Komische Oper Berlin
Don Giovanni/Requiem at Komische Oper Berlin
A hallucinatory journey through guilt, lust, and liberation—set in a liminal world where spirits linger, identities blur, and music becomes a final act of grace.
WAMozart
Staatsoper Berlin
Die Zauberflöte (Everding) at Staatsoper Berlin
The production's amalgamation of historical anchor and modern context is very fitting for the Staatsoper, which is also no longer the house that it was when Schinkel‘s Zauberflöte was first staged there.
Konzerthaus Berlin
Die Zauberflöte—freed from prejudice at Konzerthaus Berlin
In our lifetime, some of the operas we love and cherish will enter their 3rd or even 4th century of continuous production. So far, it has been artistic liberty in staging these operas which has kept them interesting.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Die Zauberflöte at Deutsche Oper Berlin
This opera is an excellent case study of how social conventions have evolved over the past 233 years since its first performance, when gender roles, understandings of love and marriage, and authority in general were understood vastly differently from what we have (more or less) agreed upon today.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Don Giovanni at Deutsche Oper Berlin
Don Giovanni tells a story not just about toxic patriarchy, but about an abuse of power displayed in the (sexual) oppression of women and working-class people at the whim of aristocratic caprice.