Repertoire 24/25 - Deutsche Oper Berlin

Tutti d*amore based on Oscar Straus' DIE LUSTIGEN NIBELUNGEN

The ghosts of King Gunther, Siegfried and Brünhilde are up to mischief in a place that is commonly known as a stage-set fundus. Wagner's children will do anything to win the audience's heart! Day in, day out, intrigue, murder and manslaughter, one drama follows the next. It's time for a good sweep - and with humour! ... Artistic direction: tutti d*amore - Berlin collective for contemporary operetta; Conductor: Elda Laro; With Caroline Schnitzer, Ferdinand Keller, Ludwig Obst (tutti d*amore) and members of the ensemble

Giuseppe Verdi [1813 – 1901]

In Benedikt von Peter’s production of Verdi’s pharaonic opera, exotic Egypt is only visible as a dreamworld depicted on postcards. In this version of the work, which occupies the entire auditorium, the focus is on Radames’s dichotomy between the sobering reality of his everyday activities and his desire to find the woman of his dreams … Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni; Director: Benedikt von Peter; With Judit Kutasi, Hulkar Sabirova, SeokJong Baek a. o.

Umberto Giordano (1867 – 1948)

With its gripping plot set in the Paris of Robespierre's reign of terror and arias such as "La mamma morta", ANDREA CHENIER is one of the most successful operas of the Puccini era, effectively combining revolutionary songs such as the "Marseillaise" with the intensity of Italian verismo to create a musically distinctive tone. Conductor: Axel Kober, Director: John Dew; With Gregory Kunde, Pavel Yankovsky, Sondra Radvanovsky, Annika Schlicht, Jennifer Larmore, Burkhard Ulrich a. o.

Rued Langgaard (1893 – 1952)

Langgaard's monolithic work creates an eschatological mystery play that pays homage to the fin de siècle with music reminiscent of Strauss and Wagner, but which does not deny Hindemith and Schönberg. Ersan Mondtag not only directs ANTIKRIST, but also designs the scenic set in his typical powerful expressionist style ... Conductor: Stephan Zilias; Director: Ersan Mondtag; With Kyle Miller, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Maria Vasilevskaya, Arianna Manganello, Thomas Cilluffo, Martina Baroni, Flurina Stucki, Thomas Blondelle, Philipp Jekal a. o.

Richard Strauss [1864 – 1949]

ARABELLA is the last collaboration between the acclaimed duo Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss. Adopting the tone of an operetta, the work portrays the existential hardships, obsessions and dreams of a society bereft of its traditional solidity. Gambling addiction has driven the family of cavalry officer Waldner into financial ruin. The only hope for salvation lies in marrying off the daughter Arabella into a wealthy family ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Tobias Kratzer; With Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Jennifer Davis, Heidi Stober, Thomas Johannes Mayer, Sean Panikkar a. o.

Kurt Weill [1900 – 1950]

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 an apocalyptic game ... Conductor: Stefan Klingele; Director: Benedikt von Peter; With Evelyn Herlitzius, Thomas Cilluffo, Markus Brück, Annette Dasch, Nikolai Schukoff and others.

Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875)

Bizet described his opera as an "operetta with a bad ending" - and rightly so, because what is unique about CARMEN is the mixture of romantic opera, realistic drama and Offenbach operetta. Ole Anders Tandberg's production tells the story in powerful images that constantly alternate between shock, grotesqueness and great emotion ... Conductor: Ariane Matiakh / Giulio Cilona; Production: Ole Anders Tandberg; With Maria Kataeva / Annika Schlicht, Matthew Newlin / Andrei Danilov, Sua Jo / Nina Solodovnikova / Maria Motolygina, Byung Gil Kim a. o.

after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

Tamino falls in love with Pamina, whom he is only allowed to marry if they pass difficult tests. Through the "fair sound" of the Magic Flute, they both succeed in overcoming fire and water. Papageno and Papagena also find each other through the magic of music. And so that the opera in this version only lasts 70 minutes and is thus over half shorter than its big sister, a narrator summarises the events ... Conductor: Friedrich Praetorius; Director: Gerlinde Pelkowski; With Jörg Schörner, Alexandra Oomens / Lilit Davtyan, Hye-Young Moon, Chance Jonas-O'Toole / Kangyoon Shine Lee, Andrew Harris / Patrick Guetti, Markus Brück / Philipp Jekal, Nina Solodovnikova a. o.

