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General advance ticket sales begin on 2 June 2025.

Season 2025/26

Read all about the premieres – DIE DREI RÄTSEL (The Three Riddles), TRISTAN AND ISOLDE, FEDORA, VIOLANTA, L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI, GIULIO CESARE IN EGITTO and ZAR UND ZIMMERMANN in the main theatre, as well as OCTUPUS LADY, SATISFACTIONACTION and FINITE in the Tischlerei, and about our repertoire productions from Georges Bizet to Riccardo Zandonai.
All operas at a glance
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30 May; 4, 7 June 2025

Andrea Chenier

With its gripping plot set in the Paris of Robespierre's reign of terror and arias such as "La mamma morta", ANDREA CHENIER is one of the most successful operas of the Puccini era, effectively combining revolutionary songs with the intensity of Italian verismo to create a musically distinctive tone. Conductor: Axel Kober, Director: John Dew; With Gregory Kunde, Pavel Yankovsky, Sondra Radvanovsky.
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21, 26, 29 June 2025

Queen of Spades

In QUEEN OF SPADES the mood skilfully changes from large, representative choral and ensemble opera to psychological chamber play scenes. The glamour of a sophisticated elite meets the misery of the proletariat ... Conductor: Juraj Valčuha; Director: Sam Brown; With Brian Jagde, Maria Motolygina, Jennifer Larmore, Lucio Gallo, Dean Murphy, Karis Tucker a. o.
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5, 8, 13 June 2025

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 tuberculosis. Götz Friedrich’s production stresses the futility of Violetta Valéry’s attempt to escape her fate … Conductor: Vitali Alekseenok / Friedrich Praetorius; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Nina Solodovnikova / Elena Tsallagova, Andrei Danilov, Andrei Bondarenko / Thomas Lehman, and others.
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9, 14, 22 June 2025

Carmen

Bizet described his opera as an "operetta with a bad ending" - and rightly so, because what is unique about CARMEN is the mixture of romantic opera, realistic drama and Offenbach operetta. Ole Anders Tandberg's production tells the story in powerful images that constantly alternate between shock, grotesqueness and great emotion ... Conductor: Giulio Cilona; Production: Ole Anders Tandberg; With Irene Roberts, Sua Jo, Oreste Cosimo, Byung Gil Kim a. o.
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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.
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A tribute by Jörg Königsdorf

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau would have turned 100 years old.

No classical music performer has been described as the ‘singer of the century’ as often as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. This epithet encapsulates the greatest achievement an artist can attain: elevating his personal interpretative style to a standard that continues to set the measure even after his death. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau brought his artistry to bear in a repertoire that remains astonishing in its diversity: from Bach cantatas to Romantic opera and contemporary lieder, some 400 recordings still bear witness to the universal appeal of his art, which was always guided by a balance between the meaning of the words and the musical line. This is precisely what Fischer-Dieskau sought to convey in his teaching. The considerable number of students who today are celebrated lied and opera singers, each dealing with this legacy in their own way without denying it, is probably the finest tribute Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau himself could have wished for.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau would have turned 100 years old.
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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.
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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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Support our young audience...

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!
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Lash: Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe in conversation, world premiere on 20 June 2025
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Ab in den Ring! – A Teaser, opening night on 28 February 2025
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Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten, Premiere on 26 January 2025
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Rehearsal visit to ‘Macbeth’, 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
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Richard Strauss: Intermezzo, Premiere on 25 April 2024
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Pjotr I. Tschaikowskij: Pique Dame, Premiere on 9 March 2024
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Giacomo Puccini: Il trittico, Premiere on 30 September 2023
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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.
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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.
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An obituary

In memory of Peter Gougaloff

Like the recently deceased baritone Rolf Kühne, Peter Gougaloff was one of those singers who moved to the West at the height of a successful career at the Berlin State Opera. And like his ensemble colleague, the tenor, born in Bulgaria in 1929, soon decided to make the Deutsche Oper Berlin his new artistic home. It is no surprise that he was welcomed here with open arms: with his radiant, powerful voice, Gougaloff was a first-rate interpreter of the great tenor roles in Giuseppe Verdi's operas: Radames, Alvaro and, above all, Manrico, which became his most important role with 66 performances at his home theatre alone. Gougaloff was a familiar presence to Berlin audiences for 27 years, appearing in numerous roles since his house debut on 30 September 1972 as Turridu, and performing here on a total of 654 evenings. Peter Gougaloff passed away on 8 May at the age of 95. The Deutsche Oper Berlin will honour his memory.
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