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Programme 2025/26

 
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New in season Musical theatre

Manon Lescaut

Lyrical Drama in four acts by Giacomo Puccini
Opening night: 28.9.2025
Marguerre-Saal

María de Buenos Aires

Tango operita in two parts by Astor Piazzolla
Opening night: 14.11.2025
Marguerre-Saal

Alcibiades

La libertà contenta / Baroque opera in three acts by Agostino Steffani
Opening night: 28.11.2025
Rokokotheater Schwetzingen

The Knight of the Rose

Comedy in three acts by Richard Strauss
Opening night: 27.3.2026
Marguerre-Saal

Così fan tutte

Women are like that or The School for Lovers / Dramma giocoso in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Opening night: 22.5.2026
Marguerre-Saal

New in season Theatre

The Vegetarian

based on a text by Han Kang
Opening night: 19.9.2025
Alte Chirurgie

Propaganda

or: Are these really my thoughts that I’m thinking? / A Chilean-German theatre play by Juan Pablo Troncoso and Björn SC Deigner
Opening night: 3.10.2025
Alter Saal

The Broken Jug

by Heinrich von Kleist
Opening night: 18.10.2025
Marguerre-Saal

Always Coming Home

based on the novel by Ursula K. Le Guin
Opening night: 5.12.2025
Zwinger 1

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams
Opening night: 13.12.2025
Marguerre-Saal

Space Out

Revue with members of the music theatre and acting company
Opening night: 19.12.2025
Zwinger 1

Every Man Dies Alone

based on the novel by Hans Fallada
Opening night: 21.2.2026
Alter Saal

If the Widow Wishes to Be Addressed She Puts the Watering Can on the Grave with the Spout Facing Forward

based on the short stories by Saša Stanišić
Opening night: 27.2.2026
Zwinger 1

We Are Family

Overwriting Antiquity based on Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles by Tine Rahel Völcker
Opening night: 28.2.2026
Marguerre-Saal

On the Other Side of the Moon

based on motives from the world of Hilde Domin
Opening night: 18.4.2026
Marguerre-Saal

Asian Weeks

by Yannic Han Biao Federer
Opening night: 24.4.2026
Zwinger 1

Farewell Dinner

Comedy by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière
Opening night: 5.6.2026
Marguerre-Saal

Frankenstein

based on a novel by Mary Shelley
Opening night: 14.6.2026
Dicker Turm

Cyrano de Bergerac

Romantic comedy by Edmond Rostand
Opening night: 19.6.2026
Schlosshof

New in season Dance

Dance x 2

Dance evening in two parts with choreographies by Astrid Boons and Panzetti / Ticconi
Opening night: 12.10.2025
Zwinger 1

Bodies of Water

by Iván Pérez
Opening night: 30.1.2026
Marguerre-Saal

Space

Choreographies of DTH dancers
Opening night: 15.5.2026
Zwinger 1

The ugly duckling

Family play loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen [6+]
Opening night: 11.6.2026
Englischer Bau

New in season Young Theatre

Troy! Stowaways in a Trojan Horse

by Henner Kallmeyer [10+]
Opening night: 26.9.2025
Zwinger 3

The Little Witch

by Otfried Preußler [6+]
Opening night: 2.11.2025
Alter Saal

Krabat

by Otfried Preußler [12+]
Opening night: 30.11.2025
Zwinger 3

MINE and YOURS

A play development on sharing and owning [3+]
Opening night: 1.2.2026
Zwinger 3

Is That Fair? (WT)

by Armela Madreiter [10+]
Opening night: 22.3.2026
Zwinger 3

The ugly duckling

Family play loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen [6+]
Opening night: 11.6.2026
Englischer Bau

Philharmonic Concerts

Mythes

1st Philharmonic Concert / Maurice Ravel: »Alborada del gracioso« / Karol Szymanowski/Mino Marani: »Mythes« / Maurice Ravel: »Tzigane« / Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances op. 45 / Violin: Franziska Hölscher / Conductor: Mino Marani
8.10.2025
Heidelberg Congress Center
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Scene from a concert: visible is the row of woodwind players up to the horns, sharp, in the centre, the solo flautist and the solo oboist. All the musicians are playing their instruments, all wearing festive black concert dress.

Elegy

2nd Philharmonic Concert: Anna Clyne: »Within Her Arms« / Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor / Peter I. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 7 / Violoncello: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt / Conductor: Jamie Phillips
29.10.2025
Heidelberg Congress Center
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Scene from a concert, visible is the row of violins playing, all wearing festive concert dress.

