Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden has announced its 2023-24 season. The season will showcase numerous revivals and new productions.

Premieres

Calixto Bieito directs a new production of Verdi’s “Aida” with Grigory Shkarupa, Elīna Garanča, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Marina Rebeka, María José Siri, Yusif Eyvazov, Ivan Magrì, René Pape, Erwin Schrott, Vladislav Sulimsky, and Alfredo Daza. Nicola Luisotti conducts. 

Performance Dates: Oct. 6-29, 2023

Magdalena Kožená takes on the title role of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s “Medee.” She will be joined by Reinoud Van Mechelen, Luca Tittoto, Carolyn Sampson, Angela Hicks, and Gyula Orendt. Simon Rattle conducts.

Performance Dates: Nov. 19-Dec. 2, 2023

Christiane Karg leads a new production of Dvořák’s “Rusalka” with Pavel Černoch, Anna Samuil, Mika Kares, and Anna Kissjudit. Robin Ticciati conducts Kornél Mundruczó’s production.

Performance Dates: Jan. 28-Feb. 22, 2024

Mika Kares, Najmiddin Mavlyanov, Stephan Rügamer, Vladislav Sulimsky, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Prudenskaya, Evelin Novak, and Steve Davislim star Mussorgsky’s “Khovanshchina.” Simone Young conducts Claus Guth’s production.

Performance Dates: June 2-23, 204

Repertoire

René Pape, Stefan Pop, Alfredo Daza, Falk Struckmann, Grigory Shkarupa, Adriane Queiroz, and Ekaterina Gubanova star in Vedi’s “Don Carlo” with Massimo Zanetti conducting.

Performance Dates: Sept. 10-Oct. 8, 2023 

Luca Salsi and Anna Netrebko star in Verdi’s “Macbeth” with Ferruccio Furlanetto and Fabio Sartori. Bertrand de Billy conducts.

Performance Dates: Sept. 15-23, 2023

Waltraud Meier, Ricarda Merbeth, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Stephan Rügamer, and Lauri Vasar star in Strauss’ “Elektra.” Markus Poschner conducts.

Performance Dates: Oct. 7-20, 2023

“Don’t You Nomi?” is set to be conducted by Roman Lemberg. It will star Nils Wanderer and Roman Lemberg.

Performance Dates: Oct. 9-21, 2023

Pierre Dumoussaud conducts David McVicar’s production of Mozart’s “Idomeneo.” The production stars Saimir Pirgu, Anna Stéphany, Mélissa Petit, Olga Peretyatko, and Andrés Moreno García.

Performance Dates: Oct. 13-27, 2023

Markus Poschner conducts Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” The production will star Roman Trekel, Tómas Tómasson, Andreas Schager, Marco Jentzsch, Sally Matthews, Christof Fischesser, Evelin Novak, and Florian Hoffmann.

Performance Dates: Oct. 18-Nov. 11, 2023

Peter Eötvös conducts “Sleepless” with Victoria Randem, Linard Vrielink, Katharina Kammerloher, Hanna Schwarz, Sarah Defrise, Jan Martiník, Tómas Tómasson, and Roman Trekel.

Performance Dates: Nov. 3-9, 2023

Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote” will star Friedrich Hamel, René Pape, Magnus Dietrich, Linard Vrielink, Johan Krogius, Serena Sáenz, Victoria Randem, Jaka Mihelač, Roman Trekel, Gyula Orendt, Jasmin Delfs, Aleksandra Olczyk , and Federica Guida. Kristiina Poska and Giuseppe Mentuccia conduct.

Performance Dates: Nov. 4, 2023-May 11, 2024

Christophe Rousset conducts Cherubini’s “Medea.” Marina Rebeka takes on the title role alongside Stanislas de Barbeyrac, David Oštrek, Maria Kokareva, and Natalia Skrycka.

Performance Dates: Nov. 17-Dec. 3, 2023

Marc Minkowski conducts Mozart’s “Mitridate, Re di Ponte” with Siyabonga Maqungo, Ana Maria Labin, Elsa Dreisig, Carlo Vistoli, Caroline Jestaedt, Sahy Ratia, and Adriana Bignagni Lesca.

