Picture credits Rolf Arnold: https://www.schauspiel-leipzig.de/spielplan/a-z/der-besuch-der-alten-dame/
Carmen
January 13 & 20
Ballet
Opera Leipzig
https://www.oper-leipzig.de/en/programm/carmen/439
„Ballet by Mirko Mahr | Music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Konstantinowitsch Shchedrin.
Carmen is the personification of the ill-fated woman. Mirko Mahr uses the sensual language of dance to retell Carmen’s pure provocation against society as a timeless myth to an adolescent audience.“
The Visit (by Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
January 13 & 22
Theatre
Schauspiel Leipzig
With English subtitles
„The city of Güllen was once rich. Now she is looking into the abyss of financial bankruptcy. There is a threat of sell-off and seizure. In this fatal situation, the residents expect nothing more — except for a visit from an old lady, the multi-millionaire Claire Zachanassian. She takes to the stage in her hometown with a quirky entourage of butlers, gangsters and the company of her husband no. 7. Claire proposes a lucrative deal, a deal that promises money for the city. New wealth on a single condition: a billion for the corpse of her former lover Alfred Ill.”
Romeo and Juliet
January 7, 18 & 26
Theatre
Schauspiel Leipzig
With English subtitles
„Everything is based on a dispute between two families, which has become so entrenched that the reason is no longer an issue. To their ridicule, the families’ only children become lovers. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and fall in love at first sight. The parents’ argument does not prevent them from being together: they get married in secret. This could be an occasion for reconciliation of both camps. But their promise to each other is put to the test: Juliet is to marry another man, Romeo is pushed into a fight with her cousin and becomes his murderer. […] But none of this stops the lovers from wanting to be together. Even the last frontier, the most radical decision because it is irreversible, both choose to be united forever.”