Ladies and Gentlemen, dear visitors!

On 22nd April, the new directive issued by the State of Berlin prohibiting large public events due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic takes effect. As a result no events, regardless of size, will be taking place at the Deutsche Oper Berlin until after 31st July 2020.

This means that our 2019/20 season has come to an untimely end. We are sincerely grateful for your support and have treasured our shared experiences of fine musical theatre over recent months. We hope to see you again soon. Dietmar Schwarz: “I join the entire Deutsche Oper Berlin team in expressing deep regret over the cancellation of our May and June events, which were to include the hotly anticipated launch of our RING OF THE NIBELUNG cycle, conducted and directed by our formidable duo, Donald Runnicles and Stefan Herheim, and the premieres of Rued Langgaard’s ANTIKRIST and Peter I. Tchaikovsky’s THE QUEEN OF SPADES, which were cancelled on 12th and 25th March. We sincerely hope to soon be in a position to present all the works that we have been planning and preparing over these weeks and months. We are firm believers that art will be all the more important to us as human beings during, and above all after, this difficult period – both as a way of making sense of what we have been through and of shaping our outlook for the future.”

We will notify you as soon as we can of our plans for the 2020/21 season, modified to take account of the current situation, our digital offerings on the website and the new date for advance ticket sales.

We miss you all and are extremely sad about the demise of our intensively rehearsed and eagerly awaited performances, some of which have been in the pipeline for 2 years. We look forward to seeing you again at your (and our) Deutsche Oper Berlin!

Our ticket sales team is under great strain due to the cancellations and is working flat out processing ticket reimbursements. We can only ask for your patience and understanding at this difficult time. Please direct any queries to us by phone on +49 30 343 84 343, by email to info@deutscheoperberlin.de or in person from 27th April at our on-site box office, which is open from Monday to Friday (excl. Bank Holidays) between 12 noon and 7pm.

For ticket reimbursements, please fill out the following Returns Form by 31st July 2020 at the latest. We are especially grateful to any patron choosing the voucher or the account-crediting option.

Please find our online form here.

The form is also expressly for the use of patrons who bought tickets on site without providing customer details.

Note to our subscribers: We are taking the liberty of cancelling your tickets for the affected performances and crediting your account by an amount that is proportionate to the value of discounted tickets. The credited sum can be used for future ticket purchases. Should you wish to renew your subscription for the 2020/21 season, we will deduct the credited sum from the price.

Patrons who bought tickets via a third-party organisation (e.g. eventim.de) or an alternative ticketing outlet should contact the relevant agent direct.

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Choose from one of these options ...

1 > Credit to my customer account

You would like a refund to the value of the ticket price as a credit to your customer account. You can use the credit for future ticket purchases.

2 > Ticket price to be reimbursed

You can return your tickets free of charge and receive a full refund. Send us the completed form with your customer and order number or contact us by phone at T +49 30 343 84 343. If you have paid for your tickets by phone or online by credit card, we will charge the amount back to your credit card. Otherwise we ask you to provide your bank details (IBAN) for the return transfer. Please understand that the reverse transaction may take some time, approx. 4 to 8 weeks. >>> How to find your order number.

3 > Donate the amount 

You would like to donate the amount worth the ticket price in favour of project work of the Young German Opera for children and young people during the holidays and you waive any repayment. In return you will receive a donation receipt. [further information on the purpose of the donation]

After having sent the completed form to our ticket service, you will receive a copy of the form by email as confirmation of receipt. Please allow a processing time of approx. 4 to 8 weeks - thank you for your understanding.

On 12 June at 7.30 pm, we invite you to a semi-staged 110-minute version of the work on the parking deck of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, based on a chamber version by the British composer Jonathan Dove with 22 musicians* and 12 singers*. The musical direction is in the hands of General Music Director Donald Runnicles, while Neil Barry Moss is responsible for the scenic arrangement.

The performances follow a "pay what you want" concept, i.e. to secure seats you are invited to book one or two seats online, by telephone or at the box office for a nominal charge of 5.00 €. Contributions are requested after the performance.

Celebrated by the British press as a "wonder" and a "masterpiece of replication", British composer Jonathan Dove composed the work titled The Ring Saga in 1990 on the basis of DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN (Adaptation of DAS RHEINGOLD by Graham Vick and Jonathan Dove, orchestration by Jonathan Dove, by arrangement with Birmingham Opera Company). Created with the goal of making Wagner's tetralogy performable at smaller venues and festivals, this version – ten hours in length and with an orchestra of 18 musicians – has since taken the world by storm.

Information on obtaining customer data when purchasing a ticket

Help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Recording your contact information (first and last name, complete address and phone number with which we can reach you) when purchasing a ticket helps us understand and be able to break contact chains.

The legal basis for this is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Art. 6 para. 1 letter c): The recording of data due to legal obligation, resulting from § 2 paragraph 1 item 8 and paragraph 2 of the 9th ordinance to amend the SARS-Cov-2 inhibition measures regulation from 28 May 2020, passed by the State of Berlin on the basis of § 32 sentence 1 of the Infection Protection Act.

