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The international hit musical Tina – The Tina Turner Musical has landed in Switzerland as part of its recent UK and Ireland tour. In the city where Tina Turner spent her final years, the show gains a striking sense of immediacy. Seamlessly adapted for touring, the production proves it can more t…
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MARY PAGE MARLOWE Play by Tracy Letts Translated by Anna Opel Swiss Premiere
«See the shark with teeth like razors. All can read his open face.» With the legendary «Ballad of Mac the Knife» and 21 other songs «The Threepenny Opera» started a new genre of musical theatre. Written for 22 instruments, played by a nine-piece salon orchestra and sung by...
Dostoyevsky’s partly autobiographical novel about an obsessive gambler is heightened musically in Sergei S. Prokofiev’s opera «The Gambler»: with its relentless driving energy Prokofiev’s composition portrays a society in the grip of a fever, putting itself at stake by...
Basel blickt auf eine langjährige Tradition im Bereich des Unterhaltungstheaters zurück – mit Küchlins Varieté-Theater im Zentrum, in dem zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts glanzvolle Revuen und Operetten mit internationalen Stars zur Aufführung kamen. An diese Tradition knüpft die...
KASPAR HAUSER Play by Olga Bach World Premiere/Commissioned Play
ROMULUS THE GREAT Play by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Die Regierungsform der direkten Demokratie ist ein europäischer Sonderfall. Ein Privileg für Bürger_innen, das allerdings auch zur Meinungsbildung und Mitbestimmung verpflichtet. Sie funktioniert besonders dann, wenn möglichst viele unterschiedliche Meinungen angehört und...
A production by Opera Vlaanderen and the Aalto Theater Essen, newly staged for Theater Basel. In German with German and English surtitles. Recommended ages: 14 and over A gripping psychological thriller about revenge, obsession and madness. Richard Strauss’ masterpiece –...
When happens when you suddenly find yourself eye to eye with your double who claims your identity? Sosias, the servant to the Theban general Amphitryon, reacts to this situation with confident pragmatism. Though the stranger is threatening to beat him, he remains sure of...
