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May 2022
16:00
Guided Tour in English
Visit the Backstage and the Front of House areas of Berlins smallest opera house as it prepares to open its doors for the evening performance. The Backstage tours include an introduction to the colourful history of the theatre, an insight into the recent re-development of the Komische Oper Berlin and a look at aspects of current productions. As the Komische Oper Berlin is a fully working theatre, each tour is a unique experience, and may include opportunities to see the magnificent backstage technology in operation.
19:30
The Pearls of Cleopatra
Revival
Hallo, hier bin ick!! – National crisis for the Pharaoh-esse with the Berlin accent. Cleopatra’s got her hands full: drought, revolt at the palace, rebellions, and a shortage of men. When her mysterious pears come to the rescue, she’ll have the audience laughing until it hurts. »It’s pure joy to experience Manzel as the insulting female sovereign who has at least three temperaments: the power-conscious ruler, the wistful woman yearning for love, and the personality of her profusely drunken cat, Ingeborg. « [Der Tagesspiegel]
14:00
Führung für Familien
Visit the Backstage and the Front of House areas of Berlins smallest opera house as it prepares to open its doors for the evening performance. The Backstage tours include an introduction to the colourful history of the theatre, an insight into the recent re-development of the Komische Oper Berlin and a look at aspects of current productions. As the Komische Oper Berlin is a fully working theatre, each tour is a unique experience, and may include opportunities to see the magnificent backstage technology in operation.
16:00
Guided Tour
Visit the Backstage and the Front of House areas of Berlins smallest opera house as it prepares to open its doors for the evening performance. The Backstage tours include an introduction to the colourful history of the theatre, an insight into the recent re-development of the Komische Oper Berlin and a look at aspects of current productions. As the Komische Oper Berlin is a fully working theatre, each tour is a unique experience, and may include opportunities to see the magnificent backstage technology in operation.
19:30
Orpheus
Last time this season!
Orpheus“A performance of such rapturous, fantastic, colourful vitality that it snatches away the fog from your ears and eyes, and you experience nothing less than the birth of theatre.” [Die Zeit] Barrie Kosky’s powerful and colourful staging of – one of our most popular productions – begins as a boisterous festival of music and love in an Arcadian paradise. It goes on to tell the story of Orpheus' journey through the underworld as a voyage into himself.
16:00
Falstaff
Grandiose joie de vivre comes together with a quest for meaning—Giuseppe Verdi’s last masterpiece, written when he was nearly 80, not only breathed new life into the genre of Italian opera-comedy, but spontaneously revolutionised the genre and brought it into the 20th century. Exceptional baritone and »stage animal« Scott Hendricks returns to the Komische Oper Berlin in the title role, while audience favourite Günter Papendell makes his debut as the aggrieved husband, Ford.
21:00
Recital with Maria Bengtsson
Foyer
Von der Komischen Oper Berlin aus startete die schwedische Sopranistin Maria Bengtsson eine Karriere, die sie in den vergangenen Jahren an alle große Opernhäuser der Welt geführt hat. Nun kehrt sie für einen einmaligen Liederabend an die Komische Oper Berlin zurück!
19:30
The Pearls of Cleopatra
Hallo, hier bin ick!! – National crisis for the Pharaoh-esse with the Berlin accent. Cleopatra’s got her hands full: drought, revolt at the palace, rebellions, and a shortage of men. When her mysterious pears come to the rescue, she’ll have the audience laughing until it hurts. »It’s pure joy to experience Manzel as the insulting female sovereign who has at least three temperaments: the power-conscious ruler, the wistful woman yearning for love, and the personality of her profusely drunken cat, Ingeborg. « [Der Tagesspiegel]
19:30
La Belle Hélène
At the court of Sparta, Helena, known as the most beautiful woman in the world, is thoroughly bored at the side of her husband, King Menelaus, when suddenly a mysterious – and damnably attractive – shepherd appears and injects plenty of life back into this dull society. What other choice does Helen, a loyal servant of Venus, ultimately have than to lustfully submit to her fate?
