Performer: Heike Wessels

Nationaltheater Mannheim's new production of Brecht and Weill's collaboration is a true company achievement and a thrilling evening of music and theatre.

Henze's operatic magnum opus is thrillingly brought to life in the National Theatre's new production.

Strauss’ Die Frau Ohne Schatten is perhaps his most problematic opera, in that it contains all that is best and worst in him, to the most maddening degrees.

Unter einem Macht und Ohnmacht evozierenden Orchesterklang gelingt dem Schweizer Regisseur Roger Vontobel eine Gesellschaftsanalyse, die in ihrer feinsinnigen Bildwelt aktueller scheint denn je.