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In September/Opening
HUNTER
A game with hearts and basketballs by and with Liesa van der Aa and Kat Frankie/BODIES inspired by Björk’s album HOMOGENIC

BIG IN NEUKÖLLN
Glanz&krawall’s SUPER OPERA unites voices, songs, and sounds from the neighborhood and transforms the Passagenhof into an operatic arena.

STUDIO 66
Six individual artists and collectives, who will appear in various productions during the 2025/26 season, will offer insights into their work in short miniature formats, thus offering a preview of the upcoming season.

In October
CRIME OF PASSION
Why do Carmen, Violetta, and Salome have to die on stage again and again? Anthony Hüseyin and his team dare to reckon with femicide – not only on the operatic stage.

1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF
Paige Eakin Young and her team transform Philip Glass’s 1988 science fiction opera into the present day.

In November
BAM!
The festival for contemporary music theater in Berlin, for Berlin’s international scene of musicians of musical theater beyond the traditional operatic form, will also be held for the first time at the NO.

In December
THE SECOND CHERRY ORCHARD
Wolfgang Böhmer and Martin G. Berger’s musical about a garden on which so much depends – and which is still to be sold.

In January 26

GENEVIEVE MURPHY BAND
A band on stage: singing, guitar sounds, body movements in time with the music… What is that? A concert, a gig, of course. Or perhaps more? Theater? Scottish composer and performer Genevieve Murphy and her band explore the theatrical dimensions of pop concerts.

In February 26

SELEMO A SPRING OPERA
South African composers and performers Sbusiso Shozi and Nhlanhla Mahlangu from the Johannesburg Center for the Less Good Idea approach the concept of spring anew with their chamber opera SELEMO, using body, sound, and voice. African rites of passage meet baroque splendor, Vivaldi’s string concerto The Four Seasons meets Umkhosi woMhlanga, the ritual reed dance of the Swazis. In co-production with the Komische Oper Berlin.

April 26

NOISE. AN ANTI-FASCIST OPERA
The Dutch music and performance collective Club Gewalt seeks to deal with our collective fears in a kind of music-theatrical group therapy. With noise music, Club Gewalt attempts to do justice to the “noises” in our society.

LAST EXIT EUROPE
Europe – a continent, an idea, a center of power, and simultaneously a kidnapped king’s daughter. What has become of her, after more than two thousand years held hostage by various ideologies? Peter Cora Frost provides answers, personifying Europe at the table dance pole of a truck stop, on the side of a highway to freedom.

June 26

TARAB. An operatic ecstasy with music by Umm Kulthum
Little known in the Western Hemisphere, singer Umm Kulthum is one of the greatest icons of classical Arabic music. Composer Nesrine Belmokh and director Sjaron Minailo dedicate an evening to Umm Kulthum, revolving around the recurring theme in her songs: love.

On the arrest and trial of Ekrem Imamoglu on April 11 – Round tables on 9. and 15.4.

A lot has happened in Turkey since we performed HAYDAR TANZ/ HAYARD’IN DANSI – from February 2024 and now again from February to the end of April 2025. Our play combines the fate of the earthquake victim Dr. Mehmet Yildirim with the culture and music of the Alevis and names the unscrupulous power politics of Erdogan’s government. His violent regime now appears to be collapsing, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets since the arrest of Istanbul mayor Imamoglu on March 19. The police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons against the people and thousands were arrested. But even former Erdogan supporters seem to have joined in. How courageous: to raise your voice for a finally liberated and democratic country despite all the violence!
As a sign of our support, we are offering talks with the artists of Haydar on April 9 and April 15 after the performances, during which you will gain very personal and concrete insights into the current situation and into the experiences of the Turkish artists involved. On April 26 we invite artists who have fled from Turkey to Berlin.
PS: This note from the Federal Foreign Office shows the force with which Erdogan is acting and that this can also affect Germans: “Be aware that expressions of opinion and actions taken in Germany, such as signing petitions with Kurdish concerns, could be perceived as critical of the government in Turkey and could therefore lead to criminal prosecution there. The same applies to statements critical of the government on social media and the mere sharing or liking of someone else’s post.” Non-public comments could also be forwarded to Turkish law enforcement authorities through “anonymous denunciation”.

Bernhard Glocksin, Artistic Director

At the end of the last season of Bernhard Glocksin and his teams: on Midsummer Night, the longest day of the year, we invite you to a two-day celebration with music, cometogether and a music theatre world premiere triptych.