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Written on Skin
4, 14, 20 May 2025
Based on a text from medieval sources, author Martin Crimp, composer George Benjamin and director Katie Mitchell created WRITTEN ON SKIN in 2012, a sensational parable about identity, love and the power of literature and art, which can be experienced once again this May ... Conductor: Marc Albrecht; Director: Katie Mitchell; With Daniel Okulitch, Georgia Jarman, Hugh Cutting, Anna Werle, Chance Jonas-O'Toole and others.
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3, 11, 22 May 2025
Aida
In Benedikt von Peter’s production of Verdi’s pharaonic opera, exotic Egypt is only visible as a dreamworld depicted on postcards. In this version of the work, which occupies the entire auditorium, the focus is on Radames’s dichotomy between the sobering reality of his everyday activities and his desire to find the woman of his dreams … Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni; Director: Benedikt von Peter; With Judit Kutasi, Christina Nilsson / Hulkar Sabirova, SeokJong Baek a. o.
8, 17, 25, 29 May 2025
Don Carlo
With DON CARLO, Verdi created one of his great political operas. But at the same time, in his adaptation of Schiller's drama about freedom, he placed greater emphasis on the individual fates of the characters, on their love, friendship, desire and disappointment. Marelli's austere staging further intensifies these conflicts in a stage design reminiscent of the Escorial... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Marco Arturo Marelli; With Alex Esposito, Jonathan Tetelman, Gihoon Kim, Patrick Guetti, Federica Lombardi, Irene Roberts and others.
10, 13, 23 May 2025
Nabucco
Keith Warner's production of Verdi's first successful opera emphasises the basic idea of reconciliation with which the work concludes: Under the wise King Nabucco, the Hebrew people of the Scriptures and the Babylonian warriors may hope for a peaceful future ... Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni; Director: Keith Warner; With Juan Jesús Rodríguez, Jorge Puerta, Liang Li, Ewa Płonka, Karis Tucker / Martina Baroni a. o.
18, 24, 31 May 2025
Les Vêpres Siciliennes
The rebellion of Sicily against its French occupiers in 1282, known as the "Sicilian Vespers", could easily be linked to Verdi's present and the conquest and colonisation of Algeria that began in 1830. This reference forms the starting point for the production of the French director Olivier Py, who extends the historical focus into the 1950s. ... Conductor: Dominic Limburg; Director: Olivier Py; With Hulkar Sabirova, Valentyn Dytiuk, Dong-Hwan Lee, Roberto Tagliavini et al.
Ticket sales for both cycles from 16 May to 31 May 2026 will begin on 1 February 2025
Der Ring des Nibelungen
In May 2026, you can experience two cycles of the RING DES NIBELUNGEN in Stefan Herheim's production with artists such as Ya-Chung Huang (Mime), Iain Paterson and Thomas J. Mayer (Wotan), Annika Schlicht (Fricka), Michael Sumuel (Alberich), Matthew Newlin (Siegmund), Elisabeth Teige (Sieglinde, Brünnhilde), Clay Hilley (Siegfried), Trine Møller and Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde) and Albert Pesendorfer (Hagen / Fasolt). These eight performances also mark the farewell of our General Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles... The performances of the first cycle from 16 to 25 May are available individually; the performances of the second cycle from 26 to 31 May are only available as a four-performance package.
The book in shops and at our premises
Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt?
Hardly any other opera house has commissioned as many world premieres as the Deutsche Oper Berlin under the artistic direction of Dietmar Schwarz: From Aribert Reimann to Detlev Glanert and Chaya Czernowin to Rebecca Saunders, some of the most important composers of the 21st century have written new works for the big stage, while names such as Gordon Kampe, Keyvan Chemirani and Sara Glojnaric represent the programme diversity of the company's second venue, the experimental stage Tischlerei. But what conditions must be met for good music theatre to emerge? The conversations between the artistic director and the composers collected in this book, as well as visual insights into the practical work of composing, show how different approaches to the art form of opera are today. The book costs €32.50 and is available also at our box office and at the first cloakroom on the left.
Season release 25/26 – 19 May 2025
What's coming up?
