Aachen, Germany
Theater Aachen is the municipal theatre of Aachen, housed in a neo-baroque building from 1825 that was rebuilt after World War II. It stages opera, operetta, musicals, ballet, and drama across its main house and the smaller Kammerspiele. The young Herbert von Karajan was among its notable conductors in the 1930s and 40s.
😴 Nothing scheduled here in the near future.
A Theater Aachen production developed by its own staff, examining the fraught relationship between the institution and its audience - from glowing praise to furious complaints, with irony and self-reflection.
Lucy Kirkwood's play pits two sisters against each other - a CERN physicist and a Luton insurance saleswoman - and asks whether people without reason or responsibility are as dangerous as mosquitoes. Directed by Jenke Nordalm at Theater Aachen.
Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, directed by Anaïs Durand-Mauptit at Theater Aachen, sets the 500-year-old tragedy alongside questions about how we love today and what modern relationships look like.
Bartók's one-act expressionist opera staged as a semi-scenic film-light production with video projections by award-winning filmmaker Sascha Vredenburg - sung in German with surtitles.
A chamber concert featuring works by Jörg Widmann, Franz Schubert, Francis Poulenc, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, united by the themes of the fragment, late-period writing, and musical transformation.
A musical show for young children based on the beloved book by Werner Holzwarth and Wolf Erlbruch about the little mole who wants to know who did it on his head. Before and after the performance, kids draw, craft, and get to try the instruments with the musicians.
Henrik Albrecht's orchestral retelling of the children's classic "War of the Buttons" brings narrators and instruments together as equal storytellers - a concert for families with children.
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved musical about Eliza Doolittle's transformation from Cockney flower girl to polished lady, performed in English with German surtitles at Theater Aachen.
An exclusive dinner on the stage of Theater Aachen, complete with a sparkling wine reception, surprise performances by the theater's artists, and a live art auction.
Soprano Jelena Rakić and pianist Younghee Hwang perform Lili Boulanger's song cycle "Clairières dans le ciel" - a tribute to the first woman ever to win the Prix de Rome.
A premiere at Theater Aachen developed by the company's own staff - a witty, self-critical evening about the fraught relationship between a theatre and its audience, and the fine line between feedback and insult.
World premiere of the opera "Malina" based on Ingeborg Bachmann's novel, commissioned by Theater Aachen. The production combines music and drama, exploring themes of patriarchy and artistic silence.