Omer Meir Wellber conducts two new productions at the Hamburg State Opera (March 2026)
In March, two new productions under the musical direction of Omer Meir Wellber will be staged at the Hamburg State Opera: On March 1, »Peter und der Wolf von St. Pauli« (Peter and the Wolf of St. Pauli) will premiere at Schmidts Tivoli. This will be followed on March 15 by »Die große Stille« (The Great Silence), a musical theater project that reinterprets Mozart’s music in a futuristic context.
Peter und der Wolf von St. Pauli (Peter and the Wolf of St. Pauli)
With Peter and the Wolf of St. Pauli, the Philharmonic State Orchestra and Schmidts Tivoli are jointly bringing one of the most spectacular criminal cases in the history of the Hanseatic city to the stage – the wolf here is the neighborhood killer Werner “Mucki” Pinzner, who terrorized Hamburg’s red-light district in the 1980s. General Music Director Omer Meir Wellber, journalist Axel Brüggemann and Martin Lingnau, composer and artistic director at Schmidt, reopen the case using original documents, witness statements, images and films, transforming it into a musical stage thriller set to Prokofiev’s world-famous music.
Peter and the Wolf of St. Pauli tells the adventurous story of the rise of a criminal in the changing, increasingly tough neighborhood, but also of the self-sacrificing, perhaps already sick love of his wife, who ultimately goes to her death with him, of a lawyer who smuggles a gun into the police headquarters for the murderer and of the naive and completely overtaxed police.
The performance marks the start of the Frack off! collaboration with the Schmidt theaters! Further dates will follow on March 2, 4, and 18.
Further Information can be found here.
Die große Stille (The Great Silence)
General Music Director Omer Meir Wellber and Director Christopher Rüping work together to give us the chance to experience Mozart’s music as if for the very first time. It’s a lofty ambition, for which they travel far away from planet Earth to a distant future. There, a small group of people maintain a last connection to the long-gone Earth thanks to Mozart. The music of the former star composer is their daily ritual, reminding them of what it means to be human and to remain so. Christopher Rüping creates a theatrical scenario in a distant world that seems very different from the one we live in today. What is a human being and how do they react when something unprecedented happens? It remains to be seen what humans are still capable of when nothing human surrounds them anymore. And then – at some point -it becomes quiet.
The production will be running until April.
Further Information can be found here.