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Il barbiere di Siviglia
Gioacchino Rossini – 28 February 2020
The story about the barber Figaro, Count Almaviva, his beloved Rosina and his adversary Bartolo is as turbulent as it is humorous … With Samuel Dale Johnson, Matthew Newlin, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Biagio Pizzuti, Patrick Guetti et al.
Le Prophète
Giacomo Meyerbeer – 29 February 2020
Meyerbeer’s grand opéra depicting the real-life Anabaptist ‘king’ Jean de Leyde is at once meticulously thought-through theatre of ideas and an historical panorama wise to the psychology of crowds, a tale of political radicalisation as private and public catastrophe ... With Gregory Kunde, Clémentine Margaine, Elena Tsallagova, Derek Welton, Gideon Poppe, Thomas Lehman, Seth Carico et al.
Les Huguenots
Giacomo Meyerbeer – 1 March 2020
In his grand opéra LES HUGUENOTS depicting the events of the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre in 1572, Meyerbeer shows how a catastrophe can develop from seemingly innocuous prejudices and squabbles and spiral out of control. … With Liv Redpath, Seth Carico / Derek Welton, Dimitris Tiliakos, Olesya Golovneva, Irene Roberts, Anton Rositskiy, Andrew Harris / Ante Jerkunica et al.
Dinorah ou Le Pardon de Ploërmel
Giacomo Meyerbeer – 4 March 2020 [concert version]
With this Opéra comique Meyerbeer is able to achieve a late playful-poetic and simultaneously humourously broken invocation of the Romantic world of spirits and faeries … Conductor: Enrique Mazzola (Photo) … With Rocío Pérez, Régis Mengus, Philippe Talbot, Seth Carico, Gideon Poppe, Nicole Haslett and Karis Tuckers.
The Magic Flute
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart –13 March 2020
Mozart's MAGIC FLUTE is the most frequently performed opera in the German-speaking world. This variegated masterpiece straddling Viennese popular theatre, fairytale, myth and the mystery of freemasonry is a puzzle even today ... With Tobias Kehrer, Andrei Danilov, Antonina Vesenina, Jacquelyn Stucker, Philipp Jekal, Alexandra Hutton et al.
La traviata
Giuseppe Verdi – 15 March 2020
By presenting Violetta's tribulations in the form of a retrospective narrative Götz Friedrich has given his tragedy the atmosphere of a requiem: As the ball begins Violetta, now in ballroom attire, rises from the bed, which has become a divan. Suddenly the doors burst open and in pours the frolicking Parisian crowd, intent on its frivolous entertainment. The flashback begins: With Elena Tsallagova, Andrei Danilov, Dong-Hwan Lee et al.
Performances
Schedule
From 2 February to 8 March 2020
Best of Meyerbeer
Our current cycle is without international precedent: we have been fostering a Meyerbeer revival, savouring along with our audiences a string of musical masterpieces and rediscovering a narrator whose stories are as relevant today as they have ever been. Berlin’s greatest composer is now firmly re-ensconced in his home city and we hope our love of Meyerbeer’s works proves contagious.
New in our Blog – Performances from 21 March
Dancing at the door of doomsday
Rued Langgaard‘s ANTICHRIST is an amazingly clear-eyed end-of-days fantasy from the 1920s, and if anything it has gained in relevance in our times, says dramaturg Lars Gebhardt
Our video highlights
Video – 02:37 min / 2 February - 8 March, 2020
Jörg Königsdorf about Giacomo Meyerbeer
Video — 1:59 min / Premiere on 26 January
A Midsummer Night's Dream ... A short introduction
Video - 1:40 min / About Pamina, elves and Berlin
100 seconds with Siobhan Stagg
Video — 2:21 min / Back on stage from 2 February
Les Huguenots
New in our Blog – Performances from 23 February
Ten questions ... for Gregory Kunde
Gregory Kunde sings the revolutionary leader Jean de Leyde in Giacomo Meyerbeer’s LE PROPHETE. We questioned the American tenor on politics and populism.
Nominated for International Opera Awards 2020
The Deutsche Oper Berlin is proud to draw readers’ attention to two of the nominations for the 2020 International Opera Awards. The magnificent chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and its director Jeremy Bines have been shortlisted for their category and Detlev Glanert’s OCEANE is among the nominations for best “World Premiere”. The winners will be announced on 4th May at Sadler’s Wells in London. Fingers crossed for our people!
Released on DVD
“Das Wunder der Heliane – Heliane’s Miracle”
The new production last year of “Heliane’s Miracle”, Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s neglected masterpiece, was not only a hit with Berliners and an international clientele of operagoers. In a poll of critics in “Opernwelt” the production was voted “Revival of the Year”, with “Heliane” or its singers being backed by critics in no less than eight other categories.
Libretto & Co
23, 29 February; 6 March 2020
Le Prophète
Grand Opéra by Giacomo Meyerbeer; Conductor: Enrique Mazzola; Director: Olivier Py; With Gregory Kunde, Clémentine Margaine, Elena Tsallagova et al.
2, 9 February; 1, 8 March 2020
Les Huguenots
Grand Opéra by Giacomo Meyerbeer; Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov; Director: David Alden; With Liv Redpath, Olesya Golovneva, Irene Roberts, Anton Rositskiy, Andrew Harris et al.