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Die Zauberflöte at.. Union Berlin?
I walked into a football stadium braced for confrontation, and came out converted. On community, belonging, and what opera might learn from Köpenick
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Gran Gala de Zarzuela at Deutsche Oper Berlin
A 20th-century flamenco legend on castanets, a conductor stealing a verse, a genre I'd never once encountered - and a door into Spanish opera I didn't know I'd been missing.
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Parsifal at Deutsche Oper Berlin
A curtain opening onto a cross, living tableaus, and an evening so unexpectedly moving it has stayed with me ever since.
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L'Italiana in Algeri at Deutsche Oper Berlin
A lucha libre mask on the curtain, two gyms, one wrestling ring, and Rossini completely dismantled—then rebuilt into something that actually works today.
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Nurejew at Staatsballett Berlin
A gay Soviet defector, a ballet banned in Russia, a director now based in Berlin—and a premiere that felt like the most important cultural event of the season.
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Violanta at Deutsche Oper Berlin
Psychoanalysis as science fiction: rooms within rooms, each one a door into what you've buried—some doors you open, and some you don't.
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Tristan und Isolde at Deutsche Oper Berlin (2025)
Between night and light, between longing and annihilation, lies a space where love becomes both wound and salvation.
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Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at Deutsche Oper Berlin
A libertarian fever dream becomes a masterclass in why community is our only defense against collapse—and fascism.
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Werther (concertante) at Deutsche Oper Berlin
A stirring Werther finale doubled as farewell and protest, as Berlin’s mayor applauded opera amid massive cultural budget cuts.
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Don Carlo at Deutsche Oper Berlin
A meditation on individual agency and love, caught and ground down between the machinery of faith and the weight of worldly power.
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Andrea Chenier at Deutsche Oper Berlin
Power tilts, collapses, and reshapes in this searing production—a physical meditation on revolution, wealth, and who gets to fall.
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World Premiere of Lash – Acts of Love at Deutsche Oper Berlin
A surreal meditation on loss and memory, Lash lingers in the echo of a vanished presence—fractured voices, flickering images, and the intimate textures of a body learning to live again.