KABALE UND LIEBE von Friedrich Schiller

In the organizer's words:

"But I want to pierce his cabal - I want to tear through all these iron chains of prejudice - free as a man, I want to choose that these insect souls swindle up the giant work of my love."

Ferdinand and Luise love each other, but noblesse oblige: his father, President von Walter, rejects the union and has other plans for Ferdinand. A marriage to Lady Milford, the prince's mistress, is intended to strengthen von Walter's influence at court. And Luise's father, a bourgeois town musician, is also critical of the young love. He sees his daughter's honor and future in danger if she enters into a relationship that is not befitting of her station. Before Luise and Ferdinand can escape, they become entangled in a web of intrigue from which they ultimately only manage to free themselves in a tragic way ...

In 1784, 'Kabale und Liebe', the third drama by the then 25-year-old Friedrich Schiller, was premiered. As a central work of the Sturm und Drang period, it stands for the pursuit of freedom, the struggle for a self-determined life, rebellion against authority and the questioning of the rigid conventions of the aristocracy and bourgeoisie.

Actor and director Roland Riebeling is once again staging the play at the opera house and, after 'Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen' last season, will now take on Schiller's bourgeois tragedy.