Der Fall Rigoletto. Ein Vatikan-Krimi
Der Fall Rigoletto. Ein Vatikan-Krimi
Rome, 1983. A young girl does not return home after her singing lesson. Her father is an employee of the Vatican, and the investigation leads to the heart of the Curia and the Roman Mafia. Rome, 2008. A witness reports that the missing girl was abducted, murdered, and dumped in a sack in a concrete […]
To 03. January 2010.
Der Diktator
Der Diktator
92 years after the premiere, the young director Ariane Kareev questions the contemporary contexts of manipulation and seduction in politics and in private life in her thesis production.
To 05. December 2018.
Das größte Zwischen überhaupt
Das größte Zwischen überhaupt
Gizem: The prom tonight is still school, but tomorrow morning it will bereal life.Bo: You mean that it will change at some point, tonight?Fjodor: Click, just like that?Bumblebee: Like the numbers on the clock suddenly jump to zero, but it’s not like that.Debbi: The in-between has already started and will only stop again later.Ash: And […]
To 24. September 2022.
DADDY UNPLUGGED
DADDY UNPLUGGED
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 […]
To 12. October 2024.
CRIME OF PASSION
CRIME OF PASSION
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. […]
To 07. December 2025.
comPOSITION
comPOSITION
The two finalist teams of the Berliner Opernpreis present their works: the development, composition and staging of a half-hour musical theater each, inspired by two short stories by the much-discussed author and criminal defense lawyer Ferdinand von Schirach: Subotnik (Libretto based on motifs by Ferdinand von Schirach) is about the first trial of a young, […]
To 26. June 2022.
Casting Clara
Casting Clara
Wunderkind, piano virtuoso, composer, wife of Robert Schumann, mother of eight children, professor and working almost until her death at the age of 76 – Clara Schumann. Who was this power woman of the 19th century?
To 20. September 2019.
BODY WORK
BODY WORK
Pelvis forward. Back straight. Barbell to hips. Lower down. Repeat. Don’t cry. Pain is just weakness leaving the body! Three sets of eight repetitions. Calories burned 168 kcal, weight loss 23g. These, you wimp, are deadlifts. Life is a gym: this is not a place to play. This is work. The will subdues the body, […]
To 14. February 2025.
Bis keiner Weint
Bis keiner Weint
Junior producer Vanessa Edler is faced with an insurmountable task: she has to make a new blockbuster that won’t offend even the most sensitive viewers: A politically correct version of “Snow White.” The management of her streaming provider expects a box office success for everyone. But is that even possible? Can a politically correct fairy […]
To 30. December 2023.
Birth Factory
Birth Factory
Director, actress, and classically trained musician Anke Retzlaff – acclaimed by cinema, television, and theater alike – cuts a path through the thicket of audience voices together with her team. What is it about? The primal experience that connects us all: birth – the most intensely intimate and at the same time socially monitored moment of life. LANGUAGE German DURATION 70 […]
To 12. March 2026.
BIG IN NEUKÖLLN
BIG IN NEUKÖLLN
Noise, engines, basslines, sirens. In Neukölln, every day is grand opera.People who never meant to meet collide on Karl-Marx-Boulevard and in the Passage. Thousands of deaths are being died – and at the same time, life is celebrated in a polyphonic cacophony. But what are the arias, recitatives, choruses, and undertones of Neukölln? The sweaty, […]
To 14. September 2025.
Betterplazes
Betterplazes
What would the city be without a Google campus, and what would Kreuzberg be without a few people who have little sympathy for it?
To 19. May 2020.
