Next events

How do you get off a train? How does breakfast work? How exactly does what I've been doing for years actually work? And how do you even use a telephone? You think you know the answers to all these questions—then you're probably a man! As a woman, or someone perceived as female, you often have to have these things explained to you in everyday life, often without being asked. Fee Brembeck is not only an author, slam poet, and opera … [more]

Scylla lives withdrawn into herself, as if in emotional hibernation. Reason, peace, and harmony reign in her cosmos. When Glaucus enters her life, everything changes: She experiences love in all its colors and facets – and does not recognize herself. The opera describes all the lust, wildness, panic, and despair that the young woman experiences as she rediscovers the world for herself. In the end, she will be someone else. Jean-Marie Leclair's rarely performed only opera is a musical discovery. … [more]

**Choose porno, um Buongiorno!** Greetings from Joe Di Nardo – an Italian-Swabian comedian and singing talent all in one! Joe Di Nardo – the man who causes a sensation on social media with his charming Italian waiter sketches – is also a comedian al dente live. With a constant smile on his face and an arsenal of jokes up his sleeve, Joe Di Nardo delivers comedy that primarily pokes fun at the cultural differences between Italians and Germans. His sketches … [more]

Olga Neuwirth is one of the outstanding composers of our time. Together with Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, she is writing a new piece of music theater. They send two «vampires» – really avatars of themselves – on a journey around the world. They observe the decline of humanity while a tyrannical king and a self-conjuring sea monster fight for power. «Monster’s Paradise» is both a tragedy and a satyr play. Tobias Kratzer, the director and artistic director of the … [more]

Although she is surrounded by many admirers, Arabella dreams only of the «right one». She finds him in Mandryka, the Croatian landowner. Opera history’s final idealized marriage of love was written on the precipice of disaster: The opera dates to a time of deep social insecurity. The operetta-like tone of Strauss’ «Lyrischer Komödie» is strangely fractured. When it premiered in Dresden in 1933, it was instrumentalized by the Nazis for propaganda purposes. Director Robert Carsen doesn’t ignore the socio-political context … [more]

Our beloved cult live series with the magnificent, quick-witted and dazzling Odette Hella'Grand presents drag art of the very finest kind! Featuring a packed lineup of artists from all over Switzerland and neighboring countries. (Performance in German)   [more]