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When social roles and values ​​are renegotiated, existential questions arise: Who am I? Who can I be? And what can I do to be a good person? In The Greek Passion , the residents of a Greek village are painfully confronted with this after they have assigned the roles for the upcoming passion play. When a group of refugees appears and asks for help, the overwhelming feeling grows. The Greek Passion deals with the most important themes of our coexistence: humanity and charity. With Greek folklore, Orthodox liturgy and large choral tableaux, it tells the story in a musically folk-like way, making it one of the most magnificent and haunting operas of the 20th century.

The Greek Passion

Opernplatz

When the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi decided in 1853 to make a courtesan the heroine of an opera, it was more than unusual; indeed, it was scandalous. Verdi was inspired to create his opera La traviata by the true life story of Marie Duplessis, who had died only a few years earlier – a story immortalized by Alexandre Dumas the Younger in his novel The Lady of the Camellias . Like Dumas, however, Verdi is not concerned with depicting reality, but rather with telling a story, exploring the tightrope walk between fate and self-determination. 

La traviata

City Theatre, Bern

"I lived for art, I lived for love." In a dictatorship, the singer Floria Tosca fights for her great love, the painter Cavaradossi. Threatened by the ruthless police chief Baron Scarpia, she sees no other way out than to kill him. However, her love for Cavaradossi remains unfulfilled: contrary to their prior agreement, his execution is not staged, but the bullet strikes him dead. In despair, Tosca throws herself to her death. 

Tosca

“Viva la libertà!” sing the protagonists at the end of the first act of Mozart’s dramma giocoso Don Giovanni . But what does freedom actually mean here? Is it Giovanni’s freedom to desire any woman at any time without restraint? Or rather the Enlightenment ideal of a society without class barriers? And how free are the people who try to resist their inner dependence on Giovanni? 

Don Giovanni

Two love triangles, multiple murders, and boiling emotions. Behind it all: betrayed love, jealousy, and hatred. Pietro Mascagni's opera Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci are two works now almost inextricably linked; composed in 1890 and 1892 respectively, they both evoke the sounds, scents, and atmosphere of southern Italy, but in their brutality and harshness, they also reflect the naturalistic approach of Verismo at the end of the 19th century. 

Cavalleria Rusticana I Pagliacci

The play's central question is a timeless one: How does our language shape our place in society? Eliza Doolittle wants to escape her social environment and seizes the opportunity: She wants to learn standard German from the famous phonetics professor Henry Higgins – and she practices: "It's so green when Spain's flowers bloom" or "I see crows nearby, deer even closer." And, as so often happens: Suddenly, desire and love enter the picture. 

Tenor

Fabio Dorizzi

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 6, 2026 - Jan 19, 2027

La traviata · Bühnen Bern

Sep 26 - Oct 20, 2026

Tosca · Bühnen Bern

Nov 8, 2026 - Apr 13, 2027

Don Giovanni · Bühnen Bern

Jan 3 - May 23, 2027

Cavalleria Rusticana I Pagliacci · Bühnen Bern

Mar 21 - Jun 26, 2027

My Fair Lady · Bühnen Bern

Past events

Apr 11 - May 11, 2025

The Greek Passion · Staatstheater Hannover

Future and recently performed repertoire

Gastone in La traviata by Verdi

Bühnen Bern

Beppo in Pagliacci by Leoncavallo

Bühnen Bern

Spoletta in Tosca by Puccini

Bühnen Bern

Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni by Mozart

Bühnen Bern

Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady by Loewe

Bühnen Bern

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