Leoš Janáček (1854 – 1928)

This cheerful, melancholy work about a cunning vixen is not called a "Czech Midsummer Night's Dream" for nothing. The figures of the animal and human worlds are closely interwoven here to create an allegory about the cycle of life and death. In this late work, Janáček composed an impressionistic soundscape of subtly orchestrated short scenes and episodes, orchestral preludes and transformations, and Katharina Thalbach's detailed staging emphasises the enchanting character of this work ... Conductor: Marko Letonja; Director: Katharina Thalbach; With Joel Allison / Geon Kim, Jared Werlein, Meechot Marrero / Alexandra Oomens, Arianna Manganello / Martina Baroni and others.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

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 spurned admirer, the hunter Erik ... Conductor: John Fiore / Giulio Cilona; Production: Christian Spuck; With Patrick Guetti, Gabriela Scherer / Flurina Stucki, Attilio Glaser / Kieran Carrel, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Chance Jonas-O'Toole / Andrei Danilov, Derek Welton / Anthony Clark Evans a. o.

Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871 – 1942)

Zemlinsky's DER ZWERG tells the double drama of a man of small stature: his disability makes him the object of ridicule and contempt by society, and the fact that he himself is unaware of his disability makes him the victim of a perfidious game. In his acclaimed production, Tobias Kratzer brings Zemlinsky's opera to the stage as a bitter psychological thriller - and uses the autobiographical background of the composer's unhappy relationship with Alma Schindler-Mahler, who was also of small stature, as a framework ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Tobias Kratzer; With Elena Tsallagova, Felicia Moore, David Butt Philip, Mick Morris Mehnert, Philipp Jekal, Adelle Eslinger-Runnicles, Evgeny Nikiforov and others.

Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)

Hofmannsthal wrote to Strauss in 1911 that the new opera was to ZAUBERFLÖTE as the ROSENKAVALIER was to FIGARO. And indeed, much in this work is reminiscent of Mozart's "grand opera": the encounter between different social classes, the fairytale-like plot charged with high symbolic value, but above all the awareness of an elementary turning point in time that calls the previous order into question. And here, as there, realisation is only achieved through difficult trials ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Tobias Kratzer; With David Butt Philip, Jane Archibald, Marina Prudenskaya, Jordan Shanahan, Catherine Foster and others.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

The world of MEISTERSINGER is a closed system not only in the master singers' pedantic and by-the-book guild ironised by Wagner, but also in Nuremberg's urban society as a whole: the new – embodied by outsider Walther von Stolzing – cannot bring about revolutionary change, but rather is incorporated into the system. For their new production, Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock and Sergio Morabito investigate the mechanisms of such a hermetic artistic society. Can art claim artistic liberty in a conservative and dogmatic environment? And what potential does it hold to overthrow the system? ... Conductor: Ulf Schirmer; Staging: Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock, Sergio Morabito; With Thomas J. Mayer, Albert Pesendorfer, Philipp Jekal, Magnus Vigilius, Chance Jonas-O'Toole, Elena Tsallagova, Annika Schlicht a. o.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

Mixing Viennese folk theatre, Masonic mystery and fairy tale, this opera is probably the most performed in the German-speaking world and, in Günter Krämer's colourful, highly visual production, a favourite with our audiences ... Conductor: Giulio Cilona / Friedrich Praetorius; Director: Günter Krämer; With Tobias Kehrer / Patrick Guetti, Andrei Danilov / Kieran Carrel / Kangyoon Shine Lee / Matthew Newlin / Attilio Glaser, Hye-Young Moon, Lilit Davtyan / Nina Solodovnikova / Hye-Young Moon, Alexandra Oomens / Sua Jo, Philipp Jekal / Artur Garbas et al.

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)

With DON CARLO, Verdi created one of his great political operas. However, in his adaptation of Schiller's drama of freedom, he also emphasised the individual fate of the characters, their loves, passions, friendship, desire and disappointment. Marco Arturo Marelli's austere production deepens these conflicts in its visually powerful stage architecture reminiscent of the Escorial ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Marco Arturo Marelli; With Alex Esposito, Jonathan Tetelman, Gihoon Kim, Patrick Guetti, Federica Lombardi, Irene Roberts and others.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

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, which is overloaded with interpretations, searching for his very own approach, finding the demonic Don Giovanni, one through whose eyes one can plunge into deep black holes one moment, only to succumb to his wit the next ... Conductor: Andrea Sanguineti; Director: Roland Schwab; With Mattia Olivieri, Flurina Stucki, Kieran Carrel, Maria Motolygina, Tommaso Barea, Meechot Marrero a. o.

Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)

In the permanent memory 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 the maximum of drama from his heroine ... Conductor: Thomas Søndergard; Director: Kirsten Harms; With Violeta Urmana, Elena Pankratova, Camilla Nylund, Burkhard Ulrich, Tobias Kehrer a. o.

A performance from behind the scenes with opera, artistry, visuals and techno

The Tischlerei is continuing its successful AMBUSHED FROM BEHIND series this season: in two performances at the beginning and end of the season, director Ariane Kareev devotes herself to the material of the new productions in the Main Auditorium and reflects on their issues from a feminist perspective. We immerse ourselves in the season together: At an external venue (IMMERSION) and in the Tischlerei (EMERSION), hybrid evenings are created with transdisciplinary inclusion of opera singing, contemporary artistry, real-time visuals and techno ... Music: Lasse Winkler; Director: Ariane Kareev; With Flurina Stucki, Geon Kim and others.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)

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 power and powerlessness ... Conductor: Stephan Zilias; Director: David Hermann; With Joel Allison, Markus Brück, Oreste Cosimo, Jane Archibald, Tobias Kehrer, Lilit Davtyan, Thomas Cilluffo a. o.

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 – 1921)

The Grimm fairy tale is well-known, Humperdinck's score oscillates between children's song and late romantic, opulent Wagnerian sound. Andreas Homoki's lovingly child-friendly production of the Christmas opera classic has been in the theatre's repertoire for over 25 years and continues to inspire children, parents and grandparents for the world of musical theatre ... Conductor: Friedrich Praetorius; Director: Andreas Homoki; With Artur Garbas, Maria Motolygina, Karis Tucker / Annika Schlicht, Meechot Marrero / Nina Solodovnikova, Burkhard Ulrich / Patrick Cook a. o.

Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868)

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 Thalbach’s vibrant and hectic production … Conducted by Giulio Cilona / Friedrich Praetorius; directed by Katharina Thalbach; with Kieran Carrel / Kangyoon Shine Lee, Marco Filippo Romano / Simone del Savio, Martina Baroni / Arianna Manganello, Dean Murphy / Philipp Jekal, Manuel Fuentes / Patrick Guetti, Maria Vasilevskaya a. o.

Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868)

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 theatre, which Jan Bosse has staged as a satire about the "Hospital Europa" ... Conductor: Alessandro De Marchi; Director: Jan Bosse; With Lilit Davtyan, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Hye-Young Moon, Hulkar Sabirova, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Omar Mancini, Joel Allison, Artur Garbas, Philipp Jekal, Kyle Miller a. o.

A performance from behind the scenes with opera, artistry, visuals and techno

The Tischlerei is continuing its successful AMBUSHED FROM BEHIND series this season: in two performances at the beginning and end of the season, director Ariane Kareev devotes herself to the material of the new productions in the Main Auditorium and reflects on their issues from a feminist perspective. We immerse ourselves in the season together: At an external venue (IMMERSION) and in the Tischlerei (EMERSION), hybrid evenings are created with transdisciplinary inclusion of opera singing, contemporary artistry, real-time visuals and techno ... Music: Lasse Winkler; Director: Ariane Kareev; With Flurina Stucki, Geon Kim and others.

Gordon Kampe [*1976]

The stress sets in on the way to school. You’re too late, nobody wants to sit next to you, other students make fun of you and you’re bullied for the clothes you wear. Your grades are poor, your teachers are unfair, you’re worried because your parents are unemployed – or you struggle with memories of war and having to flee from your home, and these memories are still stuck with you ... Conductor: Christian Lindhorst; Director: Franziska Seeberg; With the Children's Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Richard Strauss [1864 – 1949]

New opera material for a new time - this was not only sought by the avant-gardists in the 1920s. Old master Richard Strauss went even further and brought not only a story from the modern world, but also, barely veiled, his own married life to the stage ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Production: Tobias Kratzer; With Philipp Jekal, Maria Bengtsson, Thomas Blondelle a. o.

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.

Ballet for children, aged 4 and over, with music by Edvard Grieg, Alexander Konstantinowitsch Glasunow and Herman Severin Løvenskiold

Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up, has been playing his games for over 100 years. In this version by the Kinder Ballett Kompanie Berlin, Michael, John and Wendy experience exciting adventures on the island of Neverland together with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. But beware of Captain Hook! ... A choreography by David Simic based on the stories by James Matthew Barrie with music by Edvard Grieg, Herman Severin Løvenskiold and Alexander Glasunow ... The students of the Kinder Ballett Kompanie Berlin dance.

Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)

Puccini’s rendition in opera form of »Scenes of Bohemian Life« is the best-known opera portraying the lives of artists and at the same time a depiction of a group of young people drifting through life with no consideration of the consequences. Götz Friedrich’s opulent production reflects the gleam and grime of Belle Époque Paris … Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles / Friedrich Praetorius; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Andrei Danilov / Attilio Glaser, Kyle Miller / Philipp Jekal, Dean Murphy / Geon Kim, Patrick Guetti / Byung Gil Kim, Maria Motolygina / Elena Tsallagova, Alexandra Oomens / Nina Solodovnikova a.o.

Ottorino Respighi [1879 – 1936]

Impressive songs and colossal tableaux accompany a story of intrigue, power struggles and an affair between stepmother and son in Ottorino Respighi's last great opera. Surrounded by political battles, the characters become entangled in personal conflicts that mercilessly lead to catastrophe and end with a cruel outcome at the stake ... Conductor: Carlo Rizzi; Director: Christof Loy; With Aušrine Stundyte, Georgy Vasiliev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Martina Serafin, Doris Soffel 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: Dominic Limburg / Friedrich Praetorius / Giulio Cilona / Vitali Alekseenok; Director: Götz Friedrich; With Adela Zaharia / Nina Solodovnikova / Rosa Feola / Elena Tsallagova, Amitai Pati / Attilio Glaser / Andrei Danilov, Markus Brück / Thomas Lehman / Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Karis Tucker / Arianna Manganello a.o.

Rebecca Saunders [*1967]

With LASH, the acclaimed German-British composer Rebecca Saunders writes her first opera and, based on the visually powerful texts by video artist and writer Ed Atkins, creates a work about the existential fundamental experiences of the human body with which we are in the world and at the same time experience and understand it ... Conductor: Enno Poppe; Director: Dead Centre; With Anna Prohaska, Sarah Maria Sun, Noa Frenkel, Katja Kolm a. o.

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)

The rebellion of Sicily against its French occupiers in 1282, known as the "Sicilian Vespers", could easily be linked to Verdi's present and the conquest and colonisation of Algeria that began in 1830. This reference forms the starting point for the production of the French director Olivier Py, who extends the historical focus into the 1950s. ... Conductor: Dominic Limburg; Director: Olivier Py; With Hulkar Sabirova, Valentyn Dytiuk, George Petean, Roberto Tagliavini 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: Ivan Repušić; Director: Kasper Holten; With Byung Gil Kim, Attilio Glaser, Flurina Stucki, Jordan Shanahan, Nina Stemme, Dean Murphy a.o.

Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848)

A historicised staging forms the backdrop for Lucia's tragedy, which is negotiated as a pledge of military alliances. Her heart belongs to Edgardo, the mortal enemy of her brother Enrico, who has other plans for his sister. With its nostalgic atmosphere, Filippo Sanjust's production is a classic in the repertoire ... Conductor: Matteo Beltrami / Ivan Repušić; Director: Filippo Sanjust; With Dean Murphy / Markus Brück, Serena Sáenz / Hila Fahima / Adela Zaharia, Andrei Danilov / N. N., Kieran Carrel / Kangyoon Shine Lee, Gerard Farreras / Byung Gil Kim a. o.

Giuseppe Verdi [1813 – 1901]

Conductor: Enrique Mazzola; Staging: Marie-Ève Signeyrole; With Roman Burdenko / Thomas Lehman, Marko Mimica / Byung Gil Kim, Anastasia Bartoli / Felicia Moore, Attilio Glaser / Andrei Danilov and others.

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)

Keith Warner's production of Verdi's first successful opera emphasises the basic idea of reconciliation with which the work concludes: Under the wise King Nabucco, the Hebrew people of the Scriptures and the Babylonian warriors may hope for a peaceful future ... Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni; Director: Keith Warner; With Juan Jesús Rodríguez / Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Jorge Puerta, Liang Li, Ewa Płonka, Karis Tucker a. o.

A Chamber Opera Triptych by Zara Ali, Haukur þór Harðarson, Huihui Cheng

The competition, organised as a collaboration between the Deutsche Oper and the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music, was and is primarily intended as a laboratory for the future. It is explicitly aimed at teams of composers and authors. The three new music theatre works of approximately 30 minutes in length are created with students of the Hanns Eisler Academy, who stage, play and sing them.

John Adams [*1947]

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, Padraic Rowan, Karis Tucker, Elissa Pfaender, Davia Bouley, Alfred Kim, Heidi Stober, Hye-Young Moon a. o.

Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893)

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 a sophisticated elite meets the misery of the proletariat ... Conductor: Juraj Valčuha; Director: Sam Brown; With Brian Jagde, Sara Jakubiak, Jennifer Larmore, Lucio Gallo, Thomas Lehman, Karis Tucker a. o.

