Premiere on 18. November 2026
A deconstruction of the royal families –Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor
A musical theater performance by Lulu Obermayer. With music by Roman Lemberg based on works by Giacomo Carissimi, John Dowland, Thomas Morley, Thomas Tallis, and others.
A production by Lulu Obermayer in co-production with the Bayerische Staatsoper
With the kind support of the Kulturreferat of the City of Munich
The Bayerische Staatsoper is drawing a programmatic arc in its exploration of the two queens Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor: Following the world premiere of Brett Dean’s opera Of One Blood at the Nationaltheater and Francesco Micheli’s Techno Queen at Brainlab in the 2025/26 season, the Königssaal (“King’s Hall”) in the foyers of the Nationaltheater is now becoming the “Queen’s Hall”: With Königin(nen) – “Queen(s)” – , in November 2026, a few weeks before the premiere of Gaetano Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, Munich-based director and performer Lulu Obermayer will devote herself to the (de)construction of the royal family. In recent years, she has already dealt intensively with opera heroines in her projects, for example in Manon Lescaut, Tosca, and The Girl(s) of The Golden West (based on Giacomo Puccini’s La fanciulla del West) and most recently with Lulu. Her work focuses on transforming dominant narrative strands and bringing invisible perspectives to light. Now the focus is on role models, power structures, and rituals of representation in the context of European cultural history. Lulu Obermayer sees Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor not only as historical figures, but also as cultural projection surfaces that continue to reflect social conflicts such as cultural struggle, polarization, and political rivalry to this day. For this purpose Composer Roman Lemberg is developing a sound collage from historical material and contemporary compositions.
Motif © Serifa