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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
© Maria Frodl
Sehnen Sie sich auch manchmal zurück nach der Zeit, als die Zukunft ausschließlich gut war und die Vergangenheit schwarzweiß? Als Mama die schönsten Schlager der 50er und 60er Jahre von Caterina, Vico, Conny und Peter mitsang? Als man von Fernando, Alfredo... moreabout: Weihnachts-Schlagertherapie
© Ronny Zeisberg
Frack & Spitzenhöschen – the Green Fairy whisks you away on a wild adventure combining theatre, variety and burlesque. Magical, nonsensical and... adult. Welcome to Frack & Spitzenhöschen – where the Green Fairy persuades theatre, variety and musical... moreabout: Frack & Spitzenhöschen #18
© 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
© 2022, Thomas Aurin
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
© 2023, Bettina Stöß
With La forza del destino, Verdi broke new ground in the 1860s. The title itself refers to this paradigm shift, as it does not refer to the name of a character or a historical event, but rather evokes the universal concept of the «power of fate». Accordingly,... moreabout: La forza del destino
© Jörg Metzner
Rob-Rob-Robin Hood! Wer war der meisterhafte Bogenschütze, Kämpfer für die Armen und Albtraum für die Reichen? Gab es den einen Robin Hood? Oder ist es vielmehr die Idee von Utopie, Hoffnung und Widerstand gegen eine korrupte herrschende Klasse, die sich... moreabout: Robin Hood
© Monika Rittershaus
Handel’s music can move you to the core, all the more so when staged as movingly and convincingly as in Barrie Kosky’s production of Semele. He brings the Greek gods of Handel’s oratorio astonishingly close, showing them entangled in the very rules they... moreabout: Semele
© 2024, Thomas Aurin
A contemporary and topical opera for our time: When US President Richard Nixon lands on Chinese soil one foggy February morning in 1972, the world holds its collective breath. After decades of silence, the rival powers are starting to come together. A... moreabout: Nixon in China
© 2021, Bettina Stöß
Anyone in Seville who needs help goes to Figaro – the barber has a solution for every problem, because he knows everyone in the city, is well-informed about all the gossip and many owe him a favour. This time, he is to help Count Almaviva free Rosina,... moreabout: Il barbiere di Siviglia
© 2023, Bettina Stöß
In times when the world seems complicated and the economic situation is dire, the longing for someone who supposedly offers simple solutions to difficult problems becomes overwhelming. The 20th century provides ample evidence of this, and the present... moreabout: Lohengrin
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Aladin – das Musical Über den Mut, das eigene Schicksal zu ändern: Im Musical-Highlight „Aladin“ taucht das Publikum ein in eine Welt voller Abenteuer und Magie. Eigens komponierte Musicalhits, jede Menge Spannung und noch mehr Humor versprechen beste... moreabout: Aladin – Das Musical
© 2015, Bettina Stöß Bettina Stöß
The Chinese princess Turandot refuses marriage and demonstrates this with a gruesome ritual: Every suitor who fails to solve her three riddles is beheaded. This brutal cycle continues until Calaf breaks it. With his last, unfinished opera, Turandot, Giacomo... moreabout: Turandot
© 2013, Bernd Uhlig
Undoubtedly one of the most famous melodies in operatic history is the popular prisoners’ chorus «Va pensiero,» from Nabucco, which in Verdi’s time was even considered the unofficial national anthem of Italy. Beyond this, however, it was also Verdi’s... moreabout: Nabucco
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