The opera opens on September 21st with Mozart’s “Magic Flute”, and two commissioned works will be premiered in this genre: “Il Viaggio” by Alois Bröder and “Our Children of the Night” by Helmut Jasbar. There will be a reunion with the internationally acclaimed director Peter Konwintschny, he is directing Leos Janacek’s “The Cunning Vixen”, director Hermann Schneider will be responsible for directing Richard Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman”.
The already proven hit producer in operettas, director and Lehar festival director Thomas Enzinger, was once once more able to be engaged for a work by Franz Lehar: He is staging “Paganini” (from October 12th).
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This is department director David Bösch’s first season in acting. He opens his first Linz season with his own production of William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”. Bösch is also bringing “The Escape” by Lida Winiewicz and Ernst Waldbrunn to the stage. The comedy “Trilogy of Summer Freshness” comes from the Upper Austrian playwright Franzobel (following Goldoni), which premieres on October 5th.
In the musical there is, among other things, a reunion with a quarrel with this art form: After 2008, when Karl M. Sibelius delivered a magnificent production of this work by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler at the Schauspielhaus, Simon Eichenberger will be performing the classic once more from February 15, 2025 a dark event.
In dance, TANZLINZ boss Roma Janus is bringing the choreographers Emanuel Gat and Sido Larbi Cherkaoui to Linz. Gat’s “Lovetrain 2.0” will be on stage from October 26th, Cherkaoui’s Fall/Orbo Novo can be seen in the Great Hall from March 1st.
All productions at a glance:
Opera/operetta
- The Magic Flute, opera by Wolfgang A. Mozart, from September 21st, Great Hall Music Theater (MTh). Musical direction (ML): Ingmar Beck, direction (R): François De Carpentries
- Paganinioperetta by Franz Lehar, from October 12th, Great Hall MTh, ML: Marc Reibel, R: Thomas Enzinger
Il Viaggio (UA) – The Light from the Other House, The Journey, two one-act operas by Alois Bröder, from October 19th, BlackBox MTh, ML: Jinie Ka, R: Gregor Horres - Resumption: The batcomic operetta by Johann Strauss, from October 25th. Great Hall MTh, ML: Marc Reibel, R: Thomas Enzinger
- Madama ButterflyJapanese opera tragedy by Giacomo Puccini, from December 7th, Great Hall MTh, ML: nnb (not yet named), D: Isabel Osterman
- The Sacred Duck – a game with gods and menopera by Hans Gal, from December 14th, BlackBox MTh, ML: Ingmar Beck, R: Gregor Horres.
- Our children at night (UA), a musical story by Helmut Jasbar (ages 12 and up), from January 19, 2025, Great Hall MTh, ML: Ingmar Beck, R: Hermann Schneider
- The Flying Dutchmanromantic opera by Richard Wagner, from January 25th, 2025, Great Hall MTh, ML: Markus Poschner, R: Hermann Schneider
- The wonderful effect of naturecomic opera by Giuseppe Scarlatti, from February 8, 2025, BlackBox MTh, ML: nnb, R: Gregor Horres
- The cunning vixenopera by Leo Janacek, from March 29, 2025, Great Hall MTh, ML: Markus Poschner, R: Peter Konwitschny
- Papageno and the Magic Fluteopera by Wolfgang A. Mozart in a version for little people (ages 6 and up), from April 13, 2025, Great Hall MTh, ML: Jinie Ka, R: François De Carpentries
- Guillaume Tell (Wilhelm Tell)opera by Gioachino Rossini, from May 17, 2025, Great Hall MTh, ML: Enrico Calesso, R: Georg Schmiedleitner
Musical
