CRIME OF PASSION is the new work by non-binary Berlin based artist and musician Anthony Hüseyin. It examines femicide in opera, its historical roots, and its presence in our daily lives. Carmen, Salome and Violetta refuse to die again and again on stage. Instead, they reclaim their narratives, offering an ancestral, musical, and spiritual resistance. […]
What does it feel like to be abducted by aliens, then transported back to Earth and continue your life as if nothing ever happened? Philip Glass and David Henry Hwang explore this question in their 1988 science-fiction chamber opera 1000 Airplanes on the Roof.Director Paige Eakin Young transfers the work of the godfather of minimalist […]
6 artists × 11 minutes = Studio 66!To kick off the new season, Neuköllner Oper invites six solo artists and collectives who will appear in various productions during the 2025/26 season to present 11-minute miniature performances. These pieces offer insight into their artistic approaches – and a preview of what’s to come in the upcoming […]
A group of eight players meet on a basketball court. The referee blows the whistle. The game starts. Something bounces. It could be a ball. It could also be a beat. Are we witnessing a joyful game? Or are we part of a hunt for humanity? For HUNTER Flemish director, composer and multidisciplinary explorer Liesa […]
Noise, engines, basslines, sirens. In Neukölln, every day is grand opera.People who never meant to meet collide on Karl-Marx-Boulevard and in the Passage. Thousands of deaths are being died – and at the same time, life is celebrated in a polyphonic cacophony. But what are the arias, recitatives, choruses, and undertones of Neukölln? The sweaty, […]
When a person has to leave their country, what do they need to start again? A place, for example: so we cordially invite all interested parties to talk and network with artists who have experienced this journey. Neuköllner Oper, geçmişte birçok Türkiye kökenli sanatçıyı müzikal tiyatro projelerine davet etti. Bu akşam, bu yolculuğu deneyimlemiş sanatçılarla […]
Don Giovanni (from Mozart’s world-famous opera) is in despair: What’s going on here, in this new, digitally subjugated world?
Envy and greed are booming. Instagram, Pinterest and co. are built on this, ‘captivating’ their users with promises of wealth and fame and generating new professions such as influencers and content creators. But does that make you happier?
Welcome to the w.w.w., the wild word web, aka the worldwide web of the wild. The law of the Wild West rules here, dominated by the revenge, retribution and vigilante justice of WEB 2.0, also largely invented in the USA.
The box is rattling: For far too long, Pandora has been blamed for all the world’s misfortunes. But that’s all over now. And now is exactly the right time for a change of image – the battle has begun! While Zeus is still battling Elon for world domination, Pandora is offering a self-care retreat in […]
Himmel über Neukölln #2: Greek-German myth-music-cabaret by Elli Papakonstantinou & a text by Ronald Schimmelpfennig staged by Karoline Gable
Himmel über Neukölln #1: A Spanish-German-Moroccan story by Albert Tola, Bernhard Glocksin (text) and Malte Giesen (music)
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