Highlights of the 25/26 theater season in Luxembourg

With a record of around 57,000 tickets 2024/25 sold, the Grand Théâtre and the Théâtre des Capucins pass into a new season. The promises top -class between opera, dance and drama – with new formats, old fabrics and current questions. Attention: As already in the Philharmonie and in the Théâtre National du Luxembourg, the evening performances start from autumn at 7.30 p.m. 15 highlights from the diverse program – a subjective selection from a very personal look.

Opera and music theater

1. « Idomeneo, Re di Crreta » From Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart promises a musical triad of genius, sound art and stage art: Mozart, the Luxembourg Philharmonic under Fabio Biondi, and the Japanese installation artist Chiharu Shiota, whose poetic-bland image world framens the baroque drama for love, guilt and sacrifice. The staging is by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

2. « Sweat. A Musclical » From the Rimini Protocol as part of the « Rainy Days » festival: In cooperation with the « Rainy Day » festival, the Rimini Protocol collective transforms the stage into a sweaty music laboratory and fitness equipment. Between pop and performance, endurance and avant -garde, an unusual sound experience is created about our handling of body, rhythm and pressure to perform.

3. « To our sisters, our brothers »: What could only be shown incompletely in 2022 due to the pandemeie is now returned twice. In the former EU plenary hall on the Kirchberg, Michel de Souza first recites excerpts from the European Convention on Human Rights, then goes along with the tram into the Grand-Théâtre, where the soloist personally turns into death: in Viktor Ullmann’s oppressive chamber opera « The emperor of Atlantis », written in the THERESIE city. Two places, an evening and a strong sign. It plays the Orchestre de Chambre de Luxembourg.

Dance and movement

4. « Sensorial symphonies » by Elisabeth Schilling: How do plants perceive the world? Elisabeth Schilling asks this poetic question dancing – to match the Luga. Six dancers merge with plant sounds, woven live with Rachmaninov’s second piano concert and a new composition by Pascal Schumacher, interpreted by Lucilin.

5. « Schwanensee » by Matthew Bourne: A milestone of the contemporary dance celebrates the 30th anniversary and finally comes to Luxembourg. Instead of delicate swans, Matthew Bourne dances a dangerous, male ensemble. A queer reading of the classic that does not ignore Tchaikovsky’s reality of life, but translates in motion.

6. « Post orientalist express » by Eun-me ancestor. Colors, myths, pop! Eun-me ancestors breaks borders. The South Korean choreographer returns with a new piece that merges dance, shamanism and contemporary art into an ecstatic ritual.

German spectacle

7. « Two men on the beach » After Michael Köhlmeier: In this profound, humorous stage version based on Michael Köhlmeier’s novel, two giants meet for the beach walk, Chaplin and Churchill, combined in melancholy. Luc Feit and Steve career play in this co -production with the Escher theater about depression, humor and the on.

8. « Connemara » By Nicolas Mathieu: Hélène, a modern Madame Bovary, is in the void between career and longing for life. Brigitte Urhausen embodies it finely nuanced in this co-production with the State Theater Mainz according to a text by the Prix Goncourt winner.

9. « 1984 » by George Orwell: Totalitarian surveillance, ban on love, language control – Luk Perceval and the Berlin Ensemble bring George Orwell’s dystopia to the stage in an intensive staging. The question remains burning: How much resistance fits in two hearts?

French theater

10. « Ivanov » by Anton Chekhov: An antihero is looking for sense. Czechows Ivanov stumbles through everyday life and through your own inner emptiness. Myriam Mullers staging from 2022 shows life as a constant stumbling between banality and beauty. After the resumption, the play will go on tour to Rennes and Montpellier in 2026.

11. « Les Suppliantes » by Aischyllos. Asylum, power and humanity are the focus of this ancient Greek material. The Danaids, on the run from forced marriage, ask for protection in Aischyllos’ the pleaders. Eugénie Anselin and Raoul give the ancient choir a voice – for a Europe that has to stand up to its values.

12. « Le Procès de Jeanne »: Director Yves Beaunesne brings a musical-lyrical stage design full of choir passages, projections and sound textures. A Jeanne who rises against clericals and feudal power as a voice of those who have none.

Experimental and multilingual

13. « Echo » by Nassim Soleimanpour. No rehearsals, no text – just trust. In each performance, one actor enters the stage without knowing what’s coming. The Iranian director Nassim Soleimanpour, switched on live from Berlin, creates a theater about the unpredictable, about migration, identity and struggle with the present.

14. « Pessoa » by Robert Wilson. The thousandsassa of theater art takes care of the polyphonic work of Fernando Pessoas, including its heteronymous Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and Alberto Caeiro. Between « Book of Unrest » and « Faust », the stage play promises a fascinating mirror play of the ego and a poetic puzzle of light, language and music.

15. « Faustx » By Brett Bailey: South African director Brett Bailey puts Goethe’s « Faust II » into the present time. Here the pact negotiates questions of geopolitical power, global exploitation and European responsibility. A razor -sharp reinterpretation in which Faust becomes a colonialist that hurts and shakes.

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The entire program of the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg can be found here: www.theatres.lu