Welcome to Staatstheater Hannover! All dates can be found in our calendar. We hope you will enjoy browsing and discovering our programme!

The young businessman Hoffmann has married into an engineering company and has assured his own status and prosperity, which he defends with right-wing populist statements. His pregnant wife Martha oscillates between depression and the bliss of motherhood. When journalist Alfred Loth, who writes for a left-wing weekly newspaper, descends on his former college friend Hoffmann, the cracks in the foundations of this successful society become evident ... As one of the most frequently performed contemporary dramatists, Ewald Palmetshofer has brought Gerhart Hauptmann’s classic social criticism surprisingly close to our present times. 

Radically meditative, expressively playful or as a futuristic dance installation – Liliana Barros, Aszure Barton and Sharon Eyal have found their unique language of movement. Liliana Barros captivates the audience with her spirited, bizarre and technically sophisticated movement vocabulary. By simultaneously respecting and dismantling classical and contemporary forms, Aszure Barton presents a dynamic, intricate, and layered movement vocabulary that expresses the vulnerability, power, and complexity of the human body. The prominent choreographer Sharon Eyal is known for her minimalist aesthetics, her repetitive and complex movement patterns and the rapid and unpredictable changes of direction in her pieces.

Two teenagers madly in love with each other, an irresolvable social conflict that separates them, a sleeping draught that is meant to be their salvation and ends up bringing death – Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story of all times. The opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi tells the story from its Italian sources and with a fresh perspective: It focusses on the final 24 hours in the lives of Romeo and Juliet, whose name is Giulietta in this version, and on the constraints of Giulietta’s home life. Grand emotions unfold: With its cuttingly sweet arias and songs, the story gets deeper under our skins than any Shakespearean line.

Just bring your friends along on your next theatre visit! In addition to each full-price ticket, you can purchase up to five discounted tickets. This applies to selected performances of Staatstheater Hannover.