incorporate musical material from the opera, thus anticipating parts of the plot, Beethoven dispensed with direct quotations in the final Fidelio overture. Using two rhythmically distinct motifs, he created contrast and dynamic energy that provide the atmospheric foundation for this moving opera.

5th Symphony Concert

Chamber music and playing in smaller ensembles is the root of all the intensity and transparency of the orchestral sound. This is one of the reasons why the chamber music series of the Mainz Philharmonic State Orchestra have been a fixture in Mainz's musical life for many years and a key concern of the orchestra's members. Full of anticipation, various ensembles gather together, lovingly conceive their programs, and meticulously prepare for these highly esteemed performances.

Sunday matinee in January

Hélène is almost forty, has had a career, married, had two daughters, and lives in an architect's villa near Nancy. She has fulfilled her childhood dream: to change her background and become successful. Christophe, on the other hand, has never left his hometown in eastern France. He sells dog food and leads an indecisive little life – until he meets Hélène again...

Connemara (UA)

Composer Julia Kerr, mother of Judith Kerr, who wrote down her moving emigration story from a child's perspective in When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit , always carried her opera score The Chronoplan with her while fleeing the Nazis . On the restless journey through Europe, however, parts of her composition were lost and remained missing until a few years ago. Made possible by extensive reconstruction work, the stage premiere of the opera is now being staged.

The Chronoplan (UA)

America's most bizarre family is back with a new story: The Addamses live a anything but ordinary life in their house in Central Park, full of darkness, pain, and death. But that could soon change: Wednesday, the family's daughter, has grown up and falls in love with a handsome, intelligent young man from a respectable family - a man the likes of which her parents have never met before. As if that weren't bad enough, Wednesday lets her father in on her secret and begs him not to tell her mother. Now Gomez Addams has to do something he's never done before - keep a secret from his beloved wife Morticia. And the next catastrophe is just around the corner: That evening the families are supposed to get to know each other, and Wednesday just wants a completely normal evening without any unusual incidents, but everything turns out differently than planned...

The Addams Family

Willy Loman doesn't quite want to admit it: his best days as a sales representative are over. But what happens when the most important thing in life is taken away?

Death of a Salesman

In the 2025/26 season, three chamber concerts will again take place in the Mainz-Weisenau Synagogue.

3rd Chamber Concert in the Synagogue

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Helau & Fanfare! The State Orchestra invites you once again to the Symphonie Fastnachtique – musically top-notch as always, visually wildly patterned: The musicians slip into colorful roles. And the new chief conductor? He's more nervous about choosing his costumes than about his performance! An evening full of sounds, tulle, and a sense of tact! Chairman Lars Reichow, with his usual sharp tongue, leads the evening.

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What you want

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Turandot

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The Little Vampire

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The Snow Queen

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Gravity (UA)

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La Cenerentola (Cinderell...

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5th Symphony Concert

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Connemara (UA)

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The Chronoplan (UA)

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Death of a Salesman

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