The Halle Opera House is one of the estab­lished opera houses in Ger­many. Since the 2021/22 sea­son, Dir­ect­or Wal­ter Sutcliffe has been shap­ing the artist­ic pro­file of the ven­ue. In addi­tion to main­tain­ing the rep­er­toire, less­er-known and redis­covered oper­at­ic rar­it­ies are reg­u­larly fea­tured in the pro­gramme.
A cent­ral pro­ject of the 2025/26 sea­son is the new pro­duc­tion of Franz Schreker’s opera The Music Box and the Prin­cess, which premi­eres on 11 April 2026. The work, cre­ated between 1908 and 1912, com­bines fairytale ele­ments with a multi-layered, sen­su­ally charged music­al lan­guage.
The music­al dir­ec­tion is by Gen­er­al Music Dir­ect­or Fabrice Bol­lon, and the dir­ec­tion is by Nele Lindemann. The Staat­skapelle Halle per­forms, sup­por­ted by the opera chor­us and extra chor­us of the Halle Opera. The main roles include Thomas Wein­hap­pel, Fran­ziska Kröten­heer­dt, and Chul­hy­un Kim.
With this pro­duc­tion, Oper Halle con­tin­ues its artist­ic dir­ec­tion of mak­ing rarely per­formed works access­ible to today’s audi­ences, along­side the rep­er­toire.

In the 2025/26 sea­son, Opheli­as Cul­ture PR will man­age the nation­al press rela­tions for this pro­duc­tion and sup­port Oper Halle in com­mu­nic­at­ing its repos­i­tion­ing and cur­rent pro­file.