Deutsche Oper Berlin
By stripping away the fairy tale, Kratzer reveals something far more human: the complexities of relationships, the weight of expectation, and the courage it takes to carve one’s own path.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Spuck’s HOLLÄNDER strips away excess and focuses on the psychological and emotional turmoil at the opera’s core. The production’s minimalism enhances rather than diminishes the drama, drawing the audience into a world where obsession, fate, and redemption blur together.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
By placing TURANDOT within a rigidly controlled dystopia—where press is restricted, police surveil the public, and dissent is crushed—the opera’s otherwise fantastical premise gains a sense of political logic.
Staatsballett Berlin
What I most enjoy about Forsythe‘s work is the androgyny of the choreographies: often, male and female dancers make very similar movements, equally fierce and fluid, breaking some gendered conventions the perception of dance.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
While the production may not have intended to make a political statement, the parallels were personally difficult to ignore. This serves as a reminder that opera, like all art, is inherently political, and exists in the context of our reality.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
While it might appear that this is a tale for children, the story conveys very adult topics like sexuality, loss of a loved one, revenge, unfulfilled relationships, and regret late in life. As so often with children’s fairytales, two stories are being told in parallel.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Originally written in 1825 to commemorate the aforementioned coronation, IL VIAGGIO A REIMS is less of a traditional narrative opera and rather a “scenic cantata”—a glittering excuse to showcase the greatest vocal talent of its time.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Beyond its bohemian charm, the opera is a classically beautiful yet tragic tale of love, jealousy, betrayal, emotional turmoil, reconciliation, and death.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
This ZWERG is not just a tragic story—it is an uncompromising reflection on how society’s gaze destroys the vulnerable. The production is a theatrical and emotional tour de force that leaves the audience reeling.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
The production doesn’t shy away from brutality in its portrayal of the Macbeths’ relentless climb to power: the violence is disturbingly visceral.
Staatsballett Berlin
In a very intimate moment, the ensemble's members introduce themselves to the audience one by one by sharing a fact–some basic, some quite moving, and some with great comical timing–about themselves.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Tosca is a thriller in which an unsuspecting artist couple living in an increasingly authoritarian Rome is caught up in larger-than-life (geo)political machinations and becomes collateral damage at the hands of a politician abusing the powers of his office for personal gain.