Richard Strauss [1864 – 1949]

ARABELLA is the last collaboration between the acclaimed duo Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss. Adopting the tone of an operetta, the work portrays the existential hardships, obsessions and dreams of a society bereft of its traditional solidity. Gambling addiction has driven the family of cavalry officer Waldner into financial ruin. The only hope for salvation lies in marrying off the daughter Arabella into a wealthy family ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles / Dirk Kaftan; Director: Tobias Kratzer; With Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Sara Jakubiak / Gabriela Scherer, Elena Tsallagova, Russell Braun, Robert Watson a. o.

Arne Gieshoff und Franziska Angerer

The starting point of the experimental music theatre is Nastassja Martin's novel "Believing in the Wild": on a research trip in the Siberian wilderness, the anthropologist encounters a bear that bites her in the face and seriously injures her: This is the beginning of a transformation: the boundaries blur, she is half human, half bear - an in-between being in which worlds implode. The multi-perspective evening links Nastassja Martin's narrative and Berlin city history from the bear's point of view into a dense compositional web. BÄR*IN is a hybrid evening about metamorphoses and an invitation to consider our world as a structure in which not only humans are active agents ... Production: Franziska Angerer