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International Opera Awards - Deutsche Oper Berlin

International Opera Awards

Congratulations to our OCEANE and its composer Detlev Glanert, congratulations to Robert Carsen, Lise Davidsen and Vasilisa Berzhanskaja and the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin!

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At the International Opera Awards, which have been presented digitally in a festive ceremony on 10 May 2021, Deutsche Oper Berlin was honoured for the "Best World Premiere of the Year". Detlev Glanert's OCEANE, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles and directed by Robert Carsen, was awarded, a production that celebrated its world premiere in April 2019. In Maria Bengtsson, the title role found its congenial cast. The revival has to be postponed from autumn 2021 to January 2023 due to the pandemic.

Maria Bengtsson, Nikolai Schukoff, Christoph Pohl, Nicole Haslett sing „Denn sie erinnert mich an etwas ...“ from OCEANE: Watch the video
 

Director Robert Carsen was also honoured with the Opera Award for "Best Director": congratulations to him too!

We are all the more delighted that Lise Davidsen was honoured as "Best Singer", as she thrilled us in September/October 2020 as Sieglinde in the premiere series of WALKÜRE directed by Stefan Herheim and conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles on the stage of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Lise Davidsen and Nina Stemme sing „O hehrstes Wunder“ from DIE WALKÜRE: Watch the video
 
 

And Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, who won the "Young Singer" category, interpreted roles such as Rosina in IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA and Marchesa Melibea in IL VIAGGIO A REIMS during her engagement at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 2017 to 2019 and caused great jubilation.

IL VIAGGIO A REIMS - From the Final: with Vasilisa Berzhanskaja as Marchesa Melibea and many others more: Watch the video
 

For the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin we are happy about the nomination as "Best Chorus"!

Congratulations to all honoured and nominated!
 
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DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 23. Fensterchen

This CD of Massenet's HÉRODIADE has only been on sale since 22 November 2024, making it our very latest, brand-new release, which we are delighted to be giving away in our Advent calendar today. If you would like to be among the winners of one of the two CD boxes, please send an e-mail with the subject ‘The 23rd window’ to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de.

Few female figures have inspired the art of the late 19th century as enduringly as the Judean princess Salome, who according to legend was responsible for the beheading of John the Baptist. In France in particular, writers, painters and composers were fascinated by this subject matter and its blend of Orientalism and decadence, of eroticism and opulence. Jules Massenet also took up the subject: however, at the centre of his HÉRODIADE, first performed in Brussels in 1881, is not, as it was a quarter of a century later in Richard Strauss's work, the royal child-woman Salome, but her mother Hérodias, the wife of King Herod. And while Strauss's opera was to become the first major success of the 20th century, Massenet's is a celebration of the grand opera of the 19th century, with pathos, posturing and a Hollywood-style script. With a queen who, out of jealousy, causes the death of her own daughter, a mysterious star diviner, a prophet who is not immune to the feelings of love, a weak-willed ruler and a heroically loving princess, Massenet offers a multitude of striking operatic figures and gives the plot a dazzling ‘colour locale’ by incorporating Hebrew and oriental motifs.

For the concert performance by the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the great French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine returned to the house where she celebrated successes as Carmen, Marguerite in LA DAMNATION DE FAUST and, most recently, as Fidès in LE PROPHÈTE. The performances of HÉRODIADE on 15 and 18 June 2023 were recorded.

On this CD, conducted by our First Permanent Guest Conductor Enrique Mazzola, you can hear Etienne Dupuis (Hérode), Clémentine Margaine (Hérodiade), Nicole Car (Salomé), Matthew Polenzani (Jean), Marko Mimica (Ph anuel), Dean Murphy (Vitellius), Kyle Miller (High Priest), Sua Jo (A Young Babylonian), Thomas Cilluffo (Voice from the Temple), the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and our chorus under the direction of Jeremy Bines.


Closing date: 23 December 2024. The winners will be informed by email on 27 December 2024. The CDs will then be sent by post. There is no right of appeal.