Britten, Handel, Mozart, Schütz, Purcell, Schubert, Wagner … Few choreographers have engaged so deeply with classical music, and opera in particular, as Andreas Heise. Frühlingsstimmen also looks beneath the surface. On the one hand, the exuberant bliss of Johann Strauss II’s waltz classic, the intoxication and beauty of awakening nature. On the other hand, doubt and skepticism: a puppet-like setting with dancers moving as if remotely controlled. And the pressing question: where do the fault lines run in a supposedly perfect world?