Step into the enchanting world of opera with Deutsche Oper Berlin's spellbinding season featuring 'La bohème', 'Queen of Spades', and 'Werther'. These performances promise an emotional rollercoaster, bringing to life the timeless tales of love, tragedy, and human resilience. With a cast of exceptional talents, including Andrei Danilov, Jennifer Larmore, and Jonathan Tetelman, audiences are set to experience Puccini's, Tchaikovsky's, and Massenet's masterpieces like never before. From the intimate emotions of 'La bohème' to the dramatic flair of 'Queen of Spades', and the lyrical beauty of 'Werther', each opera offers a unique glimpse into the depths of human emotion.

A Melodic Journey: Exploring Deutsche Oper Berlin's Captivating Performances

One of the astonishing facts of music history is that almost all of the great operas based on Goethe were written in France. Alongside Gounod's and Berlioz's Faust settings and Ambroise Thomas's MIGNON, Jules Massenet's WERTHER is the most prominent example in this series. Premiered in Vienna in 1892, the work is also one of Massenet's most successful operas and, in its expressive immediacy, a pinnacle of the "drame lyrique".

Werther (concert version)

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Strobe lighting is used during the performance. At the end of the performance, a shot with a blank cartridge sounds on stage.

Queen of Spades

A garret in Paris on a cold winter’s day around Christmas. Rodolfo, a writer, and Marcello, a painter, are working on their masterpieces. They have no money to buy food, pay the rent or fuel the stove. Colline, a philosopher, returns from the pawn shop empty handed, having failed to get rid of some books. Only Schaunard, a musician, has managed to come up with some victuals, kindling, cigars and cash, so off they go to Café Momus - without Rodolfo, who’s trying to work. Mimì, the embroiderer from next door, arrives to ask for a match to light her candle with. She collapses and loses her key; cue for Rodolfo to fall in love with Mimì, who is terminally ill with TB, although he dumps her two months later because the prospect of her ailment getting steadily worse in her freezing home is too much for him. Six months go by. Musetta, Marcello’s ex, arrives with Mimì, whose condition is grave. Musetta sells some earrings with a view to buying medicine; Colline gives up his coat. Gratitude and happiness for a short while. Rodolfo thinks Mimì is sleeping and her body regenerating, …but in fact she’s dead.

Children's Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

23 - 25 Jul, 2025

Werther (concert version)

21 - 29 Jun, 2025

Queen of Spades

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