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Welcome to Mahagonny
Performances on 17 [premiere], 20, 22, 24, 26 July 2025
Benedikt von Peter's production brings THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY to life: not only the stage, but also the foyer is used, and the audience becomes part of the great entertainment machine that inexorably tips over into an apocalyptic game ... Conductor: Stefan Klingele; Director: Benedikt von Peter; With Evelyn Herlitzius, Thomas Cilluffo, Robert Gleadow, Annette Dasch, Nikolai Schukoff et al.
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Our opening day on 21 September 2025
What's coming up?
‘One day, four acts’: Experience four individual acts from Humperdinck's HÄNSEL UND GRETEL, Verdi's RIGOLETTO and LA TRAVIATA, and Puccini's TURANDOT, staged and costumed, performed by the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and sung by members of our ensemble and renowned guest artists... Start the new season with us – we look forward to seeing you!
13, 18 September 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: Carlo Montanaro; Director: Benedikt von Peter; With Yulia Matochkina, Gloria Jieun Choi, Alfred Kim et al.
14, 19, 26 September 2025
Rigoletto
In his opera about the hunchbacked court jester, Verdi took the tension between the improbabilities of the plot and the emotional overwhelming power of musical theatre to extremes. Jan Bosse's production tells the tragedy of a man who fails to separate private life and public action ... Conductor: Daniele Squeo; Director: Jan Bosse; With Andrei Danilov, Daniel Luis de Vicente, Nina Solodovnikova, Tobias Kehrer, Aleksandra Meteleva, and others.
16 September 2025 | Berlin Music Festival | Philharmonie
Das Lied von der Erde
Gustav Mahler described his ‘Song of the Earth’, which was not premiered until 1911 after his death, as the most personal work he ever wrote. Antonello Manacorda precedes the symphonic song cycle in his concert with the orchestral piece ‘Blossoming II’ by the multi-award-winning Toshio Hosokawa. With Okka von der Damerau and David Butt Philip.
20 September 2025 | Berlin Music Festival at the Philharmonie
Jazz de Paris
The BigBand celebrates its 20th anniversary and dedicates itself to French jazz. During the German occupation, it stood for freedom and resistance, and in the post-war period it became the soundtrack of existentialism and an expression of the attitude towards life of an entire generation. Conducted by Manfred Honetschläger with Biréli Lagrène, Thomas Pigor and Mathilde Vendramin.
20 September; 4 October 2025
Lohengrin
Soon after the failure of the 1848 revolution, the political refugee Richard Wagner wrote his LOHENGRIN: an opera about a hero who tries in vain to pacify a divided people. Kasper Holten's production deliberately leaves open whether this leader fights by fair means ... Conductor: Marc Albrecht; Director: Kasper Holten; With Byung Gil Kim, Attilio Glaser, Flurina Stucki, Egils Silins, Nina Stemme, Dean Murphy a. o.
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‘Opera days’ & ‘Coming up!’
We are offering our new opera day 21 times during the 2025/26 season. On these dates, tickets for children and young people up to the age of 18 cost €10.00, and €34.00 for everyone else, regardless of seat selection. All our opera days can be found behind the link and, of course, in the respective monthly calendars. >>> For five of these performances, we have adapted our popular ‘Opera Workshop’ format, which allows you to attend a rehearsal before the performance, after our dramaturgs have provided you with interesting information about the work in an introduction. After the rehearsal, you will have the opportunity to discuss what you have seen with selected guests. The title of this series is ‘Coming up: ...!’
From the start of October in the foyer
Scandal!
This season, the Deutsche Oper Berlin is presenting an exhibition in the Foyer about some of the most heated debates that have taken place in and around the opera house since 1945: resistance to modernism in art, protests against opera-going dictators, and the fight against cultural dismantling. Throughout all these "scandals," the opera house has always also been a venue for the conflicts that have troubled society. And we will likely have to endure this in the future as well.
19 October 1945 – 9 July 2025
In memory of Dr Alard von Rohr
One of the qualities of an opera intendant is the ability to assemble a team of people who not only have professional expertise but also an affinity for musical theatre. Dr Alard von Rohr had both qualities in abundance. Götz Friedrich did not hesitate to bring the lawyer to the Deutsche Oper Berlin when he took up his post in 1981. First as general secretary, then as opera director and deputy general director. Dr Alard von Rohr thus became one of Friedrich's most important colleagues, helping him to establish the opera house's patronage association and, in 1994, co-founding and organising the AIDS Gala. Now, at the age of 79, Dr Alard von Rohr has passed away suddenly. We will honour his memory.
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![Aus der Premiere: Lash – Acts of Love, World premiere on 20 June 2025]( "Aus der Premiere: Lash – Acts of Love, World premiere on 20 June 2025")
![Lash: Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe in conversation, world premiere on 20 June 2025]( "Lash: Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe in conversation, world premiere on 20 June 2025")
![Ab in den Ring! – A Teaser, opening night on 28 February 2025]( "Ab in den Ring! – A Teaser, opening night on 28 February 2025")
![Maxime Pascal for the symphony concert on 10 February 2025]( "Maxime Pascal for the symphony concert on 10 February 2025")
![Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten, Premiere on 26 January 2025]( "Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten, Premiere on 26 January 2025")
![Die Frau ohne Schatten – A Teaser, Premiere on 26 January 2025]( "Die Frau ohne Schatten – A Teaser, Premiere on 26 January 2025")
![Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth, Premiere on 23. November 2024]( "Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth, Premiere on 23. November 2024")
![Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth – A Teaser, 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]( "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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Rebecca Saunders: Lash – Acts of Love, world premiere on 20 June 2025
Aus der Premiere: Lash – Acts of Love, World premiere on 20 June 2025
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Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth, Premiere on 23. November 2024
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Here you can find out everything about our programmes for nurseries and schools, children, young people and families
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.
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Ottorino Respighi: La fiamma
Impressive singing and colossal tableaux accompany Ottorino Respighi's last great opera LA FIAMMA, a dark story of intrigue, power struggles and an affair between a stepmother and her son. Director Christof Loy brought this musical drama masterpiece back to the stage of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in September 2024. The production has now been released by the EuroArts label on 20 June 2025 as a Blu-ray and digital audio release. Conducted by Carlo Rizzi, the singers include Olesya Golovneva, Georgy Vasiliev, Ivan Inverardi, Martina Serafin and Doris Soffel.
The book in stores
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: Aribert Reimann, Detlev Glanert, Chaya Czernowin and Rebecca Saunders, among others, have composed for the main stage, while Gordon Kampe, Keyvan Chemirani and Sara Glojnaric have composed for the Tischlerei. The conversations between Dietmar Schwarz 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 from Schott Verlag, 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!
