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The three works were written by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and are placed here in a gripping tension with one another. Power, control and destructive greed are at the centre, along with a love that overcomes guilt and death. Dmitri Tcherniakov stages a unsparing study of human abysses, while Gianandrea Noseda takes the musical direction.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/rachmaninow-die-drei-opern-69473/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6f5c82ef0458d8268268c358f597c4377fadef7915fc9edf16870fff03543787-600.webp"}, {"title": "DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schauspielhaus Pfauen", "address": "Rämistrasse 34, 8001 Zürich", "price": "alle Tickets 50%", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.schauspielhaus.ch/webshop/webticket/shop?production=1728&language=de", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER is a satirical play with music by Bertolt Brecht, written with the collaboration of Elisabeth Hauptmann, with music by Kurt Weill. It is staged by Pınar Karabulut, co-director of the Schauspielhaus, with musical direction by Bettina Ostermeier. The story takes place at a fairground in Soho, London, where Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum runs his beggar mafia and sees his daughter Polly's marriage to the gangster Macheath, known as Mackie Messer, as a threat.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/die-dreigroschenoper-782/", "official_url": "https://www.schauspielhaus.ch/de/spielplan/38184/die-dreigroschenoper", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5321fb116cbc641c62ae3985f4ef7261774664cfaf0424c71af28884d1317b9b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tsurigo – Berufsqual", "start": "2026-11-04T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Millers", "address": "Seefeldstrasse 225, 8008 Zürich", "price": "CHF 20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/education/career-guidance", "stage/theatre/improvisational-theatre"], "description": "\"Tsurigo – Berufsqual\" is an improvisational theatre show about the highs and lows of choosing a career. 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On stage are This Wachter, Monika Esser-Stahl, Sebastian Barnstorf and Martina Schütze, hosted by Miro Hintermüller, with music by Christian Riesen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/tsurigo-berufsqual-6258/", "official_url": "https://www.millers.ch/spielplan/detail/tsurigo-berufsqual-3133?tx_muehleramakurse_kurse%5Bdurchfuehrung%5D=3132", "image": "https://noky.io/images/56a1a4ac8bbaa5deb3626fe6e267b30de25bc30ec2874c51cba6c2a86ed2bd0d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Füür Lili", "start": "2026-11-04T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Theater Stadelhofen", "address": "Stadelhoferstrasse 12, 8001 Zurich", "price": "CHF 19.- (Einheitspreis für alle Alter; AHV/IV, Kulturlegi, Studierende, Kulturschaffende/Steuerkart", "price_from": "19.00", "price_to": "19.00", "tickets_url": "https://theater-stadelhofen.ch/tickets/?showid=0A03D118-C1B2-414D-808A-079138D7596C", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/puppetry"], "description": "A puppet theater piece for children aged 4 and up about the girl Lili, whose hair is fiery red and blazes wildly around her head: her father can fry eggs on her fire, but her sparks fly in the bus or set the neighbor's laundry alight. Even though fire on a theater stage is far too dangerous, the two puppeteers Vivianne Mösli and Priska Praxmarer dare to tell the story of the fiery Lili, equipped with a blanket, a fire extinguisher and a big bathtub. Directed by Ruth Huber, the piece lasts about 50 minutes and begins in darkness with matches as the light source. It is the first collaboration between the two Aargau companies Die Nachbarn and Lowtech Magic, both of which have been producing successfully for young audiences for years.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/fuur-lili-59381/", "official_url": "https://theater-stadelhofen.ch/veranstaltungen/fueuer-lili/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c87d2f67033a5a32cbe3ebbbce7f8510d20f2827cc4132d9133125ead6be4670-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Käfer", "start": "2026-11-04T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Theater im GZ Buchegg, Grosser Saal", "address": "", "price": "CHF 15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "literature/classics"], "description": "«Käfer» is a theatre piece for everyone aged 5 and up in the Grosser Saal of Theater im GZ Buchegg. Corsin Gaudenz directs, with Nora Vonder Mühll and Stefan Colombo performing. It tells of Gregor, who one morning does not get up for work because he has transformed, and whom his family no longer has a place for. The makers tell this story because they wish for a world with room for all Gregors, where we dare to be who we are, even if that brings change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/kafer-73745/", "official_url": "https://gz-zh.ch/gz-buchegg/angebote/kaefer/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/81c70a33ef4fe8431c07179318af98e1f8f31e49eed947cd880ce4325fd87fdc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rachmaninow – Die drei Opern", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T22:25:00+01:00", "place": "Hauptbühne Opernhaus", "address": "Falkenstrasse 1, 8008 Zürich", "price": "CHF 35–230", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "230.