The triumph of drag queens at the Volksoper began as early as 1991, when nightclub star Zaza – Albin in his middle-class life – first entered the stage together with his partner George in La Cage aux Folles: “I am what I am, and what I am is unusual.” The performances were stormed, the play was restaged by Melissa King in 2021/22.
A musical theater adventure for the whole family by Johanna Arrouas
In German and French
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In German and French
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"Happy is he who forgets what cannot be changed!" It is probably the most popular, but certainly the most Viennese of all operettas: Johann Strauss' immortal bat.
The Emperor of Atlantis by Viktor Ullmann / Requiem in D minor KV 626 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Ruth Brauer-Kvam: “No one shaped pre-war operetta like Fritzi Massary. The small, inconspicuous Viennese Jew fought her way up to the Olympus of operetta like no other
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The Emperor of Atlantis by Viktor Ullmann / Requiem in D minor KV 626 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"Happy is he who forgets what cannot be changed!" It is probably the most popular, but certainly the most Viennese of all operettas: Johann Strauss' immortal bat.
Offenbach has none of the sublime world of myths of earlier settings. In his Orpheus in the Underworld, premiered in 1858 in the Paris theater of the "Bouffes-Parisiens", we experience Orpheus as a boring music teacher and Eurydice as his annoyed wife
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The famous chansonnière Sylva is not allowed to marry her noble lover Edwin. His parents arrange for him to be drafted into the army and get him engaged to a countess. The chansonnière suddenly appears at the engagement party
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tick tick... BOOM! is semi-autobiographical, existential and innovative.
In Magda's salon, the poet Prunier provokes those present with his ideas about love. Financially dependent on her rich lover Rambaldo, Magda believes in romantic love
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The famous chansonnière Sylva is not allowed to marry her noble lover Edwin. His parents arrange for him to be drafted into the army and get him engaged to a countess. The chansonnière suddenly appears at the engagement party
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At the same time, Mrs. Fluth and Mrs. Reich, two married ladies, receive love letters from the impoverished nobleman Falstaff
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The triumph of drag queens at the Volksoper began as early as 1991, when nightclub star Zaza – Albin in his middle-class life – first entered the stage together with his partner George in La Cage aux Folles: “I am what I am, and what I am is unusual.” The performances were stormed, the play was restaged by Melissa King in 2021/22.
At the same time, Mrs. Fluth and Mrs. Reich, two married ladies, receive love letters from the impoverished nobleman Falstaff
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Stories in miniature tell of togetherness and opposition, of freedom and dependency, attachment and separation, devotion and division - sometimes full of existential force, sometimes full of delicately spun poetry, sometimes full of joie de vivre.
The triumph of drag queens at the Volksoper began as early as 1991, when nightclub star Zaza – Albin in his middle-class life – first entered the stage together with his partner George in La Cage aux Folles: “I am what I am, and what I am is unusual.” The performances were stormed, the play was restaged by Melissa King in 2021/22.
The famous chansonnière Sylva is not allowed to marry her noble lover Edwin. His parents arrange for him to be drafted into the army and get him engaged to a countess. The chansonnière suddenly appears at the engagement party
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Stories in miniature tell of togetherness and opposition, of freedom and dependency, attachment and separation, devotion and division - sometimes full of existential force, sometimes full of delicately spun poetry, sometimes full of joie de vivre.
The triumph of drag queens at the Volksoper began as early as 1991, when nightclub star Zaza – Albin in his middle-class life – first entered the stage together with his partner George in La Cage aux Folles: “I am what I am, and what I am is unusual.” The performances were stormed, the play was restaged by Melissa King in 2021/22.
At the same time, Mrs. Fluth and Mrs. Reich, two married ladies, receive love letters from the impoverished nobleman Falstaff
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Stories in miniature tell of togetherness and opposition, of freedom and dependency, attachment and separation, devotion and division - sometimes full of existential force, sometimes full of delicately spun poetry, sometimes full of joie de vivre.
The triumph of drag queens at the Volksoper began as early as 1991, when nightclub star Zaza – Albin in his middle-class life – first entered the stage together with his partner George in La Cage aux Folles: “I am what I am, and what I am is unusual.” The performances were stormed, the play was restaged by Melissa King in 2021/22.
The famous chansonnière Sylva is not allowed to marry her noble lover Edwin. His parents arrange for him to be drafted into the army and get him engaged to a countess. The chansonnière suddenly appears at the engagement party
...
...
At the same time, Mrs. Fluth and Mrs. Reich, two married ladies, receive love letters from the impoverished nobleman Falstaff
...
...
The triumph of drag queens at the Volksoper began as early as 1991, when nightclub star Zaza – Albin in his middle-class life – first entered the stage together with his partner George in La Cage aux Folles: “I am what I am, and what I am is unusual.” The performances were stormed, the play was restaged by Melissa King in 2021/22.
Stories in miniature tell of togetherness and opposition, of freedom and dependency, attachment and separation, devotion and division - sometimes full of existential force, sometimes full of delicately spun poetry, sometimes full of joie de vivre.