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Il Gattopardo
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- Date Saturday, 02/May/2026 18:00 (1 more date)
- Venue Haus der Berliner Festspiele - Große Bühne
- Address Schaperstraße 24, 10719 Berlin-Wilmersdorf
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Il Gattopardo
Theatertreffen 2026 | 10 remarkable productions
Il Gattopardo – Eine junge Frau in einem Reifrock steht in einem Salon, im Hintergrund sind weitere Personen in historischen Kostümen
© Krafft Angerer
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Translation by Burkhart Kroeber
Adapted for the stage by Pınar Karabulut and Hannah Schünemann
Schauspielhaus Zurich
Premiere: 29.11.2025
In the finely detailed decor of an opulent palace Pınar Karabulut and her team present Il Gattopardo in atmospheric and haunting style as the decline of a family and a way of life in the course of political change.
The Sicilian Prince Don Fabrizio di Salina is an old school patriarch – influential, cultivated, steadfast. But the political changes of the 19th century are turning his respected aristocratic family upside down: his nephew Tancredi has joined the freedom fighter Garibaldi, and the middle classes have entered the family in the form of the young Angelica. How does the new world order affect individual longings? Can a world whose power lies in the hands of a tiny few really change? In Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s richly atmospheric novel Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), ambience and storytelling, descriptions of locations and family psychology merge. Together with her ensemble, Pınar Karabulut creates a sweeping and evocative portrait of an age that feels vividly multidimensional in the impressive stage designs of Michela Flück, the splendid costumes of Sara Valentina Giancare and the elegantly composed soundscapes of Daniel Murena.
Jury Statement
“Evenings of theatre like Pınar Karabulut’s adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) have become rare. Together with stage designer Michela Flück and costume designer Sara Valentina Giancare, Karabulut brings aristocratic Sicily in the era of the Risorgimento back to life in a magical way. The opulence of the rooms and costumes and the almost seamless psychological playing of the ensemble draw the audience deep into the 19th century, where they can lose themselves in the beauty of this world in decline and in the melancholy noblesse of Prince Don Fabrizio played by Markus Scheumann. At the same time, they can also recognise symptoms of our own changing times. Karabulut sticks closely to Lampedusa’s novel and by doing so keeps our own crisis-torn reality in view. Scheumann’s concluding monologue is not only a dying man’s moving assessment of his life. It is also a warning not to be like Don Fabrizio and to fight for what exists.”
– Sascha Westphal for the Theatertreffen-jury
To the video statement (in German)
Artistic Team
Pınar Karabulut – Direction
Michela Flück – Stage
Sara Valentina Giancane – Costume Design
Daniel Murena – Music
Michel Güntert – Lighting
Hannah Schünemann – Dramaturgy
Cast
Markus Scheumann – Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina
Nicola Gründel – Maria Stella Corbera, Princess of Salina
Sophia Mercedes Burtscher – Concetta Corbera di Salina
Peter Knaack – Father Saverio Pirrone
Mouataz Alshaltouh – Tancredi Falconeri
David Rothe – Paolo Corbera di Salina, Duke of Querceta / Carlo Cavriaghi, Count from Milan
Alexander Angeletta – Don Calogero Sedàra
Mirjam Rast – Angelica Sedàra
Michael Neuenschwander – Don Ciccio Tumeo
Pino Simili – Mimi
Lukas Rathjen – Pastorello / Domenico
Ronja Melissa Leute – Carolina / Luigi
Translation by Burkhart Kroeber
Adapted for the stage by Pınar Karabulut and Hannah Schünemann
Schauspielhaus Zurich
Premiere: 29.11.2025
In the finely detailed decor of an opulent palace Pınar Karabulut and her team present Il Gattopardo in atmospheric and haunting style as the decline of a family and a way of life in the course of political change.
