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Is it a) Ancient Egypt, b) Europe in the Age of Enlightenment, or c) a land beyond our imagination? The answer is: d) all of ...

Rusalka Antonin Dvorák Director Richard Jones' reading of Dvo?ak's best-known opera is rugged and human: the water-nymph Rusalka who aspires to become human learns about ...

»Das ist gewiss der überzeugendste – und am wenigsten klischeebeladene – Fiddler, der vorstellbar ist.« [The New York Times] Irgendwo in Osteuropa folgt im Schtetl ...

Immigrants who decide to create a new city in the middle of nowhere are faced with greed that rocks their minds and soul alike. An ...

George Enescu’s masterpiece Oedipe is already a musical tour de force, but in the hands of director Àlex Ollé it boasts a visual staging that ...

Eine blutige Tragödie über politische Demagogie und die Verführung der Massen: Hans Werner Henzes The Bassarids erzählen vom urmenschlichen Konflikt zwischen Trieb und Vernunft, zwischen ...

"This is certainly the most convincing and least cliché-laden Fiddler imaginable." [THE NEW YORK TIMES] In Eastern European Shtetl Anatevka, one lives strictly according to ...

Enigmatic to us - mysterious for themselves are the characters in Debussy's mysterious hypnotizing dream game Pelléas et Mélisande. With his only completed opera, the ...

Don Juan, the epitome of the seducer, inspired Mozart to one of his most dazzling operas - frivolous, witty and profound in one. Director Herbert ...

Tamino in the stomach of the dragon, the queen of the night as a huge spider, dancing constellations and flying butterfly boys - the magic ...

Ein virtuoser Liederabend zwischen mitreißender Komik, leiser Melancholie und tief berührender Verzweiflung: Nach den umjubelten Konzerten 2015 und 2018 kehrt Farges mikh nit – vergiss ...

Endlich wieder da! Die »furiose Inszenierung von Barrie Kosky gibt Bernsteins alter West Side Story ihre Härte und Sprengkraft zurück« [Berliner Zeitung]. Nicht zuletzt Otto ...

Godfather Jupiter seduces and seduces the princess Semele. Their ambition, fueled by Jupiter's jealous wife Juno, leads to ruin. In the end, not only love ...

Hallo, hier bin ick!! – Staatskrise bei der berlinernden Pharaonin Cleopatra: Palastrevolte, Dürrekatastrophe, Rebellion und Männermangel. Da helfen nur … die geheimnisvollen Perlen der Cleopatra. ...

Nach dem überwältigenden Erfolg der von aller Patina befreiten West Side Story inszeniert Barrie Kosky nun mit Leonard Bernsteins weniger bekannten Comic Operetta Candide ein ...

Drinking songs, dances, folk tales and a wild witches' sabbath – the people as an effervescing source of energy serve as incredibly headstrong victims at ...

First performed with overwhelming success in 2010, Aribert Reimann's opera is coming to Berlin for the first time – with Nicole Chevalier in the title ...

Jean-Philippe Rameau, enfant terrible and innovator of French Baroque music, created a harmonious, shockingly fresh and colourful rarity with his tragédie lyrique Zoroastre, which – ...

There are strange goings-on behind Doctor Bartolo's back! Recently, his ward Rosina – whom he plans to marry for her sizeable inheritance as soon as ...

Dagmar Manzel and Dominique Horwitz spirit us away to ancient Egypt, where things have a mighty strong flavour of Berlin to them. After bringing us ...

In Stravinsky's ballet burlesque, three puppets are brought to life by their sadistic puppet-master – the delicate ballerina, the coarse but warm-hearted muscleman and the ...

He was one of the greats of the Weimar Republic – and yet he never achieved the same acclaim as his rival, Friedrich Hollaender, alongside ...

Mieczys?aw Weinberg — Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes op. 47/1 Sergei S. Prokofiev — Symphony No. 1 in D major op. 25 Symphonie classique Pyotr I. ...

Carmen is everything: femme fatale, mage, political activist, harbinger of death and priestess of love. The entanglements of the soldier Don José, who lets himself ...

In the contest between fate, virtue, and amor, love retains the upper hand and degenerate virtue is defeated. Otho bitterly confronts the ruins of his ...

