MUSIC: WOLFGANG BÖHMER, TEXT: MARTIN G. BERGER The cherry orchard is for sale! So, the second cherry orchard – here and now in Germany, 2025. This seems to be a good time for the whole family to come together once more, as so many memories are tied to it. But also to the first orchard, […]
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. […]
1000 Airplanes on the Roof by Philipp Glass and David Henry Hwang portrays a woman, M. who has been abducted by aliens and returns to a life that doesn’t make sense anymore. Working with an all FLINTA+ team, director Paige Eakin Young stays far away from a parable of being kidnapped. Together with performer and […]
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 artist Liesa […]
Himmel über Neukölln #1: A Spanish-German-Moroccan story by Albert Tola, Bernhard Glocksin (text) and Malte Giesen (music)
Curt Bloch, born in Dortmund in 1908, studied law and was banned from working in his profession from 1933, which applied to all people of Jewish faith. After increasing hostility, he fled to the Netherlands. When the systematic deportations began after the invasion of the Wehrmacht in 1942, Curt Bloch went into hiding. In his […]
Oh the big fishWere soon caughtAs the small fishSwam through the nets Özcan and Samir, two boys from Neukölln, chase after happiness – by any means necessary, legal or illegal. Özcan is a rapper, so a bit of gangster is part of the game. Samir’s girlfriend Linda is pregnant and he wants to offer the […]
Dead silence. Berlin in silence. White noise on the radio. Music has been banned. Only the birds are allowed to sing. But from the barricaded cellar of the Neuköllner Oper, a group of young people are taking to the streets in resistance. In the blue hour between day and night, the subversive movement that calls […]
What is a father? And what is he not? Did my father love me? A great theatrical evening of encounters and emotions unfolds between musical, drama and dance. The text by the successful author couple Lutz Hübner and Sarah Nemitz is accompanied by epochal songs from pop history from Fats Domino, Bowie, Beatles and Queen […]
The audience discussion following Lisa’s Land of Smiles revolves around (cultural) relationships, expectations and prejudices. Following on from the characters Mi and Sou-Chong in Franz Lehár’s operetta, but above all in the new adaptation by Elisabeth Pape and Abigél Varga, we talk to the performer Vivian Yau (Hong Kong) about her personal experiences in the […]
“Yours is my whole heart, where you are not, I cannot be…” – Can you still say (sing) that today if you are serious about love? How much sentiment, nostalgia, even kitsch is still possible before it becomes ridiculous? Lisa simply tries it out. She wants to know, the thing with love, the dreams that […]
So young, so successful. The YOUNG NKO ORCHESTRA is on tour: Sold-out halls. Thunderous applause. But while the euphoric fans stream out of the concert hall, the ensemble drags itself back to the hotel, exhausted and dissatisfied. But is this even the right hotel and was the elevator there this morning? The rooms were at […]
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