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Patrons - Deutsche Oper Berlin

Dear friends of opera!

With its very diverse and wonderful members who feel closely connected to the house, the Friends of Deutsche Oper Berlin have been supporting Berlin's largest and most modern opera house for decades. Bringing these "fans" of the house together across the generations is an exciting and honourable task, with the aim of strengthening Deutsche Oper Berlin for the future as one of the leading international houses in music theatre. It is a great pleasure to see what an integrative force the association can unleash through our members and our managing director Silke Alsweiler-Lösch. Join us!

Sincerely, Heike Maria von Joest,
Chairwoman of Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin e.V.

Welcome

Dr. Heike Maria von Joest

Chairwoman, on the board since 2022

Dr. Kilian Jay von Seldeneck

First deputy, on the board since 2016

Dr. Philipp Semmer

2nd deputy, on the board since 2008

Klaus Siegers

Treasurer, on the board since 2017

Sophie Prinzessin von Preußen

on the board since 2019

Theodora Schnauck-Betow

on the board since 2020

Prof. Dr. Axel Fischer

on the board since 2019

Silke Alsweiler-Lösch

Managing Director

Dietmar Schwarz

Artistic Director, on the board since 2012
Experience more together!

Viva la cultura et la vita

It is certainly one of the most beautiful experiences for opera enthusiasts to take a boat through evening Venice almost to the opera house and to be a guest there in the venerable Teatro La Fenice. The 33 members of the Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin experienced Giuseppe Verdi's LA TRAVIATA (staged by Robert Carsen) at the legendary Teatro La Fenice in Venice on the 20th anniversary of the opera house's reconstruction. It was a bit uncertain whether the OTELLO evening would take place, as the premiere had already been cancelled in Venice due to a strike by the orchestra members. But the members of the support group were lucky and also experienced the last production of the current artistic director Fortunato Ortombina, who will take up his official post at the Teatro alla Scala in a few days. With glorious weather and a pre-Christmas atmosphere, Venice truly presented itself as La Serenissima to the 33 members of the support group!
Viva la cultura et la vita
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Experience more together

We love opera!

Whether annual stage dinner, mountain festival, joint trip and other events: The Förderkreis lives its community of cultural enthusiasts and opera fans.
Mitglieder des Förderkreises beim Bühnendinner 2023 im Bühnenbild von Madama Butterfly.
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Stroll around at the opera!

The invitation of the Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper to the first Wandel Oper! was taken up by 125 guests. The new format to kick off the 24/25 season took guests to hidden places in the opera house after a dinner together, where musical surprises awaited them. Current and former scholarship holders performed there, along with the students of the orchestra academy, who are also supported by the Förderkreis's Talent Circle: they performed in the props of the FLEDERMAUS, at the SLEEPING BEAUTY gate or on the opened barber's cart from IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. The guests, who experienced the evening divided into three groups, were thrilled and hope for the next Wandel Oper in 2025!
Stroll around at the opera!
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Your contact person

Silke Alsweiler-Lösch

Would you like to become a member of the Förderkreis? Silke Alsweiler-Lösch will be happy to advise you and will find the most convenient form of membership together with you: be it friend, sponsor, patron or corporate partner ... Are you already a member of the Förderkreis and have suggestions, questions or wishes regarding your membership? Then please get in touch with us at the office of the Friends on +49 (0)30 343 84 240 or by e-mail.
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"The stone guest at the castle..."

It could hardly be more impressive! The rake Don Giovanni (DON GIOVANNI, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) and the megalomaniac Nabucco (NABUCCO, Giuseppe Verdi) wreak havoc in Olavinlinna Castle, built in 1472 in the middle of the Finnish lake district - a musical and theatrical delight, especially thanks to the powerful-voiced Mika Kares, who thrilled audiences as both the Commendatore and Zaccaria. A group of more than 30 members of the Friends travelled through Finland for five days, visiting the house of Jean Sibelius and the largest museum of mechanical musical instruments. The highlight was the Savonlinna Opera Festival, which was held in 1912 and is one of the oldest opera festivals in the world - and today welcomes more than 60,000 guests every year. Kiitos, se oli erittäin mukavaa!
"The stone guest at the castle..."
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Together for the future

"Scenes from a marriage": At the mountain festival for "Intermezzo"

More than 120 guests enjoyed this first exclusive preview of INTERMEZZO (premiere on 25 April 2024) - and enjoyed a lively exchange with those involved in the production - directors, costume designers and singers - and took a curious and enthusiastic look at the first excerpts from the production. The interviews with director Tobias Kratzer and set and costume designer Rainer Sellmaier, conducted by dramaturge Jörg Königsdorf, revealed the comedic power and topicality of the work's subject matter and how exciting it is musically too. Many of the guests are looking forward to the première.
"Scenes from a marriage": At the mountain festival for "Intermezzo"
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Rendez Vous À Genève - A Visit to Switzerland

