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© Thomas Jauk
The eerie world of Romanticism with its revenants and ghost ships inspired Wagner to write his first mature work. 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... moreabout: Der fliegende Holländer
© Marcus Lieberenz
Tchaikovsky's second most popular opera today, after EUGEN ONEGIN, inspires above all by its sheer size: in PIQUE DAME the mood skilfully changes from large, representative choral and ensemble opera to psychological chamber play scenes. The glamour of... moreabout: Pikowaja Dama - Queen of Spades
© Paolo Fantin (Konzeption)
With Hans Werner Henze’s The Raft of the Medusa last year, the Komische Oper Berlin started something new: putting on a major production at Tempelhof Airport to launch the season. moreabout: Messiah
© Barbara Braun/drama-berlin
Die Eine stammt aus einer preußischen Offiziersfamilie, die Andere ist das Kind eines Zirkusakrobaten und einer Straßensängerin. Die Eine wächst im Internat in Weimar auf, die Andere in einem Bordell in der Normandie. moreabout: Spatz und Engel - Die Geschichte der Freundschaft zwischen Edith Piaf und Marlene Dietrich
© Bernd Uhlig
This opera is a monolith: it is considered the freedom opera par excellence and is probably the first-ever specifically German opera in its fusion of rescue opera, humanist oratorio and melodrama. David Hermann focuses on the manipulation mechanisms of... moreabout: Fidelio
© Ruth Tromboukis
Since Rossini's coronation opera was rediscovered in 1984, this performance show of bel canto has gained a firm place in the repertoire. At the same time, the story about the noble spa guests and their failed travel plan is a marvellous piece of absurd... moreabout: Il viaggio a Reims
© Thomas Koy
Strange things happen in the lobby of the HOTEL HEAVEN. At five in the morning, three guests meet unexpectedly and by chance, but is there such a thing: coincidence? While the internationally sought-after brain specialist Prof. Feininger encounters a... moreabout: Der Teufel im Lift
© Bettina Stöß
Wagner's opera about the Minnesinger torn between earthly and heavenly love is one of the works that has shaped the artistic identity of the house over decades - not least because of the famous Pilgrims' Chorus, which is the showpiece of our chorus. In... moreabout: Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg
© Bernd Uhlig
Based on a text from medieval sources, author Martin Crimp, composer George Benjamin and director Katie Mitchell succeeded with WRITTEN ON SKIN 2012 in creating a sensational parable about identity, love and the power of literature and art ... Conductor:... moreabout: Written on Skin
© Bettina Stöß
For 200 years Rossini’s BARBIERE has been considered as the epitome of musical comedy. The archetypes of commedia dell’arte are constantly shimmering through the storyline revolving around the resourceful Figaro – an ambiguity that is not lost in Katharina... moreabout: The Barber of Seville
© Bettina Stöß
In Mozart's dramma giocoso DON GIOVANNI, a character is up to mischief who seems familiar to us, whom we think we know, and yet who says of himself: "Who I am, you will never know." Director Roland Schwab purposefully made his way through the material,... moreabout: Don Giovanni
© Dirk Dehmel / Foto Urbschat
Swing, Swing, Swing: Die Musik-Show präsentiert die unvergesslichen Hits und das faszinierende Leben des legendären Sängers, den man anerkennend „The Voice“ nannte. Im Soloprogramm von Johannes Hallervorden erklingen u.a. Songs wie „My Way“, „Strangers... moreabout: My Way - Johannes Hallervorden singt Sinatra
© Jakub Tryniszewski
Top international artists, four fantastic singers - above all ex-US5 star Jay Khan - and a furious live band choreograph and perform to the legendary hits of the 90s. moreabout: 90s Forever - Hits & Acrobatics
© Stan Hema
Benedikt von Peter's production brings the RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY to life: not only the stage but also the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin are used, the audience is part of a huge entertainment machine that inexorably tips over into... moreabout: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
© Ruth Tromboukis
Two of the most powerful men in the world shake hands - and the world watches: With their opera about the state visit of American President Richard Nixon to Mao Tse-tung in 1972, composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman brought contemporary history... moreabout: Nixon in China
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