Oh lovely peace – The Fall of Man on the opera stage | zamus: early music festival 2026

Rehearsal director: Peter Wuttke

What genre could be better suited to portraying the Fall of Man and the loss of Paradise in music than opera? In the programme by zamus: amateur baroque orchestra featuring soprano Anastasiia Kolabanova, Jupiter and Semele initially revel in their union, until the mortal woman, having gained forbidden knowledge of the divine and immortality, begins to crave it. In Leonardo Vinci’s opera ‘Gismondo’, a drama featuring civil war, potions of power and romantic entanglements, Primislao calls to arms. Jean-Baptiste Lully’s “Armide” is about freedom, but also the struggle between love and hate. In George Frideric Handel’s “Judas Maccabaeus”, the peace that has finally been achieved can be welcomed. A magnificent cantata-sinfonia by Johann Sebastian Bach ultimately leads to the Pentecost event of mutual understanding – and where better to experience this than through music?

Arias from musical dramas by George Frideric Handel, Leonardo Vinci and Jean-Baptiste Lully, orchestral works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Friedrich Fasch.

A single concert from the zamus: early music marathons featuring four short concerts and a dance ball.

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Day ticket for the marathon €35/€25

Single concert €18/€12

Plus advance booking fees

Tickets available online via zamusfestival.de and zamus.de, by telephone on +49 221 9874 38 21 (Mon, Wed, Fri 10:00–14:00) and in person at the Neumarkt theatre box office (Mon–Sat 10:00–18:30, ticket hotline +49 221 42 07 6000 or via tickets@theaterkasse-neumarkt.de)

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