The Staatstheater Wiesbaden presents a vibrant tapestry of theatrical events, blending humor, drama, and magic. From the rebellious NEINhorn's adventures to poignant explorations of inheritance, this season promises a rich array of performances. Audiences will be captivated by quirky unicorns, delve into the complexities of human relationships, and witness the power of music and storytelling. Join us in celebrating the creativity and diverse narratives that make this theater season truly unforgettable.

Exploring Wiesbaden's Theatrical Wonders: A Journey Through Art and Storytelling

Staatstheater Wiesbaden is set to enthrall audiences with a series of captivating performances that highlight both classic and contemporary works. From the creative exploration of inheritance in 'Our Legacy: Tax Me If You Can' to the comic brilliance of Offenbach's 'Fantasio,' and the timeless allure of Wagner's 'The Flying Dutchman,' audiences will be taken on a diverse cultural journey. Meanwhile, the whimsical ‘Magic Flute’ by Mozart and the compelling musical adaptation 'Fack ju Göhte' promise entertainment for all ages.

A Journey Through Art and Opera at Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Staatstheater Wiesbaden invites you on an extraordinary artistic journey, featuring diverse performances from operas by Wagner and Puccini to musical comedies and symphonic concerts. This season promises laughter, reflection, and a deep dive into human nature through the creative lens of talented directors and performers. With unique adaptations and reinterpretations of classic works, the stage is set for a memorable experience that challenges, entertains, and inspires.

A Journey Through Time: The Artistic Odyssey at Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Step into the vibrant realm of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where a tapestry of theatrical showcases unfurls. From the rhythmic elegance of 'Chronicles' and the gripping narrative of 'Tosca' to the whimsical charm of 'The Barber of Seville,' this season promises a rich array of performances. Discover the evocative interpretations of 'The Marriage of Figaro' and the intimate ambiance of 'Salon Strozzi.' As the curtain rises, delve into the creative genius behind each production, celebrating the artists and the timeless tales they bring to life.

A Tapestry of Artistry: Exploring Wiesbaden's Diverse Theatrical Showcases

The Staatstheater Wiesbaden is set to captivate audiences with a dynamic lineup of events, ranging from timeless operas to contemporary dance performances. This season promises a rich tapestry of storytelling, featuring productions like Richard Wagner's 'The Flying Dutchman,' Puccini's 'Tosca,' and the playful 'The Barber of Seville.' With an ensemble of talented performers and visionary directors, each event is crafted to offer a unique and immersive experience. Join us as we explore the intricate narratives, compelling characters, and the artistic brilliance that define this season's offerings at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

Staatstheater Wiesbaden: A Season of Operatic Masterpieces and Dance Chronicles

Staatstheater Wiesbaden presents an eclectic lineup of performances that showcase the depth and diversity of artistic expression. From the kinetic storytelling of 'Chronicles' to the dramatic intensity of 'Tosca,' audiences are invited to explore the complex interplay of dance, opera, and theater. The program includes timeless operatic classics like 'The Barber of Seville' and 'The Marriage of Figaro,' alongside innovative pieces such as 'Salon Strozzi' and 'Carousel.' Each event is a testament to the power of performing arts to transcend the ordinary and captivate audiences.

A Theatrical Odyssey: Dance, Opera, and Tales at Staatstheater Wiesbaden

The Staatstheater Wiesbaden invites audiences to a vibrant season of diverse performances spanning dance, opera, and orchestral works. These events promise to captivate with both traditional classics and innovative productions. From the rhythmic storytelling of 'Chronicles' to the playful puppetry in 'The Barber of Seville', the introspective 'Salon Strozzi', the collaborative 'The Creation', and the immersive '8th Symphony Concert', this season celebrates artistic expression in its myriad forms.

A Dynamic Fusion of Arts: Staatstheater Wiesbaden's Spectacular Line-up

"Let's dance!" is the motto for the last symphony concert, which goes beyond the usual concert framework: instead of in the Kurhaus, the State Theater building will be used - on all stages, in the foyers and in all nooks and crannies that can offer surprises.

8th Symphony Concert

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Duke Frederik steals the title and power from his brother, the heir to the throne. Their daughters sneak away from the court into exile in the forest, where a colorful mix of outcasts under their deposed brother try to form a new society with different rules, conventions and norms. Errors, confusion, disguises, lovers: Nurkan Erpulat devotes himself to Shakespeare's version of a pastoral romantic comedy that deals with the themes of inheritance, exile and class with lust and humor.