The Supporters' Circle of the Deutsche Oper Berlin enjoyed a very varied programme in Switzerland. After a brilliant LUSTIGEN WITWE (Franz Lehár) in a production by Barrie Kosky, the 32 supporters then attended the premiere of IDOMENEO (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) in Geneva, staged by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. On the occasion of this new production, the members met the designated artistic director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dr Aviel Cahn, who spoke with the members about initial ideas and visions for his time in Berlin. The trip to Switzerland was inspiring and eventful for everyone. See you again! Why don't you travel with us too - we look forward to seeing you!
Rendez Vous À Genève - A Visit to Switzerland
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Together for the future

A special kind of get-to-know-you concert

To kick off the 2022 / 2023 season, some of the new scholarship holders introduced themselves to the members of the Talent Circle. In keeping with this commitment of a "musical" family, the Circle met privately for music and a French aperitif. In this way, supporters and recipients got to know each other personally. The Talent Circle currently supports six scholarship holders plus, for the first time, a répétiteur who also supports the young singers as a scholarship holder. In addition, the Talent Circle has now taken over the sponsorship of 15 academy students.
About the Talent Circle
Experiencing more together

The Förderkreis at Landpartie

For the start of the 2022 / 2023 season, the Friends and Patrons of the Deutsche Oper Berlin invited everyone to a tour of the most beautiful private gardens on the banks of the Havel. More than 60 members took up the invitation and enjoyed the reunion after the summer break and let Intendant Dietmar Schwarz put them in the mood for the new season - among others, Dr. Klaus von Krosigk, former Director of Horticulture at the Berlin State Monuments Office, who guided them through the gardens, Intendant Dietmar Schwarz and Dr. Kilian Jay von Seldeneck, André Schmitz and Dr. Heike Maria von Joest from the board of the Friends.
The Förderkreis at Landpartie
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"Un bel di vedremo" - The Stage Festival 2023

After a four-year break, the Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin celebrates a glittering party and raises more than €34,000 for the promotion of young talent ... "Un bel di vedremo" - this was the title of the invitation to the Stage Festival 23 in reference to Madama Butterfly's longing wait. And they met again - after a four-year break, more than 110 guests, singers and members of the Förderkreis were finally able to celebrate on the Deutsche Oper stage again following the performance of MADAMA BUTTERFLY and look optimistically to the future.
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Fellow of the 2024-2025 Talent Circle

Chance Jonas-O'Toole

Tenor Chance Jonas-O'Toole joined the Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble as a scholarship holder of the Opera Foundation New York in the 2023/24 season and will continue to do so in the 2024/25 season as a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Oper Berlin Talent Circle. In the current season, he will appear in, among others, THE TALE OF THE MAGIC FLUTE, THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN, DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER, DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN, DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG, IL VIAGGIO A REIMS, LA FIAMMA or THE QUEEN OF SPADES.
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27, 30 December 2024; 2, 6 January 2025

Il viaggio a Reims

The curtain rose on Rossini's coronation opera IL VIAGGIO A REIMS for the first time on June 15, 2018, with the kind support of the Förderkreis. Since then, this wonderful piece of absurd theater, staged by Jan Bosse as a satire about “Hospital Europe”, has been delighting audiences. The fact that numerous former and current scholarship holders - including Lilit Davtyan, Hye-Young Moon, Hulkar Sabirova, Artur Garbas, Philipp Jekal, Kyle Miller, Chance Jonas-O'Toole and Alexandra Oomens - are also enriching the ensemble this season will hopefully make this evening a highly interesting and amusing occasion for you to come back to our theater around the turn of the year!
Il viaggio a Reims
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Talent Circle

Promoting young talent has been a top priority for the Förderkreis for decades

For years, its financial contributions have enabled young singers to launch their careers and help Deutsche Oper Berlin to maintain its first-class ensemble. With the newly founded Talent Circle project, the Förderkreis also wants to build up a circle of supporters who not only financially support young musical talent, but also become a circle of personal mentors. In addition to singers, the promotion of young talent will now also extend to a répétiteur position as well as instrumentalists.
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Production funding

With the financial aid of the Förderkreis, ambitious productions can be realised.

