Staatsoper Berlin
In Tcherniakov’s haunting production, a decaying ritual unfolds in a ruined chapel. A lost outsider, a cursed woman, and a broken brotherhood navigate guilt, grace, and belief in this starkly intimate post-apocalyptic vision.
Staatsoper Berlin
A chilling new Norma at Staatsoper Berlin sets Bellini’s classic in a fascist-era factory, exploring art, resistance, and power. With AI-generated imagery and bold visuals, Barkhatov’s staging draws urgent parallels between past authoritarianism and today’s crises.
Staatsballett Berlin
The Staatsballett Berlin’s Swan Lake captivates with grandeur and drama, reimagining the classic as a tale of power, obsession, and fate. Hauntingly beautiful and richly layered, it’s a mesmerizing take on a beloved masterpiece.
Staatsoper Berlin
This concertante performance offered a glimpse into how operas were staged in the mid-18th century, a stark contrast to the productions we are accustomed to today.
Staatsoper Berlin
This ELEKTRA doesn’t just tell a story of vengeance and trauma—it makes you feel the weight of generations of women bound by duty, grief, and the remnants of a shattered world.
Staatsoper Berlin
Visually, the production is rich with unsettling imagery that redefines Rusalka’s nature. Though traces of her original water-nymph identity remain, here, she is something far more uncanny.
Staatsoper Berlin
Beneath the aristocratic elegance and comedic disguises, this is an opera about people—flawed, passionate, and full of contradictions. It speaks of trust, longing, and the challenge of overcoming one’s own fears.
Staatsoper Berlin
Thematically, FIN DE PARTIE explores the absurdity of life, isolation and dependency, the cyclical nature of existence, and the complex dynamics of physical disability and human relationships.
Staatsballett Berlin
Seeing two ballets by the same choreographer in different opera houses within a week is something that can only happen in Berlin. Culture here truly is the gift that keeps on giving!
Staatsoper Berlin
This production is a time capsule of 2010s Germany, brimming with the optimism and unity of a nation celebrating its post-reunification identity. Yet viewed through the lens of 2024, it also serves as a stark reminder of how fragile that optimism has proven.
Staatsoper Berlin
Andreas Schager, Anja Kampe, and René Pape gave a POWERFUL performance which, while not fully staged, was emotionally entirely convincing.
Staatsoper Berlin
Instead of having two aristocratic families pitted against each other, this story becomes one of class conflict between wealthy upper classers and fringe-of-society street punks.