As you like it

Franziska Angerer's production of Joseph Haydn's oratorio is all about creating something you can take part in! General Music Director Leo McFall conducts, the Bach Choir Wiesbaden, the State Theater's extra choir, and children and young people from the Evangelical Singing Academy Wiesbaden take part. And the audience is also asked to take part when, in the weeks and months before the premiere, something new is created directly behind the theater to accompany the production.

The Creation

“One day this terrible war will end, one day we will be human beings again and not just Jews.”

The Diary of Anne Frank

Wartburg

A legendary heroine is honored and the State Theater invites you to a round table. Based on the baroque opera "King Arthur" by Henry Purcell, the young choreographer Chris Jäger is developing a modern version of the legendary material about the British King Arthur in an interdisciplinary project of the Hessian State Ballet, Drama and Music Theater. The musical work, which was groundbreaking at the time, to the five-act libretto including prologue by John Dryden, offers plenty of fuel for a spectacle at the end of the season. Big cinema in the small house.

King Arthur

Life is not a children's birthday party. But sometimes it is! After the great success of "blau" by Felix Berner in the past seasons, the Hessian State Ballet is planning another dance piece for the audience of the day after tomorrow with "Karussell". In keeping with the company's tenth anniversary, there will be a lot to celebrate.

Carousel

In Giulia Giammona's theatre, elements of opera, drama and dance are combined to create visually powerful narratives. From 2017 to 2019, she was director at the Bavarian State Opera, where she showed her first own directing work as part of the festival workshop. She is now completing her directing studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg with a production at the Wiesbaden State Theatre. It will be an interdisciplinary musical work, inspired by a mythological female figure: Judith.

Judith

When Verdi is on the programme, it can be wonderfully grand and theatrical. That is why his "Messa da Requiem" is being performed as part of the International May Festival in the dimensions it deserves: with two choirs, the in-house choir of the Hessian State Theatre and the choir of the city of Wiesbaden.

7th Symphony Concert

What would I give my life for? How can I stand up for love and freedom? In Beethoven's opera, Leonore has to face existential questions. Her husband Florestan has openly spoken out about social injustice and disappeared into prison. Leonore dares everything and - disguised as Fidelio - sets out to free him. The role has been sung many times by the exceptional singer Evelyn Herlitzius. In Wiesbaden she directed the production for the first time and tells the story of the political prisoner Florestan and his liberator Leonore as a question about the people behind the heroism.

Fidelio

What does one generation expect from the next? Can the experiences of young people today still be compared with those of young people 50 years ago? And what will it be like for young people in 50 years?

Futur4 – ongoing theme of life

This co-production between JUST and the Hessian State Ballet is another interdisciplinary work. Members of the JUST drama and ballet ensembles are developing their own, cross-disciplinary form together.

Root tree: Premiere

The production sold out houses in Belgium, Luxembourg and France; now it is coming to the International May Festival in Wiesbaden. With a clever twist, the FC Bergman collective has transformed the exotic coastal landscape of the pearl fishers of Ceylon into a retirement home. The friends Zurga and Nadir used to be in love with the same girl. To save their friendship, they promised each other to suppress their feelings for Léïla. But now Léïla is returning, and long-suppressed anger, love and jealousy break over the men like huge waves. Past and present blur and can only be separated with difficulty.

The Pearl Fishers

She received great enthusiasm for her dazzling, sophisticated music, and yet she performed almost exclusively within her own four walls: Barbara Strozzi, singer and one of the most exciting and productive composers before 1700.

Salon Strozzi

A prince is condemned. Although Friedrich von Homburg was victorious in the Battle of Fehrbellin, he is punished by the king for disobeying orders. What does disobedience mean? How do group dynamics influence individual actions? And what consequences are we prepared to accept if we oppose an authority? Amir Reza Koohestani examines the political dimensions of Heinrich von Kleist's last play and places it in a popular context: football.

FC Prinz von Homburg: Dreams and scuffles

A sophisticated story and timelessly good music are the best prerequisites for a successful comedy. With "The Marriage of Figaro", Mozart opened his trio of legendary master operas, all of which the composer wrote based on librettos by the Italian Lorenzo Da Ponte. The piece presents an everlasting love story, a playful and biting social satire - and yet all these descriptions fall short. Because "Figaro" is above all: a work of upheaval, a piece of stormy pressure for personal recognition and thus at the same time a timeless symbol of the individual's rebellion against the establishment.

