The story presents us with a pretend rendezvous, a husband disguised as a spy and a collective ghost staged in a park at night. Falstaff is the individualistic outsider stirring up the comfortable status quo with his otherness and inducing the bourgeoisie to act, to produce theatre, to be anarchical ... With Lucio Gallo (insted of Misha Kiria), Thomas Lehman, Mingjie Lei, Annette Dasch, Arianna Manganello, Annika Schlicht under the musical direction of Ivan Repušić.

For generations, Hans Christian Andersen's art fairy tale has been an integral part of children's bedrooms - and has inspired authors and composers. Now the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin is transformed into the icy-cold world of the Snow Queen: music-making flowers, a croaking clarinet, a tuba reindeer and the eerie synthesizer world of the Snow Queen are just some of the ingredients for this music theatre road movie by Samuel Penderbayne and Brigitte Dethier.

From the poverty of the broom-house, Hansel and Gretel come out into an enchanted forest that immediately transforms everything around them. Andreas Homoki tells the story in a child-oriented and straightforward way. Together with his outfitter Wolfgang Gussmann, he contrasts the opulence of the music with a lightness and a poetic imagery that reaches its magical climax especially in the night scenes in the forest. In full stage and costume design we invite you to this classic for the whole family during the Christmas season.

For 200 years Rossini’s BARBIERE has been held up as the epitome of musical comedy. The archetypes of commedia dell’arte are constantly shimmering through the storyline revolving around the resourceful Figaro – an ambiguity that is not lost in Katharina Thalbach’s vibrant and hectic production.

It is Christmas Eve at family Stahlbaum and Klara is presented with a beautiful nutcracker. But in the night her children's room turns into a battlefield where the battle between the Nutcracker and the Mouse King takes place. Experience the fairytale ballet in a shortened version, danced by the children and young people of the Kinder Ballett Kompanie Berlin.

Puccini‘s »Japanese tragedy« is more than simply one of the supremely emotional works of musical theatre; it is also unsparingly critical of imperialism as a system. 18-year-old Cio-Cio-San falls victim to a callous patriarchy and a chauvinism that runs rough-shod over the values of other cultures.

This TOSCA production is deserved of listed status after a performance history stretching back over half a century. Not that the atmospheric sets depicting the original locations in Rome - a timeless backdrop for great musical theatre - have lost any of their charm in over 400 performances of the work.