Fiddler on the Roof is woven into the DNA of the Komische Oper Berlin like few other musicals, with the first East German production under Walter Felsenstein performed an astonishing five hundred times.
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When Barrie Kosky revived the piece in 2017, the acclaim was immense. In its review, The New York Times wrote that ‘this is quite possibly the most convincing – and least embarrassingly cliché‑ridden – Fiddler imaginable’.
In the shtetl of Anatevka, life is lived strictly according to Jewish tradition. But the milkman Tevye struggles with it. And with his God. And with the stubborn hearts of his three eldest daughters – until pogroms threaten the life of the small village community…
Caught between humour and human suffering, Fiddler on the Roof presents one of the twentieth century’s most life-affirming tales of love, marriage, and misadventure.
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Duration
- 3 hours 15 minutes, including intermission
Production info
- Jerry Bock
- Musical based on the stories of Scholem Aleichem [1964]
- With the express permission of Arnold Perl
- Book by Joseph Stein
- Music by Jerry Bock
- Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
- German translation by Rolf Merz and Gerhard Hagen
- Produced for the stage in New York by Harold Prince
- Original New York stage production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins
Participating artists
Benjamin Gericke
Ivan Dubinin
Andrii Zubchevskyi
Patrick Santos
Michael Fernandez
Joseph Edy
Lorenzo Soragni
Kai Chun Chuang
Danilo Brunetti
Davide De Biasi
Shane Dickson
Chorsolisten der Komischen Oper Berlin
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Max Hopp
Dagmar Manzel
Ruth Brauer-Kvam
Laura Magdalena Goblirsch
Paula Rummel
Alma Sadé
Elisa Maayeshi
Katharina Thomas
Laeticia Krüger
Luisa Souza de Prét
Barbara Spitz
Johannes Dunz
Nicky Wuchinger
Stefan Sevenich
Carsten Lau
Jan-Frank Süße
Peter Renz
Giacomo Schmidt
Matthias Spenke
Carsten Lau
Tim Dietrich
Eberhard Krispin
Sigalit Feig
Karsten Küsters
Ivan Turšić
Saskia Krispin
Cornelia Berner
Rafaela Großkopf
Laura Kindt
Jeffrey Socia
