The heart is an especially popular symbol as the physical locus of human feelings, longings, and pain. A man would like to live without the painful feelings in his heart; his lover wants to unite with his heart, while transcendental powers would also like to win it over. The composer Matthias Pintscher invents overwhelming and gripping sounds for the mysterious and strange events that take place in his opera Das kalte Herz (The Cold Heart).

Das kalte Herz

Bebelplatz

The one who has strayed from the right path – that is Violetta Valéry, who leads a life as a noble courtesan in Paris between splendor and misery. Everything is mere play and illusion, even love, until Alfredo Germont awakens true feelings in her. Happiness, however, is a rare visitor and only short-lived: Violetta, suffering from consumption, is first humiliated and then, after a final flicker of vitality, expires.

La traviata

Two couples in different configurations, motivated by a bet about alleged or actual infidelity, are at the centre of Mozart’s Così fan tutte ("All Women Do It") with the cryptic subtitle "La scuola degli amanti" ("The School for Lovers"). The spirited words by librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte were enlivened with equally thoughtful music by Mozart, who by then was a veteran opera composer.

Così fan tutte

Anknüpfend an die Premiere von György Kurtágs Oper Fin de partie (nach dem Drama von Samuel Beckett), die im Januar 2025 in der Staatsoper Unter den Linden stattfindet, widmen sich Dirigent Finnegan Downie Dear und die Staatskapelle einem weiteren Werk dieses bedeutenden ungarischen Komponisten. In What is the word wird der gesamte Pierre Boulez Saal zur Spielfläche für diese faszinierende Komposition mit Worten Samuel Becketts von 1990/91. Eingerahmt wird das Werk mit Musik von Béla Bartók und Franz Schubert, die in besonderer Weise klassische Formen reflektieren. Schuberts 5. Sinfonie knüpft an die große Tradition der Wiener Klassik an.

Konzert im Pierre Boulez Saal

Pierre Boulez Saal

The Viennese aristocracy are no strangers to family feuds: boorish Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau interrupts the morning tête-à-tête between his cousin, the Marschallin, and her young lover Octavian, to ask for her help with his wedding plans, which are steered more by financial gain than love. Ochs does not suspect that Octavian himself, who is chosen to deliver the engagement rose, will eventually fall in love with the bride.

Der Rosenkavalier

Forests are burning, glaciers are melting, the world's oceans are being poisoned and the 1.5 degree target seems unattainable. Helping to shape the transition to a sustainable society is not only a matter for business and research, but also for the cultural sector. The Staatsoper Unter den Linden is focussing on this social challenge with the music and discourse format "Sustainable Listening", which will run for several seasons: a walk-in climate capsule will become a place for impulses, exchange and participation with climate experts, activists and visionaries on various sustainability topics. The centrepiece of the new series is the concert performance: music played by musicians from the Staatskapelle Berlin,

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Sustainable Listening #5

Apollosaal

Mit dem Opernkinderorchester ergänzen die Staatsoper Unter den Linden und die Staatskapelle Berlin das große Engagement der Musikschulen des Landes Berlin. Unter der Leitung von Giuseppe Mentuccia und gemeinsam mit Mitgliedern der Staatskapelle sowie Instrumentalpädagog:innen erarbeiten rund 90 Kinder Orchesterstücke und Ausschnitte aus dem großen Opernrepertoire. Zusammen mit der Sopranistin Maria Kokareva und dem Kinderchor der Staatsoper präsentiert das Opernkinderorchester ein moderiertes Konzert für Schulklassen und Familien mit Werken von Antonín Dvořák sowie erstmalig eine Uraufführung, komponiert von Marius Felix Lange.

Konzert Opernkinder­orchester

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Staatskapelle Berlin

The wealthy Count Almaviva has won the heart of the beautiful Rosina under the pseudonym 'Lindoro'. But Rosina’s jealous guardian Dr Bartolo wishes to marry his ward himself and so tries to keep her suitors away. Fortunately, 'Lindoro' is helped by the cunning barber Figaro, who – more or less ingeniously – weaves a web of entanglements and masquerades.

Il barbiere di Siviglia

With his poetic opera The Cunning Little Vixen, Leoš Janáček brought nothing less than the eternal cycle of becoming and passing to the stage. It tells the life story of the young, rebellious vixen Bystrouška, or Sharp Ears, who is captured by the forester and starts a revolution at his homestead before she succeeds in escaping. Back in the freedom of the forest, she founds a family with a fox and is then shot by a poacher. The seemingly so civilized human world looks wistfully at wild nature, which follows its own laws of life and love.

Adriane Queiroz

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 20 - Mar 21, 2026

Il barbiere di Siviglia · Staatsoper Berlin

Feb 28 - Mar 15, 2026

Das schlaue Füchslein · Staatsoper Berlin

Past events

11 - 23 Jan, 2026

Das kalte Herz · Staatsoper Berlin

Oct 30, 2025

La traviata · Staatsoper Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

Annina in La traviata by Verdi

Staatsoper Berlin

Despina in Così fan tutte by Mozart

Staatsoper Berlin

Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini

Staatsoper Berlin

Frau Pásek, Schopfhenne in The Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček

Staatsoper Berlin

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