How terrible must life be if you can’t laugh? Sergei Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges is about a king who wishes to help his sick son. But only one thing can cure the malady of the heir to the throne: laughter. While the doctors are trying their luck, Truffaldino and Fata Morgana get into a fight, during which the latter is knocked over. When her mishap causes the Prince to laugh, she quickly places a curse on him: he is destined to fall in love with three oranges. The Prince and Truffaldino immediately set off on a hair-raising journey that finally takes them to a desert – a trip that can be seen as a balancing act between fantasy and reality. Here parody is tinged with tragedy and a touch of the grotesque.

The Love for Three Oranges

Semperoper Dresden

Johann Strauss’s »Die Fledermaus« from 1874 is a masterpiece of Viennese operetta: In order to take revenge on his friend Eisenstein, Dr. Falke (alias Die Fledermaus) stages a game of mistaken identities at Prince Orlofsky’s ball, where the guests include a Marquis and a Chevalier, a Hungarian countess and budding artists. However, nobody is who they claim to be. The masquerade and trickery end with the entire group of partygoers in prison. When the masks finally fall and extramarital shenanigans come to light, Falke’s revenge is complete. This production by Günter Krämer has been delighting Semperoper audiences since 2003 with classic numbers such as the Watch Duet, the Czárdás or Adele’s »Mein Herr Marquis« as well as the witty dialogue, updated with some amusing contemporary references. With diamond-sharp irony amidst the champagne glasses, »Die Fledermaus« is a great evening’s entertainment… and not just at the New Year!

Die Fledermaus

Classical art songs and modern poetry – lieder recital meets poetry reading in this series of events organised jointly with the Haus für Poesie Berlin. Each of the four evening events held in the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin will feature a poet reading original works whose themes complement the songs on the programme.

Songs and Poets: Drink soul! Drink loneliness!

Deutsche Oper Berlin

King Henry I, “the Fowler”, is in Brabant to hold the Assizes and assert the nobles’ duty to provide militias to assist in military campaigns. Since the death of the Duke of Brabant, however, the succession has been a source of conflict. His children, Gottfried and Elsa, are wards of Count Telramund, but Gottfried has vanished and Telramund suspects Elsa of having killed him. A duel between her accuser and Elsa’s champion is organised to decide the issue. At the last moment a knight appears in a boat drawn by a swan, ready to defend Elsa’s honour. He is also prepared to take her as his wife on condition that she never ask him his name or where he hails from. Elsa agrees and the knight defeats Telramund.

Lohengrin

The Antichrist makes his entrance into a godless world. Sent by Lucifer into the world, he adopts many guises. Mankind is tested and tempted by pride, lust, lies, despondency and hatred in an “all-against-all altercation”. Langgaard’s opera is suffused with fin de siècle atmosphere and pessimism, warning of catastrophe and denouncing the vices of the modern age: egotism, arrogance, frivolity. Langgaard, though, was also an optimist, convinced of the transformative, transcendental power of art and the importance of music as a thread connecting people to the godhead. So it is that the world is freed of all evil and sorrow in the culminating chorus scene in ANTIKRIST.

Antichrist

EMERSION concludes the two-part Hinterhalt series of the 2024/25 season at the Tischlerei. Thematically following on from IMMERSION (September 2024), director Ariane Kareev looks for connecting elements and parallels between the new productions of the entire season and continues the themes raised from today's perspective. The result is a transdisciplinary evening with contemporary artistry, real-time visuals and techno.

Flurina Stucki

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 7, 2024 - Jan 3, 2025

The Love for Three Oranges · Semperoper Dresden

Dec 31, 2024 - Jan 17, 2025

Die Fledermaus · Semperoper Dresden

Feb 4 - May 7, 2025

Songs and Poets: Drink soul! Drink loneliness! · Deutsche Oper Berlin

6 - 20 Apr, 2025

Lohengrin · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Apr 24 - May 2, 2025

Antichrist · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Sechs Lieder by Strauss

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Rosaline in Die Fledermaus by Strauss

Semperoper Dresden

Singer in Four Last Songs by Strauss

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Singer in Seven Early Songs by Berg

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Elsa in Lohengrin by Wagner

Deutsche Oper Berlin

The Great Whore in Antikrist by Langgaard

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Singer in Nachtstücke by Reimann

Deutsche Oper Berlin

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