Die Vögel
Team
Conductor
Paul Taubitz
Director, stage and costume design
Ersan Mondtag
Lighting design
Henning Streck
Stage lighting
Marcel Hahn
Video designer
Luis August Krawen
Dramaturgy
Till Briegleb, Balthazar Bender
Collaboration directing
Theresa Maria Schlichtherle
Collaboration stage and costume design
Lorenz Stöger
Musical preparation
Julia Palmova, Holger Reinhardt, Adam Rogala
Choir
Aymeric Catalano
Cast
Hoffegut
Richard Trey Smagur
Ratefreund
Hovhannes Karapetyan
Voice of Zeus & Adler
Young Doo Park
Prometheus
Jonathan Macker
Wiedelhopf
Sam Park
Nachtigall
Josefine Mindus
Zaunschlüpfer
Galina Benevich
1. Drossel
Silvia Hauer
Rabe
N.N.
Flamingo
Nathan Bryon
Choirs
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Orchestra
Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden
Oper von Walter Braunfels (1920) Großes Haus • Premiere: Sa 21 03 2026
The tycoons Ratefreund and Hoffegut sense enormous profits in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, a planned utopian city in the skies. Mobilizing the birds for the project is merely a means to an end—their destruction by the wrath of the gods is seen as nothing more than collateral damage. Hovering between ancient myth and contemporary music, Walter Braunfels’ opera becomes a scathing critique of a society caught between heaven and earth. Director Ersan Mondtag returns to Wiesbaden following the success of Double Serpent—invited to the 2025 Theatertreffen in Berlin—to explore the opera’s new dreams and its insatiable hunger for power..