Ruhr Metropolis
Nearly 9,200 events at 200 locations in Metropolis Ruhr
There is much to see and do in the Ruhr region. A detailed overview of the events organized by Regional Verband Ruhr can be found on the website, accessed by clicking on the picture below.
Some highlights coming up in the areas of ballet, dance, opera, theater, musical, music, show, art, photography
From 5.10.2024 - Hagen Interactions - Three-part dance night
In "The Long Never Ending," performer and choreographer Emilie Leriche takes a closer look at time: moments that seem endless, the endless times in between. For the duet "Les Amants Voilés," lead choreographer Francesco Nappa drew inspiration from René Magritte's painting "The Lovers." The intertwining of bodies in their duality between love and separation, between illusion and reality constitute the emotional fields of tension. In the work "Masculine/ Feminine," choreographer Lukas Timulak examines the differences between men and women - as an inescapable fact and the basis of our biology and behavior. www.theater-hagen.de
12.10.2024 - Essen Dance Gala for the presentation of the German Dance Prize 2024.
The dance gala at the Aalto Theater showcases the diversity of dance and brings outstanding personalities to the stage. As part of the gala, the German Dance Prize will be awarded to Sasha Waltz. The laureates of explore dance - Netzwerk Tanz für junges Publikum (honor for outstanding development in dance) and Dieter Heitkamp (honor for lifetime achievement)are duly celebrated on this special evening - with a diverse program of internationally renowned ensembles and solo artists. www.deutschertanzpreis.de
From 13.10.2024 - Essen Carmen
The story of Carmen, the title heroine of Bizet's immortal opera, has fascinated for decades. The questions raised by the material are numerous, and to this day the fatale triangulation inspires artists of all genres. The company of the Aalto Ballet Essen retells the myth of the alleged "femme fatale" in choreography by Johan Ingers. The Swedish star choreographer focuses on Don José and his heartbreak and morbid obsession with the self-proclaimed Carmen. www.theater-essen.de
From 19.10.2024 - Gelsenkirchen Carmina Burana
With the picturesque cantata "Carmina Burana," Carl Orff created one of the most popular works of the 20th century. The Latin title refers to a collection of songs from the 11th and 12th centuries. After its location, the monastery of the Benediktbeuern, the manuscript was titled "Carmina Burana" (Songs from the Benediktbeuern). For his masterpiece, Orff selected 24 songs from this collection. The broad cross-section of themes of the medieval world includes secular and ecclesiastical power, corruption, greed for possessions, envy, love and unbridled enjoyment of life in the form of drunkenness, gluttony, gambling and lust. Choreographers Giuseppe Spota and Alessio Monforte take these themes further into the present in their choreographic performance. www.musiktheater-im-revier.de
25 and 26.10.2024 - Essen Diana Niepce: The Other Side ofDance
In previous works, Portuguese dancer, choreographer and acrobat Diana Niepce addressed the process of her recovery after a fall from the trapeze in which she suffered a spinal cord injury. Since then, as a performer, she has been searching for new forms of expression that challenge the audience to question the aesthetic norms of the body. In her solo "The Other Side of Dance," she analyzes the hierarchical principles according to which a body moves and breaks with physical laws. Using minimal means and sometimes biting sarcasm, she stages her non-normative body not as a victim, but as a revolutionary entity. www.pact-zollverein.de
Shows 26.10.2024 - Duisburg Forever Young - The Story of the 27 Club
This tribute to the "27 Club" is an unforgettable evening of theater at the Theater am Marientor featuring some of the best songs ever written! Told from the perspective of Schlepp, a fictional roadie who has worked and worked for decades with all the greats of the rock and pop scene, the journey takes in Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix during the "Summer of Love" and the Woodstock Festival. The eccentric lives of Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain are also a topic, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at Amy Winehouse's legendary Grammy concert. https://tam.theater/
8.11.2024 to 2.3.2025 - Bochum Viva la vida!