Don Juan, the epitome of the seducer, inspired Mozart to one of his most influential operas – frivolous, witty and profound all at once. In ...

Princess Snow White is sick of it: forever having to practise her calligraphy! She yearns for the big wide world, for adventure and a wealth ...

A captivating musical blend of Berlin jazz, Hungarian gypsy music, Viennese melodies and Yiddish klezmer, Ball at the Savoy tells a crazy story about a ...

Hoffmann's fate comprises three women. Three unhappy love affairs. Or are they in fact three female forms which exist only in Hoffmann's imagination? – Olympia ...

Professor Henry Higgins, a leading expert in phonetics and a passionate defender of proper elocution, makes a bet with the similarly-minded Colonel Pickering: using the ...

The Komische Oper Berlin's production of The Magic Flute, »a deliciously absurd mixture of silent film and cartoon« [Berliner Morgenpost], has caused a furore, and ...

With the help of Peter Pan, the little boy who can fly, John, Michael und Wendy Darling escape their father's anger. They fly from their ...

Giuseppe Tartini — Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in D major (Arrangement by Simon Wright) Igor Stravinsky — Suite from the ballet Pulcinella Antonio Vivaldi ...

Via his friend Lensky, Eugene Onegin gets to know two sisters at a country estate: the cheerful Olga and the timid Tatyana, who falls in ...

The vocalists and orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, conducted by their general music director Henrik Nánási, will spirit you away to the "eternal city" ...

The double suicide of the 30-year-old Austrian heir apparent, Rudolf, and his lover Mary Vetsera – who was 13 years younger than him – at ...

Twenty different roles – two actors! Dagmar Manzel as operetta diva Manon Cavallini also plays her suitor Raoul Severac and the father of her daughter ...

Barrie Kosky’s darkly romantic interpretation of the Czech fairytale material conjures up sensual, powerful images which followed the melancholy poetry of Dvo?ák’s music and irresistibly ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 25 in C major KV 503 Ludwig van Beethoven — Concerto for Piano and Orchestra ...

Absolute art! But only according to the rules! Rules which, in the opinion of the wise master-singer Sachs, should be regularly checked by ordinary citizens ...

Robert Schumann — Manfred Overture op. 115 Benjamin Britten — Nocturne op. 60 for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and string orchestra Four Sea Interludes op. ...

With Catherine Larsen-Maguire, musical direction; Hannah Perowne, Daniela Braun, violin; Martin Flade, viola; Rebekka Markowski, cello; Hiroaki Aoe, contrabass; Magdalena Bogner, recorder; Miriam Nickel, Gerald ...

From Rossini's La Cenerentola and Prokofiev's ballet Cinderella through to the Disney musical of the same name – the fairytale of Cinderella provides some of ...

Hoffmann's fate comprises three women. Three unhappy love affairs. Or are they in fact three female forms which exist only in Hoffmann's imagination? – Olympia ...

Artistic director and head director Barrie Kosky takes on one of the greatest unhappy love stories of operatic literature: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. Following on from ...

Heinrich Marschner's The Vampire is viewed as the epitome of German Gothic romance. Drawing on Carl Maria von Weber's The Marksman, Marschner goes in search ...

Following their overwhelming success in the operetta Clivia, the Geschwister Pfister (the Pfister siblings) and actor Stefan Kurt return with an homage to the master ...

Rameau's in many ways modern-seeming masterpiece about four people inextricably bound to one another by a web of jealousy, passion and hatred. Barrie Kosky's celebrated ...

Antonín Dvo?ák — Concert for Violoncello and Orchestra in H major op. 104 Richard Strauss — A Hero's Life op. 40...

The Komische Oper Berlin's production of The Magic Flute, »a deliciously absurd mixture of silent film and cartoon« [Berliner Morgenpost], has caused a furore, and ...

The stage of the Komische Oper Berlin will be transformed into the Palais Royal, in which the audience – gazing into the neo-Baroque hall of ...

On the banks of the »beautiful blue Danube«, the toy merchant Leopold, known as the »king of magic«, is celebrating the betrothal of his daughter ...

Seeing his economic interests in the Latin American country of Boliguay jeopardized by the new revolutionary government there, the US industrialist E. W. Potterton uses ...

Don Juan, the epitome of the seducer, inspired Mozart to one of his most influential operas – frivolous, witty and profound all at once. In ...

