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Richard Strauss: Salome
8, 14 March 2025
Claus Guth banishes all orientalism and looks at his title heroine with a dissecting, psychoanalytical eye. Salome descends into the abysses of her youth, in which abuses by her stepfather have dug deep into her soul. And from these depths she creates her saviour Jochanaan, with whom she can take up the fight against her hated father ... Conductor: Keri-Lynn Wilson; Staging by Claus Guth; With Thomas Blondelle, Evelyn Herlitzius, Olesya Golovneva, Jordan Shanahan, Kieran Carrel, Annika Schlicht.
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28 February; 2 and 5 March 2025
Nixon in China
Two of the most powerful men in the world shake hands – and the world is watching: with their opera about Richard Nixon's state visit to Mao Tse-tung in 1972, composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman brought contemporary history to the stage... Conductor: Daniel Carter; production: Hauen und Stechen; with Kyle Miller, Thomas Lehman, Padraic Rowan, Alfred Kim, Heidi Stober, Hye-Young Moon and others
16, 20, 25 February 2025
Der fliegende Holländer
The eerie world of Romanticism with its revenants and ghost ships inspired Wagner to write his first mature work. Christian Spuck tells the story of the "Cursed of the Seas" and the lonely captain's daughter as a dark fairy tale from the memory of Senta's spurned admirer, the hunter Erik ... Conductor: John Fiore; Production: Christian Spuck; With Patrick Guetti / Tobias Kehrer, Gabriela Scherer, Attilio Glaser / Kieran Carrel, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Chance Jonas-O'Toole, Derek Welton a. o.
7, 15, 20 March 2025
Arabella
ARABELLA is the last collaboration between the acclaimed duo Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss. Adopting the tone of an operetta, the work portrays the existential hardships, obsessions and dreams of a society bereft of its traditional solidity. Gambling addiction has driven the family of cavalry officer Waldner into financial ruin. The only hope for salvation lies in marrying off the daughter Arabella into a wealthy family ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Tobias Kratzer; With Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Jennifer Davis, Heidi Stober, Thomas J. Mayer, Daniel O'Hearn a. o.
13, 16, 23 March 2025
Intermezzo
New operatic material for a new age - that was not just what the avant-gardists were looking for in the 1920s. Old master Richard Strauss went even further and not only brought a story from the modern world to the stage, but also, barely veiled, his own married life ... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Production: Tobias Kratzer; With Philipp Jekal, Maria Bengtsson, Thomas Blondelle and others.
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Der Ring des Nibelungen
In May 2026, you can experience two cycles of the RING DES NIBELUNGEN in Stefan Herheim's production with artists such as Ya-Chung Huang (Mime), Iain Paterson and Thomas J. Mayer (Wotan), Annika Schlicht (Fricka), Michael Sumuel (Alberich), Matthew Newlin (Siegmund), Elisabeth Teige (Sieglinde, Brünnhilde), Clay Hilley (Siegfried), Trine Møller and Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde) and Albert Pesendorfer (Hagen / Fasolt). These eight performances also mark the farewell of our General Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles... The performances of the first cycle from 16 to 25 May are available individually; the performances of the second cycle from 26 to 31 May are only available as a four-performance package.
on SALOME – 8, 14 March 2025
Questions for ... Evelyn Herlitzius
“You could say Herodias is a monster, egotistical, ruthless, so yes, there’s not much to like there and I don’t try to justify anything or absolve her. I’m more interested in her motives. Her marriage is illegitimate, her position at court is uncertain, and to cap it all her daughter becomes her rival. Hence her hardness. […] Herodias and Salome are irredeemably estranged and it’s visible in every encounter they have. There’s hardly any motherly love and their relationship is so frigid that it’s challenging on an analytical rather than emotional level.” We are delighted to welcome Evelyn Herlitzius as Herodias in Claus Guth's production of SALOME. Read her blog post about her approach to the role or come to one of our performances. She is joined by Thomas Blondelle, Olesya Golovneva and Jordan Shanahan, among others, under the baton of Keri-Lynn Wilson.
