Exciting listening experiences are guaranteed when chief conductor Ivan Repušić takes you acoustically to his home country of Croatia. This time, the contemporary composer Frano Parać will be introduced - also in person on stage: a sound magician and wanderer between worlds who transformed from a rock musician to a professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music. His biblical opera Judita is based on the Croatian national epic of the same name by Marko Marulić and combines modern musical language with south-eastern European tradition.

Judita

Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding

It is one of the classics in the Staatsoper’s repertoire: August Everding’s production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The production is unique for its reconstruction of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s 1816 set design for what was then the Berlin Court Opera on Unter den Linden – including the legendary starry sky for the Queen of the Night, which has become an icon of scenography and continues to enchant audiences.

The Magic Flute (Everding)

Bebelplatz

In a villa by the sea in a summer resort, where Figaro is on holiday, emotions run high, old grudges are settled, and intrigues spun. At the end of this "great day", however, there is forgiveness. Once again, love triumphs and everyone is happy – the Count and Countess, Figaro and Susanna, Bartolo and Marcellina, and even Cherubino, who had hitherto stirred everything up.

The Marriage of Figaro

For more than six decades, the chamber concerts by musicians from the Staatskapelle have been a constant feature of the Staatsoper programme. This season, ensembles have come together to select music from different periods, styles and cultures under the theme of ‘playing together’. On eleven dates in the Apollosaal, which with its special atmosphere is an ideal venue for chamber music and communicative interaction between players and listeners, works from the Baroque to the present day will be performed in constellations that are both exciting and harmonious, in which tangible contrasts play just as important a role as a common resonance and the balancing of opposites.

Kam­mer­kon­zert VIII

Apollosaal

In the early 1930s, for Richard Strauss — approaching 70 — it was an auspicious moment when Stefan Zweig, a renowned author known for his artful, profound novels and plays, proposed writing a new libretto. In a mutually inspiring collaboration, they created a truly “comic opera” based on a play by Ben Jonson from the Shakespeare period filled not only with striking characters, tempo, and wit, but profound reflection as well. “The opera is a perfect, but perhaps for the twenty-first century,” according to Strauss himself, who in a difficult, dark time created a work of creative compositional virtuosity and a relaxed sense of humor, a story of people longing for rest or who lose themselves in busyness. This will be director Jan Philipp Gloger’s debut and it will be Christian Thielemann’s first new production as general music director, a position once held by Strauss himself.

Evelin Novak

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 29, 2024 - Jan 4, 2025

The Magic Flute (Everding) · Staatsoper Berlin

Jan 27 - Feb 21, 2025

The Marriage of Figaro · Staatsoper Berlin

Apr 28, 2025

Kammerkonzert VIII · Staatskapelle Berlin

19 - 24 Jul, 2025

The Silent Woman · Staatsoper Berlin

Past events

Dec 1, 2024

Judita · Münchner Rundfunkorchester

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