11:00
Michael Ende's »Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver«
Micheal Ende’s world-famous children’s book will be transformed for the first time into a children’s opera! While adults might remember the television recordings from the Augsburger Puppenkiste marionette theatre, younger audience members will certainly think of the very popular live film version from 2018. After Snow White and the 77 Dwarves, composer Elena Kats-Chernin and librettist Susanne Felicitas Wolf devote their creative energies to the adventures of Jim Button, Luke and – last but not least! – the locomotive Emma.
20:00
The Magic Flute
Performance changed
Tamino in the belly of the dragon, the Queen of the Night as a giant spider, dancing constellations and flying butterfly boys – the fascination The Magic Flute exerts over both young and old audience members at the Komische Oper Berlin seems endless.
19:30
Falstaff
Grandiose joie de vivre comes together with a quest for meaning—Giuseppe Verdi’s last masterpiece, written when he was nearly 80, not only breathed new life into the genre of Italian opera-comedy, but spontaneously revolutionised the genre and brought it into the 20th century. Exceptional baritone and »stage animal« Scott Hendricks returns to the Komische Oper Berlin in the title role, while audience favourite Günter Papendell makes his debut as the aggrieved husband, Ford.
18:00
The Pearls of Cleopatra
Hallo, hier bin ick!! – National crisis for the Pharaoh-esse with the Berlin accent. Cleopatra’s got her hands full: drought, revolt at the palace, rebellions, and a shortage of men. When her mysterious pears come to the rescue, she’ll have the audience laughing until it hurts. »It’s pure joy to experience Manzel as the insulting female sovereign who has at least three temperaments: the power-conscious ruler, the wistful woman yearning for love, and the personality of her profusely drunken cat, Ingeborg. « [Der Tagesspiegel]
19:30
Salon of the Komische Oper Berlin and the Ernst Schering Stiftung
Wahrheit
Theory meets Entertainment; Art meets Scholarship. Whether in the foyer of the Komische Oper Berlin or on the web via Zoom and YouTube, these evening salon talks have become a permanent feature of our programme. Together with the Ernst Schering Foundation and supported by the Gegenbauer Group, in the 2021/22 season the Komische Oper Berlin will once again host four evening salon talks with renowned scholars on points of interest in both the academic world and the world of opera. As always, the varying dramaturgy of the discussions and thematically coordinated artistic interventions contribute to a playful, intimate atmosphere reminiscent of the salons of the 19th century.
June 2022
19:30
The »Gipsy« Baron
Revival
Seventy years after Walter Felsenstein's production of The Gypsy Baron, (the single production of this work in the history of the Komische Oper Berlin), director Tobias Kratzer, celebrated for his production of Tannhauser in Bayreuth, stages one of Strauss’s most famous operettas as a parable of the conflicts of today’s multicultural society. With Stefan Soltesz at the podium, he’ll be supported by an expert in the domain of Viennese operetta.
19:30
La Belle Hélène
Last time this season!
At the court of Sparta, Helena, known as the most beautiful woman in the world, is thoroughly bored at the side of her husband, King Menelaus, when suddenly a mysterious – and damnably attractive – shepherd appears and injects plenty of life back into this dull society. What other choice does Helen, a loyal servant of Venus, ultimately have than to lustfully submit to her fate?
19:00
Falstaff
Grandiose joie de vivre comes together with a quest for meaning—Giuseppe Verdi’s last masterpiece, written when he was nearly 80, not only breathed new life into the genre of Italian opera-comedy, but spontaneously revolutionised the genre and brought it into the 20th century. Exceptional baritone and »stage animal« Scott Hendricks returns to the Komische Oper Berlin in the title role, while audience favourite Günter Papendell makes his debut as the aggrieved husband, Ford.
19:00
The Pearls of Cleopatra
Hallo, hier bin ick!! – National crisis for the Pharaoh-esse with the Berlin accent. Cleopatra’s got her hands full: drought, revolt at the palace, rebellions, and a shortage of men. When her mysterious pears come to the rescue, she’ll have the audience laughing until it hurts. »It’s pure joy to experience Manzel as the insulting female sovereign who has at least three temperaments: the power-conscious ruler, the wistful woman yearning for love, and the personality of her profusely drunken cat, Ingeborg. « [Der Tagesspiegel]
19:30
Barrie Kosky's All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue
Premiere
In a brilliant finale to his ten-year directorship, Barrie Kosky presents a roaring revue, opening an entirely new chapter of Yiddish culture, still largely unknown to audiences. Under the musical direction of Adam Benzwi and with choreographer Otto Pichler, long-time companions such as Dagmar Manzel, Katharine Mehrling, Max Hopp, Helmut Baumann, the Geschwister Pfister and Ruth Brauer-Kvam, together with members of the Ensemble and a small dance troupe, celebrate love, music—and also, just a bit, the artist Barrie Kosky.
