Benjamin Britten [1913 – 1976]

In Ted Huffman's production, the magical realm of the elf-king Oberon is a place of poetry and mystery, a place of dreams and theatre at the same time. Here, it often takes only simple means to awaken the imagination: a moon, a ladder, or even a whimsical, mischievous spirit named Puck, who flies through the air in shorts and a top hat... Conductor: Dalia Stasevska, Director: Ted Huffman; with Iestyn Davies, Jami Reid-Quarrell, ensemble soloists and the children's chorus.

Giuseppe Verdi [1813 – 1901]

In Benedikt von Peter's production, exotic Egypt is only present as a dream world on the postcard. In his interpretation, which encompasses the entire auditorium, he focuses entirely on Radames's conflict between his sobering everyday life and his longing for a dream woman... Conductor: Carlo Montanaro / Dominic Limburg; Director: Benedikt von Peter; With Yulia Matochkina / Judit Kutasi, Gloria Jieun Choi / Christina Nilsson / Marigona Qerkezi, Alfred Kim / SeokJong Baek and others.

Umberto Giordano [1867 – 1948]

With a gripping plot set during the Reign of Terror under Robespierre and its famous arias, ANDREA CHENIER is one of the most successful operas of the Puccini period, effectively combining revolutionary songs with Italian verismo. Conductor: Michele Gamba, Director: John Dew; starring Martin Muehle, Roman Burdenko, Maria Motolygina and others

Georges Bizet [1838 – 1875]

What makes CARMEN unique is the mixture of romantic opera, realistic drama and Offenbachian operetta. Ole Anders Tandberg's production tells the story in powerful images that repeatedly alternate between shock, the grotesque and great emotion... Conductor: Anna Handler / Friedrich Praetorius; Director: Ole Anders Tandberg; With Aleksandra Meteleva / Irene Roberts, Nina Solodovnikova / Maria Motolygina, Andrei Danilov / Vittorio Grigolo, Byung Gil Kim / Joel Allison a. o.

Richard Wagner [1813 – 1883]

The gothic world of romanticism with its revenants and ghost ships: Christian Spuck tells the story of the ‘Cursed of the Seas’ and the lonely captain's daughter as a dark fairy tale from the memory of Senta's spurned suitor, the hunter Erik... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Christian Spuck; With James Rutherford, Gabriela Scherer / Flurina Stucki, Kieran Carrel and others

Richard Wagner [1813 – 1883]

A group of people meet a concert grand piano on an empty stage, a note is struck, and slowly a world of fantasy, longing and intoxication unfolds, captivating everyone and causing them to merge into a community. This is how DAS RHEINGOLD begins, directed by Stefan Herheim ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Stefan Herheim; With Iain Paterson, Thomas Lehman, Thomas Blondelle, Michael Sumuel, Ya-Chung Huang, Albert Pesendorfer, Tobias Kehrer, Annika Schlicht, Flurina Stucki u. a.

Richard Wagner [1813 – 1883]

After the reign of the gods has reached its radiant zenith at the end of the RHEINGOLD with the entry into Valhalla Castle, the signs in the WALKÜRE are stormy: the people are frozen in greed for power, mistrust and possessiveness, the gods confine themselves only to monitoring compliance with the old laws instead of questioning their meaning ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Stefan Herheim; With Matthew Newlin, Tobias Kehrer, Jordan Shanahan, Elisabeth Teige, Annika Schlicht, Trine Møller a. o.

Richard Wagner [1813 – 1883]

In the final part of the tetralogy, the theatrical devices that dominate Stefan Herheim's version of the RING also come together for the grand finale: the concert grand piano, where the play once began, is just as present as the white cloth, which, among other things, mutates into the shroud of the murdered hero. And, of course, the suitcases are also present, which in the course of the tetralogy have repeatedly created new landscapes and play situations. In the end, this world sinks, only to be reborn in the next play ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Stefan Herheim; With Clay Hilley, Thomas Lehman, Michael Sumuel, Albert Pesendorfer, Catherine Foster, Felicia Moore, Annika Schlicht a. o.

Richard Wagner [1813 – 1883]

Wagner described his SIEGFRIED as a "heroic comedy" which, in its balance between comic and tragic elements, remains the challenge for its directors to this day. For Herheim, it is the act of the play that joins the opposites into a whole. The boundaries between animal and human become as blurred as those between the characters and their creator... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Stefan Herheim; With Clay Hilley, Ya-Chung Huang, Iain Paterson, Michael Sumuel, Tobias Kehrer, Lauren Decker, Elisabeth Teige et al.

Franz Schreker [1878 – 1934]

Els and Elis are kindred spirits in their pursuit of different treasures. But even owning all the gold jewellery in the world does not satisfy either of their desires. And so this Schreker opera is once again about yearning itself, which the composer describes as the real ‘treasure’. Musical direction: Marc Albrecht; Director: Christof Loy; With, among others, Olesya Golovneva, Daniel Johansson, Thomas Cilluffo, Tómas Tómasson.