With a light touch, Barrie Kosky traces the progress of Mozart's Figaro, somewhere »between Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Duck Soup ...

Emperor Titus becomes embroiled in a musical thriller involving love, intrigue, political power struggles and hubris in ancient Rome. Following productions of his early works ...

Music from the countryside, played on fully organic instruments ... Including: Franz Schubert — The Trout Joseph Haydn — 1st movement of the Symphony No. ...

Based on Oscar Wilde's chillingly beautiful story about a venerable ghost who is getting on in years, the Berlin composer Marius Felix conjures up a ...

The splendid magic of Baroque theatre on the stage of the Komische Oper Berlin: in the celebrated production by the Norwegian theatre magician Stefan Herheim ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 20 d-Moll KV 466 Gabriela Montero — ExPatria Johannes Brahms — Sinfonie Nr. 2 D-Dur ...

Twenty different roles – two actors! Dagmar Manzel as operetta diva Manon Cavallini also plays her suitor Raoul Severac and the father of her daughter ...

Cole Porter's sensational hit about love and petty jealousies on stage and behind the scenes in a dazzling, glittering show which director Barrie Kosky has ...

Katharine Mehrling, multiple award winner and a firm favourite with Berlin audiences, as the stubborn and charming Eliza Doolittle, and Max Hopp as the eccentric ...

Béla Bartók — Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 Sc 112 Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6 in H minor op. 74 Pathétique...

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 ...

Music about magicians and other quick-change artists Including: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Overture from The Magic Flute Paul Dukas — The Sorcerer's Apprentice Silently he ...

In five breathless acts, Prokofiev tells the absurd story of one woman's obsession with an angel she has loved since childhood, an angel who is ...

With soloists of the Komische Oper Berlin Overtures, arias and ensembles from Il barbiere di Siviglia, L’italiana in Algeri, La Cenerentola, Wilhelm Tell and others. ...

As always in the run-up to Christmas, we this year usher in a resounding operetta sensation by Emmerich Kálmán! This time it is diseuse Désirée ...

Two children on the threshold of adulthood stumble into a colourful world packed with wonder – but also full of danger. In his production of ...

The popular classic fairytale by the brothers Grimm premières in a new, witty and cheeky version for the opera stage. A strong-willed princess, a dancing ...

Katharine Mehrling, Berlin's celebrated star of the stage, presents a truly special declaration of love to Edith Piaf on the latter's 100th birthday: following her ...

Christmas songs to sing along with and listen to A cheerful pre-Christmas concert for the whole family With soloists and musicians of the Komische Oper ...

Ludwig van Beethoven — Egmont Overture in F minor op. 84 Scene and Aria for Soprano and Orchestra op.65 »Ah, perfido!« Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy — ...

The rulers of two empires in one of the greatest love stories of classical times - Caesar and Cleopatra! This is the story Handel turned ...

Two masterpieces of the 20th century, both premiered in that fateful year 1918. The works could hardly be more different, and yet they are combined ...

Schönberg’s magnum opus, two-thirds of which was completed in Berlin between 1930 and 1932, remained unfinished in the estate of this musical innovator, who was ...

The children's choir of the Komische Oper Berlin introduces itself...

A robot called Myon, the internationally acclaimed performance group Gob Squad and specialists from a wide variety of departments of the Komische Oper Berlin have ...

"This furious interpretation by Barrie Kosky in the Komische Oper gives Bernstein’s old West Side Story back its toughness and explosive power," [Berliner Zeitung]. The ...

"A comic opera that goes horribly wrong" – Barrie Kosky’s celebrated staging of Verdi’s masterpiece returns to the schedule with a new cast under the ...

The ballet Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness is one of Nacho Duato’s best-known works. It immediately caught the attention of the critics and brought ...

Zoltán Kodály — Tänze aus Galánta Alessandro Marcello — Konzert fu?r Oboe und Orchester d-Moll Frigyes Hidas — Konzert fu?r Oboe und Orchester Nr. 1 ...

In Mozart’s action-packed psychological drama Così fan tutte fidelity is put to the test. Two young couples are forced to acknowledge that there are no ...

After 20 years of warfare and wandering, Odysseus returns to his hometown, where his wife Penelope has been doggedly resisting the advances of persistent suitors… ...

