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Written on Skin
4, 14, 20 May 2025
Based on a text from medieval sources, author Martin Crimp, composer George Benjamin and director Katie Mitchell created WRITTEN ON SKIN in 2012, a sensational parable about identity, love and the power of literature and art, which can be experienced once again this May ... Conductor: Marc Albrecht; Director: Katie Mitchell; With Daniel Okulich, Giorgia Jarman, Hugh Cutting, Anna Werle, Chance Jonas-O'Toole and others.
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12, 19, 27 April 2025
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Wagner's only cheerful opera, in its summer-night drunken play about delusion and reality, love, ageing and the practice of art, is the work in which everything revolves around the theme of life under the sign of music ... Conductor: Ulf Schirmer; Production: Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock, Sergio Morabito; With Thomas J. Mayer, Albert Pesendorfer, Philipp Jekal, Magnus Vigilius, Chance Jonas-O'Toole, Elena Tsallagova, Annika Schlicht a. o.
21, 26 April 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: Giulio Cilona; Production: Christian Spuck; With Patrick Guetti, Flurina Stucki, Kieran Carrel, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Andrei Danilov, Derek Welton / Joachim Goltz a. o.
24 April; 2 May 2025
Antikrist
Langgaard's monolithic work creates an eschatological mystery play that pays homage to the fin de siècle with music reminiscent of Strauss and Wagner, but which does not deny Hindemith and Schönberg. Ersan Mondtag not only directs ANTIKRIST, but also designs the scenic set in his typical powerful expressionist style ... Conductor: Stephan Zilias; Director: Ersan Mondtag; With Kyle Miller, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Maria Vasilevskaya, Arianna Manganello, Thomas Cilluffo, Martina Baroni, Flurina Stucki, Thomas Blondelle, Tadeusz Szlenkier, Philipp Jekal a. o.
3, 11, 22 May 2025
Aida
In Benedikt von Peter’s production of Verdi’s pharaonic opera, exotic Egypt is only visible as a dreamworld depicted on postcards. In this version of the work, which occupies the entire auditorium, the focus is on Radames’s dichotomy between the sobering reality of his everyday activities and his desire to find the woman of his dreams … Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni; Director: Benedikt von Peter; With Judit Kutasi, Hulkar Sabirova, SeokJong Baek a. o.
Ticket sales for both cycles from 16 May to 31 May 2026 will begin on 1 February 2025
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.
The book in shops and at our premises
Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt?
Hardly any other opera house has commissioned as many world premieres as the Deutsche Oper Berlin under the artistic direction of Dietmar Schwarz: From Aribert Reimann to Detlev Glanert and Chaya Czernowin to Rebecca Saunders, some of the most important composers of the 21st century have written new works for the big stage, while names such as Gordon Kampe, Keyvan Chemirani and Sara Glojnaric represent the programme diversity of the company's second venue, the experimental stage Tischlerei. But what conditions must be met for good music theatre to emerge? The conversations between the artistic director and the composers collected in this book, as well as visual insights into the practical work of composing, show how different approaches to the art form of opera are today. The book costs €32.50 and is available also at our box office and at the first cloakroom on the left.
Season release 25/26 – 19 May 2025
What's coming up?
With seven premieres on the main stage and our broad repertoire, we offer the whole spectrum of musical theatre in the coming season. The concert 'What's coming up?', presented by Christoph Seuferle and Jörg Königsdorf, offers a first glimpse of the season with excerpts and highlights from all new productions and selected repertoire productions. Prominent guests such as Jonathan Tetelman and Frederica Lombardi, members of the ensemble, chorus and orchestra will present rediscoveries, rarities and classics from three centuries of musical theatre. This concert will also honour a great singer: Doris Soffel, who most recently thrilled audiences as the Countess in PIQUE DAME, Klytämnestra in ELEKTRA and Adelaide in ARABELLA, will be awarded honorary membership of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
NEW SCENES VII - 27, 30 April; 1, 5 May 2025
The next generation of mastersingers
NEW SCENES sees the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin collaborating on a competition open to duos of young composers and librettists. Applicants are narrowed down to three teams, each of which then focuses on producing a chamber opera and casting budding singers to perform the piece. The competition culminates in a triptych of premieres in the Tischlerei. In the blog, we have documented an encounter with four up-and-coming singers who will be performing with us for the first time.![Ravi Sund Rojo [li.], Elizabeth Kim, Lilian von der Nahmer und Yutong Wei in der Intendanten-Lounge der Deutschen Oper Berlin © Nancy Jesse](https://imgtoolkit.culturebase.org?quality=8&file=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.culturebase.org%2F4%2Fe%2Fb%2F0%2F8%2Fpic_1740412291_4eb08579bcc7312269e0d003a7a8570c.jpeg&do=cropOut&width=388&height=242 "The next generation of mastersingers | Read in our blog")
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To the video archive Skip video container ![Ab in den Ring! – A Teaser, opening night on 28 February 2025]( "Ab in den Ring! – A Teaser, opening night on 28 February 2025")
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![Ottorino Respighi: La fiamma, Premiere on 29 September 2024]( "Ottorino Respighi: La fiamma, Premiere on 29 September 2024")
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![John Adams: Nixon in China, Premiere on 22 June 2024]( "John Adams: Nixon in China, Premiere on 22 June 2024")
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![Pjotr I. Tschaikowskij: Pique Dame, Premiere on 9 March 2024]( "Pjotr I. Tschaikowskij: Pique Dame, Premiere on 9 March 2024")
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Pjotr I. Tschaikowskij: Pique Dame, Premiere on 9 March 2024
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Our Children's and Youth Programme
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.
11 June 1932 – 22 March 2025
In memory of Kammersänger Rolf Kühne
There is hardly another singer whose biography reflects the fortunes of Berlin as a centre for opera as directly as that of Rolf Kühne: between 1960 and 1997 the bass-baritone was a member of the ensemble at all three of the city's opera houses. Initially it was the Komische Oper that brought the young singer to the capital. But only a year later, in 1961, he was already engaged by the Staatsoper. After Kühne failed to return to the GDR in 1968 following a guest performance by the State Opera in Switzerland, the major stages not only in West Germany were open to him. Nevertheless, in 1973 Kühne decided to return to Berlin and become a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble. Kühne remained loyal to our company for 24 years, appearing on stage here on a total of 738 evenings and playing 60 different roles. It has now been announced that Rolf Kühne died in Wiesbaden on 22 March at the age of 92. The Deutsche Oper Berlin will honour his memory.
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.
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The ClassicCard is a unique offer in Germany for young classical music fans. With the free ClassicCard app, you can easily search through and purchase tickets in advance for all current concert, opera and ballet events at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin and the Staatsballett Berlin, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Pierre Boulez Saal, as well as the institutions of the Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre Berlin. With the ClassicCard, anyone under the age of 30 receives significantly discounted tickets for performances by the participating houses. To take advantage of the numerous benefits of the ClassicCard, you must be a member. The annual fee for membership is based on the age of the person (min. 14 years/€14, max. 29 years/€29). Never miss another performance or concert: the ClassicCard makes it possible!
