Musical Theatre

Amber Fasquelle; Photo: Susanne Reichardt

Ks. Winfrid Mikus, Signe Heiberg, Ipča Ramanović, Elisabeth Wrede, Ks. Wilfried Staber; Photo: Susanne Reichardt

The Knight of the Rose

Next event: 31.5.26
17:00 → 21:00 h
Marguerre-Saal

Comedy in three acts by Richard Strauss

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Blow me down, Mozart!

First night this season

Next event: 9.6.26
19:30 → 20:50 h
Alter Saal

Opera comedy with the soloists of the music theatre ensemble

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Carmen

First night this season

Next event: 10.7.26
20:30 → 23:00 h
Schlosshof

Opera by Georges Bizet

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Programme

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New in season 2025/26
Song Soirees and Extras 2025/26
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New in season 2025/26

Lyrical Drama in four acts by Giacomo Puccini

Opening night: 28.9.2025
Marguerre-Saal

Tango operita in two parts by Astor Piazzolla

Opening night: 14.11.2025
Marguerre-Saal

La libertà contenta / Baroque opera in three acts by Agostino Steffani

Opening night: 28.11.2025
Rokokotheater Schwetzingen

Comedy in three acts by Richard Strauss

Opening night: 27.3.2026
Marguerre-Saal

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

Song Soirees and Extras 2025/26

Songs of the beginning and the end

21.9.2025
Alter Saal

Close-up: Two hands on the keys of a black piano — Photo: Susanne Reichardt

Shostakovich: Artist and Regime

Opening night: 11.10.2025
Zwinger 3

Lennart Kammler, Ks. Winfrid Mikus; Photo: Susanne Reichardt

Two tenors – two worlds

3.12.2025
Alter Saal

Songs by Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler and Alban Berg

15.2.2026
Alter Saal

Back in season 2025/26

Musical / Screenplay and adaptation by Betty Comden and Adolph Green / Songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed

First night this season: 24.10.2025
Marguerre-Saal

Comic opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini

First night this season: 18.12.2025
Marguerre-Saal

Theresa Immerz, Elisabeth Wrede, Anna Alàs i Jové, JoãoTerleira, Cecilia Ponteprimo, Herrenchor; Photo: Susanne Reichardt

Opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven

First night this season: 8.2.2026
Marguerre-Saal

Opera comedy with the soloists of the music theatre ensemble

First night this season: 9.6.2026
Alter Saal

Opera by Georges Bizet

First night this season: 10.7.2026
Schlosshof

Musical Theatre and Opera

The musical theatre and opera category of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg comprises a singer ensemble and the opera choir (in addition to the extra choir and children’s choir) as well as the Philharmonisches Orchester, making up a separate category in its function as concert orchestra.

The musical theatre and opera repertoire comprises works from all musical eras, reaching from Baroque to contemporary musical theatre and genre operas, operettas as well as musicals. The annual Baroque festival Winter in Schwetzingen rediscovers forgotten treasures of the opera and stages them in Schwetzingen’s Palace Rokokotheater.

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Répétiteur

Opera Director

Baritone

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The opera choir

The opera choir of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg puts on five to six new productions as well as two to three repertoire productions every season. It also stages concerts and forms part of bigger chorus and orchestra concerts, offering a broad ranged repertoire reaching from baroque operas during the festival Winter in Schwetzingen to world premieres as well as modern and contemporary works at Theater Heidelberg.
Members of the opera choir regularly take over smaller and bigger solo roles in opera productions.

23 singers belong to the opera choir of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg. An extra chorus of semi-professional singers supports them in bigger productions.

There is also a children’s and youth choir as well as a pre-choir to promote new singing talents.
The children’s and youth choir is part of the theatre’s opera productions on a regular basis. Solo parts (for children) are taken over by its members, for instance the three boys in Mozart’s »The Magic Flute«.

Florian Daniel has been directing the chorus since April 2025.

Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg

Heidelberg’s philharmonic orchestra, Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg, has been part of the city’s theatre since 2005. It forms its own division, staging numerous concerts and accompanying opera productions. The orchestra shapes the city’s musical life with its stylistic flexibility stretching from Baroque to Modernity as well as a broad variety of concert formats. It has twice been honoured with the award for »best concert programme« by the association of German music producers, Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband, and places a strong emphasis on pedagogical music promotion. Since 2006, Heidelberg’s philharmonic orchestra has been engaging with historic staging methods as part of the festival Winter in Schwetzingen. As part of Heidelberg’s women artists’ award, the Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis, and its concert programmes, the orchestra regularly reflects on the works of women composers.

The Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg was founded on 8th April 1889 as »Städtisches Orchester«.

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Musical Theatre

The Knight of the Rose

Blow me down, Mozart!

Carmen

Musical Theatre and Opera

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