The Wizard of Oz

Musical based on the novel by L. Frank Baum

Music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and EY Harburg, German by Klaus Eidam

Adapted for the Royal Shakespeare Company from the screenplay of the Turner Entertainment Co. film

Director: Torsten Krug

Stage: Karel Spanhak

Costumes: Ulli Kremer

Musical direction: Maria Bagger

Choreography: Julia Krug

Saturday / July 08, 2023 / 2 p.m. // PREMIERE

Sunday / July 09, 2023 / 2 p.m

Friday / July 14, 2023 / 6 p.m

Saturday / July 15, 2023 / 2 p.m

Folk drama Ötigheim

Agents in the Circus (AT)

By and with the inclusive theater group Bamboo

Artistic Director:

Torsten Krug and Silvia Munzon Lopez

Tuesday / September 26, 2023 / 7:30 p.m. // PREMIERE

Thursday / September 28, 2023 / 7:30 p.m

Dyeing works in Wuppertal

Songs & Arias

Lilou meets Jason Lee

Host: Torsten Krug

Equipment: Sarah Prince

Dramaturgy: Laura Knoll, Marc von Reth

A cooperation between INSEL eV and the Wuppertal Opera

Friday / September 15, 2023 / 7:30 p.m

INSEL / Wiesenstrasse 6 / 42105 Wuppertal

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The jazz revolution started in Wuppertal - and continues

June 28, 2023

And another one left, it was about time. Apparently Peter Brötzmann died peacefully in his bed on Luisenstrasse in Wuppertal on the stormiest day of the year so far. It had been foreseeable for months, and yet it is always too early when it comes as a painful surprise.

For me, Peter Brötzmann is one of a number of people I was only allowed to meet when they were old. As part of the preparations for his eightieth birthday - still in the pandemic - we got to know and appreciate each other after I had seen him on stage a few times before. At the end of August 2021 Insel eV was able to host the three-day festival "BRÖtz 80!" in Ada, which celebrated the outstanding position of this exceptional artist. In Wuppertal it was the first major event after the lockdown. The musicians and – amazing for me at the time – the audience came from literally all over the world: people came from Poland, France, Scotland, Italy and the USA to experience these three days in our jazz city. It was an overwhelming success, almost his "famous last words" in hindsight.

I've been dancing like this for a thousand years

Culture needs participation

May 24, 2023

Last weekend I was once again very much in love with our "crumbling tooth city". On Friday, “die börse” invited companions from the last fifty years to their birthday party. Moving, Lukas Hegemann paid tribute to the "giants" on whose shoulders he stood, meaning people like Dieter Fränzel, who was able to open the evening and welcome fellow campaigners from the very beginning. But our gaze was quickly drawn to the future: in a relaxed world café, we listened to the stories of different people in several rounds, always ending with the question: What do we wish for the stock exchange for the next 50 years? That evening I realized again how much this place still lives from the participation of the city society: theater with senior citizens, writing workshops, political education - all this often takes place under the radar of the general public and yet forms the core of the commitment to this day at the cloud castle. In addition: As a large, established communication center with a thoroughly commercial program, the börse has long had the company form of a GmbH, but it is also backed by a non-profit association whose young, diverse board of directors we were able to get to know that evening and in which people from our city meet can and should contribute. Bringing this aspect back to the fore would be good for the old luxury steamer. Congratulations!

How music can connect us

April 19, 2023

Last Friday we used concert tickets that had been bought years before: Steve Hackett plus band plus symphony orchestra plus choir played three long-awaited concerts in the Stadthalle after, according to Mr. Hackett, “the little thing called the pandemic" had to be postponed further and further.