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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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Peter, the Duck, Grandfather, the Bird, the Cat, the Wolf, and the Hunters: each with a unique personality, they all have important parts in the story. With his courage and compassion for all living creatures, the young Peter manages to outsmart the dangerous... moreabout: Peter and the Wolf
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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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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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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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In Serebrennikov’s production as in Sorokin’s text, the blizzard is the main character. It has many voices, most of which are female. It leads the way, sometimes into temptation. It scolds, dances and sings; it withdraws into silence; and it raises momentous... moreabout: The Blizzard
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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
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»I will take revenge on the world with love.« Sergey Paradjanov Legend tells us about the world of the famous film director Sergey Paradjanov, who remains practically unknown in the West. His works, which have been referenced by Lady Gaga among others,... moreabout: Legend
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Barrie Kosky’s The Magic Flute transports us into its own world of fantasy images. Tamino falls in love with a portrait of Pamina and sets out to rescue her. moreabout: The Magic Flute
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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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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
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With this grand musical on the stage of the Schiller Theatre, director Barrie Kosky reveals himself to be a master of the macabre. An equally dark and delightfully chilling thriller by Stephen Sondheim about the bloody revenge inflicted by the legendary... moreabout: Sweeney Todd
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Violetta Valéry sells her time and body to clients both near and far. Her life as a Parisian courtesan provides her with every luxury. But when she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, her world is shattered in an instant… With La Traviata, or ‘the... moreabout: La traviata
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ProgramLEONARD BERNSTEIN [1918–1990]Three Dance Episodes from On the Town KRIS BOWERS [*1989]For a Younger Self, concerto for violin and orchestra JOAN TOWER [*1938]Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, No. 1 AARON COPLAND [1900–1990]Symphony No. 3 Join... moreabout: ONLY IN AMERICA
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In this beloved piece, Benjamin Britten introduces us to the orchestra and all its instruments. We meet them as a variety of animals: sometimes chirping and nimble like a bird, sometimes deep and heavy like an elephant, sometimes gliding and shiny like... moreabout: Instrument Atlas
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