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Our Talent Circle scholarship holders
What do Theodora Schnauck-Betow and Dr Angelika Volle, Dr Constanze and Olfert Landt, Ulrike and Walter Sandvoss, Rolf Haeger and Florian Chiutu-Haeger have in common? They are all supporting our young ensemble soloists in the Talent Circle. This season, the members are Lilit Davtyan, Chance Jonas-O'Toole, Alexandra Oomens, Martina Baroni, Nina Solodovnikova, Kyle Miller and répétiteur Jisu Park. If you would also like to support our young artists or productions, then find out more about becoming a member of our support association, the Förderkreis.
on SALOME – 8, 14 March 2025
My private place of contentment: Keri-Lynn Wilson
"Even though I’m at home in a whole bunch of musical worlds, the Juilliard School remains the place that most speaks to my soul. It has inspired and shaped me, encouraged me to discover my passion. Room 309, the old wooden corridors, the fragrance of history – it’s all deeply rooted in my heart", says conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson. In the blog article, she tells us about her personal background, in which exactly this room 309 has a decisive significance, whether at the beginning of her studies as a flautist or as a conductor. We are very pleased to welcome Keri-Lynn Wilson as the conductor of our SALOME in March. The cast includes Olesya Golovneva, who you may remember from LA FIAMMA, Evelyn Herlitzius, Thomas Blondelle and Jordan Shanahan.
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We at Junge Deutsche Oper want to give young people access to the world of music theatre and open up a world for you in which there is something for everyone to discover. Concert formats, opera and music theatre can be experienced on the main stage, in the Tischlerei and in the foyer as part of school and daycare or in your free time with your family.
Now available in stores as a CD box set
Jules Massenet: Hérodiade
Few female figures have inspired the art of the late 19th century as enduringly as the Judean princess Salome. In France in particular, writers, painters and composers were fascinated by this material and its blend of Orientalism and decadence, of eroticism and opulence. Jules Massenet also took up the story, although at the centre of his HÉRODIADE is not, as it was a quarter of a century later for Richard Strauss, the royal child-woman Salome, but her mother Herodias, the wife of King Herod. And while Strauss would later push open the door to the 20th century with his first operatic success, in Massenet's work, 19th-century grand opera celebrates one of its last triumphs, complete with pathos, posturing and a Hollywood-style script. Under the direction of Enrique Mazzola, you can hear Etienne Dupuis, Clémentine Margaine, Nicole Car and Matthew Polenzani, among others.
11 February 1938 – 9 February 2025
In memory of Edith Mathis
When the audience takes a singer to their hearts, it is often not only because of their vocal skills, but also because this person embodies a type in their appearance and voice that reflects the spirit of their time. Thus, quite a few visitors who experienced Edith Mathis' debut here on 1 February 1963 may have thought of Audrey Hepburn. Not only did Mathis visually embody the ideal of girlish, high-spirited and vulnerable innocence with her large dark eyes, short dark hair and delicate appearance, she also had exactly the voice for young opera women like Zerlina, Susanna, Sophie and Ännchen. Mathis mastered all these roles with unaffected elegance, her expressive range extending from mercurial vivacity to the touching sadness of Mozart's Pamina. A total of 170 evenings connect Edith Mathis with the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Her work here is also documented in recordings, such as Henze's DER JUNGE LORD. Edith Mathis passed away in Salzburg shortly before her 87th birthday. We will honour her memory.
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Rued Langgaard: Antikrist
The Antichrist makes his entrance into a godless world. Sent by Lucifer into the world, he adopts many guises. Mankind is tested and tempted by pride, lust, lies, despondency and hatred in an “all-against-all altercation”. Langgaard’s opera is suffused with fin de siècle atmosphere and pessimism, denouncing the vices of the modern age: egotism, arrogance, frivolity. Langgaard, though, was also an optimist, convinced of the transformative power of art and the importance of music as a thread connecting people to the godhead. ANTIKRIST has now been released on DVD and Blu-ray. Conducted by Stephan Zilias, the production by Ersan Mondtag features Thomas Lehman, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Valeriia Savinskaia, Irene Roberts, Clemens Bieber, Maire Therese Carmack, Flurina Stucki, AJ Glueckert, Andrew Dickinson and Joel Allison. This DVD was awarded the ‘Diamant d'Opéra’ by ‘Opéra Magazine’ in December 2024.