The Sicilian Prince Don Fabrizio di Salina is an old school patriarch – influential, cultivated, steadfast. But the political changes of the 19th century are turning his respected aristocratic family upside down: his nephew Tancredi has joined the freedom fighter Garibaldi, and the middle classes have entered the family in the form of the young Angelica. How does the new world order affect individual longings? Can a world whose power lies in the hands of a tiny few really change? In Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s richly atmospheric novel Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), ambience and storytelling, descriptions of locations and family psychology merge. Together with her ensemble, Pınar Karabulut creates a sweeping and evocative portrait of an age that feels vividly multidimensional in the impressive stage designs of Michela Flück, the splendid costumes of Sara Valentina Giancare and the elegantly composed soundscapes of Daniel Murena.
Jury Statement
“Evenings of theatre like Pınar Karabulut’s adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) have become rare. Together with stage designer Michela Flück and costume designer Sara Valentina Giancare, Karabulut brings aristocratic Sicily in the era of the Risorgimento back to life in a magical way. The opulence of the rooms and costumes and the almost seamless psychological playing of the ensemble draw the audience deep into the 19th century, where they can lose themselves in the beauty of this world in decline and in the melancholy noblesse of Prince Don Fabrizio played by Markus Scheumann. At the same time, they can also recognise symptoms of our own changing times. Karabulut sticks closely to Lampedusa’s novel and by doing so keeps our own crisis-torn reality in view. Scheumann’s concluding monologue is not only a dying man’s moving assessment of his life. It is also a warning not to be like Don Fabrizio and to fight for what exists.”
– Sascha Westphal for the Theatertreffen-jury
To the video statement (in German)
Artistic Team
Pınar Karabulut – Direction
Michela Flück – Stage
Sara Valentina Giancane – Costume Design
Daniel Murena – Music
Michel Güntert – Lighting
Hannah Schünemann – Dramaturgy
Cast
Markus Scheumann – Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina
Nicola Gründel – Maria Stella Corbera, Princess of Salina
Sophia Mercedes Burtscher – Concetta Corbera di Salina
Peter Knaack – Father Saverio Pirrone
Mouataz Alshaltouh – Tancredi Falconeri
David Rothe – Paolo Corbera di Salina, Duke of Querceta / Carlo Cavriaghi, Count from Milan
Alexander Angeletta – Don Calogero Sedàra
Mirjam Rast – Angelica Sedàra
Michael Neuenschwander – Don Ciccio Tumeo
Pino Simili – Mimi
Lukas Rathjen – Pastorello / Domenico
Ronja Melissa Leute – Carolina / Luigi
Supported by Zürcher Kantonalbank and Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Zurigo, Società Dante Alighieri Zurigo and Gruppo Gattopardo Svizzero.
The shows in Berlin are supported by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.
The premiere reception is supported by the Embassy of Switzerland.
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Performing rights: Adapted for the stage by Pınar Karabulut and Hannah Schünemann from the translation by Burkhart Kroeber, published in 2019 as Der Leopard by Piper Verlag, Munich
Permission has kindly been approved by the publishers
Based on the book: IL GATTOPARDO
Copyright 2002, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano
All rights reserved
Piper Verlag GmbH is represented by Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH, Berlin
Audience Talk
on Saturday, 2.5.2026 after the performance
Watch the full-length performance on television
on Saturday, 16.5.2026 at 20:15 on 3sat
Watch the full-length performance online
in the 3satMediathek and in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library from Friday, 1.5.2026 for one year
The shows in Berlin are supported by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.
The premiere reception is supported by the Embassy of Switzerland.
Logo Schweizerische Botschaft in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Performing rights: Adapted for the stage by Pınar Karabulut and Hannah Schünemann from the translation by Burkhart Kroeber, published in 2019 as Der Leopard by Piper Verlag, Munich
Permission has kindly been approved by the publishers
Based on the book: IL GATTOPARDO
Copyright 2002, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano
All rights reserved
Piper Verlag GmbH is represented by Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH, Berlin
Audience Talk
on Saturday, 2.5.2026 after the performance
Watch the full-length performance on television
on Saturday, 16.5.2026 at 20:15 on 3sat
Watch the full-length performance online
in the 3satMediathek and in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library from Friday, 1.5.2026 for one year
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