Deutsche Oper Berlin - Fedora
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Umberto Giordano’s FEDORA swings between whodunnit and the world of political intrigue, at once a tragic love story and a riveting psychogram. The ...
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
It is the summer of 1789. A festivity is being prepared in the castle of Countess de Coigny. Charles Gérard, a servant of the Countess´ voices his ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Hänsel Und Gretel
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Hansel and Gretel, children of a poor broom maker and his wife, are sent into the woods one day by their mother to pick berries – as punishment for ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Madama Butterfly
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Lieutenant Pinkerton is attached to an American ship currently moored in Nagasaki harbour. He has been courting a 15-year-old geisha girl named ...
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 - 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 - Don Carlo
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
It is common knowledge that Giuseppe Verdi, by nature a critical man, not only found much to disapprove of in the trends of his day but also ...
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
With the world premiere of his one-act opera, VIOLANTA, the 18-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold shifted overnight from child prodigy to one of the ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Der Schatzgräber
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Director Christof Loy has already helped four little-known operas from the early 20th century make a successful comeback at the Deutsche Oper Berlin: ...
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 - 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 - Litaliana In Algeri
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Following on from Puccini’s LA RONDINE and Johann Strauss’s DIE FLEDERMAUS, Rolando Villazón returns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin to tackle one ...
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 - 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 ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
No other work reflects Puccini's search for new forms of musical theatre like his three-act trilogy IL TRITTICO, which premiered in 1918. In three ...
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 - Giulio Cesare In Egitto
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Moral outrage one moment, coquettish expediency the next. The intrigues of the powerful interwoven with the desperation of hapless refugees. When it ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - A Midsummer Night´s Dream
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Scarcely any other work of world literature breathes music in the same manner as William Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream”. Elves dance ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Das Rheingold
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Richard Wagner considered RHEINGOLD a “pre-evening“ to his stage play DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, a label that certainly deliberately refers to the ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Die Walküre
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
With the hegemony of the gods at its zenith at the close of THE RHINEGOLD and the gods ensconced in the castle of Valhalla, trouble is brewing in THE ...
Deutsche Oper Berlin - Der Ring Des Nibelungen - Siegfried
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
The two middle sections of the tetralogy set out two ways of experiencing life. On the one hand we are presented in THE VALKYRIE with Brünnhilde, ...