Record release to celebrate the cast recording
DIE WEISSE ROSE - CD Release
To coincide with the tour’s launch, the music from DIE WEISSE ROSE will also be available on CD starting June 5, 2026. This milestone for the award-winning new musical will be celebrated with a record-release concert featuring the original cast and band on June 2, 2026, at the Capitol Theater in Düsseldorf. The creative team behind the production will guide the audience through the program: Vera Bolten and Alex Melcher.
The audience can look forward to an evening filled with powerful music. Strong, lyrical texts bring the "Weiße Rose" resistance and the story of Hans and Sophie Scholl to life in a way that is both poignantly disturbing and deeply moving.
Further information about the CD release can be found here.
Everything about the production at a glance is available here.
DIE WEISSE ROSE – on tour in Germany
Since 2025, the award-winning musical about the story of the "Weiße Rose" resistance group, centred on Sophie and Hans Scholl, has been a standout example of contemporary German-language musical theatre. It is now going on tour and will be performed from Berlin to Neuschwanstein in June and Juli 2026.
Find out more about the tour here.
Jonas Kaufmann’s new album "Magische Töne" released
The magic of operetta
On his new album *Magische Töne*, tenor Jonas Kaufmann celebrates the world of operetta. Accompanied by the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Dirk Kaftan, he brings to life a variety of works from our catalogue.
The focus is on highlights from composers of the “Silver Age of Operetta”, particularly well-known arias by Emmerich Kálmán and Franz Lehár.
Right at the start, “Komm, Zigany” and “Komm mit nach Varasdin” take us on a nostalgic journey to the fantasy Hungary of COUNTESS MARIZA – as does THE GYPSY PRINCESS, likely Kálmán’s best-known operetta. The latter hails with “Tanzen möcht’ ich”. And with an aria from EMPRESS JOSEPHINE, the album also includes a genuine Kálmán rarity.
Of course, no operetta album would be complete without Franz Lehár. Alongside “Immer nur lächeln” from THE LAND OF SMILES, the album features evergreens such as “Es steht ein Soldat am Wolgastrand” from THE TSAREVICH and “Schön wie die blaue Sommernacht” from GIUDITTA.
Learn more about Kaufmann's album here.