The Staatsoperette Dresden has planned five premieres for the new season and will have a new musical director and chief conductor in the American Michael Elllis Ingram. In addition, Matthias Reichwald completes the artistic management team as leading director, the stage announced in Dresden on Thursday. The season runs under the motto "Life is a Cabaret" and aims to be both entertaining and political. To kick things off on August 30, the focus will be on Cuba with a "Night in Havana". This is the name the Staatsoperette has given its summer night ball. The audience can also look forward to the first premiere - the musical comedy of mistaken identity "You are me" by Cuban composer Moïses Simons.
The other premieres of the season are the Broadway classic "Show Boat" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein from 1927, Emmerich Kálmán's "Bajadere", the musical "Cabaret" by John Kander (music) and Joe Masteroff (book) and the operetta "Ball im Savoy" by Paul Abraham. "Our season motto 'Life is a Cabaret' describes the existential uncertainty that arises for all of us as human beings when our own lives are suddenly determined by crises, wars and political upheaval - and at the same time the attempt to face it all with laughter," explained artistic director Kathrin Kondaurow. They want to explore this in different ways and encourage discourse, exchange, empathy and laughter.
Dresden's Mayor of Culture Annekatrin Klepsch (Left Party) believes that the State Operetta is an ideal stage to facilitate encounters. "In times of political crises, social upheaval and spreading hatred, it is all the more important that there are places that bring people together in the city and allow the diversity and ambivalences of life to be experienced on stage in an entertaining way."
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