Deutsche Oper Berlin - Aida
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
“Amore, sommissione, dolcezza” were the words used by Verdi to describe his eponymous heroine Aida, an epitome of love, docility and tenderness. ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Rigoletto
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
“From a purely theatrical point of view I consider “Rigoletto“ to be the best story that I've set to music so far […]. It has really powerful ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Lohengrin
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Election campaign in Brabant - Kasper Holten stages Wagner's LOHENGRIN as a timeless political power play in times of increasingly important media, ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Die Zauberflöte
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Prince Tamino is menaced by a wild dragon. At the last moment he is saved by three mysterious women, who have been sent by the Queen of the Night. ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Tannhäuser
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Tannhäuser longs to return from the realm of Venus to his terrestrial existence. Only by invoking the Virgin Mary does he manage to escape from the ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Francesca Da Rimini
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
In 2018 Christof Loy collaborated with Marc Albrecht (conducting) and Sara Jakubiak (in the title role) to stage Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s THE ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Carmen
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Georges Bizet’s CARMEN was a deliberate and direct affront to the Romantic operatic tradition. The fiercely independent spirit of the eponymous ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Tristan Und Isolde
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Betrayal, lost honour, guilt and atonement, passionate, transcendental love, a yearning for death and forgetting… the story of Tristan and Isolde, ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Tosca
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Puccini's “Torture Opera“, as Oskar Bie dubbed it, was based on LA TOSCA, the well received play by Victorien Sardou [1831–1908], which ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Simon Boccanegra
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
For Verdi, writing opera meant adopting a stance towards the world. It meant getting involved, speaking out and exploring political issues onstage. ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Fedora
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Le Nozze Di Figaro
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Figaro and Susanna, servants at the court of Duke Almaviva, intend to marry. They are about to set up house in the quarters allotted to them in the ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Andrea Chénier
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Andrea Chénier
Umberto Giordano (1867 – 1948)
Opera in 4 acts by Umberto Giordano
Libretto by Luigi Illica
First performed on 28th March, ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Hänsel Und Gretel
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Hansel and Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 – 1921)
Opera by Engelbert Humperdinck
Libretto by Adelheid Wette
First performed on 23rd ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Madama Butterfly
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Deutsche Oper Berlin Die Fledermaus
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
“Blame it on the champagne, tra la la la la !” That’s the half-truth that the protagonists in Johann Strauss’s THE BAT sign up to at the end ...
Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (der Barbier Von Sevilla)
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
This turbulent tale has an aged curmudgeon intent on marrying his own ward in order to get his hands on her inheritance. He does everything he can to ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Don Carlo
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Don Carlo,
Giuseppe Verdi
Opera in four acts;
Libretto by Joesph Méry and Camille Du Locle, based on the tragedy by Friedrich Schiller;
First ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Der Fliegende Holländer
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
The Dutchman is a cursed man, a driven man, an outsider. Richard Wagner encountered this stateless figure in the pages of Heinrich Heine, who ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - La Traviata
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Violetta Valery is kept in luxury by her admirer Baron Douphol. Seemingly recovered from a serious illness, she hosts a glittering party at which she ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Violanta
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Der Schatzgräber
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
At the Deutsche Oper Berlin Christof Loy already has a reputation as a comeback agent for little-known early-20th-century operas, having staged ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Turandot
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Society lives in terror of a Princess. Turandot, the fascinating and beautiful representative of a ruling dynasty, presides over the cruelty. ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - L'italiana In Algeri
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Parsifal
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Richard Wagner's PARSIFAL tells the story of a “pure-hearted fool“, who is unaware of his vocation and true nature. Parsifal is caught between ...