The "Favourite Pieces" were the Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble's response to Corona in order to continue sharing the experience of singing with the audience. Clicked a thousand times, the series has become a digital success story. Now the "Favourites" are available live on the main stage. ... With Alexandra Hutton, Meechot Marrero, Arianna Manganello, Karis Tucker, Flurina Stucki, Ya-Chung Huang, Joel Allison, Patrick Cook, Thomas Lehman, Gideon Poppe, Patrick Guetti, Michael Kim, Tyler Zimmerman and Jörg Schörner (presenter).

One of the most popular operas in the world is CARMEN not only because of its unmistakable musical language, but also because of its "hits". Habanera and Seguidilla, Torero Song and Flower Aria are also indispensable for this "Best of" ... Under the musical direction of Stefan Blunier you will experience Aigul Akhmetshina (photo © Andrey Uspensky), Elena Tsallagova, Robert Watson and Joel Allison.

The story presents us with a pretend rendezvous, a husband disguised as a spy and a collective ghost staged in a park at night. Falstaff is the individualistic outsider stirring up the comfortable status quo with his otherness and inducing the bourgeoisie to act, to produce theatre, to be anarchical ... With Lucio Gallo (insted of Misha Kiria), Thomas Lehman, Mingjie Lei, Annette Dasch, Arianna Manganello, Annika Schlicht under the musical direction of Ivan Repušić.

For 200 years Rossini’s BARBIERE has been held up 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.

The mortals are power-crazed, mistrust and materialism rule and all that the gods can think about is enforcing the old codes rather than questioning their raison d’être ... Experience Brandon Jovanovich, Lise Davidsen, Nina Stemme and Johan Reuter (4 Oct; 13, 15 Nov.) / John Lundgren in Stefan Herheim's new production under the musical direction of Sir Donald Runnicles.

With the dramatism familiar from his operas, Verdi conjures up the horror images of death, the end times and damnation, but also the deep longing for redemption. Experience this work with full chorus and orchestra as well as with Eleonora Buratto, Clémentine Margaine, Attilio Glaser and Günther Groissböck.

Puccini‘s »Japanese tragedy« is more than simply one of the supremely emotional works of musical theatre; it is also unsparingly critical of imperialism as a system. 18-year-old Cio-Cio-San falls victim to a callous patriarchy and a chauvinism that runs rough-shod over the values of other cultures.

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.