Opera

Cabaret

John Kander / Fred Ebb / Joe Masteroff

Berlin at the end of the 1920s: Lurid red-light districts, pleasure-seeking night owls, shady bars and jazz. The locals love and live as if there were no tomorrow. Every evening in the Kit Kat Club, Sally Bowles proclaims her maxim that »Life is a Cabaret«: reality is just a stage and everything on it is a game.

Falling in love with her, the American writer Clifford Bradshaw wants them to move in together. But Sally shuts her eyes to the reality of the world, preferring to dream of a great stage career where life is glittering and effortless. In this staging of Kander & Ebb’s musical »Cabaret« from 1966 at Semper Zwei, the audience become guests at the dazzling Kit Kat Club. You are invited to dance on the volcano: »Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!«

Vocal texts by Fred Ebb, Music by John Kander
Based on the book by Joe Masteroff on the play Ich bin eine Kamera by John Van Druten and tales of Christopher Isherwood

German by Robert Gilbert

Premiere
6. April 2018,

No further performances in the current season.

Premiere cast

Bühnenbild & Kostüme Timo Dentler, Okarina Peter
Dramaturgy Stefan Ulrich, Sonja Westerbeck
Choreography Natalie Holtom
Conductor Max Renne
Staging Manfred Weiß
Fräulein Schneider Brigitte Roth, Sabine Brohm
Herr Schultz Gerald Hupach, Martin-Jan Nijhof
Kit Kat Girls Marleen Jakob, Myriam Küppers, Manja Stein, Isabel Waltsgott, Mareike Zupp
Kit Kat Boys Christopher Basile, Sheldon Baxter, Christopher Wernecke, Daniel Wernecke
Clifford Bradshaw Simeon Esper
Conférencier Aaron Pegram
Sally Bowles Julia Gámez Martín
Fräulein Kost Manja Stein
Ernst Ludwig Rüdiger Hauffe

Reduced orchestral version
Project Orchestra