Detlev Glanert [*1960]

In a wild mixture of fairy tale and social drama, road movie and grand opera, Detlev Glanert tells a witty, whimsical and somewhat creepy story about two very different children who ultimately come together to stand up to the adult world and go their own way... Conductor: Dominic Limburg; Director: Brigitte Dethier; with children's chorus and ensemble soloists, our orchestra, the Youth Orchestra of Berlin and students from the City West Music School.

Johann Strauß [1825 – 1899]

From waltz bliss to social satire: Villazón stages the operetta as a whimsical journey through the ages, according to the motto ‘love and betrayal will always exist’... Conductor: Patrick Hahn; Director: Rolando Villazón; With Gideon Poppe / Thomas Blondelle, Flurina Stucki / Hulkar Sabirova, Karis Tucker / Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Thomas Lehman / Philipp Jekal and others

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1756 – 1791]

This opera, a mixture of Viennese folk theatre, freemasonic mystery play and fairy tale, is probably the most frequently performed in the German-speaking world and, in the colourful and visually stunning production by Günter Krämer, it is a favourite with our audience... Conductor: Dominic Limburg / Friedrich Praetorius / Anna Handler / Ido Arad; Director: Günter Krämer; With soloists of our ensemble.

Giuseppe Verdi [1813 – 1901]

One of Verdi's great political operas, it focuses entirely on the individual destinies of the characters, on their loves, passions, desires and disappointments. Marco Arturo Marelli's austere staging deepens these conflicts in its visually powerful set, reminiscent of the Escorial... Conductor: Juraj Valčuha / Friedrich Praetorius; Director: Marco Arturo Marelli; With Liang Li / Roberto Tagliavini, Valentyn Dytiuk, Geon Kim, Christina Nilsson / Maria Motolygina, Karis Tucker and others.

Richard Strauss [1864 – 1949]

In constant remembrance of her father's murder, Elektra tyrannises life at court and falls into a veritable frenzy of revenge. To give his opera the force of Attic tragedy, Strauss exploited the possibilities of the orchestra to the extreme and demands nothing less than maximum drama from his heroine... Conductor: David Afkham, Director: Kirsten Harms, with Karita Mattila, Catherine Foster, Flurina Stucki, Tobias Kehrer and others.

Asia Ahmetjanova [*1992]

In their music theatre piece FINITE, composer Asia Ahmetjanova and director Franziska Angerer meditate on our relationship to death and how we deal with our own decay. In poetic images, a communal ritual emerges between mythology and performance, which searches for a lustful surrender to this ultimate consequence of life.

Umberto Giordano [1867 – 1948]

Giordano's opera moves between political thriller and crime drama, tragic love story and gripping psychological portrait, using lush tones to depict a cosmopolitan elite whose private entanglements get caught in the crossfire of politics. Christof Loy's production has already caused a stir in Stockholm and Frankfurt – now FEDORA is coming to Berlin... Conductor: John Fiore; Director: Christof Loy; With, among others, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Julia Muzychenko, Jonathan Tetelman / Rodrigo Garull.

Riccardo Zandonai [1883 – 1944]

We meet Francesca as a woman who has been betrayed and rebels against powerful interests by living out her passionate love. Zandonai's opera revels in unbridled desire and frenzied violence, drawing on the rich colours of Impressionism and the directness of Verismo to characterise the figures... Conductor: Iván López-Reynoso, Director: Christof Loy; with Ekaterina Sannikova, Ivan Inverardi, Rodrigo Garull, Thomas Cilluffo and others.

Georg Friedrich Händel [1685 – 1759]

With its immense richness of musical colour, this is arguably Handel's most famous opera. The fact that the plot draws on a well-known love story – the liaison between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, overshadowed by intrigue and civil war – was and is conducive to its success. We present this work in the masterful staging by David McVicar... Conductor: Alessandro Quarta; Director: David McVicar; With, among others, Christophe Dumaux, Elena Tsallagova, Stephanie Wake-Edwards

Engelbert Humperdinck [1854 – 1921]

Humperdinck's score oscillates between children's song and late Romantic Wagnerian sound, while Andreas Homoki's production translates the famous story into poetic images and responds to the opulent music with playful lightness... Conductor: Friedrich Praetorius / Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Andreas Homoki; With Arianna Manganello / Karis Tucker, Nina Solodovnikova / Maria Vasilevskaya, Thomas Cilluffo / Burkhard Ulrich and others.

