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!
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.
I MUST DIE
I MUST DIE
An empty stage. One body. Two parallel universes. In I MUST DIE, performer Nico Sauer meets… himself. And one of them is not going to survive. A musical theatre solo between everyday sounds, Jacques Tati-style absurdity, and seriously nerve-wracking suspense. Light and music split the stage into two worlds. They exist side by side, completely […]
To 25. October 2026.
Tiresias
Tiresias
The country needs new children. Smart, beautiful, productive children. As close to perfect as possible – to clean up the mess their parents left behind. They’re supposed to save the future and keep the pension system afloat. In Poulenc’s musical theatre piece Les mamelles de Tirésias, Thérèse rebels against the obsession with reproduction, opts out […]
To 07. November 2026.
1984
1984
George Orwell’s legendary dystopian novel 1984 depicts life under a totalitarian surveillance state: relentless control, a Thought Police ready to punish every deviation. Now composer Rui Rodrigues and writer John von Düffel bring Orwell’s nightmare into the 21st century, together with the fourth-year students of Musical/Show at Berlin University of the Arts. A stage piece […]
To 02. January 2027.
