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The Pippi Longstocking team is working on another great children's book classic: The Little Witch has been one of the most popular children's books in this country for generations. Composer Franz Wittenbrink captures the title character's quest to become a good witch in tones that are as stirring as they are touching - including market life, a forest animal choir and, of course, Walpurgis Night! Also on hand: the children's choir of the Komische Oper Berlin.

Unterhaltsam ohne jeden Skrupel und mörderisch glamourös! Inszeniert als unwiderstehlichen Sog hinein in das verruchte Chicago der 1920er Jahre entführt der Musicalklassiker Chicago ins trubelige Tagwerk egomanisch getriebener Staranwälte und eiskalter Möchtegern-Celebrities, die für ein bisschen Gesehenwerden auch mal über Leichen gehen. Mehr als 6500 leuchtende Glühbirnen, funkelnde Kostüme und Choreografien mit Strahlkraft machen Barrie Koskys Inszenierung zu einer Hommage an das Showbiz und das Vaudeville. Das Broadway-Musical über zwei todschicke, unschlagbar schlaue und berechnende Frauen entfaltet so all seine künstlerischen Qualitäten in der originalen, orchestral großformatigen Ur-Fassung von 1975.

In this great musical on the stage of the Schillertheater, director Barrie Kosky proves himself to be a master of the macabre. A musical thriller from Stephen Sondheim that is as bitter as it is lustfully gruesome, about the bloody revenge of the legendary London hairdresser Sweeney Todd. At the side of the title character as the meat pie queen Mrs. Lovett: Dagmar Manzel!

Lovers in closets, jumping out of windows, nighttime rendezvous: Based on the text of his beloved poet Lorenzo Da Ponte, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed a masterpiece with all the ingredients of a perfect romantic (tragic) comedy - directed by Kirill Serebrennikov.

Barrie Kosky's The Magic Flute takes us into its own fantastic world of images. Tamino falls in love with a portrait of Pamina and sets out to save her. Threatened by dragons, enchanted by pink elephants, dancing constellations and flying butterfly boys, The Magic Flute becomes a magical road movie on the way to true love. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera seems to raise more puzzles and questions than it provides answers. It is not for nothing that the "title heroine" of this classic opera is an instrument - because in the end, only music seems to find the right language for the depths of basic human experiences before which logic and reason capitulate. The British theater troupe "1927" and Barrie Kosky tell the story with the help of projected animations as a living picture book in a "deliciously absurd mixture of silent and animated film." [BERLINER MORGENPOST]

Nach sechs Jahren Abenteuerfahrt weiß Robinson, dass nicht nur räuberische Piraten, sondern auch Inselbewohner:innen mit kannibalistischen Tendenzen – Vegetarier, bis sie einen Missionar trafen – ihm den schönen Traum von der weiten Welt zur Hölle machen können. Zum Glück ist da Freitag. Er schwärmt nicht nur des Nachts gemeinsam mit Robinson für die Liebe, sondern ist außerdem besser gewappnet, um auf einer Insel am Orinoco zu überleben. Edwige, Toby und Suzanne sind Robinson aus Bristol nachgereist, wurden von Pirat:innen verfolgt, sind auf der Insel gestrandet und erstmal ihrem alten Nachbarn aus Bristol in die Arme gelaufen. Dieser ist zum kannibalistischen Meisterkoch geworden, der frohen Mutes bereits in der tödlichen Brühe rührt … Mit rauschenden Meeressinfonien und wahnwitzigen Koloraturen wird Daniel Defoes Roman zu einer meisterhaften Offenbachiade. Ein semikonzertanter Spaß zur Weihnachtszeit, der Groß und Klein mundet!

The catchy and heart-rending melodies of Jewish Klezmer music are the perfect start to the new year - we are sure of that. And Mahler too. Oh yes, Mahler is actually Klezmer! Because the musical language of the Bohemian-born Jewish composer is deeply rooted in the folk music tradition of his homeland. The American Uri Caine and his Klezmer band have known this for a long time and, together with the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin under the direction of General Music Director James Gaffigan, make us sob inside and tap our feet outside. Great emotions at the interface of the musical worlds at the start of the year. Just let yourself fall in and take the first steps strengthened into the new year 2025 - the year in which everything will be better. Happy New Year!

Life is great! And it is cold... on Christmas Eve around 1830, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. The bohemians do not have enough money for the rent, the firewood or the feast. They may be penniless, but they are full of zest for life and their hearts are ablaze - until the finality of death breaks into their easy life...

Engelbert Humperdinck's great fairytale opera for the whole family is back on the stage of the Komische Oper Berlin! In the new production by Dagmar Manzel, the story of the siblings in the forest comes to life again: full of childlike imagination, poetic wit and lots of magic.

Glamour, beats and sequins meet autocratic rulers, archaic rituals meet electronic sounds and old acquaintances meet new discoveries, in the good old Komische Oper tradition of daring to strike a balance between pop and experimentation, affirmation and criticism. In the third edition of Schall&Rausch, the Komische Oper Berlin brings opposites together and (un)known faces together!