Gioacchino Rossini [1792 – 1868]

Rossini's BARBIER is considered the epitome of musical comedy: behind the plot revolving around the resourceful Figaro, the archetypes of the Commedia dell'arte shine through again and again. This ambiguity is also evident in Katharina Thalbach's fast-paced and lively production... Conductor: Carlo Goldstein / Anna Handler; Director: Katharina Thalbach; with Kieran Carrel / Kangyoon Shine Lee / Jonah Hoskins, Misha Kiria / Simone Del Savio, Aleksandra Meteleva / Martina Baroni, Dean Murphy / Philipp Jekal, Patrick Guetti / Volodymyr Morozov and others.

Ballet for children, aged 4 and over, with music by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky

David Simic's choreography promises a marvellous way to get into the Christmas spirit. Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky's famous music is for many directly associated with the Christmas experience and transports us into a nostalgic world in which dancing snowflakes, a Christmas tree and the joy of a very special feeling are expressed in a dreamlike way. The children of the Kinder Ballett Kompanie Berlin will be dancing.

Gioacchino Rossini [1792 – 1868]

After LA RONDINE and DIE FLEDERMAUS, Rolando Villazón returns as director to demonstrate his comic talent with one of bel canto's great operatic comedies. The fact that L'ITALIANA continues to inspire enthusiasm today is undoubtedly due to the musical sophistication that makes Rossini the undisputed king of opera buffa... Conductor: Alessandro De Marchi; Director: Rolando Villazón; With, among others, Tommaso Barea, Jonah Hoskins, Nadezhda Karyazina, Misha Kiria

Giacomo Puccini [1858 – 1924]

This work by Puccini is probably the most famous of all artist operas and at the same time a portrait of a group of young people who live for the moment without considering the consequences of their actions. Götz Friedrich's magnificent production reflects the glamour and misery of Paris during the Belle Époque ... Conductor: Jurai Valčuha / Anna Handler; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Attilio Glaser, Philipp Jekal, Thomas Lehman, Volodymyr Morozov, Maria Motolygina, Alexandra Oomens and others.

Giuseppe Verdi [1813 – 1901]

In setting »La Dame aux Camélias« to music, Verdi explored, in a shockingly direct way, two big themes of the 19th century: prostitution and consumption. Götz Friedrich’s production stresses the futility of Violetta Valéry’s attempt to escape her fate … Conductor: Ivan Repušić / Francesco Lanzillotta; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Nina Solodovnikova / Elbenita Kaitazi, Amitai Pati / Andrei Danilov, Thomas Lehman / Dean Murphy a.o.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1756 – 1791]

It is not only a pair of witty servants who rebel against the feudal power of their master, but also the women who resist old role models – and the young people make it clear that they have their own ideas about ethics and morality. Götz Friedrich's classic production is an evergreen in our repertoire ... Conductor: Ben Glassberg / Anna Handler; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Dean Murphy / Thomas Lehman, Flurina Stucki / Maria Motolygina, Nina Solodovnikova / Lilit Davtyan, Martina Baroni / Arianna Manganello, Padraic Rowan / Artur Garbas and others.

Richard Wagner [1813 – 1883]

Soon after the failure of the 1848 revolution, the political refugee Richard Wagner wrote his LOHENGRIN: an opera about a hero who tries in vain to pacify a divided people. Kasper Holten's production deliberately leaves open whether this leader fights by fair means ... Conductor: Marc Albrecht; Director: Kasper Holten; With Byung Gil Kim, Attilio Glaser, Flurina Stucki, Egils Silins, Nina Stemme, Dean Murphy a.o.

Giacomo Puccini [1858 – 1924]

With this opera, Puccini created what is arguably his most powerful stage work. Tragic is not only the illusion of great love to which 15-year-old Cio-Cio San succumbs, but also her fundamental sense of loneliness: rejected by the Japanese because she wants to be American, she is not accepted by the Americans as one of their own... Conductor: Yi-Chen Lin / Alexander Merzyn / Friedrich Praetorius; Director: Pier Luigi Samaritani; With Barno Ismatullaeva / Asmik Grigorian, Attilio Glaser / Dmytro Popov / Andrei Danilov, Thomas Lehman / Germán Olvera and others.

Richard Wagner [1813 – 1883]

In his interpretation of the legend of the ‘pure fool’, Philipp Stölzl focuses primarily on questions of fanaticism in hermetic religious communities: an anti-Enlightenment world view, belief in miracles and the violent exclusion of those who are different are themes he explores in tableaux vivants that take us on a journey through two millennia... Conductor: Tarmo Peltokoski; Director: Philipp Stölzl; With Thomas Lehman, Albert Pesendorfer, Attilio Glaser, Lawson Anderson, Irene Roberts and others.

Giuseppe Verdi [1813 – 1901]

The title character in Verdi's classic is an overprotective father, but at the same time, as the Duke's court jester, he is the archetype of the sad clown. He maliciously attacks his master's enemies until his worst fears are realised: he and his daughter fall victim to aristocratic despotism... Conductor: Daniele Squeo / Roberto Rizzi Brignoli; Director: Jan Bosse; With Andrei Danilov / Attilio Glaser, Daniel Luis de Vicente / Juan Jesús Rodríguez, Nina Solodovnikova / Lilit Davtyan and others.

