Leipzig

The internationally active choreographer Martin Chaix once danced with the Leipzig Ballet, as did ballet director Rémy Fichet, who has been in office since the beginning of the season. Fichet stayed, Chaix left — but now he's back and has brought one of Japan's oldest stories about the cherry blossom season to the opera house's stage, full moon included. The Earth's satellite accompanies the premiere of Die Mondprinzessin, oversized and positioned in the center of the stage horizon. Kaguya-Hime, initially tiny and radiantly luminous, is found by a bamboo cutter. She is a gift from the moon to Earth. And she develops magnificently. Word of her beauty spreads, marriageable age is quickly reached, and five noblemen court her intensively. Without success. Even the emperor (Carl van ...