19:30
Falstaff
Grandiose joie de vivre comes together with a quest for meaning—Giuseppe Verdi’s last masterpiece, written when he was nearly 80, not only breathed new life into the genre of Italian opera-comedy, but spontaneously revolutionised the genre and brought it into the 20th century. Exceptional baritone and »stage animal« Scott Hendricks returns to the Komische Oper Berlin in the title role, while audience favourite Günter Papendell makes his debut as the aggrieved husband, Ford.
18:00
Barrie Kosky's All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue
In a brilliant finale to his ten-year directorship, Barrie Kosky presents a roaring revue, opening an entirely new chapter of Yiddish culture, still largely unknown to audiences. Under the musical direction of Adam Benzwi and with choreographer Otto Pichler, long-time companions such as Dagmar Manzel, Katharine Mehrling, Max Hopp, Helmut Baumann, the Geschwister Pfister and Ruth Brauer-Kvam, together with members of the Ensemble and a small dance troupe, celebrate love, music—and also, just a bit, the artist Barrie Kosky.
19:30
The »Gipsy« Baron
Seventy years after Walter Felsenstein's production of The Gypsy Baron, (the single production of this work in the history of the Komische Oper Berlin), director Tobias Kratzer, celebrated for his production of Tannhauser in Bayreuth, stages one of Strauss’s most famous operettas as a parable of the conflicts of today’s multicultural society. With Stefan Soltesz at the podium, he’ll be supported by an expert in the domain of Viennese operetta.
19:30
Barrie Kosky's All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue
In a brilliant finale to his ten-year directorship, Barrie Kosky presents a roaring revue, opening an entirely new chapter of Yiddish culture, still largely unknown to audiences. Under the musical direction of Adam Benzwi and with choreographer Otto Pichler, long-time companions such as Dagmar Manzel, Katharine Mehrling, Max Hopp, Helmut Baumann, the Geschwister Pfister and Ruth Brauer-Kvam, together with members of the Ensemble and a small dance troupe, celebrate love, music—and also, just a bit, the artist Barrie Kosky.
16:00
Führung Spezial Bühnenbild
Visit the Backstage and the Front of House areas of Berlins smallest opera house as it prepares to open its doors for the evening performance. The Backstage tours include an introduction to the colourful history of the theatre, an insight into the recent re-development of the Komische Oper Berlin and a look at aspects of current productions. As the Komische Oper Berlin is a fully working theatre, each tour is a unique experience, and may include opportunities to see the magnificent backstage technology in operation.
19:30
The Pearls of Cleopatra
Hallo, hier bin ick!! – National crisis for the Pharaoh-esse with the Berlin accent. Cleopatra’s got her hands full: drought, revolt at the palace, rebellions, and a shortage of men. When her mysterious pears come to the rescue, she’ll have the audience laughing until it hurts. »It’s pure joy to experience Manzel as the insulting female sovereign who has at least three temperaments: the power-conscious ruler, the wistful woman yearning for love, and the personality of her profusely drunken cat, Ingeborg. « [Der Tagesspiegel]
16:00
Guided Tour
Visit the Backstage and the Front of House areas of Berlins smallest opera house as it prepares to open its doors for the evening performance. The Backstage tours include an introduction to the colourful history of the theatre, an insight into the recent re-development of the Komische Oper Berlin and a look at aspects of current productions. As the Komische Oper Berlin is a fully working theatre, each tour is a unique experience, and may include opportunities to see the magnificent backstage technology in operation.
16:00
Guided Tour in English
Visit the Backstage and the Front of House areas of Berlins smallest opera house as it prepares to open its doors for the evening performance. The Backstage tours include an introduction to the colourful history of the theatre, an insight into the recent re-development of the Komische Oper Berlin and a look at aspects of current productions. As the Komische Oper Berlin is a fully working theatre, each tour is a unique experience, and may include opportunities to see the magnificent backstage technology in operation.
