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Thursday
02.
May
20:00
Schauspielhaus Zürich (Pfauen)
We are granny-mother-child-hybrids. We all harbor cells from our mothers throughout our lives – and our mothers, some of ours. In Blutbuch, the narrator Kim takes stock of the things we carry on without being asked to, things that have seeped into our bodily memory via cells and narratives: fears, desires, and affiliations. Boundaries, rules and all that was never said, out of shame, hypocrisy or pain. Kim takes a stand against staying silent. After all, if we are connected to everything, … [more]
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10.00 / 15.00 CHF
Friday
03.
May
20:00
Theater Neumarkt
on abysmal desires and the shadows of female existence in the stage play "dark spring", the 12-year-old girl imagines the mourning ceremony after her suicide: relatives and friends come together for the funeral, miss and remember her, try to understand:  how could it have happened? who was close to her and how? who really knew her? how do we want to remember her? was her pain not felt? could her suicide have been prevented? who is to blame? or are … [more]
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10.00 / 15.00 CHF
Saturday
11.
May
20:00
Theater Neumarkt
a chalet in the mountains, a surprise party, a group of privileged zurich teenagers and a snowstorm complete with avalanche and a cut-off path down to the valley... these are the ingredients for the ultimate disaster story. in 1954, nobel prize winner william golding wrote his bestseller "lord of the flies". in it, a group of children survive a plane crash and from then on have to find their way on a small south sea island. the collapse of the … [more]
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10.00 / 15.00 CHF
Friday
24.
May
19:30
Tonhalle am See
From her point of view, most of the great composers were "pretty crazy", pianist Hélène Grimaud once said in an interview with the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". "Listen to Beethoven! If you want to play Beethoven beautifully or as light and easy as popcorn, you destroy his music". Now she teams up with Paavo Järvi for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, who doesn't think much of musical popcorn either. Nor in the rest of the programme: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, ostensibly composed … [more]
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15.00 / 20.00 CHF
Saturday
25.
May
19:30
Opernhaus Zürich
Only VCS members! On 24 February 1607, a new era in music history dawned in Mantua. L'Orfeo, the musical fable by local court composer Claudio Monteverdi, was heard for the first time, performed for a small circle of courtly guests. The premiere marked no less than the birth of opera as an art form, for the composer was the first to recognize what it can mean when music becomes a sung scene: Embedded in a dramatic plot context, the characters on … [more]
Registration launch date:
May 15, 2024, noon
25.00 / 0.00 CHF
Tuesday
28.
May
19:30
Schauspielhaus Zürich (Schiffbau)
Moved by the Motion takes on the famous tragedy Carmen. Originally written by Prosper Mérimée and transformed into one of the most iconic operas of all time by Georges Bizet, Carmen’s tale has been adapted in numerous ways, inspiring popular culture and remaining in the collective consciousness through its controversy. Carmen is a rebellious bird, a wanderer, a hustler, a factory worker, a polylingual, shape-shifting lover, stateless and ungovernable. In collaboration with writers Sophia Al-Maria and Fred Moten, Moved by the Motion … [more]
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10.00 / 15.00 CHF