With The Flying Dutchman, controversial theatre director Milo Rau is tackling the work and Richard Wagner’s oeuvre for the first time, using the ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

05.11.2026 – 20.02.2027

Sounds like those Richard Strauss unleashed in Elektra with a gigantic orchestra were unprecedented until the opera’s premiere in 1909. And the ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

06.11.2026 – 17.11.2026

Was bleibt von einer Familie, wenn ihre Heimat immer wieder verschwindet? The Relatives folgt der Familiengeschichte des Komponisten Sergej Newski. ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

08.11.2026

„What is our life? A game! Good and evil are merely dreams; work and honesty, nothing but lies,“ Hermann reflects fatalistically in The Queen of ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

13.11.2026

Max loves to read. Now a book written over 150 years ago has captivated him: In 80 Tagen um die Welt by Jules Verne, known in English as Around the ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

15.11.2026 – 18.04.2027

With The Magic Flute, Mozart wanted to write a piece for everyone – the blend of Viennese folk theater, Singspiel, and Italian opera makes it a ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

16.11.2026 – 15.01.2027

Mozart’s singspiel The Abduction from the Seraglio (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) may at first glance appear fairytale-like and almost a bit ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

03.12.2026 – 18.12.2026

A garret in Paris on a cold winter’s day around Christmas. Rodolfo, a writer, and Marcello, a painter, are working on their masterpieces. They have ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

11.12.2026 – 18.05.2027

8. September 2026: Sinfoniekonzert: Licht auf Parsifal Besetzung: Parsifal: Attilio Glaser Gurnemanz: Tareq Nazmi Trompete: Paul ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

16.12.2026 – 07.02.2027

With Hansel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck created a fairy-tale opera that has captivated children and families for over 100 years, not just ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

23.12.2026 – 09.01.2027

Isolation and loneliness have become part of our collective experience, especially since the coronavirus pandemic. Violetta, the young courtesan, ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

26.12.2026 – 20.06.2027

For over 20 years, the musicians of the big band have been dedicating themselves to Strauss, Verdi, contemporary music, and jazz, showcasing the ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

01.01.2027

A contemporary and topical opera for our time: When US President Richard Nixon lands on Chinese soil one foggy February morning in 1972, the world ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

10.01.2027 – 30.01.2027

A digital labyrinth: Tens of thousands of digital posts are made around the world every second. Posts are put up, Tweets are written, videos are ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

22.01.2027 – 27.01.2027

If he were to approve this play, he might as well tear down the Bastille – so said King Louis XVI when he was presented with Le mariage de Figaro ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

28.01.2027 – 09.02.2027

A clown whose laughter catches in his throat, a ruthless lover, a hitman with a warm voice: In Rigoletto, Verdi assembles bawdy farce, profound ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

29.01.2027 – 19.02.2027

In times when the world seems complicated and the economic situation is dire, the longing for someone who supposedly offers simple solutions to ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

14.02.2027 – 07.03.2027

Three men who make a bet. Two women who are the objects of this bet. Don Alfonso has thought up a perfidious game to test the faithfulness of these ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

28.02.2027 – 15.03.2027

«Free she was born, free she will die»: To preserve her freedom, Carmen even accepts her own death. With her uncompromising will to autonomy, she ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

04.03.2027 – 12.03.2027

Together with the Berlin-based Zafraan Ensemble, the musically playful and versatile theatre artist Thom Luz and Titus Engel, conductor-in-residence ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

05.03.2027 – 13.03.2027

E. T. A. Hoffmann called Don Giovanni «the opera of all operas.» The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard even included the piece in his major work, ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

14.03.2027 – 28.03.2027

This oratorio tells the story of the last days in the life of Jesus Christ. Exactly three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach set the Gospel ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

25.03.2027 – 04.04.2027

What is worth living and dying for – love, art, freedom? This question lies at the heart of Tosca, uniquely blending musical brilliance with a ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

01.04.2027 – 30.06.2027

Few figures in world literature embody so many tragic contradictions: Otello is both perpetrator and victim, hunter and prey – the bloodthirsty ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

16.04.2027 – 02.05.2027

Oscar Wilde’s drama about the biblical princess who has the prophet Jochanaan beheaded so she can kiss his dead mouth unfolds a tableau of human ...

Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin

17.04.2027 – 27.04.2027