The Marriage of Figaro

Beethoven’s 4th and Nielsen’s 5th symphonies share a strong tonal similarity: in both works, surprising gentleness can be found alongside rough, rugged landscapes – both in a delicate balance. Nielsen, who became an important representative of Danish late romanticism, especially with his orchestral music, found his most modern musical language in his symphony, which premiered in 1922. Robert Schumann once said of Beethoven’s Fourth from 1807 that it was the most romantic of his symphonies. Both compositions are comparatively rarely played in concert programs: Beethoven’s 4th Symphony is overshadowed by the preceding “Eroica” and the subsequent so-called “Symphony of Fate”. And Carl Nielsen is celebrated in Denmark and sometimes referred to as a national composer, but he is little known here.

6th Symphony Concert

The wild hand puppets of puppetry master Nikolaus Habjan conquer the stage! In his celebrated production at the Theater Basel, everyone is drawn into the fast-paced, funny and sometimes darkly absurd game of confusion surrounding the barber Figaro. No one escapes the puppets - until the cheerful happy ending. A comedy for families as well as for a good evening with friends.

The Barber of Seville: Gioacchino Rossini

The Italian opera classic as a gripping thriller: The singer Floria Tosca and her lover, the artist Mario Cavaradossi, find themselves in the crosshairs of police violence, political intrigue and deception. For the 125th anniversary of the opera, director José Cortés takes a close look at the well-known material and reveals the depths of human nature.

Tosca: Giacomo Puccini

At borders: by Özlem Özgül Dündar

The cinema hit as a musical! The story about ex-prisoner Zeki Müller, who poses as a substitute teacher in search of his last loot and gets to know the special characters of class 10b and their overly correct teacher, is also a hit on stage.

Fack ju Göhte

What can the architecture of a building tell us about the people who move around in it? Are we gradually adopting the facades of the buildings around us? Where do we feel like we belong or are strangers, and what should democratic meeting places look like?

Facades: Music-Theater-Walk

A trip to Italy at the end of winter! At the age of 22, Richard Strauss went on an educational trip to the land of lemons and brought back music as a souvenir that ranks among the Italian compositions of the 19th century by Mendelssohn, Bizet and Tchaikovsky. Enchanted by cities, ruins and life by the sea, Strauss called the movements of his orchestral fantasy "Beaches of Sorrento" or "Neapolitan Folk Life". He wove Italian hits such as "Funicoli, funicola" into the pieces. In the versatile concerto for his own instrument, the double bassist, composer and conductor Giovanni Bottesini set vocal passages alongside acrobatics across the entire fingerboard. As the "Paganini of the double bass", Bottesini revolutionized the way his instrument was played in the 19th century. The British double bassist Alexandra Scott - who travels with Europe's top orchestras and is a sought-after lecturer, chamber music partner and professor at the Munich University of Music - takes on the crazy challenge of "playing the violin with the double bass", as her colleague Ödön Rácz said.

5th Symphony Concert

Nicky runs away from home because she can no longer bear it there and would prefer to forget. Singer Gabriela, on the other hand, struggles desperately to remember. The two men's world is out of joint - until the day they meet each other. Together they discover not only the power of friendship, but also the magic of opera. A story that touchingly connects the lives of two generations.

When we didn't know who we were

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The big FIM fundraising gala

The sea has always been there - but it has changed a lot from then until now. Who could tell us about it better than a grandfather who has always lived by the sea? His painted letters and various pieces of music take us on a journey through time between ebb and flow, beach and sea, accompanied by the musicians of the Hessian State Orchestra, who make the waves sound with their instruments.

The Whisper of the Sea: Children's concert

We open the stage and leaf through the dance. Legends surround him. His changeable figure, this hasty traveler, is celebrated in song. The chroniclers draw from his inexhaustible source, the body, and write a new chapter in the book of movement.

Chronicles

In this wild comedy, everything that can go wrong on stage goes wrong - and that is a huge theatrical treat. "The Play That Goes Wrong" is not just the subtitle of this fast-paced comedy, but also the program: Actors who only know their lines inadequately, stage elements that fall down and a wild mix-up of props are an integral part of this performance, in which the murderer of the master of Haversham Castle is actually to be hunted down.