IM BÜHNENBILD VON DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE Quintette von Mozart und Beethoven...

ACT ONE In a dark forest, far away ... As he flees from a dangerous giant serpent, Tamino is rescued at the last second by ...

Kammerkonzert 5: Mozart und Italien! Streichquartette von Boccherini, Mozart und Cherubini...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Sinfonie Nr. 40 g-Moll KV 550 Große g-Moll Gustav Mahler — Fu?nf Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Ru?ckert Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...

Mozart - May at the Komische Oper Berlin. After Il re pastore last season, Lucio Silla represents another early work in a series of concertante ...

Including extracts from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s works Symphony Nr. 40 in G minor KV 550; The Magic Flute; Serenade in G major KV 525, Eine ...

Turning his back on cultural clichés, Sebastian Baumgarten sets this production of Carmen in a contemporary Spain. The opera of jealousy becomes a thriller where ...

Kammermusik und Lieder von Franz Schubert Mit dem ensembleKOM und Dominik Köninger (Bariton)...

Don Juan is not just a name, it’s a commitment! A commitment to passion, sensuality and desire. Nothing can stand in his way - not ...

“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 only opera written by Astor Piazzolla, the most important tango composer of the 20th century and founder of Tango Nuevo, is a devoted if ...

Don Juan is one of the most dazzling figures in European cultural history. His origins are unclear, but since the early baroque period the legend ...

The multiple award-winning Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth takes a fresh look at one of theatre history’s most dazzling female characters. In her treatment of Alban ...

Robert Schumann - Overture to Genoveva C minor, Op 81 Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in D minor BWV ...

Basing his opera on the deliciously spine-tingling story by Oscar Wilde about a classy castle ghost who is now getting on a bit, the Berlin ...

Johannes Brahms - Tragic Overture in D minor, Op 81 Arnold Schoenberg - Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in D major A Survivor from Warsaw ...

Itzik Galili is one of the most active choreographers of his generation. Ever happy to try out new things, he is forever searching for new ...

Last season's surprise success is back on the programme for this season - Benjamin Britten’s Shakespeare classic with "enchantingly beautiful music and a surrealist streak" ...

Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture after Shakespeare Tobias Broström - Lucernaris, Concerto for trumpet, live electronics and orchestra Sergei S. Prokofiev ...

Barrie Kosky’s celebrated production, winner of the most important British theatre prize, the Laurence Olivier Award, can now also be experienced at the Komische Oper ...

Ever since childhood Renata has been passionately in love with her closest playmate Madiel – an ethereal, angelic figure. But when Renata begs him to ...

The only opera written by the visionary composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann is an icon of contemporary musical theatre which appears to go well beyond all ...

Uproar in the land of the fairies: Queen Titania refuses to hand over King Oberon’s favourite plaything. He is determined to take revenge, but unfortunately ...

For the first time the musical cabaret artists Geschwister Pfister can be seen on the stage of the Berlin Opera house in Nico Dostal’s most ...

The mysterious atmosphere of an empty stage at a late hour unites spectators and actors in the appropriate ambience for Jean Cocteau's puzzling, dream-like narrative ...

Dominique Horwitz, star of theatre and television, performing songs by the Belgian chanson genius Jacques Brel – accompanied by the orchestra of the Komische Oper ...

The friends Guglielmo and Ferrando, both army officers, are convinced that their fiancées truly love them. But Don Alfonso wagers that no woman is capable ...

It took the 19-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart just six weeks to write his pastoral opera Il re pastore, an enchanting, charming piece which only betrays ...

Driving rhythms and hauntingly beautiful songs make Leonard Bernstein’s version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet one of the most moving works of musical theatre in ...

In 1921 the singer and actress Trude Hesterberg founded the Wilde Bühne (the “Wild Stage”) in the basement of the present-day Theaters des Westens, thus ...

Hoffmann can't write without alcohol. He can't live without his muse, even though she irritates him immensely. Because he doesn't want what he has – ...

“Great, immediately gripping theatre!” [TAZ] With a new cast, under the musical direction of Baroque specialist Konrad Junghänel, what must be Gluck’s most uncompromising work ...

The court of Emperor Maximilian von Eitelstein is populated by stuck-up dandies, and when it comes to vanity Princess Culifinda, who is desperate to be ...

