Jacques Offenbach composed more than 100 operas and operettas, most of them with unique wit and biting satire, original and inspired. At the end of his illustrious career in Paris, which stretched over five decades, he turned to his most ambitious operatic work Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), an opéra fantastique based on a play that premiered in 1881.

Les Contes d’Hoffmann

Bebelplatz

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)

Anton Bruckner achieved lasting success during his lifetime with his 4th Symphony - the name "Romantic" certainly contributed to this. The musical sceneries unfolded by Bruckner are easy to comprehend when listening, the tonal upswings are of haunting effect. In the first months of his forced exile, Kurt Weill composed the ballet music for "The Seven Deadly Sins" in Paris in the spring of 1933 to a text by Bertolt Brecht - seven stages of a story about two young women in the American South, with clear references to the popular music of the 1920s.

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Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Die Zauberflöte (Everding)

The tragic drama of an oppressed person from society’s lower classes: Wozzeck, a hardworking but penniless soldier, is increasingly losing control of his life and his mind. He is seized by increasingly violent psychotic episodes, until in a delusion, he stabs and kills his girlfriend Marie.

Wozzeck

When the revolutionary and painter Mario Cavaradossi secretly attempts to help a political fugitive to escape the city of Rome, his lover, the famed singer Floria Tosca, believes he is cheating on her with another woman. Her jealousy is exploited by Scarpia, the unscrupulous chief of police, in order to help him capture Cavaradossi. Scarpia then makes Tosca an offer: if she gives herself to him for one night, he will release her lover.

Tosca

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.

Das schlaue Füchslein

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.

Florian Hoffmann

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 16, 2025 - Mar 22, 2026

Les Contes d’Hoffmann · Staatsoper Berlin

Dec 13, 2025 - May 24, 2026

Die Zauberflöte (Everding) · Staatsoper Berlin

Dec 14, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026

Wozzeck · Staatsoper Berlin

Jan 15 - Feb 13, 2026

Tosca · Staatsoper Berlin

Feb 28 - Mar 15, 2026

Das schlaue Füchslein · Staatsoper Berlin

Past events

Nov 16, 2025 - Mar 22, 2026

Les Contes d’Hoffmann · Staatsoper Berlin

Dec 29, 2024 - Jan 4, 2025

The Magic Flute (Everding) · Staatsoper Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte by Mozart

Staatsoper Berlin

Andres in Wozzeck by Berg

Staatsoper Berlin

Haushofmeister bei der Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Strauss

Staatsoper Berlin

Spoletta in Tosca by Puccini

Staatsoper Berlin

Der Schulmeister, Mücke in The Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček

Staatsoper Berlin

Spalanzani in Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Offenbach

Staatsoper Berlin

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