Dec
31
5:00 PM17:00

Faust I and II / Berlin

The German classic, Faust Part I and II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was Robert Wilson's second major collaboration on the stage with German rock star Herbert Grönemeyer after Leonce and Lena in 2003. Wilson and Grönemeyer chose an ensemble of 19 young actors and 8 live musicians, with the quirky Christopher Nell as Mephisto and the voices of Stefan Kurt and Angela Winkler as Earth Ghost and Homunculus.

Wilson and Grönemeyer’s version of Faust I and II at the Berliner Ensemble meets all our expectations, even if we’re expecting to be surprised. A thoroughly un-exhausting storybook of profoundness to swing and sway along.
— Ulrich Seidler in Frankfurter Rundschau, April 24, 2015

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Dec
30
7:30 PM19:30

La Traviata / Linz

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel 'The Lady of the Camellias' by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson's production of Violetta Valéry's tragic fate is his first work at the State Theater of Linz, Austria, one of the most modern operatic stages in Europe by architect Terry Pawson. 

Daniel Spaw, Takeshi Moriuchi (conductor), Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Stephanie Engeln (co-set design); Yashi (costumes); John Torres (light design); Konrad Kuhn, Wolfgang Haendeler (dramaturgy)

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Dec
30
7:00 PM19:00

Pushkin's Fairy Tales / Moscow

Pushkin wrote the Fairy Tales at his country home Boldino between 1830 and 1834. The tales' sources vary from Russian folklore themes to Western tales. Written in verse, a humourous narrator alternates with dialogue of the characters. Rich symbolism and enigmatic structures and powerful imagery are central characteristics of these works. 

Robert Wilson’s production features original music by indiepop duo CocoRosie, who already collaborated with Wilson on Peter Pan (Berlin, 2013). Evgenyi Mironov, one of Russia's most celebrated actors, plays the great Russian poet Pushkin himself.

Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); CocoRosie (music); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Tilman Hecker (artistic collaboration); Annick Lavallée-Benny (co-set design); Julia von Leliwa (costumes); AJ Weissbard (co-light design); Roman Dolzhanskiy (dramaturgy).

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
30
7:00 PM19:00

Faust I and II / Berlin

The German classic, Faust Part I and II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was Robert Wilson's second major collaboration on the stage with German rock star Herbert Grönemeyer after Leonce and Lena in 2003. Wilson and Grönemeyer chose an ensemble of 19 young actors and 8 live musicians, with the quirky Christopher Nell as Mephisto and the voices of Stefan Kurt and Angela Winkler as Earth Ghost and Homunculus.

Wilson and Grönemeyer’s version of Faust I and II at the Berliner Ensemble meets all our expectations, even if we’re expecting to be surprised. A thoroughly un-exhausting storybook of profoundness to swing and sway along.
— Ulrich Seidler in Frankfurter Rundschau, April 24, 2015

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
29
7:00 PM19:00

Pushkin's Fairy Tales / Moscow

Pushkin wrote the Fairy Tales at his country home Boldino between 1830 and 1834. The tales' sources vary from Russian folklore themes to Western tales. Written in verse, a humourous narrator alternates with dialogue of the characters. Rich symbolism and enigmatic structures and powerful imagery are central characteristics of these works. 

Robert Wilson’s production features original music by indiepop duo CocoRosie, who already collaborated with Wilson on Peter Pan (Berlin, 2013). Evgenyi Mironov, one of Russia's most celebrated actors, plays the great Russian poet Pushkin himself.

Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); CocoRosie (music); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Tilman Hecker (artistic collaboration); Annick Lavallée-Benny (co-set design); Julia von Leliwa (costumes); AJ Weissbard (co-light design); Roman Dolzhanskiy (dramaturgy).

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
28
7:00 PM19:00

Pushkin's Fairy Tales / Moscow

Pushkin wrote the Fairy Tales at his country home Boldino between 1830 and 1834. The tales' sources vary from Russian folklore themes to Western tales. Written in verse, a humourous narrator alternates with dialogue of the characters. Rich symbolism and enigmatic structures and powerful imagery are central characteristics of these works. 

