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Chorus - Deutsche Oper Berlin
Dear chorus and opera fans,
The chorus is the beating heart of any opera company’s onstage presence, and none more so than the Chor der Deutschen Oper. One of the busiest choruses of their calibre anywhere in the world, they can be seen and heard night after night devoting heart and soul to a vast range of works; equally at home in new productions and in their enormous repertoire, the Chor der Deutschen Oper performs around 35 titles over the course of the season, from the great Wagner operas such as LOHENGRIN and TANNHÄUSER for which they are particularly renowned, to world premières such as Detlev Glanert’s recent International Opera Award-winning OCEANE.
Sincerely yours, Jeremy Bines, Chorus Director
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Podcast of our Patrons' Circle ... Episode #12
Duett ... With Jeremy Bines
As a wonderful body of sound, the multi-award-winning Chorus of the Deutsche Oper has suffered particularly as a collective from the Corona pandemic. What this demands of a chorus director, how a chorus sings when it cannot be live on stage - as in the new production of FRANCESACA DA RIMINI - is what chorus director Jeremy Bines tells Silke Alsweiler-Lösch.
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28 February; 2 and 5 March 2025
Nixon in China
Two of the most powerful men in the world shake hands – and the world is watching: with their opera about Richard Nixon's state visit to Mao Tse-tung in 1972, composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman brought contemporary history to the stage... Conductor: Daniel Carter; production: Hauen und Stechen; with Kyle Miller, Thomas Lehman, Padraic Rowan, Alfred Kim, Heidi Stober, Hye-Young Moon and others
A fully-fledged part of our ensemble since 2008
The Children’s and Youth Chorus
The singers in the children's chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin may be young, but they already have the same goal as their professional colleagues in the ‘big’ chorus: they want to inspire. They want to create a successful evening with the ensemble. This year, for the first time, a world premiere took place especially for the children's chorus: IMMMERMEEEHR.
Our digital chamber music series
Chorus Soloists sing Liebeslieder Waltzes
"By the way, I would risk being called an ass if our love songs did not give pleasure to some people", Johannes Brahms wrote about his 18 miniatures for four-hand piano and vocal soloists. Listen to five of these love song waltzes (op. 52) in a special edition of our "Favourite Pieces" series, sung by members of our chorus.
Va', pensiero, sull'ali dorate
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The candle is lit, the singers are ready… In Verdi’s NABUCCO the chorus is one of the main protagonists – and not just because of the famous “Va, pensiero” sung by the ‘Chorus of Slaves’. Eighty voices united as one – this is the challenge to be tackled by every director of the work.
9, 14, 22 June 2025
Carmen ... Of blazing passion in a mercilessly cruel world
Carmen is seductive and the self-confident antithesis of the romantic female ideal of fidelity and sacrifice. For the farmer's son and soldier Don José, she can only become the wrong woman. Out of love for her and the unconditional will to possess and keep her, he drives deeper and deeper into the maelstrom of crime. For director Ole Anders Tandberg, the bloody, colourful scenery of Andalusia, with its torero song and habanera, becomes the cipher of a cruel world in which only the law of the strongest applies and the inferior is killed.
