Der zweite Kirschgarten
Der zweite Kirschgarten
The cherry orchard is for sale! So, the second cherry orchard – here and now in Germany, 2025. This seems to be a good time for the whole family to come together once more, as so many memories are tied to it. But also to the first orchard, which stood in Namibia. It was planted […]
To 16. January 2026.
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Ullmann’s one-act opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis did not get the chance to be performed in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Although both the composer and his librettist were murdered in Auschwitz, the documents relating to the piece were saved. As a result, the opera had its world premiere in Amsterdam in 1975 and, in 1989, a […]
To 01. July 2026.
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.
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. PREMIERE 10 March 2026 […]
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.
1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF
1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF
1000 Airplanes on the Roof by Philipp Glass and David Henry Hwang portrays a woman, M. who has been abducted by aliens and returns to a life that doesn’t make sense anymore. Working with an all FLINTA+ team, director Paige Eakin Young stays far away from a parable of being kidnapped. Together with performer and […]
To 09. November 2025.
