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Tristan und Isolde
27 October; 10 November 2024
Musically highly romantic and crossing the threshold to modernity, Wagner lets his couple run with existential inexorability into a hopeless dilemma. Disturbing and fascinating in its uncompromising portrayal of obsessive love, this work - based on a myth - has become a myth itself ... Conductor: Petr Popelka; Director: Graham Vick; With Clay Hilley, Albert Pesendorfer / Georg Zeppenfeld, Ricarda Merbeth, Thomas Lehman, Jörg Schörner, Irene Roberts a. o.
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3 November 2024
La traviata
In setting »La Dame aux Camélias« to music, Verdi explored, in a shockingly direct way, two big themes of the 19th century: prostitution and consumption. Götz Friedrich’s production stresses the futility of Violetta Valéry’s attempt to escape her fate … Conductor: Friedrich Praetorius; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Nina Solodovnikova, Attilio Glaser, Thomas Lehman, Arianna Manganello a.o.
20, 26, 30 October 2024
Fidelio
This opera is a monolith: it is considered the freedom opera par excellence and is probably the first-ever specifically German opera in its fusion of rescue opera, humanist oratorio and melodrama. David Hermann focuses on the manipulation mechanisms of power and powerlessness ... Conductor: Stephan Zilias; Director: David Hermann; With Artur Garbas, Joel Allison, Oreste Cosimo, Jane Archibald, Tobias Kehrer, Lilit Davtyan, Thomas Cilluffo a. o.
31 October; 5, 15 November 2024
Lucia di Lammermoor
A historicised staging forms the backdrop for Lucia's tragedy, which is negotiated as a pledge of military alliances. Her heart belongs to Edgardo, the mortal enemy of her brother Enrico, who has other plans for his sister. With its nostalgic atmosphere, Filippo Sanjust's production is a classic in the repertoire ... Conductor: Matteo Beltrami; Director: Filippo Sanjust; With Dean Murphy, Serena Sáenz / Gilda Fiume, Andrei Danilov, Kangyoon Shine Lee / Kieran Carrel, Gerard Farreras / Byung-Gil Kim a. o.
6, 9, 16 November 2024
Tosca
This TOSCA production is deserved of listed status after a performance history stretching back over half a century. Not that the atmospheric sets depicting the original locations in Rome - a timeless backdrop for great musical theatre - have lost any of their charm in over 400 performances of the work ... Conductor: Giampaolo Bisanti; Director: Boleslaw Barlog; With Elena Stikhina, Martin Muehle, Lucio Gallo a. o.
6, 10, 21 October 2024
Il barbiere di Siviglia
For 200 years Rossini’s BARBIERE has been considered as the epitome of musical comedy. The archetypes of commedia dell’arte are constantly shimmering through the storyline revolving around the resourceful Figaro – an ambiguity that is not lost in Katharina Thalbach’s vibrant and hectic production … Conducted by Giulio Cilona; directed by Katharina Thalbach; with Kieran Carrel, Marco Filippo Romano, Cecilia Molinari / Martina Baroni, Dean Murphy, Manuel Fuentes a. o.
on MACBETH – opening on 23 November 2024
Anastasia Bartoli: My private place of peace
We visited Anastasia Bartoli in her hometown of Verona, at her private place of peace, the Arena di Verona, and talked to her about her debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Lady Macbeth. ‘For me, Lady Macbeth is one of the most beautiful roles, my favourite of Verdi's. The character is completely insane and this madness has to be conveyed vocally,’ she says about her role. She also talks a lot about her career, about rehearsals with her mother Cecilia Gasdia and about the significance of the ancient arena for her. Read about it in our blog article or find out more about our new production MACBETH, which premieres on 23 November.
on MACBETH – opening on 23 November 2024
Seven questions for... Roman Burdenko
‘The odd thing about Macbeth is that there are times I hate him – but then I come round to liking him again. He’s generally more likeable than his wife, Lady Macbeth. When she goes mad, I sense that she’s not a good person, whereas he’s always on the cusp of doing good. Trouble is, he’s also always on the cusp of doing the opposite’ – said Roman Burdenko when asked where his sympathies lie with Macbeth. The Russian baritone is well known here at the theatre, having already excelled in many roles, including as Charles Gerard in ANDREA CHENIER, in the title role of RIGOLETTO, as Baron Scarpia in TOSCA and as Don Carlo di Vargas in LA FORZA DEL DESTINO. Now he returns to our house in the title role of Verdi's MACBETH. Read in the blog what Burdenko has to say about Verdi's genius for telling stories, or read everything important on our MACBETH page.
on MACBETH – opening on 23 November 2024
The Realist
Marie-Ève Signeyrole is one of the most sought-after opera directors in Europe today. In November, she will be staging Verdi's MACBETH here. Originally at home in both film and opera, her interest and attention are now increasingly focused on musical theatre. ‘When I stage MACBETH today, it is in relation to the world as I perceive it at the moment. This immediacy suits me.’ Signeyrole's productions are indeed characterised by a very close relationship to the present: her works deal with the complexity of living, loving and acting in a world shaken by wars, climate change, flight and expulsion in such an alert way that reality and the reality of the stage sometimes face each other as in a mirror. Read an essay about the director in the blog and visit MACBETH from 23 November 2024.
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21 September 1944 – 3 October 2024
In memoriam Gottfried Pilz
Gottfried Pilz once revealed that his work was not about decoration, but about revealing what was behind a wall, what lay beyond the boundaries. And in fact, each of the stage designs that Pilz created over the course of his long career reflects this examination of the essence and message of the underlying work. Eighteen productions are associated with Pilz at Deutsche Oper Berlin, in addition to his collaboration with Götz Friedrich (DER ROSENKAVALIER, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, BORIS GODUNOW, AMAHL) and John Dew ( THE HUGENOTS, FAUST), his work with Günter Krämer (DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES, AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY) is particularly worthy of mention. He passed away unexpectedly last Thursday. We mourn the loss of one of the greats in his field and will honour his memory and his work.
Now available on DVD / Blu-ray
Rued Langgaard: Antikrist
The Antichrist makes his entrance into a godless world. Sent by Lucifer into the world, he adopts many guises. Mankind is tested and tempted by pride, lust, lies, despondency and hatred in an “all-against-all altercation”. Langgaard’s opera is suffused with fin de siècle atmosphere and pessimism, denouncing the vices of the modern age: egotism, arrogance, frivolity. Langgaard, though, was also an optimist, convinced of the transformative power of art and the importance of music as a thread connecting people to the godhead. ANTIKRIST has now been released on DVD and Blu-ray. Conducted by Stephan Zilias, the production by Ersan Mondtag features Thomas Lehman, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Valeriia Savinskaia, Irene Roberts, Clemens Bieber, Maire Therese Carmack, Flurina Stucki, AJ Glueckert, Andrew Dickinson and Joel Allison.
We warmly congratulate the award winner.
Lisenka Heijboer Castañón receives the Götz Friedrich Prize 2024
The Götz Friedrich Prize for the 2023/2024 season goes to Lisenka Heijboer Castañón for her production of THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE OTHER MARY by John Adams at the Vienna Volksoper. Chaired by the artistic director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dietmar Schwarz, the jury voted in favor of awarding the 5,000 euro prize to the Dutch-Peruvian director. The award ceremony will take place on October 16, 2024 in the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