Whether techno is played on acoustic instruments, experimental instrumentations are used or styles such as rock, indie, pop and electronic music are merged with relish: At the Playground Festival, the Deutsche Oper Berlin is transformed into a techno club.

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)

In his opera about the hunchbacked court jester, Verdi took the tension between the improbabilities of the plot and the emotional overwhelming power of musical theatre to extremes. Jan Bosse's production tells the tragedy of a man who fails to separate private life and public action ... Conductor: Michele Spotti / Friedrich Praetorius / Giulio Cilona; Director: Jan Bosse; With Andrei Danilov, Etienne Dupuis / Juan Jesús Rodríguez, Brenda Rae / Hye-Young Moon, Geon Kim, Patrick Guetti / Tobias Kehrer, Stephanie Wake-Edwards / Lindsay Ammann a.o.

Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)

Claus Guth banishes all orientalism and looks at his title heroine with a dissecting, psychoanalytical eye. Salome descends into the abysses of her youth, in which abuses by her stepfather have dug deep into her soul. And from these depths she creates her saviour Jochanaan, with whom she can take up the fight against her hated father ... Conductor: Keri-Lynn Wilson; Staging by Claus Guth; With Thomas Blondelle, Evelyn Herlitzius, Olesya Golovneva, Jordan Shanahan, Kieran Carrel, Annika Schlicht a. o.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

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 Kirsten Harms' colourful production, which evokes the imagery of the Middle Ages, the members of the chorus appear effectively not only as penitents but also as a magnificently decked-out court company ... Conductor: Axel Kober / John Fiore; Director: Kirsten Harms; With Tobias Kehrer, Clay Hilley / Klaus Florian Vogt, Thomas Lehman / Samuel Hasselhorn, Camilla Nylund / Elisabeth Teige a. o.

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: Giampaolo Bisanti / Valerio Galli; Director: Boleslaw Barlog; With Elena Stikhina / Sondra Radvanovsky, Martin Muehle / Fabio Sartori, Lucio Gallo / Erwin Schrott, Kyle Miller / Stephen Marsh a.o.

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

Musically highly romantic and crossing the threshold to modernity, Wagner lets his couple run with existential inexorability into a hopeless dilemma. Disturbing and fascinating in its uncompromising portrayal of obsessive love, this work - based on a myth - has become a myth itself ... Conductor: Petr Popelka / Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Graham Vick; With Clay Hilley, Albert Pesendorfer / Georg Zeppenfeld / Derek Welton, Ricarda Merbeth / Stéphanie Müther, Thomas Lehman / Leonardo Lee, Jörg Schörner, Irene Roberts / Annika Schlicht a. o.

Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)

In his last, unfinished opera Puccini addressed the aesthetic of cinema, the new medium for mass consumption. In his version of the work Lorenzo Fioroni makes a connection between the repressed, yet sensationalist Chinese opera people and the consumers of modern media content … Conductor: Jordan de Souza; Director: Lorenzo Fioroni; With Saioa Hernández, Clemens Bieber, Clay Hilley, Sua Jo / Maria Motolygina, Byung Gil Kim, Michael Bachtadze, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Thomas Cilluffo a. o.

Part I of the "Distant Resonance" trilogy

"Distant Resonance" is a three-year overarching artistic research project in which "Sounding Situations", in co-production with Kampnagel, Radialsystem Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin and other institutions, aims to explore how our own sound, sense of self and history are linked to distant places and resonate with them. The first part of the trilogy "Wagner Worldwide" will be premiered in the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Jules Massenet (1842 – 1912)

Concert performances of WERTHER at the Deutsche Oper Berlin have often offered the opportunity to experience the great tenors of their time in the role of the suicidal poet. Following Alfredo Kraus in 1998 and Vittorio Grigolo in 2014, this time it is the turn of the US-American Jonathan Tetelman, who has already introduced himself to Berlin audiences in IL TRITTICO, TOSCA and FRANCESCA DA RIMINI.At his side, Aigul Akhmetshina, one of the most exciting female singer discoveries of recent years, sings the role of Charlotte ... Conductor: Enrique Mazzola; With Jonathan Tetelman, Aigul Akhmetshina, Dean Murphy, Lilit Davtyan, Michael Bachtadze, Chance Jonas-O'Toole, Gerard Farreras and others.

George Benjamin [*1960]

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: Marc Albrecht; Director: Katie Mitchell; With Daniel Okulich, Vera-Lotte Boecker, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Anna Werle, Thomas Blondelle a. o.