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The fisherman and his wife: They once lived in an old hut and couldn’t seem to get anywhere. Well, where else could they go!? ‘My dear, doesn’t Ilsebill want things to be the way I do?’ – Something like that could never happen to us.


This (ancient) old, eccentric, crude tale of greedy insatiability? It’s got nothing to do with us. But why, then, does it move us so much? What if it were actually possible: ever further, ever higher, ever bigger! And yet, ever more dissatisfied. When is it time to stop dreaming, when suddenly every dream is within reach? ‘Once upon a time…’ becomes ‘here and now’. Aren’t we all a bit like Ilsebill?



Rapunzel


‘Rapunzel, let down your hair…’, words from a fairy tale that are at least as well-known as its authors, who committed them to writing for posterity. Everyone knows this fairy tale: a story of the fulfilment of one’s most cherished wishes and of first, great and everlasting love. But when we allow this fairy tale to become reality, it begins to take hold of us and suddenly the characters merge with us. All of a sudden, it is the fairy tale that observes and questions the audience. Everything is turned upside down and chasms open up that can only find expression in an opulent Baroque opera.


  • For adults only – admission from 14 years of age

IN GERMAN

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November 2026
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