Don Quixote

3rd Philharmonic Concert: Igor Stravinsky: »Feu d’artifice« / Maurice Ravel: »Don Quichotte à Dulcinée« / Maurice Ravel: »Rapsodie espagnole« / Richard Strauss: »Don Quixote« / Baritone: Giacomo Schmidt / Viola: Jonathan Kliegel / Violoncello: Johann Aparicio Bohórquez / Conductor: Mino Marani
10.12.2025
Heidelberg Congress Center
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Scene from a concert: a timpanist in dark concert dress is visible in half-profile, looking intently at his open sheet music and moving a mallet in each hand above his instrument.

Slightly Animated

4th Philharmonic Concert: Richard Strauss: Serenade in E-flat Major / Mario Venzago: Piano Concerto / Anton Bruckner: Symphony no. 2 / Piano: Claire Huangci / Conductor: Mario Venzago
21./22.1.2026
Konzerthaus Stadthalle Heidelberg
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Scene from a concert: Around 10 musicians from different string groups are visible, all in festive concert attire, in the centre of the picture a young cellist playing with concentration.

Ciel d’hiver

5th Philharmonic Concert: Kaija Saariaho: »Ciel d’hiver« / Oxana Omelchuk: »und alle flieger fliegen nach minsk« for Vocal Ensemble and Orchestra / Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5 / SCHOLA HEIDELBERG / Conductor: Ruth Reinhardt
25./26.2.2026
Konzerthaus Stadthalle Heidelberg
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Scene from a concert: view of the trumpet section, a trumpeter leans forward, looks at the sheet music and will start to play.

Winterreise

6th Philharmonic Concert / Hans Zender: Schuberts »Winterreise« – A composed interpretation for Tenor and Small Orchestra / Tenor: Julian Prégardien / Conductor: Mino Marani
8./9.4.2026
Konzerthaus Stadthalle Heidelberg
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Scene from a concert: In the centre of the picture is a young violist playing her instrument with concentration. Other musicians and string instruments can be recognised around her.

Lontano doloroso

7th Philharmonic Concert / Franz Schubert: Overture to »Die Zauberharfe« / Christian Jost: »Lontano doloroso« / Franz Schubert: Andante from the Symphony no. 10 / Jean Sibelius: Symphony no. 5 / Cor anglais: Dominik Wollenweber / Conductor: Christoph Altstaedt
29./30.4.2026
Konzerthaus Stadthalle Heidelberg
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Scene from a concert. View of the string section, in the centre a cellist in festive concert dress, playing his instrument with an expansive gesture.

Finale

8th Philharmonic Concert / Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Conductor: Mino Marani
17./18.6.2026
Konzerthaus Stadthalle Heidelberg
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Scene from a concert: A percussionist in festive concert attire holds two cymbals high in the air.

Bachchor Concerts

Hiob

1st Bachchor Concert / Carl Loewe: »Hiob« / Direction: Thomas Gropper
18.10.2025
Peterskirche
Photo: Florian Merdes

Gloria in excelsis

2nd Bachchor Concert / Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Nativitatis Domini / Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata »Gloria in excelsis Deo« / Conductor: Ines Kaun
20.12.2025
Peterskirche

St John Passion

3rd Bachchor Concert / Johann Sebastian Bach: St John Passion / Conductor: Thomas Gropper
21.2.2026
Peterskirche
Photo: Florian Merdes
Photo from inside St Peter's Church in Heidelberg: View through the nave into the rear part of the church with the small organ in the gallery.

Blessed

4th Bachchor Concert / Arnold Schönberg: »A Survivor from Warsaw« / Johannes Brahms: »A German Requiem« / Conductor: Dietger Holm
25.4.2026
Peterskirche
Photo: Florian Merdes
Shot from inside St Peter's Church. Across the rows of chairs, the focus of the picture is on a side chapel with the large organ.

Beethoven Concert series

BEEEEE

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 in C Minor op. 67 / Conductor and moderator: Mino Marani
15.10.2025
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up from a concert: A trombonist, visible in half-profile, plays his instrument, in the background you can see open sheet music on the music stands.

BEEEEEE

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 in F Major op. 68 / Conductor and moderator: Mino Marani
13.2.2026
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up from a concert: The head and upper arm of a violinist are visible in half-profile, the focus is on the instrument and the bow.

BEEEEEEE

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A Major op. 92 / Conductor and moderator: Mino Marani
14.4.2026
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up from a concert: a bassoonist playing his instrument is visible in profile, two bassoonists can be seen in the background.

BEEEEEEEE

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 8 in F Major op. 93 / Conductor and moderator: Mino Marani
29.5.2026
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up of a concert: the head and upper body of a violinist are visible, she is playing her instrument and looking attentively towards the conductor's podium. Other instrumentalists can be seen in the background.

