LILI
LILI
From the perspective of the last hour of the composer Lili Boulanger, LILI shows episodes, small moments, deep feelings and tense relationships of the important musician – interwoven with her music and the cantata “Faust et Hélène”.
To 19. May 2022.
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.
Mexico Aura: The Myth of Possession
Mexico Aura: The Myth of Possession
Location: Humboldt Forum
To 08. August 2022.
Iron Curtain Man
Iron Curtain Man
Rise and Fall of Dean Reed, the “Red Elvis”
To 18. September 2022.
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.
New songs From The Earth
New songs From The Earth
“The firmament blues eternally and the earth will stand firm for a long time and blossom in Lenz“ writes Gustav Mahler in 1907 in his legendary song cycle Das Lied von der Erde. How do you feel when you hear that? Together with the Stegreif Orchester and international authors, artists from the Neuköllner Oper have […]
To 12. November 2022.
Paradise Lost – THE GENESIS OF MUSICAL
Paradise Lost – THE GENESIS OF MUSICAL
Yes, it was paradise…Pan danced through the woods, the mermaids sang in the surf, all the animals played and loved each other.Only man could not do anything. Neither singing, nor dancing, nor playing. And then came the snake… The triple gift as the fall of man. That is the basic idea of the new musical […]
To 07. January 2023.
Radioland
Radioland
This is the story of the most successful and longest-lived micronation in the world. And it is the story of the Bates family, whose members began as pirates and became princes. It’s the 1960s and the BBC has slept through the social upheaval: it doesn’t play pop music on any of its stations. In order […]
To 26. February 2023.
The Present Saves the World:
Cry me a River
The Present Saves the World:
Cry me a River
Thoughtful, but with a lot of humor THE PRESENT examines our present and develops a musical-theatrical evening of devotion.
To 12. March 2023.
The Present saves the world: Work, Bitch!
The Present saves the world: Work, Bitch!
Eine performative Wanderung : Schärfen Sie Ihre Wahrnehmung für nicht-menschliche Arten und stärken Sie Ihre Ausdauer mit Step-Aerobic. Dabei kommen nicht nur Gummistiefel zum Einsatz, sondern auch Britney Spears, Bach, Tocotronic und Mendelssohn.
To 14. May 2023.
Wüstinnen
Wüstinnen
The new production of our series of female composers takes us with desert wind sound between pop, baroque and present to almost forgotten compositions by Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Maria Theresia Paradis, Ethel Smyth and Florence Price
To 16. May 2023.
Schöner Wohnen
Schöner Wohnen
Berlin’s apartment is being fragmented, divided, quartered and, from a hipsters side, drawing nearer to the state that used to be the setting of the metropolis of the 1920s. Focussing the history of the Berlin tenement such as the „Richardsburg“ a satirical living theatre is staged – with elements from slapstick, songs, dance and scenes.
To 28. June 2023.