Blood-red sails, an undead crew and a cursed captain. The tale of the Flying Dutchman strikes fear into the heart of every seasoned sailor. Richard Wagner captures the spirit of the fabled Dutchman in a score as mysterious as it is monumental.
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One of the most radical and well-known musical theatre works of the 20th century returns to the stage of the Komische Oper Berlin in a new production by Barrie Kosky, under the musical direction of General Music Director Ainārs Rubiķis
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The Miracle of Heliane bears all the hallmarks of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s musical theatre - a huge score and orchestra, intoxicating pathos and exquisitely expressive harmonies that play with polytonality, resulting in a gripping and sensuous drama.
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Udo Jürgens war und ist mit nichts vergleichbar. Seine Lieder sind bis heute ein fortwährendes Versprechen auf ein besseres Leben. Udo war die menschgewordene Hoffnung, dass das Sein endlich auch Sinn haben möge. Ein Sein, ein Leben, das stets die ganz...
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Just in time for their 75th birthday, the Pfister Sisters are back, with Johann Strauss' The Bat — the work that opened the Komische Oper Berlin itself, under Walter Felsenstein, in 1947.
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Die Rache Der Fledermaus - Nach Die Fledermaus Von Johann Strauss - Premiere
William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, a late 19th-century French opera that is as poetic as it is grandiose, takes an intimate look into the inner turmoil of its main characters, Hamlet and Ophélie. Just two weeks after the king dies, the widow Gertrude...
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Mozart's "Così fan tutte" covers the whole emotional range of human relationships—and returns to the Komische Oper Berlin in a production by Kirill Serebrennikov! Two couples, an obscure call to the army and a dubious string-puller are the ingredients...
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Cosi fan tutte - Oper von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Premiere
After Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane, Christof Loy took on another rarity of the early 20th century for Deutsche Oper Berlin with Francesca da Rimini, which had its live stream premiere in spring 2021.
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The starting point of the experimental music theatre is Nastassja Martin's novel "Believing in the Wild": on a research trip in the Siberian wilderness, the anthropologist encounters a bear that bites her in the face and seriously injures her: This is...
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Enter Dagmar Manzel and Max Hopp. She plays: Manon Cavallini, the opera diva, Raoul Severac, her suitor, as well as the father of her daughter Lucy. He plays: this very same daughter, all five of Cavallini’s lovers, and on top of that, Lucy’s gallant.
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Eine Frau, Die Weiß, Was Sie Will! - Operette Von Oscar Straus - Wiederaufnahme
Grandiose joie de vivre comes together with a quest for meaning—Giuseppe Verdi’s last masterpiece, written when he was nearly 80, not only breathed new life into the genre of Italian opera-comedy, but spontaneously revolutionised the genre and brought...
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