Jörg Widmann’s »Babylon« deals with the boundaries of language, and indeed of linguistic confusion. The composer places the multicultural society of the pre-ancient, culturally advanced metropolis of Babylon at the centre of his opera. It is not only the…
The world of »Freischütz«, where Agathe, the daughter of the hereditary forester, and her fiancé, the unfortunate huntsman’s apprentice Max, have to fight for their love is neither idyllic nor intact.
With its world-explanatory claim as well as its sheer temporal extension, THE RING OF THE NIBELATIONS is the greatest challenge for every opera director.
Deutsche Oper Berlin: Virtual tour of the opera house
In Berlin-Charlottenburg, the opera house opened in 1912 and destroyed during the war was reopened as the Deutsche Oper Berlin on September 24, 1961. Since then, it has been Berlin's largest and Germany's second largest music theater - and one of the most…
Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera, which took him 10 years of his life to complete and which he revised a number of times, is a tour de force in several respects. Firstly, it is considered one of the archetypal operas devoted to the theme of liberty. The main…
Rossini's classic in the production by one of the most exciting contemporary Russian directors, Kirill Serebrennikov – with Tansel Akzeybek as the enchanting lover, Nicole Chevalier as the clever object of his desire, Philipp Meierhöfer as the not-very-bitter…
Missed the one or other premiere this season? Fancy a special opera event that appeals to all senses? As in previous seasons, the Komische Oper Berlin will be presenting the full range of new productions within the Komische Oper Festival at the end of this…
Depending on how much work they have coming in, the penniless poet Rudolfo and his three skilled artist friends alternate between being strapped for cash and spending money like water. When their neighbour Mimì turns up at their garret one day, Rodolfo falls…
The courtesan Violetta Valéry is one of the most desired women in Paris, and she lives life to the full. Unbeknown to anyone, she has tuberculosis and is far closer to death than she is willing to admit. She believes she can start a new life with the naive…
A tempestuous love against all odds! Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece and last opera, which premiered only posthumously, enchants with a deeply human sensibility.
Lieutenant Pinkerton is in Nagasaki for three months for professional reasons. There he falls in love with the geisha Cio-Cio-San, also called Madame Butterfly. He wants to marry her immediately after and she has a child by him. Japanese law allows him to…
Due to the current restrictions on public life decided by the state of Berlin to combat the Corona pandemic, the house will be temporarily closed from 02 November 2020.
Michael Ende's »Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver«
Micheal Ende’s world-famous children’s book will be transformed for the first time into a children’s opera! While adults might remember the television recordings from the Augsburger Puppenkiste marionette theatre, younger audience members will certainly think…
A woman in black, a sound continuum interrupted by an explosion, crowds storming the stage, traffic lights, the deafening singing of the cicadas on Chios in the midday heat, performing in an ensemble as a cipher of social constellations, invoking the…
Shameless, funny and cheeky! In Barrie Kosky's wildly acclaimed production at the 2019 Salzburg Festival, the first Offenbach operetta in the festival’s nearly 100-year-long history, grandiose Mythological Travesty joins an enthusiastic ensemble of the highest…
Having grown up in an environment that knows no restraint and inhibitions, the eccentric Princess Salome is fascinated by the otherness of moral integrity and ascetic living prophet Jokanaan that keep her mother Herodias and her grip on stepfather Herod…
The accounts of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in the Gospels are an integral part of the foundation of European culture. With his »St Matthew Passion« Johann Sebastian Bach established a musical ritual for the confessional community of…
Start of the 2021/22 season of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Performances on the parking deck of the Deutsche Oper Berlin will once again provide small, fine cultural summer highlights from mid-August to around September 10, 2021.
After seven years of enjoying sensual pleasures in the realm of Venus, the goddess of love, the minstrel Tannhäuser longs to return to his terrestrial life, and especially to his earthly beloved, Elisabeth. But his ambition to unite art and life as well as…
Due to the current restrictions on public life decided by the state of Berlin to combat the Corona pandemic, the house will be temporarily closed from 02 November 2020.