Live life! In this insane show you can experience the temperament of Spain in an amazing mix of hilarious comedy, virtuoso guitar playing and spectacular artistry! Los Machos, the two full-blooded entertainers and musicians Carlos and Miguel, strain the audience's laughing muscles to the limit in the Varieté et cetera, presenting a unique ensemble of performers with their Spanish charm! www.variete-et-cetera.de
29.11. to 29.12.2024 - Oberhausen The Spirit ofChristmas - The Musical
It is fitting that the long vacant Metronom Theater should be awakened from its slumber with a fairy tale: the musical "The Spirit of Christmas," based on the well-known 1843 story of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, celebrated its world premiere in Oberhausen 20 years ago and is now returning. The fascinating adventure of the miser Scrooge, who is reminded by three ghosts of the true meaning of Christmas, is a classic. www.metronom-theater.de
22./23.11.2024 - Recklinghausen The RUHRICAL
The RUHRICAL gets Christmassy: Prior to the performances, a joint Christmas carol singing will be held in the foyer of the Ruhrspielhaus, including the world premiere of the RUHRICAL carol.The fast-paced Ruhrpott musical is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. Further datamet Christmas carols: 6. to 8.12.: Stadthalle Castrop-Rauxel, 14./14.12.:Henrichshütte Hattingen, 21./22.12.: Stadthalle Unna. https://das.ruhrical.de
6.12. to 31.12.2024 - Dortmund Rocky Horror Show
"Let's do the Time Warp again!" -Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show is back on a world cruise. The cult musical comes to the Konzerthaus Dortmund stage in director Sam Buntrock's fresher vision. The version clearly references the iconic 1975 film adaptation and picks up typical cinematic elements. In the new year, the musical will also make a stop at the Rudolf Weber Arena in Oberhausen (24 and 25.01.2025). www.rocky-horror-show.de
3.10.2024 - Dortmund Furrer: Enigma cycle - ChorwerkRuhr
Beat Furrer's a cappella cycle "Enigma" is based on the prophecies of Leonardo da Vinci, in which the great scholar of the 16th century transformed the mundane and profane into the visionary future tense. By extension, Furrer also confronts transformation and exaggeration, growing bold double-choir towers of sound from the smallest particles of melody. Also masters of building bold sound cathedrals were the Venetian masters of the Renaissance and Baroque Giovanni Gabrieli and Orlando di Lasso. In the concert conducted by Zoltán Pad, her vocal works convey the sometimes grotesquely gross exaggerations in Furrer's compositions into transcendental states of limbo. www.konzerthaus-dortmund.de
5.10.2024 - Essen Baroque Opera with Dorothee Oberlinger
Dorothee Oberlinger is a world-class flutist. In addition, as conductor of her Ensemble 1700 who is familiar with the original sound, she repeatedly provides exciting musical excavations. Her latest coup: the all-round historically informed production of an opera by the Baroque composer Carl Heinrich Graun about the conquest of Syria by the Roman emperor Hadrian. Great politics meets great love at the Philharmonie Essen, great feelings are guaranteed. The title role is played bycountertenor star Valer Sabadus, stylistically confident and skillful with coloraturas. www.theater-essen.de
6 and 7.11.2024 - Duisburg Also sprach Zarathustra
The concert begins with the monumental overture from Wagner's "Tannhäuser" and uses purely instrumental means to tell what it will be about: the conflict between chaste and carnal love, lust and faith. No less monumental is Strauss' symphonic poem "Also sprach Zarathustra," with which he succeeded in creating one of the most famous works of the classical period. By contrast, cheerful, idyllic and from his quasi-room music side, the late romantic Strauss shows himself in his Oboe Concerto. In it, the audience can also meet an orchestral musician from his soloist side: Mikhail Zhuravlev is solo oboist with the Duisburg Philharmonic. www.duisburger-philharmoniker.de
12.11.2024 - Dortmund Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
The legend of the ancient singer and poet Orpheus has been incorporated into art for centuries. With Claudio Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo "about Orpheus, the son of the Muses, who managed to seduce the god of the underworld with his singing and was able to silence the hellhound Cerberus in order to bring his wife Eurydice back from the realm of the dead, he created a milestone in music history, which now comes to the Konzerthaus stage in a large cast surrounding star tenor Julian Prégardien in the title role. Les Épopées is the first orchestra for historical performance practice to be presented in Dortmund. www.konzerthaus-dortmund.de
