Experiencing more together
Dear friends of opera!
With its very diverse and wonderful members who feel closely connected to the house, the Friends of Deutsche Oper Berlin have been supporting Berlin's largest and most modern opera house for decades. Bringing these "fans" of the house together across the generations is an exciting and honourable task, with the aim of strengthening Deutsche Oper Berlin for the future as one of the leading international houses in music theatre. It is a great pleasure to see what an integrative force the association can unleash through our members and our managing director Silke Alsweiler-Lösch. Join us!
Sincerely, Kilian Jay von Seldeneck,
Chairman of Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin e.V.
Welcome
„Sarò da voi domani“ – „I will be with you tomorrow“
What happens when an angelically beautiful stranger seduces all the members of a Milanese family's household and then leaves them all - disrupting existing ties through habit? Pier Paolo Pasolini traced this family tragedy in his film "Geometry of Love" as early as 1968. Now Giorgio Battistelli brings the explosive material to the opera stage with IL TEOREMA DI PASOLINI. For this exciting production - staged by the Dublin theatre duo Dead Centre, consisting of the British Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel - the Il Teorema mountain festival of the Förderkreis allowed a special insight into the rehearsal work. More than 120 interested guests accepted the invitation to get a first impression of the new production with the production's participants and excerpts of the staging. Interviews with director Bush Moukarzel and musical director Daniel Cohen showed the topicality of the work's material and how exciting Battistelli's musical interpretation is.
Experiencing more together
The Förderkreis at Landpartie
For the start of the 2022 / 2023 season, the Friends and Patrons of the Deutsche Oper Berlin invited everyone to a tour of the most beautiful private gardens on the banks of the Havel. More than 60 members took up the invitation and enjoyed the reunion after the summer break and let Intendant Dietmar Schwarz put them in the mood for the new season - among others, Dr. Klaus von Krosigk, former Director of Horticulture at the Berlin State Monuments Office, who guided them through the gardens, Intendant Dietmar Schwarz and Dr. Kilian Jay von Seldeneck, André Schmitz and Dr. Heike Maria von Joest from the board of the Friends.
Together for the future
A special kind of get-to-know-you concert
To kick off the 2022 / 2023 season, some of the new scholarship holders introduced themselves to the members of the Talent Circle. In keeping with this commitment of a "musical" family, the Circle met privately for music and a French aperitif. In this way, supporters and recipients got to know each other personally. The Talent Circle currently supports six scholarship holders plus, for the first time, a répétiteur who also supports the young singers as a scholarship holder. In addition, the Talent Circle has now taken over the sponsorship of 15 academy students.
Experiencing more together
Deep in the heart of Deutsche Oper Berlin
The Deutsche Oper Berlin will not be able to show its programme on the main stage again until the beginning of November - until then the orchestra levies will be renovated. How deep it goes down, what technology and lifting machines are installed under the musicians, the members of the Förderkreis were able to explore all this on an exclusive tour with the technical director Uwe Arsand.
16, 23, 28 November 2023
Il Teorema di Pasolini
In his 1968 film "Teorema", Pasolini formulated a radical reckoning with the bourgeoisie: the upper-middle-class family at the centre of the work is held together only by conventions, and the erotic seductive power of a stranger alone is enough to break apart this ossified system. Battistelli has been fascinated by "Teorema" ever since he first set the material to music for the Munich Biennale in 1992 at Henze's suggestion, at that time as a chamber opera with silent actors. Now, 30 years later, Battistelli is shaping the Pasolini original as a grand opera ... Conductor: Daniel Cohen; Director: Dead Centre; With Ángeles Blancas Gulin, Davide Damiani, Monica Bacelli, Nikolay Borchev, Meechot Marrero, Andrei Danilov
Podcast of the Förderkreis ... Episode #18
Duet ... with Dr Kilian Jay von Seldeneck
Looking into the future together in order to understand the influence of Corona, war and the energy crisis on culture and in particular on an opera house like the Deutsche Oper Berlin is the central task of the coming years. The Förderkreis is also trying to find answers to the question of how funding and keeping a group of supporters together can succeed in the future. In this episode of the Förderkreis Podcast, the new chairman of the Förderkreis, Dr. Kilian Jay von Seldeneck, and the managing director, Silke Alsweiler-Lösch, discuss the issue.