Robert Wilson’s production features original music by indiepop duo CocoRosie, who already collaborated with Wilson on Peter Pan (Berlin, 2013). Evgenyi Mironov, one of Russia's most celebrated actors, plays the great Russian poet Pushkin himself.

Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); CocoRosie (music); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Tilman Hecker (artistic collaboration); Annick Lavallée-Benny (co-set design); Julia von Leliwa (costumes); AJ Weissbard (co-light design); Roman Dolzhanskiy (dramaturgy).

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
27
7:00 PM19:00

Pushkin's Fairy Tales / Moscow

Pushkin wrote the Fairy Tales at his country home Boldino between 1830 and 1834. The tales' sources vary from Russian folklore themes to Western tales. Written in verse, a humourous narrator alternates with dialogue of the characters. Rich symbolism and enigmatic structures and powerful imagery are central characteristics of these works. 

Robert Wilson’s production features original music by indiepop duo CocoRosie, who already collaborated with Wilson on Peter Pan (Berlin, 2013). Evgenyi Mironov, one of Russia's most celebrated actors, plays the great Russian poet Pushkin himself.

Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); CocoRosie (music); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Tilman Hecker (artistic collaboration); Annick Lavallée-Benny (co-set design); Julia von Leliwa (costumes); AJ Weissbard (co-light design); Roman Dolzhanskiy (dramaturgy).

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
27
5:00 PM17:00

La Traviata / Linz

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel 'The Lady of the Camellias' by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson's production of Violetta Valéry's tragic fate is his first work at the State Theater of Linz, Austria, one of the most modern operatic stages in Europe by architect Terry Pawson. 

Daniel Spaw, Takeshi Moriuchi (conductor), Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Stephanie Engeln (co-set design); Yashi (costumes); John Torres (light design); Konrad Kuhn, Wolfgang Haendeler (dramaturgy)

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
26
7:00 PM19:00

Pushkin's Fairy Tales / Moscow

Pushkin wrote the Fairy Tales at his country home Boldino between 1830 and 1834. The tales' sources vary from Russian folklore themes to Western tales. Written in verse, a humourous narrator alternates with dialogue of the characters. Rich symbolism and enigmatic structures and powerful imagery are central characteristics of these works. 

Robert Wilson’s production features original music by indiepop duo CocoRosie, who already collaborated with Wilson on Peter Pan (Berlin, 2013). Evgenyi Mironov, one of Russia's most celebrated actors, plays the great Russian poet Pushkin himself.

Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); CocoRosie (music); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Tilman Hecker (artistic collaboration); Annick Lavallée-Benny (co-set design); Julia von Leliwa (costumes); AJ Weissbard (co-light design); Roman Dolzhanskiy (dramaturgy).

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
25
7:00 PM19:00

Pushkin's Fairy Tales / Moscow

Pushkin wrote the Fairy Tales at his country home Boldino between 1830 and 1834. The tales' sources vary from Russian folklore themes to Western tales. Written in verse, a humourous narrator alternates with dialogue of the characters. Rich symbolism and enigmatic structures and powerful imagery are central characteristics of these works. 

Robert Wilson’s production features original music by indiepop duo CocoRosie, who already collaborated with Wilson on Peter Pan (Berlin, 2013). Evgenyi Mironov, one of Russia's most celebrated actors, plays the great Russian poet Pushkin himself.

Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); CocoRosie (music); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Tilman Hecker (artistic collaboration); Annick Lavallée-Benny (co-set design); Julia von Leliwa (costumes); AJ Weissbard (co-light design); Roman Dolzhanskiy (dramaturgy).

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
24
7:00 PM19:00

Pushkin's Fairy Tales / Moscow

Pushkin wrote the Fairy Tales at his country home Boldino between 1830 and 1834. The tales' sources vary from Russian folklore themes to Western tales. Written in verse, a humourous narrator alternates with dialogue of the characters. Rich symbolism and enigmatic structures and powerful imagery are central characteristics of these works. 

