In the parental home of Hänsel and Gretel there is rarely more to bite than dry bread. Fortunately, there is a certain crunchy witch who solves the supply problem as the Charity Queen and hands out delicious colorful drops.

Who doesn't know him, the robber Hotzenplotz? But this time it takes a fair amount of courage, magic and the help of the audience to rescue Kasperl and Seppel from their mess. Composer Sebastian Schwab has recomposed Otfried Preußler's enchanting story as a musical comedy between Threepenny Opera and Balkan rhythms.

The Tramp, Chaplin's legendary anti-hero, falls in love with a blind flower girl, plays the rich man for her, helps her to get a saving eye operation and is finally loved by her for what he is: a hapless, poor wretch. Cornelius Meister and the Staatsorchester Stuttgart perform the soundtrack composed by Charlie Chaplin himself live to the film.

Basically, the personnel in Rossini's operas consists mostly of somewhat dimwitted older gentlemen who fall in love with capricious and sometimes vicious, but at the same time very pretty and beautifully singing ladies who, in turn, are mainly interested in young, usually penniless gentlemen who are not married to them.

The little human child Mowgli is raised by wolves. But one day the evil tiger Shir Khan returns to the jungle and Mowgli, with the help of the clever panther Bagheera, sets off to seek shelter in the human settlement. When the two meet the always good-humored bear Baloo on their way there, the hustle and bustle really begins. Whether a swinging dance with King Louie, the crazy orangutan, the unforgettable elephant parade or a hypnotic encounter with Kaa, the snake – all hell will surely break loose in the Disney jungle.