The best examples of the Förderkreis's sustained commitment are outstanding opera productions such as A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by Ted Huffman, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN by Stefan Herheim, DER SCHATZGRÄBER by Christof Loy or now, for the season finale DIE MEISTERSINGER directed by Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito and Anna Viebrock. But also "perennial favourites" such as Mozart's DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, which has been successfully performed in Günter Krämer's production season after season for over 20 years, were created with the kind support of Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin e. V.
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Götz Friedrich Prize

Promoting young talent is now even more important to the Förderkreis

For more than twenty years, the Götz Friedrich Prize has been one of the most important institutions for promoting outstanding talent in the field of musical theatre directing - prize-winners such as Stefan Herheim, Nadja Loschky and Sebastian Baumgarten may be mentioned here as representatives. For the 2022/23 season, the directing prize for the best production work, endowed with 5,000 euros, and a studio prize, endowed with 2,500 euros, will again be awarded. After being hosted by the German-speaking Opera Conference in previous years, the Götz Friedrich Prize now returns to Deutsche Oper Berlin, the main venue of its dedicatee. From now on, the Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin will provide organisational support for the organisation of the prize.
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Former scholarship holder, now ensemble soloist

Favourites ... with Patrick Guetti

"Solche hergelaufne Laffen" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart´s THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO, sung by the bass-baritone and scholarship holder of the Förderkreis in the 2019/20 season Patrick Guetti, accompanied by Maxime Perrin. With the season 2020/21 Patrick Guetti changes to our ensemble.
Listen to Patrick Guetti
Former scholarship holder, now ensemble soloist

Favourites ... with Flurina Stucki

Welcome to "Klänge der Heimat" from Johann Strauss' operetta DIE FLEDERMAUS - with soprano Flurina Stucki, scholarship holder of the Förderkreis in the 2018/19 season, and John Parr on piano as well as a short introduction by Jörg Königsdorf.
Listen to Flurina Stucki
Former scholarship holder, now ensemble soloist

Favourites ... with Samuel Dale Johnson

Listen to ensemble soloist and baritone Samuel Dale Johnson with "Kogda bi zhizn" from Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky's EUGEN ONEGIN, accompanied by Tilman Wildt on the piano and with an introduction by dramaturg Lars Gebhardt.
Listen to Samuel Dale Johnson
Marie-Ève Signeyrole is staging

Giuseppe Verdi: „Macbeth“

Verdi set Shakespeare's drama to music for the first time in 1847 with MACBETH. Although he was involved with him throughout his life, it was only in his old age that he turned to other dramas by the English national poet. By contrast, the setting of this dark story of mysterious prophecies and bloody power struggles in the Scottish royal house falls into that enormously productive decade that the composer himself described as his ‘galley years’ ... Under the direction of Enrique Mazzola, Roman Burdenko / Thomas Lehman, Marko Mimica / Byung Gil Kim, Anastasia Bartoli / Felicia Moore and Attilio Glaser / Andrei Danilov, among others, will sing and play.
Opening night on 23 November 2024
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As an active member you will be able to provide financial and intangible assistance to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, for instance by supporting unique productions, promoting the development of young artists by means of stipends or helping to fund individual projects of exceptional value.
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The Board

At its last general meeting on 15 April 2024, Dr Heike Maria von Joest was elected Chair of the Förderkreis. The previous Chair of the Board, Dr Kilian Jay von Seldeneck, has taken over as Deputy Chair together with Dr Philipp Semmer. Klaus Siegers will once again take on the role of treasurer. The other members are Prof Dr Axel Fischer, Sophie Princess of Prussia, Theodora Schnauck-Betow and Dietmar Schwarz.
The board

Contact

Silke Alsweiler-Lösch (Head of Admin) Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Richard-Wagner-Straße 10, 10585 Berlin Tel.: +49 [0]30-343 84-240 / Fax -686 Bank details: IBAN DE64 1012 0100 1004 0720 59 BIC (SWIFT-CODE): WELADED1WBB
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DEC

Adventskalender im Foyer: Das 12. Fensterchen

Today in the foyer: ‘The Snow Queen’ as a live audio play
A reading with Burkhard Ulrich and Fanny Frohnmeyer, with Lukas Zeuner on the drums
5:00 p.m. / Parkettfoyer
Duration: approx. 25 minutes / Free admission


‘Behold! Now we begin. When we reach the end of the story, we will know more than we do now, because it was an evil goblin! It was one of the very worst, it was the devil! One day he was in a good mood because he had made a mirror that had the property of making everything good and beautiful reflected in it shrink to almost nothing, but what was no good and looked bad was emphasised and became even worse. The most magnificent landscapes looked like overcooked spinach in it, and the best people became disgusting or stood on their heads without a torso,’ so begins the fairy tale “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen.

By an unfortunate accident, a splinter of this evil magic mirror jumps into Kay's heart , whereupon he suddenly finds life in his small town quite awful and lets himself be taken by the nasty Snow Queen to the far north. But Kay's friend Gerda sets out to save her best friend. With the help of a crow and a reindeer, she eventually finds her way to the cold north of Lapland and, with the true power of friendship and laughter, she is able to free Kay from the clutches of the Snow Queen.

Today, in the foyer, the tenor Burkhard Ulrich and the director of our Junge Deutsche Oper Fanny Frohnmeyer read this touching and wonderful fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen for all fairy tale fans, old and young! And our percussionist Lukas Zeuner provides the sound for the story with marimbas, a xylophone and all kinds of rhythm and sound instruments. And all this live and very close to the audience, next to the large fir tree in the parquet foyer.