One of the most successful productions at the Komische Oper Berlin returns to the programme! Prokofiev’s ludicrous fairytale about a melancholy prince who falls in ...

Stefan Soltesz, the Austrian conductor of Hungarian origin who has for many years been General Musical Director of the Essen Philharmonic and General Artistic Director ...

Gabriela Montero, piano Improvisation on themes from Prokoviev to Nosferatu by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Silent film performance with piano accompaniment The famous pianist Gabriela Montero ...

Asmik Grigorian, a favourite with audiences as Rusalka and as Maria in Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa, once again takes the role of the unhappy water sprite who ...

After the great success of Bajadere last year, The Duchess of Chicago represents another jewel from the pen of the composer of The Csárdás Princess ...

Every year the Komische Oper Berlin begins the season with a festival for children and their families. We shall be organising a large number of ...

The most performed German opera in a startling interpretation. Barrie Kosky will produce The Magic Flute in combination with the British theatre group “1927”, whose ...

After 80 years, one of the Weimar era’s most spectacular jazz operettas returns to the place of its origin: inaugurally performed in Berlin in 1932 ...

A passionate love doomed to fail in politically unstable times. In Mazeppa, Tchaikovsky shows us with great emotional intensity the destructive power of a love ...

A work commissioned by the Komische Oper Berlin, in collaboration with The Opera Group London The multiple award-winning Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth takes a fresh ...

Stanis?aw Lem’s classic science-fiction novel Solaris, which reached cult status in Andrei Tarkowski’s congenial film version, is transformed into an exciting space opera in Detlev ...

he popular fairytale opera by Engelbert Humperdinck, based on the famous fairytale by the brothers Grimm, in a colourful, image-rich, surreally imaginative production by Reinhard ...

Victor Kissine — Konzert für Violine und Orchester (2012), Deutsche Erstaufführung / gewidmet Gidon Kremer Sergej W. Rachmaninow — Sinfonie Nr. 3 a-Moll op. 44...

With head, heart, and courage many things can be achieved – one might even say the most important things of all. That's what little Dorothy ...

Robert Schumann — Klavierkonzert a-Moll op. 54 Pjotr I. Tschaikowski — Sinfonie Nr. 5 e-Moll op. 64...

Georg Philipp Telemann: Tafelmusik Johann Strauß (Sohn): Bonbon-Polka op. 213 and others...

Franz Schubert — Ouvertüre zum Melodram Die Zauberharfe D 644 Sinfonie Nr. 7 h-Moll D 759 Die Unvollendete Sinfonie Nr. 4 c-Moll D 417 Tragische...

Kurt Weill — Konzert für Violine und Blasorchester op. 12 Kleine Dreigroschenmusik für Blasorchester, Suite aus Die Dreigroschenoper Das Berliner Requiem, Kantate für Tenor solo, ...

Songs by Kurt Weill, Tangos, Chansons and Yiddish songs...

Ausschnitte aus Die Dreigroschenoper in Arrangements für Saxophon-Ensemble und Gesang und das Mahagonny Songspiel – im Bühnenbild von Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny mit ...

Itzik Galili is one of the most active choreographers of his generation. Ever happy to try out new things, he is forever searching for new ...

New year's concert...

Pjotr I. Tschaikowski: Nussknacker-Suite...

Joseph Haydn — Klavierkonzert D-Dur Hob. XVIII:11 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Klavierkonzert Nr. 20 d-Moll KV 466 Ludwig van Beethoven — Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 C-Dur ...

Krzysztof Penderecki — Sinfonie Nr. 4 Adagio Dmitri D. Schostakowitsch — Sinfonie Nr. 9 Es-Dur op. 70...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Das Donnerwetter KV 534 Antonio Vivaldi: Der Sommer (Die vier Jahreszeiten, Part 2) Josef Suk: Das Lüftchen (Der Frühling op. 22, Movement ...

Claudio Monteverdi: Balletto à treund Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti aus Scherzi Musicali / Sinfonia aus L'incoronazione di Poppea Carlo Gesualdo: Zwei Madrigale Lo ...

Richard Strauss — Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche op. 28 Béla Bartók — Der wunderbare Mandarin, Suite für Orchester op. 19 Antonín Dvo?ák — Sinfonie Nr. ...