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In Solidarität mit allen Friedfertigen sind wir bei den Menschen in der Ukraine - Deutsche Oper Berlin

In solidarity with the people of Ukraine

 

Our heartfelt thanks go to you, dear audience, for the generous donations with which you support our commitment to Ukraine Hilfe Berlin e.V.!

Your contributions to fundraising at our performances as well as your ticket purchases for the benefit matinée on 13 March 2022 have so far resulted in around Euro 100.000.- which we have been able to transfer to the Ukraine Hilfe association. An overwhelming amount of donations of goods was also collected on the initiative of our orchestra on the second weekend in March: four van loads could be handed over directly at the Polish-Ukrainian border.

We say deeply impressed: thank you!

 

The Deutsche Oper Berlin and its staff and colleagues are shocked at the war that the Russian government is waging on Ukraine and its people. We stand in solidarity with all those for whom this useless conflict can only mean suffering, privation and an uncertain future. And we are fully supportive of all those who are being arrested and detained for expressing their desire for peace and democracy.

The invasion of Ukraine and all its political, diplomatic and economic repercussions will throw the lives of millions of people into disarray. The war not only affects a country; it is also an assault on the basic free and democratic order and on peaceful coexistence worldwide. All of us at the Deutsche Oper Berlin are hoping for a quick end to this war and a return to normal, peaceable relations, if that is possible.

The day-to-day workings of our opera house are inextricably tied to the collaboration and interaction of artists from around the globe. Our activities are wholly reliant on mutually respectful relations and unbiased, open-minded dialogue between all parties. Even though our art is of little direct use in confronting this aggression and anguish, we will continue to do what we do as our contribution to peace, democracy and openness. Our thoughts are especially with all the artists who are either afflicted by the war in Ukraine or are at risk of imprisonment in Russia and Belarus if they protest against the war.

The opera canon is filled with works depicting the effect of violent despotism on the lives of ordinary people and showing what war and the destruction of the fundamental liberal order means for different groups of people. The ongoing situation is a painful reminder that peace and humanism cannot be taken for granted but must be struggled for and defended on a daily basis. We appeal to the international artistic community to support all those people in Ukraine, Russia and other affected countries who are resisting this war.

 

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The Deutsche Oper Berlin is supporting  Ukraine-Hilfe Berlin e.V.

 

Read also the Statement by the Deutscher Bühnenverein

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21
DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 21. Fensterchen

On 12 April 2025, we will celebrate the revival of DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG in the production by Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito and Anna Viebrock, with Thomas Johannes Mayer as Hans Sachs, Elena Tsallagova as Eva, Magnus Vigilius as Walther von Stolzing and Chance Jonas-O'Toole as David, as part of our ‘Richard Wagner in April’ weeks. But today, we are giving away our DVD, which was recorded in collaboration with the NAXOS label in the premiere series in early summer 2022.

In today's Advent calendar window, we are giving away 2 DVDs of DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG – Opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. If you would like to win one of the two DVDs, please write an e-mail with the subject ‘The 21st window’ to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de.

More popular than almost any other stage work by Richard Wagner, DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG is loved and hated at the same time. The play combines a light-hearted comedy plot with a summer night's drunken play about the delusion and reality of love, but at the same time claims to be a founding manifesto of German national art and is therefore more historically charged in its reception than almost any other work by Richard Wagner. At the same time, however, DIE MEISTERSINGER is first and foremost a piece about music and music-making.

Telling the story of DIE MEISTERSINGER in a world dedicated to music is also the starting point for the directorial concept of Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock and Sergio Morabito. In it, they tell of the rules and rigid dogmas that govern this world and which thus become an example for numerous contexts in which people set rules, subordinate themselves and find refuge in them or want to break out and escape. They bring a play to the stage in which singers also play singers in order to tell a story about singing. And they show characters such as Hans Sachs, an ageing man who renounces his love for Eva in favour of a younger man and at the same time wants to reform the system, but does not shy away from demagoguery and populism - while the breath of history occasionally blows in the ghosts of the Meistersinger past.

Conductor John Fiore; Staging Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock, Sergio Morabito; With Johan Reuter, Albert Pesendorfer, Gideon Poppe, Simon Pauly, Philipp Jekal, Thomas Lehman, Jörg Schörner, Clemens Bieber, Burkhard Ulrich, Stephen Bronk, Tobias Kehrer, Byung Gil Kim, Klaus Florian Vogt, Ya-Chung Huang, Heidi Stober, Annika Schlicht a. o.; Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin


Closing date: 21 December 2024, the winners will be informed by email on 23 December 2024. The DVDs will then be sent by post. Legal recourse is excluded.