Name: Wunderkammer
Start: 2026-04-23T19:30:00
Location: Schiller Theater

The Komische Oper Berlin is making waves in the world of performing arts with its diverse and captivating 2025-2026 season. From transformative ballets to operatic masterpieces, this season is a testament to artistic innovation and cultural exploration. Highlights include Marcos Morau's 'Wunderkammer', Mozart's iconic 'Don Giovanni/Requiem', and the world premiere of 'Selemo'. With a cast of talented performers, these events promise to enthrall audiences with their unique interpretations and unforgettable performances.

Exploring Komische Oper Berlin's Dynamic 2025-2026 Season

The Komische Oper Berlin promises a season filled with captivating performances, from surreal ballet to operatic drama, and musical journeys across cultures. With a rich lineup including Marcos Morau's 'Wunderkammer', Mozart's 'Don Giovanni', and Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin', each event offers a unique window into the world of performing arts. The season also ventures into innovative spaces with world premieres like 'Selemo', showcasing a blend of African and European musical traditions. Discover the stories, talents, and creativity that make this season truly unforgettable.

Komische Oper Berlin: A Symphony of Stories and Cultures

Berlin's vibrant arts scene is set to dazzle audiences with a series of compelling performances. From Marcos Morau's surreal ballet 'Wunderkammer' to the dramatic opera 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk' and the classic musical 'My Fair Lady', there's something for everyone. Dive into a world of thrilling operas, transformative musicals, and evocative dance performances at the iconic Komische Oper Berlin.

A Cultural Odyssey: Exploring Berlin's Artistic Tapestry

Marcos Morau

Komische Oper Berlin

The choreographer Marcos Morau has a unique talent for transforming collective memories into movement and imagery. Renowned for his strikingly surreal visuals, he draws inspiration from a vast array of influences, including literature, photography, and film aesthetics.

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A domineering linguistics professor transforms a rough-and-tumble flower seller into a refined lady—what a romance! And as a musical, it’s been an unmatched success, enchanting audiences worldwide for nearly seventy years, thanks to Shaw’s brilliant story and Loewe’s unforgettable melodies.

My Fair Lady

Engelbert Humperdinck’s celebrated fairy-tale opera for the whole family has returned to the stage of the Komische Oper Berlin! In this new production by Dagmar Manzel, the story of the siblings lost in the forest burgeons with fresh new life, full of childlike imagination, poetic wit, and plenty of magic.

Hansel and Gretel

Director Barrie Kosky plunges us into a nightmarish, wildly exaggerated satire, with marching noses, rolling rickshaw tables, and caricatured protagonists in garish costumes that straddle folklore and historicism, all unfolding within a cold, bleak setting that feels claustrophobic despite its size. This surrealist story of the insecure and paranoid upstart Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov is transformed into a absurd, kaleidoscopic revue of the vanities, an unsettling collision of Wozzeck and Alice in Wonderland with its own ‘irrational’ logic.

The Nose

The ruling strongman is back—the kind of man who wipes the slate clean, knocks things over, takes action, and grabs what he wants, all while feeling magnificent, youthful, and cheerfully destructive. King Belshazzar was one such figure, a despotic ruler from biblical times...

Bel­shazzar

Nils Holgersson is flying away with the geese! In this children’s opera by Elena Kats-Chernin and Susanne Felicitas Wolf, our shrunken hero scampers through plenty of adventures alongside his friend Martin, a domestic goose, and turns out to be bigger than he thought in the end!

Nils Hol­gers­son’s Won­drous Ad­ven­tures

When the activist, poet, and musician Moor Mother released her album Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes in 2019, she broke new ground with an avant-garde work that combined hip-hop, punk rock, dissonance, and noise music like never before, addressing themes of racism, oppression, and social injustice with both artistry and urgency. The auditory journey ranged from reflections on human existence to the titular exploration of the universe. In 2022, this experimental album was adapted into an orchestral arrangement for the classical concert stage by the string quintet Wooden Elephant. At the Komische Oper Berlin, that adaptation is being juxtaposed against one of the most iconic works of Romantic music: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. Through Tchaikovsky, Moor Mother’s social critique expands into the individual’s personal struggle against the relentless force of fate. A concert of profound human insight and cosmic scale awaits!

The echoes of fate

Violetta Valéry sells her time and body to clients both near and far. Her life as a Parisian courtesan provides her with every luxury. But when she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, her world is shattered in an instant…

La traviata

As spring gathers apace in May, the Komische Oper presents one of the twentieth century’s pivotal masterpieces: Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. A ballet depicting a springtime sacrificial ritual, it’s still one of the modern repertoire’s most imposing works, featuring intricate rhythms and bold melodies. The American conductor Tito Muñoz is also bringing us a fascinating work from across the Atlantic. While Stravinsky was scandalizing early twentieth-century Europe with his expressionist ballets, the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas—much less well known in Germany—was crafting his own orchestral masterpiece, Sensemayá, likewise inspired by ancient dance rituals. In addition, the soprano Josefine Mindus returns to the Komische Oper with Brett Dean’s contemporary Shakespearean meditation And Once I Played Ophelia. And what better way to conclude the evening than with Charles Ives’ existential inquiry, The Unanswered Question?

Spring!

We invite you to a matinee at the Schillertheater and all other venues on Sunday lunchtime two weeks before the premiere (note: exceptions prove the rule!). Directors, conductors, set and costume designers talk about their work and give a foretaste of the upcoming premiere. Of course, there will also be a musical sample or two!

Intro­duc­tory Matinee: Orlando

Imagine being immortal and witnessing four centuries of history firsthand—first as a man, then as a woman...

Or­lan­do

In this project, the Komische Oper Berlin is working with children from welcome classes at primary schools in Berlin. Over the course of a school term, we playfully explore the concert piece Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev. Children who have recently arrived in Germany also learn the German language in an imaginative way through music. The highlight of the project is the bilingual performance (German/Arabic; German/Ukrainian) of Peter and the Wolf. A moving concert experience to which the children of the welcome classes are invited together with their parents and the whole school.

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