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In the Stadtbad Charlottenburg - Old Hall

Immersion

A performance from behind the scenes with opera, artistry, visuals and techno

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Stadtbad Charlottenburg – Old Hall (Alte Halle)
Krumme Straße 10
10585 Berlin

Admission begins 30 minutes before the performance. The changing rooms and lockers are available to you during the admission period.

approx. 60 minutes / no interval

recommended from 16 years
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Opera goes swimming pool! As the small venue of the Deutsche Oper Berlin is closed at the beginning of the season due to renovation work, the team of the first Tischlerei premiere of the season set out in search of an alternative space. They found what they were looking for in the immediate neighbourhood - the Stadtbad Charlottenburg, just a few steps away.

IMMERSION invites you to literally immerse yourself in a collective ritual experience, as the majority of the audience is in the water with the artists. As a continuation of the successful "Hinterhalt" series, the evening reflects on the themes of the first three new productions on the Deutsche Oper's main stage from a feminist perspective: during the evening, the witches and ghostly creatures from LA FIAMMA, MACBETH and DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN will be conjured up. In the magical atmosphere of the historic swimming pool hall, a hybrid evening is created with the transdisciplinary inclusion of opera singing, contemporary artistry, real-time visuals and techno. IMMERSION is a celebration and a mystical ritual that encourages people to think together about visions of a possible future world.

Following on from IMMERSION at Stadtbad Charlottenburg, this season's "Hinterhalt" series will come to an end in July 2025 under the title EMERSION back at the Tischlerei.

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There are two seating categories for the event at Stadtbad Charlottenburg: Spectators can experience the show in the water (swimming tickets) or sit on chairs at the edge of the pool (seating tickets). The water height in the audience area of the pool is 0.65-1.35 metres. Only swimwear is permitted in the hall and pool; street or everyday clothing is not permitted. Please bring swimwear and towels etc. for participation in the water. For reasons of respect, we ask that you also bring clothing suitable for swimming in the pool and do not sit there in everyday clothing. Further information can be found in the ticket information.

The tickets for the event also serve as admission to the pool. Clothing and valuables can be stored in the lockers provided during the event. We ask for your understanding that photography and filming is not permitted inside the pool, nor is bringing food and drink into the pool.

Children under the age of 8 may only enter if accompanied by a suitable adult. The accompanying person must be at least 16 years old. Proof of age must be provided on request. Persons under the age of 18 may not accompany more than one child. The event is not barrier-free.

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DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 22. Fensterchen

On 7 March 2025, the first part of Tobias Kratzer's Strauss trilogy, ARABELLA, celebrates its revival as part of our ‘Richard Strauss in March’ weeks, with Jennifer Davis as Arabella , Heidi Stober as Zdenka/Zdenko, Thomas Johannes Mayer as Mandryka, Daniel O'Hearn as Matteo and, as in the premiere series, Doris Soffel and Albert Pesendorfer as the Waldner couple. Today we are giving away our DVD, which will not be available in shops until 14 February 2025. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to NAXOS for giving us the very special opportunity to put ARABELLA in our lottery pot for you almost eight weeks before the official sales launch.

In today's Advent Calendar window, we are giving away two DVDs of ARABELLA – a lyrical comedy in three acts by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. If you would like to win one of the two DVDs, please write an e-mail with the subject ‘The 22nd window’ to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de.

Vienna, circa 1860. The financially strapped Count Waldner is lodging with his family in a Viennese hotel. His only path to solvency is for him to secure an advantageous marriage for one of his two daughters – and the family can only afford to present Arabella, the eldest, in the upper circles of society. To conceal the family’s indigence, the parents have raised Zdenka as a boy, dressing her accordingly. Arabella is not short of suitors but has resolved to wait for ‘Mr Right’. When Mandryka, an aristocrat from a distant region, arrives, he and Arabella are instantly smitten. Arabella only asks to be able to bid farewell to her friends and suitors at the Fasching ball that evening. At the ball, Arabella says goodbye to her admirers. There is also the young officer Matteo, with whom Zdenka is secretly in love and with whom she has formed a friendship under the guise of her disguise as a boy. Matteo, however, desires Arabella and is distraught when he realises the hopelessness of his love. Zdenka devises a plan: she fakes a letter from Arabella in which she promises Matteo a night of love together. But instead she wants to wait for him herself in the darkness of the hotel room. Mandryka learns of Arabella's alleged infidelity and goes to the hotel with the ball guests to surprise Arabella in flagrante delicto. Arabella, innocent of this, is initially shocked and saddened by Mandryka’s suspicions but forgives him when the mix-up is revealed for what it is. The two agree to marry, as do Zdenka and Matteo.

Richard Strauss’s orchestral richness and opulence coupled with the period Viennese setting of the work led to ARABELLA being falsely pigeonholed as a light-hearted comedy of errors from its 1933 premiere onwards. In the estimation of Tobias Kratzer, however, who triumphed at the Deutsche Oper with his production of Alexander von Zemlinsky’s THE DWARF, this final collaboration between Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal marks a collision of two world views: the traditional roles of men and women on the one hand – as expressed in Arabella’s famous solo “Und du sollst mein Gebieter sein” – and a modern idea of social interaction on the other – as illustrated by Zdenka with her questioning of gender-based identities. Here, Kratzer turns the spotlight on this disunity between the various character portrayals in ARABELLA and explores these role-specific tensions on a continuum stretching from 19th-century Vienna to the present day. In the category of stage design, Manuel Braun, Jonas Dahl and Rainer Sellmaier were honoured with the renowned German Theatre Award DER FAUST 2023 for this production.

In this recording, under the baton of Sir Donald Runnicles, you will experience Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Sara Jakubiak, Elena Tsallagova, Russell Braun, Robert Watson, Thomas Blondelle, Kyle Miller, Tyler Zimmerman, Hye-Young Moon, Lexi Hutton, Jörg Schörner and others, as well as the chorus and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The performances on 18 and 23 March 2023 were recorded by rbb Kultur and Naxos for this DVD.

We would like to thank the Naxos label for the great collaboration over the past few years, which documents recordings of DER ZWERG, DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE, FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, DER SCHATZGRÄBER, DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG and ANTIKRIST. Richard Strauss' ARABELLA and INTERMEZZO will be released in the course of 2025.


Closing date: 22 December 2024. The winners will be informed by email on 23 December 2024. The DVDs will then be sent by post. There is no right of appeal.