Culture is written in capital letters in Biel and Solothurn: TOBS! unites opera, drama, concerts and dance under one roof - a place of diversity, encounters and surprises.
The Theater & Orchester Biel Solothurn - TOBS! - opens up a diverse universe of performing arts to its visitors. With around 300 performances per season in opera, drama, concert and dance, its impulses are spread across two cities - Biel/Bienne and Solothurn - creating a vibrant cultural landscape in eastern and central Switzerland.
In the venues - from the Stadttheater Biel and the Kongresshaus to the Stadttheater Solothurn and other collaborative spaces - art merges with urban space. The counterpart of music theater, drama and concerts makes the house a place where the audience not only consumes, but also participates: In workshops, discourse formats and youth projects, TOBS! opens up space for encounters and participation.
Stadttheater Biel © TOBS Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn
The diversity of the program is impressive: classical operas stand alongside contemporary music theater projects, drama productions combine global themes with regional roots, concerts range from symphony concerts to family and child-friendly formats. TOBS! attaches great importance to bringing the stage and audience as close together as possible - a principle that generates intensity and makes art an immediate experience.
Visitors to TOBS! do not enter a large-scale star production, but a lively cultural space in which voices, instruments, bodies and thoughts resonate with one another. In Biel and Solothurn, theater and music history is being written - and rethought at the same time.
