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Jonas Holthaus
Welcome to the 2019/20 season!
As people who commute to work at an opera house, our day job consists of channelling our energies and enthusiasm into using music and drama to tell stories. But in addition to this we all nurture a secondary passion – a desire to simply play music straight, to enjoy it for its own sake without the costumes and stage set. This can be in the form of jazz, kunstlieder, chamber music or the full-bodied sound of the orchestra delivering a symphony. The Deutsche Oper Berlin provides a space for all these initiatives, material that includes chamber music concerts in the Tischlerei, the “Songs and Poets” and “Jazz & Lyrics” programmes, and concerts on the main stage given by our orchestra and the BigBand.
We look forwards to seeing you! Your Dietmar Schwarz
We look forwards to seeing you! Your Dietmar Schwarz
concerts and recitals
Schedule
New in our schedule – On 27 January 2020
Prizewinner's concert: Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition
Songs by Schubert, Strauss, Korngold, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov will be presented by the winner of this year's International Helmut Deutsch-Liedwettbewerb, Erika Baikoff (1994). The US soprano with Russian roots will be accompanied by one of the most famous pianists of our time, Helmut Deutsch.
BigBand Concert – 25 February 2020
„Nothin’ but the Blues“
For this season's concert, the big band has once again invited two absolute stars of the international jazz circus: China Moses (vocals) and Konstantin Reinfeld (bluesharp). Under the conductorship of Manfred Honetschläger, blues at its finest will be heard.
On 4 February 2020
Songs and Poets: Schumann II
The programme includes works by Robert Schumann [Liederkreis op. 24], Hugo Wolf and Aribert Reimann ...
With Meechot Marrero (photo), Philipp Jekal, Gideon Poppe, John Parr, Michael Krüger
Chamber Music on 24 February 2020, 20.00 h
Spotlights
On the programme Benjamin Britten's Suite from DEATH IN VENICE for six percussionists [arranged by Benedikt Leithner], Bohuslav Martinus "Les Rondes" for trumpet, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano and two violins and
Allan Stephenson's Symphonette for wind ensemble
The orchestra is looking for ...
concert masters, violins, violas, double basses, clarinet, harp (academy) et al.
The Orchestra Academy
Musicians aged 26 and under have the chance to learn important repertory works in our orchestra and get a taste of life as a pro.
About us
It began with Furtwängler and Walter. Then came Sinopoli, Mehta, Thielemann and Runnicles. The orchestra is one of the top addresses in the world of opera.
4, 7 March 2020
Dinorah ou Le Pardon de Ploërmel (concertant)
Meyerbeer is able to achieve a late playful-poetic and simultaneously humourously broken invocation of the Romantic world of spirits and faeries. In his combination of lyrical, folkloric and comical elements, Meyerbeer's scoring of the story about a married couple Dinorah and Hoël who are separated by mysterious circumstances during a pilgrimage and later happily reunited develops an entirely unique, subtle palette of tones.
Since 2009 our General Music Director
Donald Runnicles
The musicians are together the
The orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Symphony Concerts
The Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin is known for a warm, cantabile sound that betrays its daily contact with the world’s best singers. Sometimes it’s as if the musicians had conjured song from their instruments. Savour symphony concerts with works by Berlioz, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Bruch or Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Juraj Valcuha (photo) will make his debut with the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Chamber Music
The atmosphere of the Tischlerei concerts is uniquely intimate, up-beat and workshoppy. Inspired by the premieres or revivals taking place on the main stage, their brief is to present singers giving their personal take on works close to their heart. The evenings of lieder in the foyer centre on our ensemble soloists but are also interspersed with poetry in collaboration with the Haus für Poesie.
Jazz Concerts
Works of swing and funk, performed in a new way and with consummate virtuosity – this is what the BigBand and guests are all about. The opera house reverberates to the sound of jazz standards by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Sammy Nestico, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin or Frank Sinatra. These evenings offer “Take the A Train” instead of Puccini, “Night and Day” in place of Verdi, and so on. The concerts are sell-out events and never fail to delight.