Wolfgang Joop is going to the opera. Each season an outstanding public figure promotes (free of charge) the new productions of the Deutsche Oper Berlin – photographed in the most widely varying roles by the Berlin photographer André Rival. After Nadja Auermann and Barbara Schöneberger, this time a man will make his mark on the season (to...
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Opera Is Here to Stay – Interview with Wolfgang Joop about His Commitment to the New Schedule Campaign
Wolfgang Joop is going to the opera. Each season an outstanding public figure promotes (free of charge) the new productions of the Deutsche Oper Berlin – photographed in the most widely varying roles by the Berlin photographer André Rival. After Nadja Auermann and Barbara Schöneberger, this time a man will make his mark on the season (to...
[ more ] Music Director Donald Runnicles Opens the Season on 12 September
Claude Debussy’s (1862-1918), PELLÉAS AND MÉLISANDE, on of the century’s greatest operas, is on the schedule once again. The sombre, poetic, end-of-days fairytale about the forbidden love between the king’s son Pelléas and the ethereal, unknown Mélisande, takes place, in the version by director and stage designer Marco Arturo Marelli...
[ more ] Artistic Director Kirsten Harms Introduces the 2010|2011 Season
Music Director Donald Runnicles will open the 50th Season on 12 September 2010 with the revival of Debussy’s PELLEAS AND MELISANDE. For the first time since taking office, the Music Director will be taking over the direction of two new productions: THE TROJANS and TRISTAN AND ISOLDE. Artistic Director Kirsten Harms will continue the Strauss...
[ more ] Performances Conducted by Music Director Donald Runnicles in 2010|2011
Alongside the two new productions THE TROJANS and TRISTAN AND ISOLDE, Donald Runnicles is especially undertaking advocacy efforts for the repertoire. He will open a series of concerts on 17 September 2010 with Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony (soloists: Petra Lang and Simon O’Neill). The special highlight...
[ more ] Dignity of the Blood Sacrifice – the REVOLUTION WEEKS begin on 6 January 2011 – Interview with Historian Alexander Demandt
Opera was originally aristocratic and enraptured. Then came the French Revolution and opera became grander, louder and overwhelming. The bourgeoisie took opera away from the aristocracy; the masses (choir) entered the stage as a new, independent protagonist, revolutionising music history in the form of grand opera. The ever-larger playhouses...
[ more ] The discography of Deutsche Oper Berlin is now online
The website of Deutsche Oper Berlin now presents a comprehensive collection of recordings of the opera house on CD and DVD. Our discography with over 110 CDs and DVDs takes you on a journey through time encompassing over 80 years of the history of the opera house on Berlin’s Bismarckstrasse. You will find live recordings as well as studio...
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