Murder at Haversham Castle: The Play That Goes Wrong

About once a month, two ensemble members introduce themselves to the audience in a more personal way. You can expect a reading from the youth diaries, a concert with the latest break-up playlist, or a relaxed conversation about the beginnings of professional life and bizarre stage experiences. Look forward to a diverse format in the studio!

Actor's Studio: The acting ensemble up close

"Carmen" is still one of the most popular operas today. At the premiere in 1875, audiences were initially more shocked than enthusiastic, because Bizet elevated the underprivileged - the fatally seductive Carmen and the deserting soldier Don José - to the main characters of his story. Nevertheless, the opera began its great triumph. Even more than one hundred and forty years later, the work fascinates audiences all over the world with its world of smugglers, bullfighters, factory workers, policemen, children and soldiers. In addition to ensemble member Fleuranne Brockway as Carmen, Stefano La Colla, one of the most important tenors on the international opera scene, is a guest in Wiesbaden and is making his debut as Don José. The revival is being conducted by General Music Director Leo McFall.

Carmen: Georges Bizet

5th Chamber Concert

Music knows no age limit, and even the very youngest children are fascinated by the sounds and rhythms that they can experience in the baby concert. Here, babies and toddlers can behave according to their age - whether they are sitting on your lap or lying on their blanket. Swinging, dancing, crawling, gurgling, babbling and laughing are expressly permitted.

Little brother, come dance with me: Fairytale String Concerto

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The large cabaret revue at the hr2-Hörfest Wiesbaden guarantees the best entertainment and pampers both ears and funny bones – with the satirical songwriter and performer Miss Allie , the virtuoso a cappella ensemble Anders , the award-winning stand-up newcomer Ana Lucía and the word acrobat Martin Zingsheim.

hr2-Hörgala: The great cabaret revue

"My mother struggled with poverty and male violence her whole life." Édouard Louis tells a vivid story about his mother Monique Bellegueule, who grew up in precarious circumstances without any vocational training and was trapped in marriages with violent and alcoholic men. He talks about his wish to have had a different mother as a child and the great happiness of seeing her today as a liberated, happy woman.

The Freedom of a Woman: based on the book by Édouard Louis

We encounter the Romantic era on calendars, postcards, Insta posts, and our first love letters. But do its images still suit us? Or have we actually outgrown it? Do we still need its language? We think: In a way, yes - and yet: it is time for an update.

The Earth Silently Kissed: or: How to Romance: A Moonlight mashup

Other times shimmer through the works in this program. In a wide variety of forms, the compositions seek to engage with heritage and tradition, to deal creatively with past styles and eras. Both Gustav Mahler’s 4th Symphony from 1901 and Thomas Adès’ Couperin Studies from 2006 allow new sound worlds to grow out of old. Adès built a framework around three harpsichord movements by the Baroque composer Couperin, which adds new effects to the basic structure and lets the orchestra dance with the fragments of the original. Mahler’s Fourth says goodbye to the romantic pathos of the past 19th century. On the one hand, it seems almost classical, but on the other hand it looks to the future: to Mahler’s late works, which are breaking into the modern era. Here, cheerful idyll lies close to the abyss. Everything is geared towards the finale with a poem from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”, whose delicate lines are made for the soprano Alyona Rostovskaya from the opera ensemble of the Wiesbaden State Theater.

4th Symphony Concert

With the development of the play "dokoła pokola" (translated: all around and back and forth), JUST is trying out international cooperation: for the first time, the Polish director Gosia Dębska has staged a play in Wiesbaden. A play with little language has been created for children aged 2 and over. The focus is not only on the popular JUST actress Sophie Pompe, who is performing solo here, but also on the fascinating art of puppetry.

Study notes: by Gosia Dębska

The next behind-the-scenes chat will take place on Monday, January 27, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. in the foyer. In a conversation with Katharina Queck, the ballet director of the Hessian State Ballet, Bruno Heynderickx, will introduce himself that evening.

Behind the scenes

Two families lived in Wiesbaden's Bahnhofstrasse during the Second World War. The Jewish Strauss family lived at number 46, and the Moos family lived at number 44 - convinced Nazis until the end of the war. Veronika Moos, head of the painting room at the Hessian State Theater, has immersed herself deeply in her own family history and that of her neighbors. Actors from the ensemble read from her book.

Reading: Neighbors: Bahnhofstraße 44/46 in Wiesbaden

Backstage for everyone: Behind the scenes tour

The evil and cruel wolf lives in the dark forest, or so the story goes in the village community where Little Red Riding Hood, whose real name is Dorothea, lives. The fear of the forest and the wolf is great, but at the same time Dorothea is magically attracted to them. One day curiosity wins out and the young girl sets off into the forest against all warnings...