Your contact person
Silke Alsweiler-Lösch
Would you like to become a member of the Förderkreis? Silke Alsweiler-Lösch will be happy to advise you and will find the most convenient form of membership together with you: be it friend, sponsor, patron or corporate partner ... Are you already a member of the Förderkreis and have suggestions, questions or wishes regarding your membership? Then please get in touch with us at the office of the Friends on +49 (0)30 343 84 240 or by e-mail. Performances 
Our Walter Sandvoss Scholarship Holder 23/24
Artur Garbas
The Polish-born baritone Artur Garbas studied at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden from 2015 and has won prizes at various international competitions. After first engagements at the Leipzig Opera, the Kleine Schauspielhaus Dresden and the Narodni Divadlo in Prague, he has been a scholarship holder of the Förderkreis since 2022/23. Here he can be seen as Papageno / DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, Masetto / DON GIOVANNI, Fiorillo / IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, Don Profondo / IL VIAGGIO A REIMS or Figaro / LE NOZZE DI FIGARO.
2, 8, 23, 28 September; 1 October 2023
Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims" to open the season
The story about the noble spa guests and their failed travel plan is a delightful piece of absurd theatre staged by Jan Bosse as a satire on "Hospital Europa". Directed by Michele Spotti and Giulio Cilona [28 Sep], the cast includes Elena Tsallagova, Elmina Hasan, Hulkar Sabirova, Mingjie Lei, Omar Mancini, Joel Allison, Philipp Jekal and scholarship holders Hye-Young Moon, Artur Garbas and Kyle Miller.
Talent Circle
Promoting young talent has been a top priority for the Förderkreis for decades
For years, its financial contributions have enabled young singers to launch their careers and help Deutsche Oper Berlin to maintain its first-class ensemble. With the newly founded Talent Circle project, the Förderkreis also wants to build up a circle of supporters who not only financially support young musical talent, but also become a circle of personal mentors. In addition to singers, the promotion of young talent will now also extend to a répétiteur position as well as instrumentalists.
Production funding
With the financial aid of the Förderkreis, ambitious productions can be realised.
The best examples of the Förderkreis's sustained commitment are outstanding opera productions such as A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by Ted Huffman, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN by Stefan Herheim, DER SCHATZGRÄBER by Christof Loy or now, for the season finale DIE MEISTERSINGER directed by Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito and Anna Viebrock. But also "perennial favourites" such as Mozart's DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, which has been successfully performed in Günter Krämer's production season after season for over 20 years, were created with the kind support of Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin e. V.
Götz Friedrich Prize
Promoting young talent is now even more important to the Förderkreis
For more than twenty years, the Götz Friedrich Prize has been one of the most important institutions for promoting outstanding talent in the field of musical theatre directing - prize-winners such as Stefan Herheim, Nadja Loschky and Sebastian Baumgarten may be mentioned here as representatives. For the 2022/23 season, the directing prize for the best production work, endowed with 5,000 euros, and a studio prize, endowed with 2,500 euros, will again be awarded. After being hosted by the German-speaking Opera Conference in previous years, the Götz Friedrich Prize now returns to Deutsche Oper Berlin, the main venue of its dedicatee. From now on, the Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin will provide organisational support for the organisation of the prize.Topics
Former scholarship holder, now ensemble soloist
Favourites ... with Patrick Guetti
"Solche hergelaufne Laffen" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart´s THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO, sung by the bass-baritone and scholarship holder of the Förderkreis in the 2019/20 season Patrick Guetti, accompanied by Maxime Perrin. With the season 2020/21 Patrick Guetti changes to our ensemble.
Former scholarship holder, now ensemble soloist
Favourites ... with Flurina Stucki
Welcome to "Klänge der Heimat" from Johann Strauss' operetta DIE FLEDERMAUS - with soprano Flurina Stucki, scholarship holder of the Förderkreis in the 2018/19 season, and John Parr on piano as well as a short introduction by Jörg Königsdorf.
Former scholarship holder, now ensemble soloist
Favourites ... with Samuel Dale Johnson
Listen to ensemble soloist and baritone Samuel Dale Johnson with "Kogda bi zhizn" from Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky's EUGEN ONEGIN, accompanied by Tilman Wildt on the piano and with an introduction by dramaturg Lars Gebhardt.
