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Oceane / World premiere
Detlev Glanert (*1960)
Fontane explores the Melusine character as a way of fathoming the sense of menace and fascination felt by a bourgeois, male-dominated society that connoted femininity with an archaic, erotically licentious naturalness. His “strange woman from the sea” is yearning for intimacy and love, yet in the end the men who seek her company are the very ones from whom she feels most distant ... On 28 April 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
The Flying Dutchman
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)
Roving restlessly in the borderlands of Life and Death, the Dutchman meets Senta, a woman who, in her own way, appears alien and without a place to call home and is yearning for a male character, a figment of her own fantasy – the Dutchman. The world is one of dream images, obsessions, projections and the fantastic, a world that has long since lost touch with reality ... On 1 May 2019
„Jassical Voices“
The BigBand in concert
This concert is primarily a tribute to two composers who have integrated elements of jazz into symphonic music and musical theatre with their very own means. Experience excerpts from WEST SIDE STORY and PORGY AND BESS during this concert. With Katharine Mehrling, Meechot Marrero, Byung Gil Kim and Seth Carico ... 2 May 2019
Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 6
Donald Runnicles and the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
With four movements and without the use of vocals, Mahler's 6th Symphony appears to be his "most classic" – but the length of the act with a good 90 minutes and the enormous orchestra with fourfold woodwind and large-scale brass and percussion blow up the formal boundaries of the classically harmonious performance ... On 8 May 2019
Rienzi, The Last of the Tribunes
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)
Director Philipp Stölzl interprets RIENZI as a parable of the dangerous tightrope walk between idealism, hubris and realpolitik. The republican dream of the people’s tribune ends in dictatorship and destruction. For him, in a series of symbols unique to himself, the stage becomes a multimedia experiment, set up to show the inevitable fate of a “hero.” ... 10 May 2019
Turandot
Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)
Society lives in terror of a Princess. Turandot, the fascinating and beautiful representative of a ruling dynasty, presides over the cruelty. Matrimony alone seems likely to end the violence, yet no suitor has managed to solve her riddles and win her hand. Time and again the same scene is played out, ending in yet another execution. Against all expectations, Calaf, son of an exiled potentate from a far-off country, breaks the mould. On 18 May 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
Performances
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Wagner Week in May – An Essay by Dorothea Hartmann
Odyssey of the soul
Spirits, vampires and assorted fiends stalk the scores of “German Romantic opera” from 1820 onwards. Richard Wagner, too, used lashings of supernatural gimmickry, albeit not in the same way as his colleagues ... See THE FLYING DUTCHMAN on 1, 4, 9 May 2019
Our video highlights
Video – 06:00 min / 13 April 2019
50 years of "Tosca" directed by Boleslav Barlog
Video – 03:52
Making opera: „Oceane“ (2)
Video – 03:44 min
Making opera: „Oceane“ (1)
Video – 07:34 min
Jörg Königsdorf about Belcanto
New in our blog
Ten questions for: Philipp Stölzl
Philipp Stölzl is a director of films such as “North Face” and music videos featuring the likes of Madonna and Rammstein. He has staged PARSIFAL and RIENZI for the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He talks here of the link between Wagner and cinema.
New in our blog – On DON QUICHOTTE
Clémentine Margaine ... A place of serenity for my soul
The mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine is enamoured with the Deutsche Oper Berlin. It was the first place that was not too small for her voice. She now returns to the opera house for Massenet’s DON QUICHOTTE ... The premiere will take place on May 30, 2019.
To OCEANE in our blog
My private place of peace: Detlev Glanert
Detlev Glanert has written a new opera for the Deutsche Oper Berlin, OCEANE, based on a fragment from a novella by Fontane. The composers meets us at his favourite haunt: Café Einstein
Making opera! / 25 March – 28 April 2019
Detlev Glanert: „Oceane“
Songs and Poets in the Foyer ... 29 April 2019
Songs of Travel
You can hear Ralph Vaughan Williams' "On Wenlock Edge" and "Songs of Travel" as well as Maurice Ravel's "Chansons Madécasses" and "Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques" ... With Andrew Dickinson, Samuel Dale Johnson, Meechot Marrero and John Parr as well as Farhad Showghi
Jazz & Lyrics V ... 12 and 19 May 2019
Der besondere Heimatabend
The evening will feature Fontane in jazzy garb. Ullrich Heissig, Knef’s alter ego, will sing and recite familiar texts by the famous poet and demonstrate with musicians from the Big Band that regional hits and swing are not contradictions in terms.