The responsible authority is authorised to perform the measures as per the § 16 Infection Protection Act (see this document).

By purchasing your ticket you consent to the retrieval and processing of your contact information as needed by the responsible authority in accordance with § 16 Infection Protection Act. Upon request, a full submission must be made to the responsible Charlottenburg District Office. The information is deleted by the Deutsche Oper Berlin at regular intervals. See items 7 and 9 of our Data Protection Agreement for further information on your rights.

Thank you for your cooperation!

Further general information about the performances

Pre-sale begins on Friday, 5 June 2020 at 12:00 noon at the box office, over the phone and online. Tickets are only available for pre-sale, and there is no evening box office.

The performances cannot be held in the rain.

We recommend that you wear or bring warm clothing.

Every ticket costs a security fee of 5 euros, and the performances follow a "pay what you want" concept: donations are requested after the performance. Cash collection boxes are located at the entrances and exits.

The space layout makes it possible to reserve single or double seats (for couples and people who share a household), and it will be strictly ensured that the booked seats are used.

The space layout specifies entrances to the right and left at Zillestraße and Krumme Straße, respectively.

Admission begins one hour before the performances.

A distance of 1.5 m between persons must always be adhered to.

Toilets are available in the Tischlerei for the right block, and in the Restaurant Deutsche Oper for the left block. Our visitor service staff will lead the guests to them.

Masks that cover the mouth and nose must be worn when entering and exiting.

Catering: beverages will be offered in small bottles on site.

You can find all information on the piece and casting here.

We wish you a wonderful evening!

In August our elevated parking deck becomes the strange and wondrous setting for three performances and four concerts, prior to the reopening in September of the main stage. Regretfully, we reserve the right to make any changes to the programme dictated by current circumstances.

Tickets for August events go on sale at noon on Monday 22nd June 12:00h. We expect ticket bookings for September to open on 17th August.

It goes without saying that all events will be held in strict compliance with the hygiene and distancing regulations in force on the day. This will allow all of us to enjoy evenings at the opera almost as much as we always have and to feel safe in the process.

Das Rheingold on the parking deck

The Rhinegold in just 110 minutes? Yes, it can be done! Following on from the performances in June, which were sold out in short order, we present this semi-staged adaptation of the first part of the tetralogy, referred to by Wagner as the ‘preliminary evening’, here in Jonathan Dove’s chamber-music version – a very effective dramatic distillation featuring 12 soloists from the ensemble singing in the open air and with Donald Runnicles conducting.

21, 22, 23 August 2020

The BigBand on the parking deck

Like no other jazz composer before or after him, Duke Ellington was capable of capturing non-musical images and conjuring moods and atmospheres. >>> With its “Jungle Book” concert, the BigBand demonstrates convincingly that jazz music is for children, too. Actor Christian Brückner reads excerpts from Rudyard Kipling’s classic, with the Band playing jungle jazz.

25, 26 August 2020 [The Duke]
29, 30 August 2020 [Jungle Book]

Baby Doll. Klezmer meets Beethoven

We are ringing in Beethoven’s extended anniversary year 2020/21 with a special encounter: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 meets real-life stories of refugee women. BABY DOLL is an evening located in the borderlands between symphony concert and klezmer session, between dance, documentary theatre and video installation. We are looking forward to the German premiere of Marie-Ève Signeyrole’s production. The director attracted attention in Germany when being nominated for the FAUST Prize 2019.

4 [Premiere], 6 [2x], 7 Sept. 2020 [main stage]

Masterpieces of Italian opera

In September we’re back on the main stage at last, enhancing six of your late-summer evenings with concertante performances of excerpts from masterpieces of Italian opera. 90 minutes of love and hate, hope and despair, featuring such top-notch singers as Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Saioa Hernández, Elena Stikhina, Jorge de León, Joseph Calleja and Irina Churilova.

12, 13 Sept. 2020 [Verdi-Gala] [main stage]
19, 20 Sept. 2020 [Best of AIDA] [main stage]
25, 26 Sept. 2020 [Best of LA GIOCONDA] [main stage]

Cultural life has almost come to a complete standstill as it has vanished behind digital screens. More than ever, people are in need of genuine personal contact and a commonly and directly shared musical experience, yet the current limitations are likely to stay with us for a long time. With 1:1 CONCERTS we have now created an opportunity for an authentic concert experience that is takes into account all of the current Covid-19 restrictions.

A 1:1 CONCERT features a 10 min. non-verbal 1-to-1-encounter between a listener and a musician. The opening eye contact and ensuing mutual gaze is the impulse for a very personal concert where both sides experience an unprecedented intensity allowing proximity from a distance. The concert attendees do not know who is going to play. Whether they hear a jazz saxophone, a double bass or a baroque flute will come as a surprise. Moreover, the concept explores extraordinary concert venues – concerts can take you to an art gallery, a qiuet backyard, an empty factory hall or an allotment garden. Spaces and venues are provided by private hosts.

This week, Berlin is starting a series of performances at various venues in cooperation with musicians from the Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra and other musicians. You will find available dates in the next few days under the link below.

1:1 CONCERTS in Berlin

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