19.12.2024 - Essen Klaus Mäkelä & WienerPhilharmoniker - Mahler Symphony No. 6
Mäkelä is the Philharmonie Essen's portrait artist this season. He also has Gustav Mahler on the program for his second concert. With the legendary Vienna Philharmonic, the28-year-old is venturing into a symphony that received its world premiere at the Saalbau in Essen in 1906. "My Sixth seems a hard nut to crack again, which cannot be cracked by the weak teeth of our criticism," the composer scoffed at the time. What is needed for Mahler's struggle with fate, the young star from Helsinki brings with him. www.theater-essen.de
18.10.2024 - Dortmund Annett Louisan
She is the voice of German-language chanson - and with tremendous success. Her debut "Bohème" is the work that started it all in 2004 and catapulted her into the pop Olympus. Reason enough to celebrate the 20th anniversary with an anniversary concert of "Bohème" in Dortmund. www.konzerthaus-dortmund.de
24.10.2024 - Essen The Jakob Manz Project
The saxophonist from Bad Urach is still in his early twenties and yet already a great of young German jazz. With his Jakob Manz Project, the band that started it all, his absolute affair of the heart, as he himself admits, Manz shows in the RWE Pavilion how infectious, grooving jazz tinged with soul, funk and pop works. And how to casually spice up music with a pinch of virtuosity and playing pleasure, entertaining in the best possible way. www.philharmonie-essen.de
2.11.2024 - Gelsenkirchen Ron Minis Trio
The Tel Aviv-based trio is one of the most exciting ensembles in the jazz world and has already performed at the world's major festivals. The pianist and guitarist is a force of nature. His music is packed with volemotions, seduces with soft melodies, turns abruptly into hammering rhythms and often ends in spherical soundscapes without ever losing its tremendous arc of tension. To be experienced in urban building space. www.publicjazz.de
30.11.2024 - Bochum Boy George & Culture Club
The time has come: Boy George and his Culture Club will play the only concert of the current tour in our country at the Ruhrcongres in Bochum.N ummers from their legendary albums "Kissing to be clever" &"Colour By Numbers" will be heard. www.boygeorgeandcultureclub.net
17.12.2024 - Oberhausen The Fantastic Four
The history of the Fantastischen Vier dates back to 1987, when they were founded as "The Terminal Team." Since then, the successful German hip-hop band, known as "Die Fantastischen Vier" since 1989, has sold millions of records, received numerous awards and platinum accolades, and provided sold-out venues not only in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. www.rudolf-weber-arena.de
29.12.2024 - Essen Stucky-Doran-Tacuma: "Spacecake"
She sings, plays and yodels, her stylistic and tonal range knows no bounds. With "Spacecake," Erika Stucky has two longtime companions on board. For over 20 years she has worked with Christy Doran and Jamaalade and Tacuma, true grandmasters of their craft. What new ideas and escapades this familiar trio will bring with them is not yet known. It will certainly be a coup. www.theater-essen.de
2.10. to 19.12.2024 - Metropole Ruhr Celloherbst amHellweg
This year's festival runs from Europe to Latin America, in all genres and eras. The focus of course: the cello in tango, pop and rock, jazz, with chamber orchestra from Bach to Beethoven, with contemporary music, soloists and chamber music. With 35 concerts in 18 cities over 80 days, the "Celloherbst am Hellweg" is the largest cello festival in the world. Venues such as the Kunstmuseum Bochum, the Museum of Art and Cultural History Dortmund, Haus Opherdicke in Holzwickede and Schloss Heerenin Kamen will be used. www.celloherbst.de
25.10. to 27.10.2024 - Lünen 30th International Nature Photography Festival
This festival has made a name for itself throughout Europe. Photographers from different countries come to Lünen to exchange ideas, talk, listen to live lectures, attend seminars and exhibitions or browse at the adjacent flea market. The organizer is the GDT Societyfor Nature Photography. On Friday evening, the European Nature Photographer of the Year 2024 will also be honored at the Lünen Theater. www.gdtfoto.de
From 16.11.2024 - Hagen The Bremen Town Musicians
Donkey , dog, cat, rooster - after many years the four famous animals will once again wander across the Hagen stage at Christmas time. Accompanied by the fairy tale band, they will sing and play new funny, thoughtful and just plain good songs - because: Music, that's what they want to be in their lives. Directed by:Tobias Kramm. www.theaterhagen.de
Magazine Ruhr
Below you can download the pdf file of the latest quarterly KIR Kulturinfo Ruhr publication with even more events in this region.
