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THEATER BASEL CONTENTS WE’RE CELEBRATING
THEATER BASEL WE’RE CELEBRATING
We’re meeting our cultural neighbours Theaterplatz party
11 September 2021
By and with: Historisches Museum Basel kult.kino Kunsthalle Basel Literaturhaus Basel Offene Kirche Elisabethen S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum Sinfonieorchester Basel Stadtcasino Basel Stadtkino Basel Theater Basel the bird’s eye jazz club
The full programme will be published in August 2021
Free admission
A neighbourhood is celebrating culture
The Theaterplatz with its steps, levels and the world’s most famous carnival fountain will be transformed into the «Theaterplatz neighbourhood» together with the various local cultural institutions: a lively and polyphonic cultural venue right in the heart of Basel. And we want to celebrate the opening of this event with you! We and Historisches Museum Basel, kult.kino, Kunsthalle Basel, Literaturhaus Basel, Offene Kirche Elisabethen, S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseu, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Stadtcasino Basel, Stadtkino Basel and the bird’s eye jazz club will be opening our doors to you on Saturday 11 September. A whole day full of performances, happenings, performances, concerts, guided tours, food stalls and signature drink on and around the Theaterplatz.
Culture Drinks Neighbourhood
We’re celebrating all night New Year’s Eve
31 December 2021
Tickets and the full programme will be available from 1 October 2021
The perfect start to 2022
The hugely popular New Year’s Eve party at Theater Basel is back. When we are allowed to party, we party – and we party properly! Watch the ballet performance ‹Cow› on the Grosse Bühne, ‹Die Physiker› at the Schauspielhaus and a programme with Michael Elsener on the Kleine Bühne: Before everyone gathers in the foyer to enjoy a joyous programme. As the clock strikes twelve, we invite you to a midnight waltz on Theaterplatz between Serra’s sculpture and Tinguely fountain. And then it is time to really hit the dance floor: Dance with us until the theatre starts to quake!
Also on New Year’s Eve: ‹Carmina Burana› Cooperation between Sinfonieorchester Basel and Theater Basel 31.12.2021 Stadtcasino Basel 01.01.2022 Grosse Bühne, Theater Basel
Dancing Party New beginning
We’re celebrating our birthday 20 years of the Schauspielhaus
14 to 17 January 2022
The final programme will be published on 1 October 2021
A birthday weekend at Steinentorstrasse
The new Schauspielhaus officially opened with a ‹Hamlet› production on 17 January 2002. More than 150 premieres and 20 years later, artists, staff and audiences have long felt at home in the building designed by the Basel architect firm Schwarz Gutmann Pfister. More than reason enough to mark the anniversary by looking back and thanking the «first ladies» whose anonymous donation made construction possible in the first place. But also the present and the future of theatre and performance arts will be duly celebrated on the birthday weekend with a diverse programme!
Theatre New build Anniversary
We’re celebrating young opera singers 15 years of the OperAvenir
A production of ‹The Barber of Seville› will be staged between 8 May and 23 June 2022
Find more information on page 52
To mark the opera studio anniversary, we are letting the puppets take the lime light
For over 15 years, the OperAvenir opera studio has been an established institution boosting the careers of young singers. The special thing about this additional training: in-house opera productions and projects in which the stars of tomorrow can present themselves to a real audience. We’re celebrating the anniversary with an exceptional new production of Rossini’s fast-paced, classic opera buffa ‹The Barber of Seville›. In the production by Austrian director and puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan, the young ensemble shares the stage with life-size open-mouth puppets.
