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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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The sum of our voices

Part of a larger whole

“Often they garner a bare nod en passant despite being difficult to miss onstage. And hardly anyone in the stalls has the first idea what their names are - not that it would ever occur to anyone to question their importance for the production. The critics, too, rarely devote more than a couple of sentences to them, even though opera would be a shadow of itself without them. LOHENGRIN, AIDA (on the photo) or TURANDOT without chorus singers? Impossible.” So ran a tribute by Albrecht Thiemann to the operatic chorus in “Opernwelt” ...
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Aida
Diesen redaktionellen Beitrag illustriert ein Foto aus AIDA: In Benedikt von Peters Inszenierung sitzen die Sänger*innen des Chores im Saal. Wenn die Chöre beginnen, erheben sich die Interpret*innen und drehen sich ins Publikum. Hier bei einer Probe mit Arbeitslicht.
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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.
Duett ... With Jeremy Bines

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from 29 September 2024

Ottorino Respighi: La fiamma

Impressive songs and colossal tableaux accompany a story of intrigue, power struggles and an affair between stepmother and son in Ottorino Respighi's last great opera. Surrounded by political battles, the characters become entangled in personal conflicts that mercilessly lead to catastrophe and end with a cruel outcome at the stake ... Conductor: Carlo Rizzi; Director: Christof Loy; With Olesya Golovneva, Georgy Vasiliev, Ivan Inverardi, Martina Serafin, Doris Soffel and others.
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Eine zeitgenössische Fotografie von Respighi (l.) mit seinem Librettisten Claudio Guastalla 1932 in Rom.
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 in years but they already have their sights set on the same goal as their professional colleagues in the ‘grown-up’ chorus: they want to thrill the audience. They want to triumph alongside the rest of the company.
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in La Bohème
Eine der ganz großen Opern für Kinderchor ist LA BOHÈME. Hier eine Impression aus dem zweiten Bild, dem Weihnachtsmarkt im Pariser Quartier Latin mit Chor und Kinderchor auf der Bühne.
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Der Zwerg

Naxos recorded Zemlinsky's rarely performed opera DER ZWERG in March 2019, which met with great approval from the audience and press, not least because of Tobias Kratzer's brilliant directing debut in Berlin. David Butt Philip, Elena Tsallagova, Emily Magee and Mick Morris Mehnert appeared in the main roles. Donald Runnicles conducted the orchestra and chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
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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.
Chorus Soloists sing Liebeslieder Waltzes
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.
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