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After the great success of Gisela, Hit of the Trade Fair, director Axel Ranisch is once again reviving East Germany’s ‘light-hearted music theatre’ at the Komische Oper! For twenty years, the variety show Ein Kessel Buntes (‘A Cauldron of Colours’) was... moreabout: Mocha Hits and Milk Bar Dreams
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Manon Lescaut enjoys the admiration of men who pine for her. Her brother pursues their father’s plan to protect her from the men in a convent. The affluent Geronte wants to entice her to his world, but she grants her love to the young Des Grieux and escapes... moreabout: Manon Lescaut
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Nach den Erfolgsproduktionen ICH WEISS NICHT ZU WEM ICH GEHÖRE und DER VORNAME spielt Roberto Guerra wieder am Renaissance Theater. Er erzählt die fantastische Legende vom Ozeanpianisten „Novecento“ von Alessandro Barrico: Eine Geschichte über Freundschaft... moreabout: NOVECENTO – die Legende vom Ozeanpianisten von Alessandro Baricco
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Having achieved world fame with Hänsel und Gretel, in his next fairy tale opera Königskinder the composer Engelbert Humperdinck once again confirmed his artistry. Originally conceived as a melodrama, he reworked the story into a large-scale opera that... moreabout: Königskinder
© 2023, Marcus Lieberenz
This oratorio tells the story of the last days in the life of Jesus Christ. Exactly three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach set the Gospel text to music: The premiere was held on Good Friday in 1727. Benedikt von Peter’s production takes the inherent... moreabout: St Matthew Passion
© 2022, Bettina Stöß
At its premiere in Turin in 1896, La bohème was met with scepticism. Only after further performances in several Italian cities did it achieve the success that quickly brought Puccini and his librettist international fame. With their first collaboration,... moreabout: La bohème
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Dagmar Manzel was already a star when she was playing one great role after another at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. But it was only when she joined forces with Barrie Kosky at the Komische Oper, in works such as Kiss Me, Kate, Ball im Savoy, The Pearls... moreabout: Cast a Diva
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Kult im BKA: Edith Schröder hat 2026 gründlichst abgehakt und feiert hoffnungsfroh ins neue Jahr hinein. Mit dabei sind ihre besten Freundinnen, Leggingsboutique-Biggy und Kneipenwirtin Jutta Hartmann, sowie der allen drei Grazien nachsteigende Hinterhof-Charmeur... moreabout: Die Ades Zabel Company: Hallo 2027 – mit Edith ins neue Jahr!
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We have two Herberts stirring up three hours of theatrical madness: with Herbert Grönemeyer’s music and Herbert Fritsch’s direction, Eugène Labiche’s farce of mistaken identity becomes a merciless attack on the audience’s funny bone. Here, it’s really... moreabout: Horse Eats Hat
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In their music theatre piece FINITE, composer Asia Ahmetjanova and director Franziska Angerer meditate on our relationship to death and how we deal with our own decay. In poetic images, a communal ritual emerges between mythology and performance, which... moreabout: FINITE
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Andrea Breth’s gorgeous production of Madama Butterfly, following its runs in Aix-en-Provence and Lyon, now comes to the Komische Oper Berlin – and is sure to move audiences to tears. There’s good reason why Puccini described his masterpiece as ‘the most... moreabout: Madama Butterfly
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What an opera, with its monumental archaic choral tableaux, its impressionistic soundscapes, its ecstatic rapture! For anyone experiencing Karol Szymanowski’s King Roger for the first time, it’s a mystery why this work is so rarely performed. Considered... moreabout: King Roger
© 2015, Bettina Stöß
Sounds like those Richard Strauss unleashed in Elektra with a gigantic orchestra were unprecedented until the opera’s premiere in 1909. And the radicalism and expressive ferocity of Elektra have lost none of their power to this day. The archaic subject... moreabout: Elektra
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Porgy and Bess finally returns to Berlin! Barrie Kosky offers a powerful new perspective on this timeless masterpiece about the life of a Black community. With his exacting direction, he turns a spotlight on the beauty and depth of human existence: at... moreabout: Porgy and Bess
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The surprise hit of Deutsche Oper Berlin for the past few seasons: Completed almost ten years before the Second World War, the only opera by Danish composer Rued Langgaard oracularly foreshadows an approaching apocalypse. Antikrist is a unique work in... moreabout: Antikrist
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