Grimm – The really true story of Little Red Riding Hood and her wolf

Brushing teeth, math lessons, visiting grandma, summer holidays, "How many times do I have to tell you that?": Our lives are full of repetitions. Sometimes they bore us, sometimes we look forward to them with anticipation. We also encounter repetitions everywhere in music and in our work as musicians. Together we find out what they do to us and why we need them again and again - of course with lots of music to listen to and join in with!

And again – repetition in music: 1st Chamber Concert for Children

Once a month we offer an open training session for non-professionals. With different styles and dance techniques – from classical ballet to contemporary dance.

Dancing: open dance training for non-professionals

Good and evil, childhood and growing up, dreams, fears and trials - the popular opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart puts people at the centre. And at the same time it is a fairy tale: Prince Tamino is not necessarily a hero in the classic sense. When the three ladies entrust him with the task of freeing the Queen of the Night's daughter from the clutches of the mysterious Sarastro, he is anything but enthusiastic. But a picture of the young princess suddenly gives him new motivation: he falls head over heels in love with Pamina's image. He sets off with the quirky bird catcher Papageno. Equipped with the magic flute and magic bells, they are ready (or not) to face Sarastro's three great trials.

The Magic Flute: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A father is looking for his rejected son. In a magician's cave, his life is revealed to him as a game within a game. There, people love, kill, die and, again and again, are deceived. The prodigal son's changeable life becomes an illusionary game of identities, with a surprising twist at the end.

Game of Illusions: by Pierre Corneille

"Francis Footwork" by David Bolger is a virtual reality dance piece about freedom of expression and individuality:
When the kind-hearted King Two Lefties ascends to the throne, his trusted advisor Colonel Headbanger forces him to rule the country with an iron fist. He wants to put an end to all dancing. So Francis gives him a dance lesson he will never forget!


Francis Footwork: Dance workshop & virtual reality performance

The Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden is the first opera house in Europe to cultivate tango as a "cultural phenomenon" and as a "social event" since 1984. In the current season, Argentinian and German tango musicians who have already performed in Wiesbaden once or several times and offered outstanding performances are again invited.

Salón Tango: With Gabriel Sala

Four abandoned cats between garbage cans in the backyard of a pizzeria: each has its own fate, and each has a dream of a better life. A backyard concert, sometimes cheerful, sometimes romantic and yearning, about life and its stories.

Cats: A Miezical by Agneta Elers-Jarleman

"Flashdance" tells the stirring story of 18-year-old welder Alex Owens, who does everything to make her dream of becoming a dancer come true.

Flashdance

A special production is taking place in the Hessian State Museum in Wiesbaden: Between paintings, installations and sculptures, the private scholar Atzbacher, the music philosopher Reger and the museum guard Irrsigler meet and discuss art, our society and its life. And the audience is right in the middle of Thomas Bernhard's "Old Masters"!

Old Masters

Museum Wiesbaden

On the "Fantasio" stage, the two play a bitter game of cat and mouse; after the rehearsal, they like to joke in English, their shared mother tongue. Fleuranne Brockway and Jack Lee put a good dose of romance into their recital. In addition to songs full of longing, wanderlust and high tension, they also sprinkle artistic folk song arrangements into their program.

Lieder-Soiree

We sip a glass of lemonade with Galina Benevich, who has already shone as the Queen of the Night in Glyndebourne, Basel, Bremen and many other places, and the young talents of the Limburg Cathedral Choir. And in doing so we show that The Magic Flute is a delight for opera newbies and old hands - not only in the audience, but also on the stage.

To a glass with: Talks and more in the foyer

The musical, which premiered in New York in 2016, is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Twelfth Night" ("Twelfth Night") and promises confusion and love troubles: When Viola ends up stranded on the island of Illyria after a shipwreck and takes on the role of her supposedly drowned twin brother, the turbulent story takes its course.

Twelfth Night (As You Like It)

Restless, uprooted, searching for a void that no one can fill: Richard Wagner's powerful music invites us to analytically question the driven characters of his opera. In the new production, director Martin G. Berger focuses on the mysterious past of Senta, her father Daland and the Dutchman. Using retrospection and memory, the production delves deep into the story. Layer by layer, it reveals the patriarchal structures that overshadow the relationship between father and daughter and from which the grown-up Senta, now her own redeemer, tries to fight her way out. Alexandre Corazzola's stage design shows the surface of an idyllic family home and is transformed into a psychological space with the videos by Vincent Stefan.

