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‘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!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.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.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.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.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.‘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: ...!’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.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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