Robert Wilson’s production features original music by indiepop duo CocoRosie, who already collaborated with Wilson on Peter Pan (Berlin, 2013). Evgenyi Mironov, one of Russia's most celebrated actors, plays the great Russian poet Pushkin himself.

Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); CocoRosie (music); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Tilman Hecker (artistic collaboration); Annick Lavallée-Benny (co-set design); Julia von Leliwa (costumes); AJ Weissbard (co-light design); Roman Dolzhanskiy (dramaturgy).

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
23
6:00 PM18:00

The Threepenny Opera / Berlin

This seminal 1928 classic by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill was directed by Robert Wilson in 2007. In Wilson's production, the tale of Mackie Messer, Polly Peachum and the Whores of Turnbridge takes place in a setting that is influenced by German Expressionism and the shattering, seductive world of Weimar-era cabaret. 

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
22
7:00 PM19:00

The Threepenny Opera / Berlin

This seminal 1928 classic by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill was directed by Robert Wilson in 2007. In Wilson's production, the tale of Mackie Messer, Polly Peachum and the Whores of Turnbridge takes place in a setting that is influenced by German Expressionism and the shattering, seductive world of Weimar-era cabaret. 

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
21
7:30 PM19:30

The Threepenny Opera / Berlin

This seminal 1928 classic by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill was directed by Robert Wilson in 2007. In Wilson's production, the tale of Mackie Messer, Polly Peachum and the Whores of Turnbridge takes place in a setting that is influenced by German Expressionism and the shattering, seductive world of Weimar-era cabaret. 

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
8
7:30 PM19:30

La Traviata / Linz

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel 'The Lady of the Camellias' by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson's production of Violetta Valéry's tragic fate is his first work at the State Theater of Linz, Austria, one of the most modern operatic stages in Europe by architect Terry Pawson. 

Daniel Spaw, Takeshi Moriuchi (conductor), Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Stephanie Engeln (co-set design); Yashi (costumes); John Torres (light design); Konrad Kuhn, Wolfgang Haendeler (dramaturgy)

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Dec
6
2:00 PM14:00

1914 / Prague (last performance)

  • Národní Divadlo / The Estates Theatre (map)
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Robert Wilson combined Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Šveijk and Karl Kraus’ The Last Days of Mankind in his 1914 production which premiered at the Prague National Theater. The production features the legendary Czech opera singer and actress Soňa Červená, who has collaborated with Robert Wilson on many projects, notably The Black Rider (1990) and others.

The Good Soldier Švejk, the key novel of Czech literature and an ironic insight into war and its attendant absurdity, is creatively juxtaposed in this production with Karl Kraus’s satirical anti-war play The Last Days of Mankind. The modern-theatre wizard Robert Wilson transforms all this into a cabaret replete with scenic images, music and surprising humour in a parable not only of 1914 but also, and primarily, our life today, one hundred years after the outbreak of a terrible war that marked the real start of the 20th century. The powerful production about Europe, its optimists and pessimists (beneath the gaze of eternal Time), is a unique project in which–for the second time–the elite of Czech drama will join forces with an artist setting the direction of global theatre.
— Prague National Theater

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Dec
5
7:30 PM19:30

1914 / Prague

  • Národní Divadlo / The Estates Theatre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Robert Wilson combined Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Šveijk and Karl Kraus’ The Last Days of Mankind in his 1914 production which premiered at the Prague National Theater. The production features the legendary Czech opera singer and actress Soňa Červená, who has collaborated with Robert Wilson on many projects, notably The Black Rider (1990) and others.

