Productions
Move to mountains with NEW SONGS FROM THE EARTH, found a free state on an oil rig with RADIOLAND, encounter the CLUB OF DEAD COMPONISTS in a desert – three options in the 22/23 season. Welcome to a world of transformation!
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. July 2025.
HUNTER
HUNTER
A group of eight players meet on a basketball court. The referee blows the whistle. The game starts. Something bounces. It could be a ball. It could also be a beat. Are we witnessing a joyful game? Or are we part of a hunt for humanity? For HUNTER Flemish director, composer and multidisciplinary explorer Liesa […]
To 05. October 2025.
STUDIO 66
STUDIO 66
6 artists × 11 minutes = Studio 66!To kick off the new season, Neuköllner Oper invites six solo artists and collectives who will appear in various productions during the 2025/26 season to present 11-minute miniature performances. These pieces offer insight into their artistic approaches – and a preview of what’s to come in the upcoming […]
To 14. September 2025.
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.
1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF
1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF
What does it feel like to be abducted by aliens, then transported back to Earth and continue your life as if nothing ever happened? Philip Glass and David Henry Hwang explore this question in their 1988 science-fiction chamber opera 1000 Airplanes on the Roof.Director Paige Eakin Young transfers the work of the godfather of minimalist […]
To 09. November 2025.
DIGITAL SINS #4: LUST & GLUTTONY
DIGITAL SINS #4: LUST & GLUTTONY
Don Giovanni (from Mozart’s world-famous opera) is in despair: What’s going on here, in this new, digitally subjugated world?
To 18. November 2025.