With seven premieres on the main stage and our broad repertoire, we offer the whole spectrum of musical theatre in the coming season. The concert 'What's coming up?', presented by Christoph Seuferle and Jörg Königsdorf, offers a first glimpse of the season with excerpts and highlights from all new productions and selected repertoire productions. Prominent guests such as Jonathan Tetelman and Frederica Lombardi, members of the ensemble, chorus and orchestra will present rediscoveries, rarities and classics from three centuries of musical theatre. This concert will also honour a great singer: Doris Soffel, who most recently thrilled audiences as the Countess in PIQUE DAME, Klytämnestra in ELEKTRA and Adelaide in ARABELLA, will be awarded honorary membership of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
A success story since 2020/21
Our Talent Circle scholarship holders
What do Theodora Schnauck-Betow and Dr Angelika Volle, Dr Constanze and Olfert Landt, Ulrike and Walter Sandvoss, Rolf Haeger and Florian Chiutu-Haeger have in common? They are all supporting our young ensemble soloists in the Talent Circle. This season, the members are Lilit Davtyan, Chance Jonas-O'Toole, Alexandra Oomens, Martina Baroni, Nina Solodovnikova, Kyle Miller and répétiteur Jisu Park. If you would also like to support our young artists or productions, then find out more about becoming a member of our support association, the Förderkreis.
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Children and young people are the opera audience of today and tomorrow. The Stiftung für die Deutsche Oper Berlin is responsible for ensuring their continued attendance and would like to keep ticket prices stable for this target group in the future. To this end, the Stiftung für die Deutsche Oper Berlin has launched this project, which compensates for the necessary price increase following cuts to the cultural budget. Support this valuable project for young people with your donation, so that the world of opera remains accessible to children and young people. Help to spark and sustain their enthusiasm for opera!
To the video archive Skip video container ![Ab in den Ring! – A Teaser, opening night on 28 February 2025]( "Ab in den Ring! – A Teaser, opening night on 28 February 2025")
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![Rehearsal visit to ‘Macbeth’, premiere on 23 November 2024]( "Rehearsal visit to ‘Macbeth’, premiere on 23 November 2024")
![Ottorino Respighi: La fiamma, Premiere on 29 September 2024]( "Ottorino Respighi: La fiamma, Premiere on 29 September 2024")
![127 seconds with: Doris Soffel, in LA FIAMMA from 29 September 2024]( "127 seconds with: Doris Soffel, in LA FIAMMA from 29 September 2024")
![John Adams: Nixon in China, Premiere on 22 June 2024]( "John Adams: Nixon in China, Premiere on 22 June 2024")
![Richard Strauss: Intermezzo, Premiere on 25 April 2024]( "Richard Strauss: Intermezzo, Premiere on 25 April 2024")
![Pjotr I. Tschaikowskij: Pique Dame, Premiere on 9 March 2024]( "Pjotr I. Tschaikowskij: Pique Dame, Premiere on 9 March 2024")
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Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth, Premiere on 23. November 2024
Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth – A Teaser, premiere on 23 November 2024
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Ottorino Respighi: La fiamma, Premiere on 29 September 2024
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John Adams: Nixon in China, Premiere on 22 June 2024
Richard Strauss: Intermezzo, Premiere on 25 April 2024
Pjotr I. Tschaikowskij: Pique Dame, Premiere on 9 March 2024
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Our Children's and Youth Programme
We at Junge Deutsche Oper want to give young people access to the world of music theatre and open up a world for you in which there is something for everyone to discover. Concert formats, opera and music theatre can be experienced on the main stage, in the Tischlerei and in the foyer as part of school and daycare or in your free time with your family.
Now available in stores as a CD box set
Jules Massenet: Hérodiade
Few female figures have inspired the art of the late 19th century as enduringly as the Judean princess Salome. In France in particular, writers, painters and composers were fascinated by this material and its blend of Orientalism and decadence, of eroticism and opulence. Jules Massenet also took up the story, although at the centre of his HÉRODIADE is not, as it was a quarter of a century later for Richard Strauss, the royal child-woman Salome, but her mother Herodias, the wife of King Herod. And while Strauss would later push open the door to the 20th century with his first operatic success, in Massenet's work, 19th-century grand opera celebrates one of its last triumphs, complete with pathos, posturing and a Hollywood-style script. Under the direction of Enrique Mazzola, you can hear Etienne Dupuis, Clémentine Margaine, Nicole Car and Matthew Polenzani, among others.
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The ClassicCard App!
The ClassicCard is a unique offer in Germany for young classical music fans. With the free ClassicCard app, you can easily search through and purchase tickets in advance for all current concert, opera and ballet events at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin and the Staatsballett Berlin, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Pierre Boulez Saal, as well as the institutions of the Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre Berlin. With the ClassicCard, anyone under the age of 30 receives significantly discounted tickets for performances by the participating houses. To take advantage of the numerous benefits of the ClassicCard, you must be a member. The annual fee for membership is based on the age of the person (min. 14 years/€14, max. 29 years/€29). Never miss another performance or concert: the ClassicCard makes it possible!
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. This DVD was awarded the ‘Diamant d'Opéra’ by ‘Opéra Magazine’ in December 2024.