The Good Soldier Švejk, the key novel of Czech literature and an ironic insight into war and its attendant absurdity, is creatively juxtaposed in this production with Karl Kraus’s satirical anti-war play The Last Days of Mankind. The modern-theatre wizard Robert Wilson transforms all this into a cabaret replete with scenic images, music and surprising humour in a parable not only of 1914 but also, and primarily, our life today, one hundred years after the outbreak of a terrible war that marked the real start of the 20th century. The powerful production about Europe, its optimists and pessimists (beneath the gaze of eternal Time), is a unique project in which–for the second time–the elite of Czech drama will join forces with an artist setting the direction of global theatre.
— Prague National Theater

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Dec
2
to Dec 3

1 Have You Been Here Before 2 No This Is The First Time / New York

2015 H. Peter Stern Lecture of the World Monuments Fund (WMF)

Join us for an intimate evening with Robert Wilson, one of the world’s foremost theater and visual artists, and an avant-garde visionary. Wilson invites us into his astonishing aesthetic universe with hundreds of striking images from throughout his prolific career, in an intimate self-portrait of his creative process.

The performance will reference Wilson’s landmark original works for the stage such as Deafman Glance, A Letter for Queen Victoria, Einstein on the Beach, The CIVIL warS, and The Black Rider, as well as his acclaimed work for the operatic and theatrical repertoire, including his luminous stagings of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, and Heiner Mueller’s Quartet.

To conclude the evening, audience members will be invited to explore the performance further during a Question and Answer session with Wilson.

More information can be found here.

The H. Peter Stern Lecture
The annual H. Peter Stern Lecture extends the legacy of long-time World Monuments Fund Trustee H. Peter Stern. As a student at Harvard, Peter Stern resolved to follow in the footsteps of the English historian and philosopher Arnold Toynbee and see what remained of all the world’s great civilizations. Honoring his long legacy of service to WMF, the H. Peter Stern Lecture presents speakers who explore civilization’s great places, continuing the cycle of intellectual curiosity, search, and inspiration that Peter Stern began many years ago.

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Nov
22
5:00 PM17:00

La Traviata / Linz

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel 'The Lady of the Camellias' by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson's production of Violetta Valéry's tragic fate is his first work at the State Theater of Linz, Austria, one of the most modern operatic stages in Europe by architect Terry Pawson. 

Daniel Spaw, Takeshi Moriuchi (conductor), Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Stephanie Engeln (co-set design); Yashi (costumes); John Torres (light design); Konrad Kuhn, Wolfgang Haendeler (dramaturgy)

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Nov
22
3:00 PM15:00

Faust I and II / Berlin

The German classic, Faust Part I and II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was Robert Wilson's second major collaboration on the stage with German rock star Herbert Grönemeyer after Leonce and Lena in 2003. Wilson and Grönemeyer chose an ensemble of 19 young actors and 8 live musicians, with the quirky Christopher Nell as Mephisto and the voices of Stefan Kurt and Angela Winkler as Earth Ghost and Homunculus.

Robert Wilson’s brilliant Faust fantasy is most entertainingly exciting and, despite all classical depth, pure agravic happiness.
— Irene Bazinger in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), April 24, 2015

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Nov
21
6:00 PM18:00

Faust I and II / Berlin

The German classic, Faust Part I and II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was Robert Wilson's second major collaboration on the stage with German rock star Herbert Grönemeyer after Leonce and Lena in 2003. Wilson and Grönemeyer chose an ensemble of 19 young actors and 8 live musicians, with the quirky Christopher Nell as Mephisto and the voices of Stefan Kurt and Angela Winkler as Earth Ghost and Homunculus.

Wilson and Grönemeyer’s version of Faust I and II at the Berliner Ensemble meets all our expectations, even if we’re expecting to be surprised. A thoroughly un-exhausting storybook of profoundness to swing and sway along.
— Ulrich Seidler in Frankfurter Rundschau, April 24, 2015

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Nov
18
7:30 PM19:30

La Traviata / Linz

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel 'The Lady of the Camellias' by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson's production of Violetta Valéry's tragic fate is his first work at the State Theater of Linz, Austria, one of the most modern operatic stages in Europe by architect Terry Pawson. 

