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La bohème
6, 9, 11, 29, 31 December 2024
Puccini's setting of ‘Scenes from the Life of Bohème’ is the most famous of all artist operas and at the same time the portrait of a group of young people who live for the moment without considering the consequences of their actions. Götz Friedrich's magnificent production reflects the glamour and squalor of Paris during the Belle Époque... Conductor: Friedrich Praetorius; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Andrei Danilov / Attilio Glas er, Kyle Miller / Philipp Jekal, Dean Murphy / Geon Kim, Patrick Guetti / Byung Gil Kim, Aida Pascu / Elena Tsallagova, Alexandra Oomens / Nina Solodovnikova and others
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16 [2×], 17, 19, 23, 24 [2×], 25, 29, 30; Nov. 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 14, 18, 21 [2×], 27, 30. Dec. 2024
immmermeeehr (8+)
What are children's worries? And how can children deal with and overcome their problems? The text for IMMMERMEEEHR (More and more ), a musical theatre piece about how children deal with everyday stress, pressure to perform, domestic worries and memories of war and flight, was created together with children. The piece was also created for and with the children's choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
27, 30 December 2024; 2, 6 January 2025
Il viaggio a Reims
Since Rossini's coronation opera was rediscovered in 1984, this performance show of bel canto has gained a firm place in the repertoire. At the same time, the story about the noble spa guests and their failed travel plan is a marvellous piece of absurd theatre, staged by Jan Bosse as a satire on the "Hospital Europa" ... Conductor: Alessandro De Marchi; Director: Jan Bosse; With Lilit Davtyan, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Hye-Young Moon, Martina Russomanno, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Omar Mancini, Michael Bachtadze, Artur Garbas, Philipp Jekal, Kyle Miller a. o.
19, 22, 23 December 2024; 4, 5 January 2025
The Cunning Little Vixen
This cheerful, melancholy work about a cunning vixen is not called a "Czech Midsummer Night's Dream" for nothing. The figures of the animal and human worlds are closely interwoven here to create an allegory about the cycle of life and death. In this late work, Janáček composed an impressionistic soundscape of subtly orchestrated short scenes and episodes, orchestral preludes and transformations, and Katharina Thalbach's detailed staging emphasises the enchanting character of this work ... Conductor: Marko Letonja; Director: Katharina Thalbach; With Derek Welton / Geon Kim, Jared Werlein, Meechot Marrero / Alexandra Oomens, Arianna Manganello / Martina Baroni and others.
10, 17, 27 January 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: Michele Spotti / Friedrich Praetorius; Director: Jan Bosse; With Andrei Danilov, Etienne Dupuis, Brenda Rae, Geon Kim, Tobias Kehrer, Stephanie Wake-Edwards a. o.
For the last time on 12, 18 January 2025
Tristan und Isolde
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: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Sir Graham Vick; With Clay Hilley, Derek Welton, Stéphanie Müther, Leonardo Lee, Jörg Schörner, Annika Schlicht a. o.
Opera by Richard Strauss – 26 [première], 30 January; 2, 5, 8, 11 February 2025
Die Frau ohne Schatten – directed by Tobias Kratzer
With ARABELLA and INTERMEZZO, our Strauss cycle has already shown in a striking way how relevant Strauss's operas are today. In the third part, too, the 1919 premiere of THE WOMAN WITHOUT A SHADOW, Kratzer sees a very contemporary discourse at the centre: is surrogacy morally justifiable and a relevant chance for happiness in life?... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles / Axel Kober; With David Butt Philip, Jane Archibald, Marina Prudenskaya, Jordan Shanahan, Catherine Foster and others.
on DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN – Premiere on 26 January 2025
Jane Archibald – My private place of peace
"The seat of my contentment is my house in Halifax. When I think about the things that differentiate a house from a home, a heap of things occur to me. Things like creaking floorboards, the smell, the cat creeping onto your lap while you’re sipping a cup of coffee. The way the light slants through the window at different times of the year. And then there are the people. My daughter reading her book upstairs, my husband tinkering away at something in the garage, a neighbour coming round for a chat and asking how my last trip was." Jane Archibald also prepared for her role as the Empress in Strauss's Frau ohne Schatten, which she will be performing on our stage from 26 January, at the Steinway grand piano in the music room of her house.
on DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN – Premiere on 26 January 2025
Strauss, show yourself
ARABELLA shows the emancipation of the title character and could also be narrated as a transgender journey through time by the minor character Zdenka/Zdenko. INTERMEZZO describes the ups and downs of a composer's marriage, playfully, with emphasis, as a precursor to today's auto-fictions. DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN is now the synthesis of the themes that were previously laid out: man, woman, society, family, classes, roles and conflicts. At its core, it is a fairy tale that tells of the difficult path to child happiness. A married couple, an emperor and an empress, suffer from the fact that the woman casts no shadow, a metaphor for their childlessness. They turn to another couple, a man and a woman who are dyers, to make up for their deficit. The story sounds simple, but in its complexity it cannot be resolved morally... From 26 January, you can experience how Tobias Kratzer approaches this complex work on our stage.
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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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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.
16 February 1928 – 27 October 2024
In memory of Edzard Reuter
When the new director Götz Friedrich initiated the founding of a support group for the Deutsche Oper Berlin soon after taking office, Edzard Reuter was one of the first prominent figures he was able to recruit for the project. It was to become a lasting relationship. Reuter belonged to a generation of German industrialists for whom the encouragement of culture was a matter of course and who knew about the social and societal function of opera and theatre. His commitment to the culture of his native city of Berlin and in particular to the Deutsche Oper remained important to him even after he had left the city and accepted the position of head of the Daimler-Benz Group. The Deutsche Oper Berlin mourns the loss of a generous patron of the arts and will honour his memory.
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.
