The first premiere of the season on the State Opera stage will be Jacques Offenbach's opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann – and the Opera Children's Orchestra will also be performing this imaginative music. Excerpts from Offenbach's last work will be heard. The program will be complemented by music by other great French musical theater composers of the 19th century.

Concert Opera Children's Orchestra

Bebelplatz

The will to resist the Roman is growing among the Galls, and Norma should finally give the sign for an uprising against the oppressor in the name of the god of war. But she hesitates due to a conflict of conscience: despite her vow of chastity, Norma has two children, hidden from the public, fathered by the Roman Pollione. When she finds out that Pollione loves the novice Adalgisa and wants to run away with her, her situation seems hopeless. If she reveals her double life, she risks not only her own standing, but that of her children as well.

Norma

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

At the age of almost 80, Giuseppe Verdi, who had already achieved mythical status, once again achieved sensational success with this opera. Using the brilliant libretto of the much younger Arrigo Boito as a starting point, he created a masterpiece of comic opera after five decades of tragic works. Although it is based on the same material as Otto Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Verdi succeeded in writing a distinct, subversive version of the comedy.

Falstaff

Mit dem Opernkinderorchester ergänzen die Staatsoper Unter den Linden und die Staatskapelle Berlin das große Engagement der Musikschulen des Landes Berlin und ermöglichen jährlich ca. 90 Kindern im Altern von 7 bis 13 Jahren einzigartige Erfahrungen auf einer international renommierten Bühne.


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Konzert Opernkinder­orchester

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Staatsoper für alle - Opernkinder­orchester und Kinderchor

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.

Giuseppe Mentuccia

Events

Past events

4 - 6 Jun, 2026

Concert Opera Children's Orchestra · Staatskapelle Berlin

1 - 13 May, 2026

Norma · Staatsoper Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Faust by Gounod

Staatskapelle Berlin

Conductor in Norma by Bellini

Staatsoper Berlin

Conductor in Orpheus in the Underworld by Offenbach

Staatskapelle Berlin

Conductor in Tosca by Puccini

Staatsoper Berlin

Conductor in Falstaff by Verdi

Staatsoper Berlin

Conductor in Les contes d'Hoffmann by Offenbach

Staatskapelle Berlin

Conductor in Scènes hongroises by Massenet

Staatskapelle Berlin

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