“Japanese tragedy“ about the geisha Cio-Cio-San and her love for American Naval officer Pinkerton, he created an affecting testimony for any form of one-sided cultural transfer. By choosing the “American way of life” Cio-Cio-San accepts a cut-off from her past and her cultural traditions, but is left behind, pregnant and full of hope for the future which is finally cruelly dashed. General Music Director Cornelius Meister takes over the musical direction of the revival of Puccini’s moving masterpiece.

After Modern Times and City Lights, Cornelius Meister and the Staatsorchester Stuttgart continue their Chaplin silent film cycle with The Gold Rush, bringing the Hollywood sound directly back to the Littmann-Bau. Chaplin composed the music himself and also includes classics such as Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee, Wagner’s “Oh, du mein holder Abendstern“ and Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Waltz. A film experience with live music as a third dimension.

The young Blanche, who is plagued by severe anxiety since birth finds shelter in a convent. But the time of security ends abruptly when the Revolutionary Committee breaks up the convent and forbids the community from practicing its rites.The sisters swear themselves to martyrdom, but Blanche’s fear of death drives her to flee. As she follows her sisters to the scaffold, her fear is extinguished in the face of death.

“I don’t believe in the right to work; I prefer to believe that the greatest right of man is to do nothing,“ said Rossini. Angelina is far from that – she performs slave labour in her bankrupt stepfather’s family. How a prince, for whom the bank account and an army of servants work, gets her out of this precarious situation is world-famous. Rossini tells the story of the power of honest feelings to survive without miraculous elements. But there is one great miracle: love at first sight.

Sara Glojnarić and Tanja Šljivar take us on a kind of road trip along the former Europastraße 5, a nightly transit route that forms a bridge between the cultural identities of Germany and south-eastern Europe and at the same time symbolizes the longing for belonging. An opera about the timeless utopian power of music as cultural memory.

A story of growing up and love: Tamino is commissioned by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina, who is being held captive by Sarastro. Involuntarily, the bird-catcher Papageno is sent on Tamino's journey. After numerous trials, Tamino and Pamina find their place in the world – as adults and as lovers.