“Ep” is the written form of a sign created by the deaf community in Warsaw that has no equivalent in spoken language. Its meaning can be vaguely described as “uncool, uncomfortable, strange, weird.” Ep is a piece about otherness (the “otherness” of contemporary new music is contrasted with the “otherness” of deaf culture) and about […]
The cherry orchard is for sale! So, the second cherry orchard. The first stood many years ago on another continent. Varja is only 37 years old and didn’t live to see it; even her stepmother Andrea only remembers it from stories – and yet somehow they bear so much, these few trees: dreams, memories, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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