- Wonderland (EE, DSE) by Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy, Jennifer Paulson-Lee & Gabriel Barre, from September 8th, Great Hall MTh, ML: Tom Bitterlich, R: Christoph Drewitz
- Somethin Rotte! (DSE) – Hamlet or Omelette, that is the question from Karey Kirkpatrick, Wayne Kirkpatrick, John O’Farrel, from November 16th, Great Hall MTh, ML: Tom Bitterlich, R: Matthias Davids
- Sweeney Todd, Barber of Horrors of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, from February 15, 2025, Great Hall MTh, ML: Tom Bitterlich, R: Simon Eichenberger
- Rent by Jonathan Larson, from April 26, 2025, Schauspielhaus, R: David Bösch
dance
- Lovetrain 2.0dance piece by Emanuel Gat, music: Tears for Fears, from October 26th, Great Hall MTh, choreography/light: Emanuel Gat
- Fall/ Orobo Novo (ÖE), Musik: Arvo Pärt/ Szymon Brzoska, ab 1/3/2025, Großer Saal MTh, ML: Marc Reibel, R/Choreografie: SL Cherkaoui
- Living Room – a double dance eveningfrom May 18, 2025, BlackBox MTh, choreography/D: TANZ LINZ
play
- A lot of noise regarding nothingcomedy by William Shakespeare, from September 14, 2024, Schauspielhaus, R: David Bösch
Oh God! Comedy by Anat Gov, from September 20, 2024, Kammerspiele, R: Guy Ben-Aharon - Summer resort trilogy (UA), comedy by Franzobel, following Carlo Goldoni, from October 5th, 2024, Schauspielhaus, R: Matthias Rippert.
- Love affair by Arthur Schnitzlercooperation with the Salzkammergut Festival Weeks, from October 25th, Kammerspiele, R: Anna Stiepani
- The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, from December 6th, Schauspielhaus, R: Susanne Lietzow
- Monte Rosa von Teresa Doppler, ab 15. 12., Studiobühne Promenade, Director: Valeria Popp
- The Broken Circle (ÖE) by Johan Heldenbergh and Mieke Dobbels, from February 1, 2025, Kammerspiele, R: Sara Ostertag
- Die Tonight, live forever – or the Nosferatu principle (ÖE) von Sivan Ben Yishai, ab 2. 2. 2025, Studiobühne Promenade, R: Johanna Ziemer
- The boss of the whole thing (ÖE), comedy by Lars von Trier, from February 28, 2025, Schauspielhaus, R: Stephanie Mohr
James Brown wore curlers, comedy by Yasmina Reza, from March 21, 2025, Kammerspiele, R: Fanny Brunner - Conversations with astronautscomedy by Felicia Zeller, from April 12, 2025, Studiobühne Promenade, R: Joachim Gottfried Goller
- The escape by Lidia Winiewicz and Ernst Waldbrunn, from May 10, 2025, Kammerspiele, R: David Bösch
- Undiscovered worldscooperation with the Schäxpir Festival, June 2025
Young theater
- Young classic – Romeo & JulietShort Cuts following Shakespeare, version by Nele Neitzke, (13+), from September 15, 2024, Studiobühne Promenade, R: N. Neitzke
- Patricks Trick von Kristo Agor (10+), ab 28. 9. , Studiobühne, R: Heidelinde Leutgöb.
- Puss in Boots (ÖE) by Thomas Freyer, based on the Brothers Grimm (6+), from November 17th, Kammerspiele, R: Nele Neitzke
- The Lionheart Brothers, by Astrid Lindgren, edited by Eva Sköld (9+), from January 12, 2025, Kammerspiele, R: Jens Kerbel
- The little Prince (ÖE) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, edited by Thorsten Bihegue (6+), from February 25, 2025, Studiobühne Promenade, R: Veronika Haider
- Around the cornerby Bernhard Studlar (3+), from March 23, 2025, Vestibül Kammerspiele D: Anna-Katharina Wurz
- Point Nemo (ÖE), by Annika Scheffel (13+), from April 13, 2025, Kammerspiele, R: Martin Philip
UA: premiere, EE: European premiere, ÖE: Austrian premiere, DSE: German-language premiere
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Author
Peter Grubmüller
Head of Culture Department
Peter Grubmüller
