Landestheater Linz

The new repertoire seeks answers to our times

"Die Fledermaus" will be performed again from October 25, 2024

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Hermann Schneider presented the upcoming 2024/25 season at the Landestheater Linz under the motto "How do I want to live". A total of 39 new productions, including four world premieres and seven Austrian premieres, will be shown in the fields of drama, dance, musicals, opera and young theater starting in autumn.

Wars, climate change, social challenges - the theater does not look away: "Freedom and openness, respect and tolerance are the values of a world in which we can and want to live. This is shown and reflected in the works in all sections and genres of the new season," says Hermann Schneider, who has put together his ninth season as artistic director of the Landestheater Linz.

The theme running through 39 new productions is the question "How do I want to live". Politicians are also impressed: "The motto is a stroke of luck in the current very challenging times," says Governor Thomas Stelzer, who is excited because David Bösch will also be the new director of the theater from autumn 2024.

The celebration is followed by remembrance
He has already left his mark twice on the repertoire. He is staging Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" (from September 14) at the start of the season: "With imagination and lightness and poetry," he says in the "Krone" talk show. The production, with which Bösch introduces himself to the Linz audience, not only heralds the start of the drama season, but also kicks off a four-day theater festival. And on May 10, he will stage "The Flight" by Lida Winiewicz - to mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War: "My personal guidelines for the drama season are emotion and compassion."

Hermann Schneider (right), David Bösch

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Great operas and musicals, world stars on the dance floor
Chief conductor Markus Poschner is particularly looking forward to Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" (from 25 January 2025) and Leoš Janaček's opera "The Cunning Vixen": "I've had this opera on my 'menu' for a long time." Other highlights: "The Magic Flute" and "Madama Butterfly". In the musical section, the classic "Sweeney Todd" stands out, while world stars choreograph dance, including Emanuel Gat in "Lovetrain 2.0".

In the Junges Theater, you can look forward to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince" - or the family fairy tale "Puss in Boots" at Christmas time.

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Ticket prices vary depending on the day of the week
"We are euphoric right now, because we have already sold 16,351 subscriptions this year," says a delighted Thomas Königstorfer, Commercial Director of the Landestheater Linz. That is almost as many as in 2014 when the music theater opened.

Tickets will nevertheless be more expensive next season, albeit "below the rate of inflation. We are even keeping the prices for our own musical productions below 100 euros." Dance prices will not be raised at all. And he gives a tip: "Tickets are cheaper on some days of the week".

Advance sales for the 2024/25 season start today.