19:30
Barrie Kosky's All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue
In a brilliant finale to his ten-year directorship, Barrie Kosky presents a roaring revue, opening an entirely new chapter of Yiddish culture, still largely unknown to audiences. Under the musical direction of Adam Benzwi and with choreographer Otto Pichler, long-time companions such as Dagmar Manzel, Katharine Mehrling, Max Hopp, Helmut Baumann, the Geschwister Pfister and Ruth Brauer-Kvam, together with members of the Ensemble and a small dance troupe, celebrate love, music—and also, just a bit, the artist Barrie Kosky.
19:00
The Pearls of Cleopatra
Hallo, hier bin ick!! – National crisis for the Pharaoh-esse with the Berlin accent. Cleopatra’s got her hands full: drought, revolt at the palace, rebellions, and a shortage of men. When her mysterious pears come to the rescue, she’ll have the audience laughing until it hurts. »It’s pure joy to experience Manzel as the insulting female sovereign who has at least three temperaments: the power-conscious ruler, the wistful woman yearning for love, and the personality of her profusely drunken cat, Ingeborg. « [Der Tagesspiegel]
11:00
Michael Ende's »Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver«
Last time this season!
Micheal Ende’s world-famous children’s book will be transformed for the first time into a children’s opera! While adults might remember the television recordings from the Augsburger Puppenkiste marionette theatre, younger audience members will certainly think of the very popular live film version from 2018. After Snow White and the 77 Dwarves, composer Elena Kats-Chernin and librettist Susanne Felicitas Wolf devote their creative energies to the adventures of Jim Button, Luke and – last but not least! – the locomotive Emma.
19:30
Barrie Kosky's All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue
In a brilliant finale to his ten-year directorship, Barrie Kosky presents a roaring revue, opening an entirely new chapter of Yiddish culture, still largely unknown to audiences. Under the musical direction of Adam Benzwi and with choreographer Otto Pichler, long-time companions such as Dagmar Manzel, Katharine Mehrling, Max Hopp, Helmut Baumann, the Geschwister Pfister and Ruth Brauer-Kvam, together with members of the Ensemble and a small dance troupe, celebrate love, music—and also, just a bit, the artist Barrie Kosky.
19:30
LAB_WORKS 2022
Choreographien aus der Compagnie des Staatsballett Berlin
Last time this season!
19:30
Barrie Kosky's All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue
In a brilliant finale to his ten-year directorship, Barrie Kosky presents a roaring revue, opening an entirely new chapter of Yiddish culture, still largely unknown to audiences. Under the musical direction of Adam Benzwi and with choreographer Otto Pichler, long-time companions such as Dagmar Manzel, Katharine Mehrling, Max Hopp, Helmut Baumann, the Geschwister Pfister and Ruth Brauer-Kvam, together with members of the Ensemble and a small dance troupe, celebrate love, music—and also, just a bit, the artist Barrie Kosky.
16:00
Guided Tour
Visit the Backstage and the Front of House areas of Berlins smallest opera house as it prepares to open its doors for the evening performance. The Backstage tours include an introduction to the colourful history of the theatre, an insight into the recent re-development of the Komische Oper Berlin and a look at aspects of current productions. As the Komische Oper Berlin is a fully working theatre, each tour is a unique experience, and may include opportunities to see the magnificent backstage technology in operation.
19:30
The Pearls of Cleopatra
Last time this season!
Hallo, hier bin ick!! – National crisis for the Pharaoh-esse with the Berlin accent. Cleopatra’s got her hands full: drought, revolt at the palace, rebellions, and a shortage of men. When her mysterious pears come to the rescue, she’ll have the audience laughing until it hurts. »It’s pure joy to experience Manzel as the insulting female sovereign who has at least three temperaments: the power-conscious ruler, the wistful woman yearning for love, and the personality of her profusely drunken cat, Ingeborg. « [Der Tagesspiegel]
14:00
Führung Spezial Kostüm
Visit the Backstage and the Front of House areas of Berlins smallest opera house as it prepares to open its doors for the evening performance. The Backstage tours include an introduction to the colourful history of the theatre, an insight into the recent re-development of the Komische Oper Berlin and a look at aspects of current productions. As the Komische Oper Berlin is a fully working theatre, each tour is a unique experience, and may include opportunities to see the magnificent backstage technology in operation.
