The Hamburg State Opera presents Carl Orff's Trionfi, a rarely performed musical triptych that redefines the boundaries between opera, oratorio and cantata. Under the musical direction of Kent Nagano and the staging of Calixto Bieito, a spectacle unfolds that celebrates the elemental power of rhythm and the omnipotence of Eros, a captivating fusion [...]

In Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos at the Hamburg State Opera, a work full of contrasts between tragedy and comedy, the audience experiences a fascinating reflection on fidelity and transformation. "It is about a simple and tremendous problem of life: that of fidelity", is how Hugo von Hofmannsthal describes the core of her third [...] in a letter to Richard Strauss.

Anne Lenk's unusual productions of classics from the Deutsches Theater Berlin, "Der Menschenfeind" by Molière and "Maria Stuart" by Friedrich Schiller, were invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2020/21. The director has already worked regularly at the Thalia, and her world premiere of Finn-Ole Heinrich's "Räuberhände" has been running successfully in the Gaußstraße repertoire since 2013. Most recently, she staged Chekhov's "Three Sisters" at the Thalia Theater. [...]