Performance Dates: Nov. 18-26, 2023

Valentina Naforniţa, Evelin Novak, Victoria Randem, Maria Kokareva, Freddie De Tommaso, Andrés Moreno García, George Petean, Arttu Kataja, Gyula Orendt, Adam Kutny, Grigory Shkarupa, and David Oštrek star in Puccini’s “La Bohème.” Massimo Zanetti and Giuseppe Mentuccia conduct.

Performance Dates: Dec. 15-25, 2023

Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” is star Julia Kleiter, Günther Groissböck, Marina Prudenskaya, Roman Trekel, and Golda Schultz. Joana Mallwitz conducts.

Performance Dates: Dec. 16, 2023-Jan. 2, 2024

Olga Peretyatko, Dmitry Korchak, Gyula Orendt, Alfredo Daza, Paul Gay star in Bizet’s “Les pêcheurs de perles” with Victorien Vanoosten conducting.

Performance Dates: Jan. 4-Feb. 3, 2024

“The Timeless Moment” will be performed by Alain Franco.

Performance Dates: Jan. 6-17, 2024

Hanna Schwarz, Stephan Rügamer, Pavol Breslik, Rosie Aldridge, Vida Miknevičiūtė, and Grigory Shkarupa star in Janáček’s “Jenůfa.” Axel Kober conducts.

Performance Dates: Jan. 7-19, 2024

Pretty Yende, Paolo Fanale, and Amartuvshin Enkhbat star in Verdi’s “La Traviata,” with Speranza Scapucci conducting.

Performance Dates: Jan. 10-26, 2024

Strauss’ “Daphne” will star René Pape, Anna Kissjudit, Vera-Lotte Boecker, Linard Vrielink, and David Butt Philip. Thomas Guggeis conducts.

Performance Dates: Jan. 20-Feb. 7, 2024

Siyabonga Maqungo and Marina Viotti lead Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” with Renato Girolami, Grigory Shkarupa, and Samuel Hasselhorn. Ido Arad conducts.

Performance Dates: Feb. 2-20, 2024

Domingo Hindoyan and Giuseppe Mentuccia conduct Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” with Sonya Yoncheva and Anna Princeva in the title role. Natalia Skrycka, Katharina Kammerloher, Stefan Pop, Giorgio Berrugi, Carles Pachon, and Arttu Kataja will join them.

Performance Dates: Feb. 10-May 12, 2024

Simon Keenlyside, Evelin Novak, Victoria Randem, David Oštrek, and Emily D’Angelo star in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro.” Marc Minkowski conducts.

Performance Dates: Feb. 23-March 2, 2024

Maria Agresta, Aleksandra Kurzak, and Sonya Yoncheva alternate as Puccini’s “Tosca.” Michael Fabiano, Joseph Calleja, Christopher Maltman, and Erwin Schrott also star. Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Ivan Repušić conduct.

Performance Dates: March 1-April 23, 2024

Regina Koncz, Zachary Wilson, Olivia Stahn, and Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein star in “Snow White.” Symeon Ioannidis conducts. 

Performance Dates: March 6-24, 2024

Philippe Jordan conducts Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production of “Das Ring des Nibelungenlied.” The cast includes Anja Kampe, Andreas Schager, Tomasz Konieczny, Claudia Mahnke, Johannes-Martin Kränzle, René Pape, Stephan Rügamer, Stephen Milling, Anna Kissjudit, and Rolando Villazón.

Performance Dates: (First Cycle: March 19-24, 2024) & (Second Cycle: March 27-April 1, 2024) 

Günther Groissböck, Klaus Florian Vogt, Andreas Schager, Camilla Nylund, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Wolfgang Koch, and Marina Prudenskaya star in Wagner’s “Lohengrin.” Alexander Soddy conducts.

Performance Dates: April 14-27, 2024

Matthias Pintscher conducts “Violetter Schnee” with Anna Prohaska, Clara Nadeshdin, Gyula Orendt, Jaka Mihelač, Otto Katzameier, and Martina Gedeck.

