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© Foto: Maximilian Semlinger / Artwork: Laura Buechner
Julia is ready to break the law imposed upon her and allows her beloved Licinius to come to the place where she is supposed to guard a fire by night. The vestal, a priestess of the goddess Vesta, thus defies the “holy law” and the High Priest as its guardian.... moreabout: La Vestale
© The Dames
In a triptych performance, The Dames and their three guests take the audience on a musical voyage from femininity to masculinity, through spirituality. Prepare for a ritualistic gathering, weaving glamour, grit, and heart into a single unforgettable spectacle.... moreabout: Voyage de Genre: Transition in Three Movements
© 2025, Marcus Lieberenz
Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo intertwines family tragedy and historical panorama. This grand opera premiered in 1867 and was repeatedly reworked in the following decades. In the four-act Italian version, the abysses of Spanish absolutism open up even more... moreabout: Don Carlo
© Jan Windszus Photography
A storm is brewing! Lear, the stunning masterpiece opera by Aribert Reimann, is returning to the Komische Oper Berlin, where this monumental tale of an ageing king was previously staged by Harry Kupfer and Hans Neuenfels. At Tempelhof Airport, Barrie... moreabout: Lear
© 2023, Bettina Stöß
A clown whose laughter catches in his throat, a ruthless lover, a hitman with a warm voice: In Rigoletto, Verdi assembles bawdy farce, profound character studies and overwhelming emotion into a dazzling grotesque about power and vulnerability. The opera... moreabout: Rigoletto
© 2023, Bettina Stöß
What is worth living and dying for – love, art, freedom? This question lies at the heart of Tosca, uniquely blending musical brilliance with a gripping plot and historical events with archetypes of the operatic stage. Throughout a single fateful night,... moreabout: Tosca
© Monika Rittershaus
Barrie Kosky’s mystical and visually striking production sweeps the audience into the enigmatic world of fairy tales – and in doing so tells us more about our times than you’d think. Tsar Dodon is plagued by worries, with his kingdom threatened by enemies... moreabout: The Golden Cockerel
© Foto: Maximilian Semlinger / Artwork: Laura Buechner
This opera is a masterpiece of the Venetian Baroque by one of its most prominent composers. Written and brought to the stage for the first time almost precisely in the middle of the seventeenth century, Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto is characterized... moreabout: La Calisto
© Maxim Gorki Theater - 2026
»Cassandra syndrome, the experience of having one's legitimate concerns disbelieved and rejected, leading to psychological distress and suffering, seems to me a shared experience and a condition of our time. Every day, entire communities are confronted... moreabout: Cassandra
© 2024, Bettina Stöß
If he were to approve this play, he might as well tear down the Bastille – so said King Louis XVI when he was presented with Le mariage de Figaro by the Enlightenment thinker Beaumarchais. Prophetic words just a few years before the French Revolution.... moreabout: Le nozze di Figaro
© 2023, Bettina Stöß
Oscar Wilde’s drama about the biblical princess who has the prophet Jochanaan beheaded so she can kiss his dead mouth unfolds a tableau of human depravity: From murder and necrophilia to sexualised violence, one shocking moment follows another. But it... moreabout: Salome
© Bernd Uhlig
A group of people meet a concert grand piano on an empty stage, a note is struck, and slowly a world of fantasy, longing and intoxication unfolds, captivating everyone and causing them to merge into a community. This is how DAS RHEINGOLD begins, directed... moreabout: Der Ring des Nibelungen – Das Rheingold
© Jörn Hartmann
Edith Schröder hat 2026 gründlichst abgehakt und begrüßt hoffnungsfroh das neue Jahr mit einer glamourösen Silvesterrevue. Mit dabei sind Ediths allerbeste Freundinnen, Leggingsboutique-Biggy und Kneipenwirtin Jutta Hartmann, sowie der allen drei Grazien... moreabout: Die Ades Zabel Company: Silvester 2026 – mit Edith ins neue Jahr
© Monika Rittershaus
Bored by her passionless marriage to the drab musician Orpheus, Eurydice prefers to amuse herself with Pluto, the lord of the underworld, and is—quite unlike her mythological model—more than happy to let herself be carried off to the realm of the dead.... moreabout: Orpheus in the Underworld
© 2023, Bettina Stöß
E. T. A. Hoffmann called Don Giovanni «the opera of all operas.» The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard even included the piece in his major work, where the title character is described as „the incarnation of the genius of all that is sensual.” Don Giovanni... moreabout: Don Giovanni
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