16:00
Guided Tour
Visit the Backstage and the Front of House areas of Berlins smallest opera house as it prepares to open its doors for the evening performance. The Backstage tours include an introduction to the colourful history of the theatre, an insight into the recent re-development of the Komische Oper Berlin and a look at aspects of current productions. As the Komische Oper Berlin is a fully working theatre, each tour is a unique experience, and may include opportunities to see the magnificent backstage technology in operation.
19:30
Falstaff
Grandiose joie de vivre comes together with a quest for meaning—Giuseppe Verdi’s last masterpiece, written when he was nearly 80, not only breathed new life into the genre of Italian opera-comedy, but spontaneously revolutionised the genre and brought it into the 20th century. Exceptional baritone and »stage animal« Scott Hendricks returns to the Komische Oper Berlin in the title role, while audience favourite Günter Papendell makes his debut as the aggrieved husband, Ford.
15:00
Barrie Kosky's All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue
In a brilliant finale to his ten-year directorship, Barrie Kosky presents a roaring revue, opening an entirely new chapter of Yiddish culture, still largely unknown to audiences. Under the musical direction of Adam Benzwi and with choreographer Otto Pichler, long-time companions such as Dagmar Manzel, Katharine Mehrling, Max Hopp, Helmut Baumann, the Geschwister Pfister and Ruth Brauer-Kvam, together with members of the Ensemble and a small dance troupe, celebrate love, music—and also, just a bit, the artist Barrie Kosky.
19:30
Barrie Kosky's All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue
In a brilliant finale to his ten-year directorship, Barrie Kosky presents a roaring revue, opening an entirely new chapter of Yiddish culture, still largely unknown to audiences. Under the musical direction of Adam Benzwi and with choreographer Otto Pichler, long-time companions such as Dagmar Manzel, Katharine Mehrling, Max Hopp, Helmut Baumann, the Geschwister Pfister and Ruth Brauer-Kvam, together with members of the Ensemble and a small dance troupe, celebrate love, music—and also, just a bit, the artist Barrie Kosky.
19:30
Barrie Kosky's All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue
In a brilliant finale to his ten-year directorship, Barrie Kosky presents a roaring revue, opening an entirely new chapter of Yiddish culture, still largely unknown to audiences. Under the musical direction of Adam Benzwi and with choreographer Otto Pichler, long-time companions such as Dagmar Manzel, Katharine Mehrling, Max Hopp, Helmut Baumann, the Geschwister Pfister and Ruth Brauer-Kvam, together with members of the Ensemble and a small dance troupe, celebrate love, music—and also, just a bit, the artist Barrie Kosky.
14:00
Führung für Familien
Visit the Backstage and the Front of House areas of Berlins smallest opera house as it prepares to open its doors for the evening performance. The Backstage tours include an introduction to the colourful history of the theatre, an insight into the recent re-development of the Komische Oper Berlin and a look at aspects of current productions. As the Komische Oper Berlin is a fully working theatre, each tour is a unique experience, and may include opportunities to see the magnificent backstage technology in operation.
16:00
Führung Spezial Orchester
Visit the Backstage and the Front of House areas of Berlins smallest opera house as it prepares to open its doors for the evening performance. The Backstage tours include an introduction to the colourful history of the theatre, an insight into the recent re-development of the Komische Oper Berlin and a look at aspects of current productions. As the Komische Oper Berlin is a fully working theatre, each tour is a unique experience, and may include opportunities to see the magnificent backstage technology in operation.
19:30
The »Gipsy« Baron
Last time this season!
Seventy years after Walter Felsenstein's production of The Gypsy Baron, (the single production of this work in the history of the Komische Oper Berlin), director Tobias Kratzer, celebrated for his production of Tannhauser in Bayreuth, stages one of Strauss’s most famous operettas as a parable of the conflicts of today’s multicultural society. With Stefan Soltesz at the podium, he’ll be supported by an expert in the domain of Viennese operetta.