The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced its 2022-23 season featuring seven new productions.

Premieres

R.Strauss’ “Arabella” will be conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles in a new production by Tobias Kratzer. Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Elena Tsallagova, and Russell Braun.

Performance Dates: March 18-April 6, 2023

Arne Gieshoff and Franziska Angerer’s “Bear” will have its world premiere.

Performance Dates: June 21-July 1, 2023

Sir Donald Runnicles and Dominic Limburg conduct a new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” directed by David Hermann. Thomas Lehman, Philipp Jekal, Markus Brück, Jordan Shanahan, Robert Watson, Klaus Florian Vogt, Ingela Brimberg, Flurina Stucki, Tobias Kehrer, Ante Jerkunica, Elisa Verzier, Meechot Marrero, Gideon Poppe, and Ya-Chung Huang.

Performance Dates: Nov. 25, 2022-Feb. 26, 2023

Enrique Mazzola conducts Massenet’s “Hérodiade” with Étienne Dupuis, Clémentine Margaine, Matthew Polenzani, Nicole Car, and Marko Mimica.

Performance Dates: June 15 & 18, 2023

Giorgio Battistelli’s “Il Teorema di Pasolini” will make its world premiere with Daniel Cohen conducting the first production by Dead Centre. The opera will star Barbara Frittoli, Davide Damiani, Monica Bacelli, Samuel Dale Johnson, Meechot Marrero, and Andrei Danilov.

Performance Dates: June 9-21, 2023

Alessandro De Marchi conducts a new production of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion.” Benedikt von Peter directs wih Sebastian Kohlhepp, Padraic Rowan, Joel Allison, Kieran Carrel, Michael Bachtadze, Dean Murphy, Elbenita Kajtazi, and Annika Schlicht.

Performance Dates: May 5-21 2023

Jader Bignamini and Yi-Chen Lin conduct a new production of Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra” with Vasily Barkhatov directing. George Petean and Dong-Hwan Lee sing the title role with Liang Li, Ante Jerkunica, Angel Blue, Flurina Stucki, Attilio Glaser, and Jorge Puerta.

Performance Dates: Jan. 29-Feb 25, 2023

Revivals

Leonardo Sini and Giampaolo Bisanti conduct Verdi’s “Aida” with Tobias Kehrer, Anna Smirnova, Clémentine Margaine, Dinara Alieva, Christina Nilsson, Jorge Puerta, Alfred Kim, Byung Gil Kim, and Jordan Shanahan

Performance Dates: March 31-July 6, 2023

Thomas Lehman, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Valeriia Savinskaia, Irene Roberts, Clemens Bieber, Gina Perregrino, Flurina Stucki, AJ Glueckert, Andrew Dickinson, and Jordan Shanahan star in “Antikrist.”

Performance Dates: Feb. 10-24, 2023

Annalisa Stroppa and Irene Roberts star in Bizet’s “Carmen” with Maria Motolygina, Valeriia Savinskaia, Tomislav Muzek, Attilio Glaser, Matthew Newlin, Samuel Dale Johnson, and Joel Allison. Yi-Chen Lin and Dominic Limburg conduct.

Performance Dates: Nov. 6, 2022-June 17, 2023

Dominic Limburg conduct “The Tale of the Magic Flute” with Meechot Marrero, Andrei Danilov, Patrick Guetti, Markus Brück, Gideon Poppe, and Alexandra Hutton.

Performance Dates: Dec. 21-23, 2022

Carlo Montanaro and Roberto Rizzi Brignoli conduct Verdi’s “Nabucco” with Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Dalibor Jenis, Patrick Cook, Jorge Puerta, Byung Gil Kim, Alexander Vinogradov, Saioa Hernández, Anna Smirnova, Karis Tucker, and Irene Roberts.

Performance Dates: Nov. 26-Dec. 1, 2022

Marc Albrecht will conduct Korngold’s “The Miracle of Heliane” with Sara Jakubiak, Jordan Shanahan, Mihails Culpajev, Ronnita Miller, Derek Welton, and Burkhard Ulrich.

Performance Dates: March 2-11, 2023

Yi-Chen Lin conducts Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” with Thomas Blondelle, Burkhard Ulrich, Flurina Stucki, Hulkar Sabirova, Markus Brück, Tobias Kehrer, Karis Tucker, Annika Schlicht, Jorge Puerta, Attilio Glaser, Philipp Jekal, Thomas Lehman, Jörg Schörner, Alexandra Hutton, and Meechot Marrero.

Performance Dates: Dec. 17-31, 2022

“The Snow Queen” by Samuel Penderbayne returns to Berlin with Sophia Körber, Alexandra Ionis, Martin Gerke, Hanna Plaß, Jone Bolibar Núñez, Louise Leverd, Jack Adler-McKean, Henriette Zahn, and Daniel Eichholz. The composer himself conducts.

Performance Dates: Dec. 4, 2022-Jan. 26, 2023

Yi-Chen Lin and Dominic Limburg conduct Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” with Patrick Guetti, Tobias Kehrer, Attilio Glaser, Kieran Carrel, Andrei Danilov, Matthew Newlin, Markus Brück, Michael Bachtadze, Mané Galoyan, Sua Jo, Alexandra Hutton, Meechot Marrero, Philipp Jekal, Artur Garbas, and Burkhard Ulrich.

Performance Dates: Dec. 11, 2022-May 27, 2023

Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” will be conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti and will star Mattia Olivieri, Flurina Stucki, Giovanni Sala, Patrick Guetti, Maria Motolygina, Tommaso Barea, Artur Garbas, and Elisa Verzier.

