Productions
NO start, NO story! And off we go into the 2025/26 season with new artistic direction and plenty of pop culture, glam, noise, social critique, musicals, and performances. Featuring Björk, Kat Frankie, Anthony Hüseyin, Philip Glass, Umm Kulthum, Club Gewalt, and many more. NO reset, NO surprise!
Studio 55
Studio 55
After STUDIO 66 last season, STUDIO 55 opens this year: the Neuköllner Oper invites five individual artists and collectives who will appear in various productions during the 2026/27 season to present insights into their working methods in 11-minute miniature formats, offering a preview of the upcoming season 2026/27. The formula is simple: 1 studio × […]
To 13. September 2026.
What does Youth Sound Like?
What does Youth Sound Like?
Kicking off the new season, we’re handing over the Neuköllner Oper Passage to theatre clubs, community initiatives, and all the young, curious people of Neukölln and Berlin. How do they respond to a time in which crises cast a shadow over the future? What do they feel, what do they think, and what strategies do […]
To 12. September 2026.
VOX HUMANA
VOX HUMANA
What can be done with the human voice? In the summer of 2026, a group of Ukrainian artists living under the daily threat of Russia’s war of annihilation meets with Neuköllner Oper to plan the opening production of the new season. As a gesture of gratitude to Germany for its political support and air defence […]
To 18. October 2026.
PÖBELARIEN
PÖBELARIEN
In PÖBELARIEN, a parasitic collective gets to work. It crawls into costumes, gnaws at arias, burrows through the canon of Western opera. It takes what feels good. The rest is discarded. Together with die schlangenknaben, the audience becomes a swarm: made up, costumed, loud, uninvited. Who is telling the story? Who is singing? Who is […]
To 12. December 2026.
