Mexico Aura: The Myth of Possession
Mexico Aura: The Myth of Possession
Location: Humboldt Forum
To 08. August 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.
Ocaña, Queen of the Ramblas
Ocaña, Queen of the Ramblas
Barcelona, you gorgeous and rebellious city, what has happened to you and your stars? At a conference for urban history in Berlin, a speaker remembers the “wild” years in the 1970s, when Spain dared to free itself from the rigidity of Franco’s dictatorship, the counterculture whose illustrious star Ocaña, the artist, rebel and drag queen: Ocaña
To 25. January 2019.
Opera for Sale
Opera for Sale
Berlin in the not too distant future: the city has lost the battle against international investors, has been upgraded. The Neuköllner Opera House also became a share deal – the new owner of the building invites to an exclusive music theatre event for a widely travelled audience: authentic music theatre as it used to be…
To 15. May 2020.
ORPHEUS OPTIMAL
ORPHEUS OPTIMAL
An evening of failures large and small, setbacks and of dealing with grief – we follow Orpheus into the realm of the dead and save what can be saved.
To 31. May 2019.
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.
Rette uns, Okichi!
Rette uns, Okichi!
Okichi is supposed to save everything: the modern government, the old empire and, most of all, the entire country of Japan. Unfortunately, this girl neither wants to grant the government’s wish and serve as a geisha to the U.S. consul nor interest in dealing with the gaijin with a swift stab to the back, as Yoshida, a samurai loyal to the empire demands. What to do?..European Premier 18.02. 2017
To 14. January 2018.
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.
Stella
Stella
Stella is 20 years old when Hitler decrees that Berlin is to be finally made “free from Jews”. Stella is blond and young and beautiful and wants to become a singer. Or a film star, like Marlene Dietrich. But the Goldschlag family does not receive a visa. Instead of her dream of a big career, Stella gets a yellow star
To 04. November 2018.
Take it or leave it!
Take it or leave it!
Two Award-Winning Works from the 2018 Berlin Opera Prize
May 25 and 26, 8:00 pm, St. Elizabeth Church (Mitte)
To 26. May 2018.
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.