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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Benjamin Britten – 26 January 2020 [Premiere]
Benjamin Britten set Shakespeare's masterpiece to music, playing it lightly and wittily with reminiscences of opera history. With James Hall, Siobhan Stagg, Jami Reid-Quarrell, Padraic Rowan, Annika Schlicht, Gideon Poppe, Samuel Dale Johnson, Karis Tucker, Jeanine De Bique, James Platt et al.
The Business of Dreaming
Alexandra Filonenko – 30 January 2020 [Premiere at the Tischlerei]
Ingeborg Bachmann's EIN GESCHÄFT MIT TRÄUMEN is still highly topical seventy years after the Second World War. Director Anna von Gehren and composer Alexandra Filonenko have reworked the material for the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Les Huguenots
Giacomo Meyerbeer – 2 February 2020
In his grand opéra LES HUGUENOTS depicting the events of the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre in 1572, Meyerbeer shows how a catastrophe can develop from seemingly innocuous prejudices and squabbles and spiral out of control. … With Liv Redpath, Seth Carico / Derek Welton, Dimitris Tiliakos, Olesya Golovneva, Irene Roberts, Anton Rositskiy, Andrew Harris / Ante Jerkunica et al
The Abduction from the Seraglio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – 7 February 2020
This production by the Argentinian Rodrigo García reveals a Mozart full of contradictions. The songs assume comic-strip form and the abduction becomes a journey to a witty, anarchical world ... With Annabelle Mandeng, Flurina Stucki, Alexandra Hutton, Matthew Newlin, Ya-Chung Huang, Patrick Guetti et al.
The Magic Flute
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – 8 February 2020
Mozart's MAGIC FLUTE is the most frequently performed opera in the German-speaking world. This variegated masterpiece straddling Viennese popular theatre, fairytale, myth and the mystery of freemasonry is a puzzle even today ... With Ante Jerkunica, Andrei Danilov, Aleksandra Jovanovic, Siobhan Stagg, Simon Pauly, Meechot Marrero et al.
Le Prophète
Giacomo Meyerbeer – 23 February 2020
Meyerbeer’s grand opéra depicting the real-life Anabaptist ‘king’ Jean de Leyde is at once meticulously thought-through theatre of ideas and an historical panorama wise to the psychology of crowds, a tale of political radicalisation as private and public catastrophe ... With Gregory Kunde, Clémentine Margaine, Elena Tsallagova, Derek Welton, Gideon Poppe, Thomas Lehman, Seth Carico et al.
Performances
Schedule
From 2 February to 8 March 2020
Best of Meyerbeer
Our current cycle is without international precedent: we have been fostering a Meyerbeer revival, savouring along with our audiences a string of musical masterpieces and rediscovering a narrator whose stories are as relevant today as they have ever been. Berlin’s greatest composer is now firmly re-ensconced in his home city and we hope our love of Meyerbeer’s works proves contagious.
New in our Blog – Performances from 7 February 2020
A place of serenity for my soul … Annabelle Mandeng
Annabelle Mandeng is an actor and compere. In Mozart’s THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO she sings the role of Bassa Selim. Here she relates how a basketball came to feature on the opera stage.
Our video highlights
Video — 1:59 min / Premiere on 26 January
A Midsummer Night's Dream ... A short introduction
Video - 1:40 min / About Pamina, elves and Berlin
100 seconds with Siobhan Stagg
Video – 02.18 min / Premiere on 26 January
In a rehearsal to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Video — 2:21 min / Back on stage from 2 February
Les Huguenots
New in our Blog – Performances from 26 January 2020
Ted Huffman ... A place of serenity for my soul
Director Ted Huffman is currently staging Benjamin Britten’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. Provincetown on Cape Cod, USA, reminds him of woodland, elves and fairies
New in our schedule – Song recital on 27 January 2020
Prizewinner's concert: Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition
Songs by Schubert, Strauss, Korngold, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov will be presented by the winner of this year's International Helmut Deutsch-Liedwettbewerb, Erika Baikoff (1994). The US soprano with Russian roots will be accompanied by one of the most famous pianists of our time, Helmut Deutsch.
Released on DVD
“Das Wunder der Heliane – Heliane’s Miracle”
The new production last year of “Heliane’s Miracle”, Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s neglected masterpiece, was not only a hit with Berliners and an international clientele of operagoers. In a poll of critics in “Opernwelt” the production was voted “Revival of the Year”, with “Heliane” or its singers being backed by critics in no less than eight other categories.
12, 17, 25, 31 January 2020
Leos Janacek: Jenufa
Benjamin Britten – 26 January 2020
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Opera in three acts; Libretto by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears after William Shakespeare's Comedy; Conductor: Donald Runnicles; Director: Ted Huffman; With James Hall, Siobhan Stagg, Gideon Poppe, Samuel Dale Johnson, Karis Tucker, Jeanine De Bique, James Platt, Jami Reid-Quarrell et al.
Premiere at the Tischlerei on 30 January 2020
The Business of Dreaming
Recordings of Bachmann's original audio drama (1952) blend with the new music by Alexandra Filonenko. What was originally theatre designed for the ears becomes a live, staged audio play. Director: Anna von Gehren; With Pia Davila, Daniel Gloger, Silke Lange, Ruth Velten, So-Hee Kim.