On the 31st

September 2020 to resume", said on Friday in a message from several opera houses in NRW that had come together on the initiative of the Dortmund theater.

One is "able to adjust the selection of plays, the staging and the visitor management so that they correspond to the medical and hygienic requirements". The Oper Dortmund, the Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, the Oper Wuppertal, the Theater Krefeld Mönchengladbach, the Landestheater Detmold and the Theater Münster referred to the "in many cases existential concern, especially of the independent artists, due to the restrictions imposed by the authorities".

So be it "It is imperative to work out a timetable for the speedy start of performances, on the one hand to avert individual social hardship and at the same time to maintain the basis for the continued successful development of Germany as a cultural location with its globally unique theater landscape".

Is necessary "a sufficient lead time of ten weeks between the announcement and the entry into force of any relaxation of existing restrictions".

The legal dispute about the termination of the director at the Wuppertal dance theater, Adolphe Binder, has been settled. Binder and the city of Wuppertal have reached an out-of-court settlement.

It was a long and tough argument between the former director of the Wuppertal dance theater Pina Bausch, Apdolphe Binder, and the establishment. Now there has been an agreement. Continue reading →