The Flying Dutchman: Richard Wagner

By listening, playing, singing and speaking together, the opera's plot and characters come to life and can be experienced. A workshop for children and adults, participation is expressly encouraged.

Opera Active!: Musical-scenic workshop

Konstantin not only looks after his little sister Lada when his mother is on the phone late into the night, but also cleans her kitchen. Devoted and meticulous. Is it contemplation? Obsession? Or an attempt to restore order in a world of alienation?

He Cleans

According to the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, fear is the greatest obstacle to a happy life.

Do you have 5 minutes?: An insurance evening

"Butterflies weigh almost nothing. They are very light. As light as when the sun twitches its eyelashes, as if it were blinded by the light and its eyes were blinking red and yellow. Butterflies are like the sneezing of the rainbow."

The Butterfly Workshop

A fantastic fairy tale about the magical power of the voice, with which a girl makes flowers bloom, makes people happy, brings back summer and finally finds the song she was looking for to help her sleep. The world of singing opens up through art songs and opera arias.

The missing song

In the darkness of an attic, the ghost of an old woman appears: Hannelore Oehmichen-Marschall, co-founder of the Augsburger Puppenkiste, leads us, as if in a dream, through the story of her life, her theater and Germany from National Socialism to the economic miracle.

Herzfaden: based on the novel by Thomas Hettche

At first glance, the relationship between Connor and Felix seems to be going well. But now the famous film producer Felix is ​​being accused of abuse. Connor has to decide whether to stick with him. Nobody suspects that Connor is carrying a dark secret from the past.

Double Serpent: by Sam Max

Fantasio's name says it all. With an overdose of humor, craziness and creative energy, the title character navigates through every situation, no matter how tricky, and turns everything upside down. A wonderful role model for Anna Weber, an expert in musical comedies and their adaptations for the stage. Wherever she directs, tears of laughter and a breath of fresh air are guaranteed. For Wiesbaden, she has unearthed an unknown gem by Jacques Offenbach with "Fantasio" and has woven the premiere cast into her new version with a singer.

Fantasio: Jacques Offenbach

Musicians from the Hessian State Orchestra are embarking on a musical journey through Europe to the Middle East. You will hear music and dances typical of the country, from the wedding march at Troldhaugen to the Hungarian Csárdás to the princess' dance at a Persian market. Music crosses borders and brings people together. The Chamber Music Association wishes you a happy new year!

New Year's Chamber Concert: From Europe towards the rising sun

With the production of this year's family play, Emel Aydoğdu, artistic co-director of the Young State Theater, introduces herself to the Wiesbaden audience as a director. This year, the focus is on Italy's most famous children's book character: Pinocchio.

Pinocchio

And what or how much will you inherit? Helge Schmidt and his team, together with the ensemble, are developing a theatrical event about material and immaterial inheritance based on interviews with various experts.

Our legacy: Tax me if you can: by Helge Schmidt & Team

The Hessian State Ballet begins its season with an extraordinary double evening and a reunion with leading choreographers of the present: After the successful productions Timeless by Xie Xin and I'm afraid to forget your smile by Imre & Marne van Opstal, the Hessian State Ballet combines the dance positions of these currently groundbreaking choreographers in a double evening for the first time in Broken Bob . In their new creation I am Bob,the Dutch siblings Imre & Marne van Opstal create a choreographic network of identity through a close interweaving of music and text. Exploring the question of who Bob is, he stands as a placeholder for humanity itself. The dancers explore his essence in a large ensemble through the power of movements and their patterns. In doing so, the choreographic duo approaches the limits and possibilities of body and mind through dance.

Broken Bob: Choreographies by Xie Xin and Imre & Marne van Opstal

A small, cute unicorn is born in the Heart Forest. Although everyone is very sweet to it and constantly feeds it sugared four-leaf clover, the little animal does not behave at all like a unicorn should. It just keeps saying "No," so that its family soon just calls it NEINhorn. One day the NEINhorn has had enough and breaks out of its cotton candy world. It meets a raccoon who doesn't listen, a dog who doesn't care about anything, and a princess who always talks back. The four of them make a pretty good team. Because being stubborn is much more fun together!

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