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Chorus - Deutsche Oper Berlin
Dear chorus and opera fans,
The chorus is the beating heart of any opera company’s onstage presence, and none more so than the Chor der Deutschen Oper. One of the busiest choruses of their calibre anywhere in the world, they can be seen and heard night after night devoting heart and soul to a vast range of works; equally at home in new productions and in their enormous repertoire, the Chor der Deutschen Oper performs around 35 titles over the course of the season, from the great Wagner operas such as LOHENGRIN and TANNHÄUSER for which they are particularly renowned, to world premières such as Detlev Glanert’s recent International Opera Award-winning OCEANE.
Sincerely yours, Jeremy Bines, Chorus Director
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Podcast of our Patrons' Circle ... Episode #12
Duett ... With Jeremy Bines
As a wonderful body of sound, the multi-award-winning Chorus of the Deutsche Oper has suffered particularly as a collective from the Corona pandemic. What this demands of a chorus director, how a chorus sings when it cannot be live on stage - as in the new production of FRANCESACA DA RIMINI - is what chorus director Jeremy Bines tells Silke Alsweiler-Lösch.Performances
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Nixon in China
Premiere on 22 June 2024
Nixon in China
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 to the stage ... Conductor: Daniel Carter; Production: Hauen und Stechen; With Kyle Miller, Thomas Lehman, Ya-Chung Huang, Heidi Stober, Hye-Young Moon and others.Blogbeitrag
The Children’s and Youth Chorus
A fully-fledged part of our ensemble since 2008
The Children’s and Youth Chorus
The singers in the children’s chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin may be young in years but they already have their sights set on the same goal as their professional colleagues in the ‘grown-up’ chorus: they want to thrill the audience. They want to triumph alongside the rest of the company.
Our digital chamber music series
Chorus Soloists sing Liebeslieder Waltzes
"By the way, I would risk being called an ass if our love songs did not give pleasure to some people", Johannes Brahms wrote about his 18 miniatures for four-hand piano and vocal soloists. Listen to five of these love song waltzes (op. 52) in a special edition of our "Favourite Pieces" series, sung by members of our chorus.Blogbeitrag
La Gioconda ... Historical perspective painting frames the operatic rarity
3, 11, 18, 24 February 2024
La Gioconda ... Historical perspective painting frames the operatic rarity
LA GIOCONDA has been on the programme at regular intervals since 1974. Apart from the famous waltz of the hours and arias such as "Cielo e mar" or "Suicidio", what makes this work so fascinating is above all the historical stage design: on various forays through Italian stage workshops, director Filippo Sanjust came across the old Venice paintings. The costume designs were also preserved and so Sanjust set about reconstructing the historical production for the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In old Italian perspective painting, the Doge's Palace, the Ca' d'Oro and the Giudecca on the Orfano Canal appear on stage and unfold their very special charm.
Va', pensiero, sull'ali dorate
