Ballet Revolucion

Alte Oper Frankfurt, Großer Saal, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Saturday 15 July 2023

3 PM

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

Can I choose my seats?

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Important Info

Type: Modern Ballet

City: Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Starts at: 15:00

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

Can I choose my seats?

Overview

Ten years, six sold–out tours - from Sydney and Singapore via London to Paris and Berlin. When the Cuban dancers of Ballet Revolucion give free rein to their boundless desire for movement and pure joie de vivre, there is no stopping them. Worldwide, the explosive dance performance from Cuba electrifies hundreds of thousands of spectators with its incomparable dance perfection and always new exciting choreographies.

Hardly any other dance performance manages to tear the audience out of their seats like this. The brilliant seven-member Ballet Revolucion live band unleashes the sensational energy of the young dancers to the current No. 1 hits from pop, R&B and hip-hop. The passion of Ballet Revolucion is transferred to the audience like an emotional fireball. For the anniversary, look forward to an irresistible cocktail of Havana's sparkling attitude to life, absolute dance perfection as well as rousingly interpreted favorite songs and brand new chart hits.

Venue Info

Alte Oper Frankfurt - Frankfurt am Main
Opernplatz 1

The original opera house in Frankfurt is now the Alte Oper (Old Opera), a concert hall and former opera house in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was inaugurated in 1880 but destroyed by bombs in 1944. It was rebuilt, slowly, in the 1970s, opening again in 1981. Many important operas were performed for the first time in Frankfurt, including Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in 1937.

The square in front of the building is known as Opernplatz (Opera Square). The Alte Oper is located in the inner city district, Innenstadt, within the banking district Bankenviertel.

The Oper Frankfurt now plays in the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, completed in 1951, which it shares with the Schauspiel Frankfurt theatre company.

The building was designed by the Berlin architect Richard Lucae, financed by the citizens of Frankfurt and built by Philipp Holzmann. Construction began in 1873. It opened on October 20, 1880.

The Alte Oper was almost completely destroyed by bombs during World War II in 1944 (only some of the outside walls and façades survived). In the 1960s the city magistrate planned to build a modern office building on the site. The then Minister of Economy in Hessen Rudi Arndt, earned the nickname "Dynamit-Rudi" (Dynamite Rudi) when he proposed to blow up "Germany's most beautiful ruin" with "a little dynamite". Arndt later said that this was not meant seriously.

A citizen's initiative campaigned for reconstruction funds after 1953 and collected 15 million DM. It ended costing c. DM160, and the building was reopened on August 28, 1981, to the sounds of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, the "Symphony of a Thousand". A live recording of that concert conducted by Michael Gielen is available on CD.