Chemnitz

Anyone who enjoys ballets in XL fairytale format, lavish, colorful costumes, and live music from Debussy to Fauré, Milhaud, Ravel, and Stravinsky, will find themselves in the right place in Chemnitz. Sabrina Sadowska, the energetic ballet director at the local theater, has chosen Maurice Maeterlinck's (1862–1949) piece Der blaue Vogel. The Belgian Nobel laureate in Literature, a much-performed symbolist dramatist during his lifetime, is now rarely found on German theater stages. One exception: Thomas Ostermeier's 1999 production at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, which Sadowska was so taken with that she decided to bring the fantastic story to the stage as a ballet. As a counterpoint to "our over-saturated times, where we no longer see the little things, happiness, but become ever more ...