Concerts for young audiences

Searching for the Stars

1st Piccolo Concert [0+]
13./15.2.2026
Zwinger 3
Photo: Annemone Taake
Details shot of a Cello

Dive in

2nd Piccolo Concert [0+]
7./8.6.2026
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt

The Big Orchestra Quiz Show

1st Family Concert [4+]
21.9.2025
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Timpani mallets of different sizes lie ready on a shelf.

Pictures at an Exhibition

2nd Family Concert / by Modest Mussorgsky / arranged for ten brass instruments by Stefan Kaundinya [4+]
1./2.2.2026
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up of a concert: A horn lies on the knees of a musician dressed in black.

Bertha Benz drives an automobile

3rd Family Concert / by Thomas Dorsch / Text by Joscha Schaback [6+]
3./5.7.2026
Marguerre-Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Szene aus einem Konzert. Im Vordergrund sind zwei kleine Becken sichtbar; im Hintergrund sieht man unscharf einige Instrumentalisten und Pulte.

Tutti pro: Brass!

1st Youth Concert / Tutti pro: Brass! [10+]
28.11./1.12.2025
Johannes-Brahms-Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up of a concert: music stands with open sheet music can be seen in a row, with brass instruments on the floor in front of them.

Ludwig van Beethoven: 6th Symphony

2nd Youth Concert / Ludwig van Beethoven: 6th Symphony [12+]
3./4.3.2026
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up of a concert: a music stand can be seen in the centre of the picture, a hand can be seen from the left, opening the sheet music. Instruments and musicians can be recognised in the background.

Ludwig van Beethoven: 7th Symphony

3rd Youth Concert / Ludwig van Beethoven: 7th Symphony [11+]
15.4.2026
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up of a concert: a music stand with open sheet music fills the frame and is shot from the front. An arm holding a violin protrudes into the picture from the right-hand side - they are out of focus, the focus is on the sheet music.

Chamber Concerts

Arioso

Celebratory Concert 50 anniversary of Chamber Concerts / Paul Hindemith: Clarinet Quintet op. 30 / Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet no. 1
8.11.2025
Palais Prinz Carl
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up of a concert: a clarinet is being played, the instrument and the hands of a musician are visible in profile, in the background are open sheet music.

Caprice

1st Chamber Concert / Adolf Mišek: Trio – To the Taste of a Bachelor / Adrien-François Servais: »Caprice« for 2 cellos / Johann Sebastian Bach: Chaconne BWV 1004 / Eugène Ysaÿe: Sonata for 2 Violins solo op. posth.
9.11.2025
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up of a concert: Two violins are being played - only the instruments and the hands of the musicians are visible.

Vivace

2nd Chamber Concert / Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to »Egmont« op. 84 / Johann Joachim Quantz: Sonata for three Flutes in D Major / Paul Dukas: »The Sorcerer’s Apprentice« / Enrique Crespo: Bruckner Etude for Low Brass / Grażyna Bacewicz: Suite for two violins / Gustav Holst: »Jupiter«
9.11.2025
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up of a concert: The hands of a drummer playing a triangle are visible. Other percussion instruments can be seen in the background.

Energico

3rd Chamber Concert / Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for violoncello and piano in D Minor / Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Piano Trio no. 2
8.2.2026
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up: Two hands on the keys of a black piano

Moderato

4th Chamber Concert / Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for viola and piano / Paul Juon: Trio Miniatures / Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet no. 8
15.3.2026
Alter Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt

Andantino

5th Chamber Concert / Richard Strauss: Sextet for strings from the opera »Capriccio« / Franz Schubert: Sonata for violin and piano in A Major / Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Quartet No. 2
17.5.2026
Alter Saal
Photo: Annemone Taake
Details shot of a Cello

Concerts for the turn of the year

In the firestream from the vines

New Year’s Concert with works by Franz von Suppè, Franz Liszt, Johann Strauß, George Enescu and Emmerich Kálmán
1.1.2026
Marguerre-Saal
Photo: Susanne Reichardt

In the firestream from the vines

New Year’s Eve Concert with works by Franz von Suppè, Franz Liszt, Johann Strauß, George Enescu and Emmerich Kálmán
31.12.2025
Heidelberg Congress Center
Photo: Samuel Solazzo and Jannis Uffrecht
Group photo of the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra. The instrumentalists, who number around 60, are wearing festive concert dress, many of them holding their instruments in their hands. They stand in three rows, one behind the other on platforms of different heights, in front of an outer wall of the Heidelberg Congress Center, which is recognisable by the characteristic colour and texture of the coloured sandstone.

Spielzeitheft 2025/26

Here you can download the season booklet with all the information about the 2025/26 season.
 

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