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

Marcos Morau

Komische Oper Berlin

With stunning natural imagery and attention to every detail, Barrie Kosky presents Tchaikovsky’s soulful drama about the hopes, longings, and failures of four young people who come to realize in the end that happiness was almost within reach.

Eugene Onegin

Schiller Theater

After bringing Dmitri Shostakovich’s early opera The Nose to life in a wonderfully grotesque staging, Barrie Kosky now turns his attention to a far more radical work by the Russian composer: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a dark tale of sex and violence featuring one of opera’s most fascinating female characters.

La­dy Mac­beth of Mtsensk

With our chamber concert series, the musicians of the Komische Oper Berlin are presenting intense listening experiences at very special locations: from the festive elegance of the Schiller Theatre to the experimental sound space in the Kindl-Areal, they show their very personal side – beyond the big stage and spectacle.

For drea­ming

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

Into the light, into beauty, into life! Spring symbolizes the power of transformation, rebirth, and the ancient promise of coming prosperity. What could this dream of abundance mean for us culturally, spiritually, and sonically, beyond national boundaries? With their chamber opera Selemo, the South African composers and performers Sbusiso Shozi and Nhlanhla Mahlangu from Johannesburg’s Centre for the Less Good Idea are taking a new approach to the idea of spring, exploring it through body, sound, and voice. Together with soloists and orchestral musicians from the Komische Oper Berlin, they’re sparking a musical conversation about returning to a more deeply rooted understanding of nature, one that goes beyond the dictates of the colonial calendar. African rites of passage meet baroque splendour when Vivaldi’s Four Seasons intertwine with the Umkhosi woMhlanga, the ritual reed dance of the Swazi. The world premiere of Selemo, co-produced with the Neuköllner Oper, is about new beginnings, creative exchanges, and shared celebrations.

Selemo

Neuköllner Oper

Destitute and directionless, Australian musician Nick Cave arrived in West Berlin in the 1980s, plunging himself into the city’s drug scene and emerging as an underground legend. His 1988 album Tender Prey, created with The Bad Seeds during his Berlin years, now undergoes a romantic symphonic synthesis as part of the Schall&Rausch festival. In the subterranean chamber of the former Kindl brewery, the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin – under the baton of Music Director James Gaffigan – juxtaposes the pitch-black death wish of a post-punk junkie against the world-weariness of Franz Schubert’s lonely wanderer. Songs of futility and farewell from Schubert’s 1827 song cycle Winterreise, in Hans Zender’s orchestral arrangement, resonate with a sharp chill as they repeatedly pierce through Nick Cave’s brooding soundtrack.

Cave meets Schubert

Vollgutlager Berlin

When drag performer Meo Wulf joins the Komische Oper’s orchestral musicians and opera studio singers on a musical journey at the queer cathedral of SchwuZ, you know that love is in the air! Who better than the Queen of Love herself to lead us through a Valentine’s celebration in this extraordinary venue? With her exuberant lip-syncing, Meo Wulf masterfully blends declarations of love from every genre into a dazzling drag performance –followed by an electrifying afterparty!

Queen of Love

SchwuZ

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

If you listen closely, you’ll hear—hidden within the thicket of certain melodies—the most wondrous creatures and characters, including sparkling fairies, wicked witches, and enchanted birds. With creepy-crawlies lurking in every corner, we’re going on an adventure through a magical forest with various musicians from our orchestra. We’re sure to encounter some rarely seen creatures along the way. You won’t want to miss it!

Enchanted Forest

Anyone can sit in the auditorium! But dancing on stage? Only you can do that! At our Opera Ball.

The Ball of the Komi­sche Oper Berlin

Meta­mor­phoses

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: Bel­shazzar

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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