Performance Dates: Jan. 15-Jan. 31, 2023

Massenet’s “Don Quichotte” will be conducted by Daniel Carter and is set to star Patrick Guetti, Misha Kiria, Irene Roberts, Alexandra Hutton, Arianna Manganello, Kieran Carrel, and Dean Murphy.

Performance Dates: Dec. 4-21, 2022

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alban Berg, and Alexander von Zemlinsky’s “A Florentine Tragedy” will be performed in concert with Marc Albrecht conducting and J Glueckert, Wolfgang Koch, and Jennifer Holloway performing.

Performance Date: Sept. 5, 2022

Nina Stemme takes on teh title role of R. Strauss’ “Elektra” with Karita Mattila, Flurina Stucki, Burkhard Ulrich, and Tobias Kehrer. Sir. Donald Runnicles conducts.

Performance Dates: March 15 & 19, 2023

Sara Jakubiak, Alexandra Hutton, Samuel Dale Johnson, Ivan Inverardi, Jonathan Tetelman, and Charles Workman star in Zandanoi’s “Francesca da Rimini.” Ivan Repusic conducts.

Performance Dates: May 19-June 3, 2023

Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” will be conducted by Yi-Chen Lin and Dominic Limburg. The production will star Matthew Newlin, Misha Kiria, Arianna Manganello, Philipp Jekal, Dean Murphy, and Patrick Guetti.

Performance Dates: Dec. 27, 2022-May 10, 2023

“Karaoper” will feature music by Thomas Kürstner and Sebastian Vogel.

Performance Dates: March 3-16, 2023

Jordan de Souza conducts Puccini’s “La Bohème” with Andrei Danilov, Attilio Glaser, Philipp Jekal, Dean Murphy, Thomas Lehman, Samuel Dale Johnson, Patrick Guetti, Byung Gil Kim, Jörg Schörner, Cristina Pasaroiu, Sua Jo, Elisa Verzier, and Meechot Marrero.

Performance Dates: April 22-May 5, 2023

Paolo Carignani will conduct Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” Liudmyla Monastyrska, Roman Burdenko, Jorge de León, Jana Kurucová, Roberto Tagliavini, and Philipp Jekal.

Performance Dates: March 25-April 9, 2023

Mané Galoyan, Mariangela Sicilia, Giovanni Sala, Matthew Newlin, and Thomas Lehman star in Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Ido Arad and Francesco Lanzillotta conduct.

Performance Dates: Feb. 3-14, 2023

Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” will be conducted by Markus Stenz and will star Robert Watson, Oreste Cosimo, Kathryn Lewek, Alex Esposito, Stephanie Lauricella, Annika Schlicht, and Andrew Dickinson.

Performance Dates: Dec. 16-29, 2022

Ivan Repusic conducts Wagner’s “Lohengrin” with Albert Pesendorfer, Attilio Glaser, Flurina Stucki, Thomas Johannes Mayer, Anna Smirnova, and Thomas Lehman.

Performance Dates: June 25-July 2, 2023

Adela Zaharia stars in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” alongside Javier Camarena, Rolando Villazón, Byung Gil Kim, Markus Brück, and Thomas Lehman. Sesto Quatrini conducts.

Performance Dates: May 17-June 10, 2023

Anja Harteros, Thomas Lehman, Martin Muehle, and Patrick Guetti star in Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut.” Andrea Sanguinetti conducts.

Performance Dates: May 11-20, 2023

New Scenes VI will include Robyn Schulkowsky, Gerhild Steinbuch, Sebastian Hanusa, and Claus Unzen.

Performance Dates: April 21-27, 2023

Stephan Zilias conducts Detlev Glanert’s “Oceane” with Layla Claire, Nikolai Schukoff, Artur Garbas, Nicole Haslett, Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, and Andrew Harris.

Performance Dates: Jan. 6-13, 2023

Markus Brück leads Verdi’s “Rigoletto” with Elena Tsallagova, Marina Monzò, Attilio Glaser, Andrei Danilov, Sparafucile, Andrew Harris, and Tobias Kehrer. Dominic Limburg and Yi-Chen Lin conduct.

Performance Dates: Nov. 5, 2022-July 8, 2023

R.Strauss’ “Salome” will be conducted by Axel Kober and will star Thomas Blondelle, Doris Soffel, Petra Lang, Jennifer Holloway, Vida Mikneviciute, Jordan Shanahan, Mihails Culpajev, and Attilio Glaser.

Performance Dates: Jan. 22-March 24, 2023

Yi-Chen Lin conducts a semi-concert of Rossini’s “Semiramide” with Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Beth Taylor, Riccardo Fassi, and Levy Sekgapane.

Performance Dates: Oct. 20 & 22, 2022

Sondra Radvanovsky, Saioa Hernández, and Tatiana Serjan star in Puccini’s “Tosca” with Vittorio Grigolo, Jonathan Tetelman, Joseph Calleja, Erwin Schrott, Roman Burdenko, and Luca Salsi. Sir Donald Runnicles and Nicholas Milton conduct.

Performance Dates: Jan. 8-April 13, 2023

Sir Donald Runnicles conducts Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” with Clay Hilley, Franz-Josef Selig, Nina Stemme, Jordan Shanahan, Philipp Jekal, and Irene Roberts. 

Performance Dates: Nov. 13-27, 2022

Zoya Tsererina stars in Puccini’s “Turandot” with Stefano La Colla, Sua Jo, and Andrew Harris. Juraj Valcuha conducts.

Performance Dates: June 23-29, 2022