Intrigue and Love
The "Schillertage", the biannual festival of Schiller's plays that has existed since 1979, selects a group of productions for the Mannheim festival presented both on the theatre's mainstage (plus an experimental series of plays elsewhere). In the past, the main stage series has featured multiple productions of Schiller's early play, "The Robbers" (in addition to a production of Verdi's opera based on that play, "I masnadieri)", as well as "Intrigue and Love", and his later plays "William Tell" (1804) (the basis for Rossini's opera of the same name in 1829) and "The Maid of Orleans" ("Die Jungfrau von Orléans"), some of which became part of Tchaikovsky's opera.