Performance Dates: April 20-May 10, 2024

Mozarts’ “Don Giovanni” will star Lucio Gallo, Jeanine De Bique, Bogdan Volkov, Antonio Di Matteo, Gabriela Scherer, Riccardo Fassi, David Oštrek, and Regina Koncz. Marc Minkowski conducts.

Performance Dates: May 17-June 7, 2024

Pene Pati, Alfredo Daza, Aida Garifullina, Grigory Shkarupa, and Elena Maximova star in Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” Giedrė Šlekytė conducts.

Performance Dates: June 4-15, 2024

Anja Kampe, Brandon Jovanovich, and Wolfgang Koch star in Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West,” with Simone Young conducting.

Performance Dates: June 22-July 3, 2024

Marc-André Dalbavie’s “Melancholie des Widerstands” is set to make its world premiere with a cast that includes Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Sandrine Piau, Philippe Jaroussky, Matthias Klink, and Thomas Oliemans. Marie Jacquot conducts the production by David Marton.

Performance Dates: July 4-12, 2024

“Werckmeister Harmonien” will be conducted by Mathias Weibel.

Performance Dates: July 1-8, 2024

Liudmyla Monastyrska leads a production of Puccini’s “Turandot.” The soprano will be joined by René Pape, Fabio Sartori, and Adriana González. Rafael Payare conducts.

Performance Dates: July 6-14, 2024

Concerts 

Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená join forces for Bruckner and Kurt Weill.

Performance Dates: June 17 & 18, 2024

Finnegan Downie Dear and Sarah Aristidou Ravel, Messian and George Benjamin.

Performance Date: Feb. 18, 2024

Dorothee Oberlinger conducts Stephan MacLeod in music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Charles Dieupart, and Giacomo Carissimi.

Performance Date: Nov. 18, 2023

Recitals 

Sonya Yoncheva performs in concert.

Performance Date: Nov. 27, 2023

Joyce DiDonato performs in recital.

Performance Date: Dec. 8, 2023

Victoria Randem and Elenora Pertz perform Songscapes.

Performance Dates: Jan. 9, 2024

Advent Concert

Vinzenz Weissenburger and Johan Krogiu lead a concert that includes Britten, Mozart, and Faure.

Performance Date: Dec. 6, 2023

New Year’s Eve

Jaap van Zweden conducts the New Year’s Eve concert featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Soloists include Simone Schneider, Marina Prudenskaya, Klaus Florian Vogt, and René Pape.

Performance Dates:  Dec. 31, 2023-Jan. 1, 2024

Festival 

Giuseppe Mentuccia and Maria Kokareva perform music by Antonín Dvořák and Marius Felix Lange.

Performance Date: March 29-May 1, 2024

Recitals at APOLLOSAAL

Anna Samuil, Tatiana Samouil, and Matthias Samuil perform Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell, Antonio Vivaldi, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Charles Beriot, Giuseppe Verdi, Pietro Mascagni and Richard Strauss.

Performance Date: Nov. 28, 2023

Arttu Kataja and Pauliina Tukiainen perform works by Hugo Wolf, Franz Schubert, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Finnish Lieder.

Performance Date: Dec. 5, 2023

Leoš Janáček and Gerald Finzi will be performed by Stephan Rügamer and Thomas Guggeis.

Performance Date: Jan. 23, 2024

The International Opernstudio will perform works by Johannes Brahms, and Antonín Dvořák. Peter Cornelius conducts soloists Regina Koncz, Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein, Johan Krogius, and Friedrich Hamel.

Performance Date: Feb. 13, 2024

Evelin Novak, Natalia Skrycka, Adam Kutny, and Klaus Sallmann lead a Dvorak program.

Performance Date: March 5, 2024

Johannes Brahms, Béla Bartók, and Zoltán Kodály will be performed by Anna Kissjudit, David Oštrek, and Markus Appelt.

Performance Date: May 7, 2024

Siyabonga Maqungo and Klaus Sallmann perform Schumann.

Performance Date: June 10, 2024