Overview

• Staatstheater Cottbus inaugurates the season with a festakt followed by a free open-air highlights concert in Park Branitz featuring music-theatre singers, the opera chorus and the Philharmonic Orchestra.
• The Park Branitz program previews repertoire highlights including Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Prokofiev’s Cinderella ballet music.
• Frankfurt (Oder)’s Kleist-Forum sets a multi-genre lineup spanning opera to poetry slam, with Die Fledermaus featuring Boris Aljinovic, Phädras Ehre with Sophie Rois and an opening theatre festival.
• Neue Bühne Senftenberg starts in late September at the listed Niederlausitzhalle with seven evenings before renovation, including the festival play Aktivist that combines acting, sports choreography, music and a large puppet.
• Potsdam’s Hans Otto Theater opens in September with the premiere Also träumen wir mit hellwacher Vernunft about Christa Wolf, described as linking a poet’s life with a chronicle of the GDR alongside further classics on the schedule.