Daniel Spaw, Takeshi Moriuchi (conductor), Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Stephanie Engeln (co-set design); Yashi (costumes); John Torres (light design); Konrad Kuhn, Wolfgang Haendeler (dramaturgy)

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Nov
15
4:00 PM16:00

The Threepenny Opera / Berlin

This seminal 1928 classic by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill was directed by Robert Wilson in 2007. In Wilson's production, the tale of Mackie Messer, Polly Peachum and the Whores of Turnbridge takes place in a setting that is influenced by German Expressionism and the shattering, seductive world of Weimar-era cabaret. 

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Nov
14
7:30 PM19:30

The Threepenny Opera / Berlin

This seminal 1928 classic by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill was directed by Robert Wilson in 2007. In Wilson's production, the tale of Mackie Messer, Polly Peachum and the Whores of Turnbridge takes place in a setting that is influenced by German Expressionism and the shattering, seductive world of Weimar-era cabaret. 

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Nov
12
7:30 PM19:30

La Traviata / Linz

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel 'The Lady of the Camellias' by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson's production of Violetta Valéry's tragic fate is his first work at the State Theater of Linz, Austria, one of the most modern operatic stages in Europe by architect Terry Pawson. 

Daniel Spaw, Takeshi Moriuchi (conductor), Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Stephanie Engeln (co-set design); Yashi (costumes); John Torres (light design); Konrad Kuhn, Wolfgang Haendeler (dramaturgy)

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Nov
8
7:30 PM19:30

La Traviata / Linz

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel 'The Lady of the Camellias' by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson's production of Violetta Valéry's tragic fate is his first work at the State Theater of Linz, Austria, one of the most modern operatic stages in Europe by architect Terry Pawson. 

Daniel Spaw, Takeshi Moriuchi (conductor), Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Stephanie Engeln (co-set design); Yashi (costumes); John Torres (light design); Konrad Kuhn, Wolfgang Haendeler (dramaturgy)

More information and tickets can be found here.

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Nov
7
7:00 PM19:00

[CANCELLED] Faust I and II / Hamburg

Robert Wilson's latest collaboration with the German rock star Herbert Grönemeyer, Goethe's entire Faust I and II,  is coming to the Hamburg Theater Festival and will be presented in a spectacular venue: the Mehr! Theater in Hamburg's Central Market, a futuristic building from the 1960s which was recently transformed into a state-of-the-art performing arts venue.

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Nov
6
7:00 PM19:00

[CANCELLED] Faust I and II / Hamburg

Robert Wilson's latest collaboration with the German rock star Herbert Grönemeyer, Goethe's entire Faust I and II,  is coming to the Hamburg Theater Festival and will be presented in a spectacular venue: the Mehr! Theater in Hamburg's Central Market, a futuristic building from the 1960s which was recently transformed into a state-of-the-art performing arts venue.

More information and tickets here.

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Oct
31
7:30 PM19:30

The Odyssey / Milan

"The great epic work of ancient Greek poetry tells the story of Odysseus’s journey home after the Trojan War and what happens when the hero arrives in Ithaca. Robert Wilson's encounter with Homer is one of the major artistic events of the season. One of the most influential and acclaimed artists in world theatre brings his own unique approach to the material. The sensitivity, inventiveness and imagination of the great American director resonate with the Homeric spirit, creating a spellbinding new theatrical language. Eighteen carefully chosen performers and Wilson's own internationally renowned collaborators bring all their artistry to bear on this unique venture, which is intended for all audiences, regardless of age or experience of the theatre."
National Theatre of Greece

More information here.

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Oct
31
7:30 PM19:30

La Traviata / Linz

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel 'The Lady of the Camellias' by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson's production of Violetta Valéry's tragic fate is his first work at the State Theater of Linz, Austria, one of the most modern operatic stages in Europe by architect Terry Pawson. 

Daniel Spaw, Takeshi Moriuchi (conductor), Robert Wilson (direction, set and light design); Nicola Panzer (co-direction); Stephanie Engeln (co-set design); Yashi (costumes); John Torres (light design); Konrad Kuhn, Wolfgang Haendeler (dramaturgy)

More information and tickets can be found here.

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