Max Andrzejewski

This musical theatre installation creates a space in which satisfaction can be experienced immersively and celebrated collectively, and in which the audience will be fully entertained through a multi-sensory experience. But can this honestly escapist shared experience really counterbalance the constant feeling of crisis and overwhelm?

Giuseppe Verdi [1813 – 1901]

For Verdi, writing operas meant engaging with the world, getting involved, raising his voice and expressing his views on political issues on stage. However, hardly any of his operas takes the question of the price the individual has to pay for political power to such extremes as SIMON BOCCANEGRA ... Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni; Director: Vasily Barkhatov; With Etienne Dupuis, Nicole Car, Liang Li, Attilio Glaser et al.

Two one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini [1858 - 1924].

In a condensed version, the second and third parts of Puccini's triptych return in Karabulut's dazzlingly colourful production: SUOR ANGELICA revolves around questions of life and death and the possibilities in between. GIANNI SCHICCHI, on the other hand, in the tradition of commedia dell'arte, focuses on humans as gamblers and greedy swindlers ... Conductor: Giulio Cilona; Direction: Pınar Karabulut; With Misha Kiria, Mané Galoyan, Lauren Decker, Andrei Danilov et al.

Richard Wagner [1813 – 1883]

The misunderstood artist who is ahead of his time – probably no other opera by Richard Wagner has such a direct connection to Wagner's biography and artistic self-image. Kirsten Harms' production brings impressive medieval imagery to life ... Conductor: Axel Kober; Director: Kirsten Harms; With Christof Fischesser / Tobias Kehrer, Klaus Florian Vogt, Thomas Lehman, Camilla Nylund et al.

Sidney Corbett (*1960)

Elli doesn't feel comfortable in the children's room. How can she know that everything will stay the same in the dark? And then one night it happens. Elli finds herself in the house of the octopus lady and learns to understand that despite her suction cups, ink and tentacles, the lady also has fears that she can only overcome with Elli's help.

Giacomo Puccini [1858 – 1924]

This TOSCA production is deserved of listed status after a performance history stretching back over half a century. Not that the atmospheric sets depicting the original locations in Rome - a timeless backdrop for great musical theatre - have lost any of their charm in over 400 performances of the work ... Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni / Ivan Repušić / Giampaolo Bisanti; Director: Boleslaw Barlog; With Carmen Giannattasio / Anastasia Bartoli, Brian Jagde / Freddie De Tommaso, Ivan Inverardi / Amartuvshin Enkhbat et al.

Richard Wagner [1813 – 1883]

No ostentatious crowd scenes, but a language for the characters' inner turmoil: director Michael Thalheimer reveals the inextricable complex of consciousness and subconscious between Eros and Thanatos in a remarkably minimalist way. His celebrated production, originally staged at the Grand Théàtre de Gènève, is now coming to our opera house... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Michael Thalheimer; Cast includes Clay Hilley, Georg Zeppenfeld, Elisabeth Teige, Thomas Lehman, Irene Roberts.

Giacomo Puccini [1858 – 1924]

In his last opera, which was left unfinished, Puccini explored the aesthetics of the new mass medium of film. Lorenzo Fioroni's production builds a bridge between the oppressed but sensation-seeking Chinese opera-going public and the consumers of the modern media world ... Conductor: Daniel Carter; Director: Lorenzo Fioroni; With Catherine Foster, Angelo Villari / SeokJong Baek, Nina Solodovnikova / Maria Motolygina, Michael Bachtadze, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Thomas Cilluffo et al.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold [1897 – 1957]

With VIOLANTA, Korngold captured the spirit of fin de siècle Vienna, oscillating between the Jugendstil and psychoanalysis, between Freud, Klimt and Schnitzler, and proved that he – at just 18 years old – had a diverse orchestral palette of timbres at his disposal and could write expressive and catchy melodies... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: David Hermann; with Ólafur Sigurdarson, Laura Wilde, Mihails Culpajevs and others

Albert Lortzing [1801 – 1851]

Thirty years ago, Lortzing's works were still part of the repertoire, but now they have almost completely disappeared from the programme. This also applies to ZAR UND ZIMMERMANN. Yet the story of Tsar Peter the Great is undoubtedly one of the most successful musical comedies of its time. Martin G. Berger, one of the most popular cross-over artists working in opera, operetta and musical, is staging it with refreshed dialogue texts... Conductor: Antonello Manacorda; Director: Martin G. Berger; With, among others, Artur Garbas, Philipp Kapeller, Patrick Zielke / Tobias Kehrer, Nadja Mchantaf