Lighting Designer

Do people need redemption? Between heavenly choirs of angels with a radiant brass aureole and a hellish cauldron of witches with the gloomy pealing of bells, the world’s spheres take on a concrete, haunting shape in the sound space of the opera „Mefistofele“. For centuries, many different artworks have been inspired by the tale of Faust, which explores the complex relationship between God, the Devil, man and woman. Who seduces whom to do what, and how can we achieve redemption?

Mefistofele

Semperoper Dresden

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!

Sweeney Todd

Schiller Theater

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.

Hansel and Gretel

Don Giovanni knows what he wants, how to get it and how to throw an incredibly decadent party. Servant Leporello groans under his master's seductive skills, as he has to pay the price for everything afterwards. When Don Giovanni murders the Commendatore in a duel for the honor of his daughter Donna Anna, Leporello has had enough too. Don Giovanni loves to seduce, trick and play for his life, until suddenly, young and wild, he has to face death...

Don Giovanni/Requiem

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth. Derrick Inouye conducts two performances in May.

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Salome

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Mark Twains Kinderbuchklassiker über Freundschaft, wilde Abenteuer, das Erwachsenwerden und die erste zarte Liebe mit der Musik des Deutsch-Amerikaners Kurt Weill.

Tom Sawyer

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan; German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.

Olaf Freese

Lighting Designer

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 28, 2024 - Jan 4, 2025

Sweeney Todd · Komische Oper Berlin

Jan 25 - Apr 21, 2025

Hansel and Gretel · Komische Oper Berlin

Apr 27 - May 23, 2025

Don Giovanni/Requiem · Komische Oper Berlin

Apr 29 - May 24, 2025

Salome · The Metropolitan Opera

May 8 - Jun 8, 2025

Tom Sawyer · Komische Oper Berlin

Past events

Sep 28 - Oct 24, 2024

Mefistofele · Semperoper Dresden

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