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Carmen
Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875)
CARMEN was a deliberate and direct affront to the Romantic operatic tradition. The fiercely independent spirit of the eponymous heroine was the polar opposite of the passive suffering of the female characters that had populated the opera stage up to that point ... On 17 February 2019
La Rondine
Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)
LA RONDINE is one of Puccini's more uncommonly performed operas. The work was originally planned as an operetta. But while working on the piece, Puccini elected for the through-composed form of an opera, although it is much lighter, more lyrical and less dramatic than TOSCA or TURANDOT. With Ermonela Jaho and Charles Castronovo et al. ... On 20 February 2019
Salome
Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)
Claus Guth is an acknowledged expert when it comes to plumbing the depths of human psychology, coining symbols and choreographing people’s actions to a ‘t’. His SALOME dispenses with sultry eroticism against an Oriental backdrop and is set instead in the ostensibly idyllic 1950s. A drama of souls played out onstage. With Allison Oakes, Thomas Blondelle, Gabriele Schnaut and Michael Volle ... On 24 February 2019
Boris Godunov
Modest P. Mussorgskij (1839 – 1881)
Czar Boris, one of the most striking characters in the history of opera - an intelligent ruler and benevolent father, who came to the throne by dint of sound leadership, a smart marriage but also the murder of a child. With Sir Bryn Terfel as Boris Godunov ... On 6 March 2019
La Sonnambula
Vincenzo Bellini (1801 – 1835)
Amina, a poor orphan, and Elvino, the richest farmer in the village, are looking forward to their wedding. But when Amina is caught in the room of Count Rodolfo, who has recently returned after a long absence, this idyll in the Swiss Alps collapses … On 19 May 2019
Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)
For better or worse, despite his grotesque physique, the hunchbacked jester-hero has to get his audience laughing. His daughter Gilda seems angelic by contrast - and yet human through and through in her unconditional love and self-sacrifice. With Markus Brück, Siobhan Stagg and Yijie Shi ... On 27 April 2019
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As Herodias in SALOME
Gabriele Schnaut
Gabriele Schnaut has sung the great female roles, is fully versed in Wagnerian heroines and was appointed Kammersängerin in Bavaria. In Strauss’s SALOME she sings Herodias, an operatic character of singular meanness. Here she talks of vengeance, abuse and the art of finding her own angle on a protagonist.
22nd and 23rd February 2019 / Wilmersdorfer Arcaden
“Best of Opera” costume sale
Opulent or filigree, gaudily plumed or wispy and minimalist – the costumes of the Deutsche Oper Berlin are as rich and varied as its staged production. You now have an opportunity to view a selection of costumes and props in an exhibition running from 4th to 23rd February 2019. Shortly before the Carnival festivities we invite you to a sale of uniforms, tailcoats, dresses, ballet costumes, hats and wigs from the opera house inventory.
Our video highlights
Video – 03:37 min
„La Sonnambula“ – Premiere on 26 January 2019
Video – 02:09 min
Back on stage: „Carmen“
Video – 02:05 min
Back on stage: „Boris Godunov“
Video – 1:40 min
100 Seconds with ... Matthew Newlin
LA SONNAMBULA – Premiere 26 January 2019
We sleepwalkers
At times of upheaval many yearn for bygone times while others seek refuge in dream worlds. In the estimation of Lars Gebhardt, Bellini’s ostensibly naïve opera LA SONNAMBULA goes closer to the bone than we might suspect.
New in our blog – THE DWARF, Premiere on 24 March
The mockery of others
Enslaved, laughed at, excluded: where would opera be without the harlot, the orphan, or the dwarf in Zemlinsky’s THE DWARF? Outsiders are the true heroes, says dramaturg Sebastian Hanusa
Back on our stage
Charles Castronovo
As of 12 February, Puccini's opera LA RONDINE will return to our repertoire. The piece tells the story of the courtesan Magda, known by all as "the swallow". She falls in love with the young and naive Ruggero, for whom she gives up her former life in sophisticated Paris to move out to the country. American tenor Charles Castronovo already played Ruggero for the premiere in March 2015, and he will take on this role once more.
Art creates spaces for change – 9 November 2018
Berliner Erklärung der Vielen
On 22 February 2019
Anna Smirnova as Turandot
Conductor: Andrea Battistoni; Director: Lorenzo Fioroni; With Anna Smirnova, Stefano La Colla, Meechot Marrero et al.
From 12 February 2019
Ermonela Jaho in „La Rondine“
Conductor: John Fiore; Director: Rolando Villazón; Mith Ermonela Jaho, Alexandra Hutton, Charles Castronovo, Matthew Newlin, Stephen Bronk et al.