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.opernhaus.ch/webshop/webticket/shop?event=15374&language=de", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "\"Rachmaninow – Die drei Opern\" is an opera performance at the Opernhaus Zürich presenting three one-act operas by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Musical direction is by Gianandrea Noseda, with staging and set design by Dmitri Tcherniakov, who links the one-act operas \"Aleko\", \"Skupoj rýtsar\" and \"Francesca da Rimini\". The performance is sung in Russian with German and English surtitles, and an introduction to the works is offered 45 minutes before each start. Costumes were designed by Elena Zaytseva, lighting by Gleb Filshtinsky, and chorus preparation is led by Klaas-Jan de Groot.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/rachmaninow-die-drei-opern-6368/", "official_url": "https://www.opernhaus.ch/spielplan/kalendarium/rachmaninov-die-drei-opern/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7bf82578f4925776c2d44e8535622972b04fe2bcee088c3e8aafceb86e3c931d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Seltene Enten", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sogar Theater", "address": "Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "nature/climate"], "description": "«Seltene Enten» is a theatre play by Jens Nielsen, performed at Sogar Theater in Zurich. A tenant experiences dramatic upheavals of weather and vegetation in her flat; her carer initially does not believe her but is gradually drawn into her world. Thunder and lightning fill the flat, raising questions about a flood, a hedgehog in the washbasin and whether the world outside even exists. Jens Nielsen combines literary virtuosity and fantasy with scientific facts, plus absurd humour and rapid-fire dialogue, in a chamber grotesque performed by Jonas Gygax and Gulshan Sheikh and directed by Ursina Greuel.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/seltene-enten-6460/", "official_url": "https://www.sogar.ch/programm/saison-26-27/seltene-enten/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1ec8bbf260875ffb6aacd53ad432c0c31301c0f32e9640c0e70ec0c81b4e5907-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bernhard Theater", "address": "Sechseläutenplatz 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.bernhard-theater.ch/webshop/webticket/shop?event=15557&", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy/crime-comedy"], "description": "The Bernhard Theater presents 'Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen', a criminal comedy by Joseph Kesselring. The in-house production directed by Niklaus Helbling tells of the old ladies Alice and Martha Brunner in Zurich's Wiedikon quarter, who keep corpses in their cellar and become embarrassed when their nephew Jonathan arrives with his surgeon Dr. Einstein to hide a corpse there himself. A macabre, turbulent round of uninvited guests, policemen and poisoned elderberry wine begins. The 1941 play was the basis for the film starring Cary Grant and has delighted theatre audiences for decades.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/arsen-und-spitzenhaubchen-956/", "official_url": "https://bernhard-theater.ch/spielplan/arsen-und-spitzenhaeubchen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a8cfe79f667bea3e09e4c3079ca4e86ee77b4a254be5df05713a353e76de42e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "tsurigo", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Millers", "address": "Seefeldstrasse 225, 8008 Zürich", "price": "CHF 36", "price_from": "36.00", "price_to": "36.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/improvisational-theatre"], "description": "Theatersport is improvised theater without a script: the performers play small everyday dramas full of wit, depth and humor, with daring and input from the audience. Two teams compete in different improvisation disciplines, and after each scene the audience decides who performed better. There is guaranteed to be a winning team at the end, yet the audience never knows what will happen in the coming 90 minutes. Behind the home team is tsurigo, a women-led improvisation theater ensemble from Zurich founded and artistically directed by actress Martina Schütze, which regularly plays at Millers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/tsurigo-6259/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd2dd338e0c7118550df450faac8fa968dbfe26c30fee74a4ee5fa6466ef07ab-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Shakespeares Richard III meets The Rolling Stones - Richard der III - der «böse Bube» der Weltliteratur. 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But his boundless ambitions throw everything off balance: acrobatic feats fail, choreographies fall apart, and even the most baffling magic tricks go wrong. 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It follows the swaggering Keep Cool, a would-be ladies' man who dreams of his breakthrough in Big Daddy's International Talent Show. Falling for Claire shakes his carefully built facade and forces him to choose between fame and love.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/keep-cool-comedy-musical-6666/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Vater Sprachen", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Theater Neumarkt", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "„Vater Sprachen“ is a theatre piece running from this day onward. It is directed and performed by Chady Abu-Nijmeh. The piece is part of the programme of the theatre where it is shown. No further details about its content are given.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/vater-sprachen-31070/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}