Jonathan Tetelman, Aigul Akhmetshina, Aušrine Stundyte, David Butt Philip & Sondra Radvanovsky lead Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2024-25 Season
By Francisco SalazarThe Deustche Oper Berlin has announced its 2024-25 season.
Premieres
Respighi’s “La Fiamma” will be directed by Christof Loy and conducted by Carlo Rizzi. The cast will include Aušrine Stundyte, Georgy Vasiliev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Martina Serafin, Sua Jo, Cristina Toledo, Martina Baroni, Karis Tucker, Caren Van Oijen, Doris Soffel, and Patrick Guetti.
Performance Dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 18, 2024
Enrique Mazzola conducts a new production of Verdi’s “Macbeth” with Marie-Ève Signeyrole directing. The production will star two casts led by Roman Burdenko and Thomas Lehman in the title role and Anastasia Bartoli and Felicia Moore as Lady Macbeth. The cast will be rounded out by Marko Mimica, Byung Gil Kim, Attilio Glaser, and Andrei Danilov.
Performance Dates: Nov. 23, 2024-Jan. 25, 2025
Tobias Krazter directs a new production of Strauss’ “Die Frau ohne Schatten.” The opera will star David Butt Philip, Jane Archibald, Marina Prudenskaya, Jordan Shanahan, and Catherine Foster. Sir Donald Runnicles conducts.
Performance Dates: Jan. 26-Feb. 11, 2025
Rebecca Saunders’ new work “Lach-Acts of Love” will make its world premiere. Enno Poppe conducts the production by Dead Centre. The opera will star Anna Prohaska, Noa Frenkel, Sarah Maria Sun, and Katja Kolm.
Performance Dates: June 20-July 18, 2025
Kurt Weill’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” will star Evelyn Herlitzius, Thomas Cilluffo, Markus Brück, Annette Dasch, Nikolai Schukoff, Kieran Carrel, Artur Garbas, and Padraic Rowan. Stefan Klingele conducts the new production by Benedikt von Peter.
Performance Dates: July 17-26, 2025
Jonathan Tetelman highlights Massenet’s “Werther” in a concert performance alongside Aigul Akhmetshina, Dean Murphy, and Lilit Davtyan.
Performance Dates: July 23 & 25, 2025
Tischlerei
Gordon Kampe’s “immmermeeehr” will be performed with Christian Lindhorst conducting and Franziska Seeberg directing.
Performance Dates: Nov. 16-Dec. 30, 2024
Oscar Straus’ “Ab in den Ring!” will be conducted by Elda Laro. Ferdinand Keller, Caroline Schnitzer, and Ludwig Obst star.
Performance Dates: Feb. 28-March 16, 2025
“New Scenes VII,” a Chamber Opera Triptych by Zara Ali, Haukur þór Harðarson, Huihui Cheng will be performed.
Performance Dates: April 27-May 3, 2025
“Wagner Worldwide” will be Part I of the “Distant Resonance” trilogy.
Performance Dates: June 13-15, 2025
Revivals
Bizet’s “Carmen” will star Maria Kataeva and Annika Schlicht alongside Sua Jo, Nina Solodovnikova, Maria Motolygina, Matthew Newlin, Andrei Danilov, and Byung Gil Kim. Ariane Matiakh and Giulio Cilona conduct.
Performance Dates: Sept. 1, 2024-June 22, 2025
“Immersion” will star Flurina Stucki and Geon Kim.
Performance Dates: Sept. 20-22, 2024
Andrea Sanguineti conducts Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with a cast that includes Mattia Olivieri, Flurina Stucki, Kieran Carrel, Patrick Guetti, Maria Motolygina, Tommaso Barea, Manuel Fuentes, and Meechot Marrero.
Performance Dates: Sept. 5-18, 2024
Stephan Zilias conducts Beethoven’s “Fidelio” with Joel Allison, Markus Brück, Oreste Cosimo, Jane Archibald, Tobias Kehrer, Lilit Davtyan, and Thomas Cilluffo.
Performance Dates: Oct. 20-30, 2024
Clay Hilley and Klaus Florian Vogt star in Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” with Thomas Lehman, Samuel Hasselhorn, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Camilla Nylund, and Elisabeth Teige. Axel Kober and John Fiore conduct.
Performance Dates: Oct. 5, 2024-April 13, 2025
Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” will star Kieran Carrel, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Marco Filippo Romano, Simone del Savio, Martina Baroni, Arianna Manganello, Dean Murphy, Philipp Jekal, Manuel Fuentes, and Patrick Guetti. Giulio Cilona and Friedrich Praetorius conduct.
Performance Dates: Oct. 6, 2024-April 8, 2025
Adela Zaharia, Nina Solodovnikova, Rosa Feola, and Elena Tsallagova sing the lead role in Verdi’s “La Traviata.” They will be joined by Amitai Pati, Attilio Glaser, Andrei Danilov, Markus Brück, Thomas Lehman, and Amartuvshin Enkhbat. Dominic Limburg, Friedrich Praetorius, Giulio Cilona, and Vitali Alekseenok conduct.
Performance Dates: Oct. 4, 2024-June 13, 2025
Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” will star Dean Murphy, Markus Brück, Serena Sáenz, Hila Fahima, Adela Zaharia, Andrei Danilov, Long Long, Gerard Farreras, and Byung Gil Kim. Matteo Beltrami and Ivan Repušić conduct.
Performance Dates: Oct. 31-Dec. 18, 2024
Mozart’s “The Fairy Tale of the Magic Flute” will star Alexandra Oomens, Lilit Davtyan, Hye-Young Moon, Chance Jonas-O’Toole, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Andrew Harris, and Patrick Guetti. Friedrich Praetorius conducts.
Performance Dates: Nov. 22, 2024-April 15, 2025
Elena Stikhina and Sondra Radvanovsky star in Puccini’s “Tosca” alongside Martin Muehle, Fabio Sartori, Lucio Gallo, and Erwin Schrott. Giampaolo Bisanti and Valerio Galli conduct.
Performance Dates: Nov. 6, 2024-June 19, 2025
Zemlinsky’s “Der Zwerg” will be conducted by Sir. Donald Runnicles and will star Elena Tsallagova, Felicia Moore, David Butt Philip, and Philipp Jekal.
Performance Dates: Dec. 1-10, 2024
Alessandro De Marchi conducts Rossini’s “Il Viaggio a Reims” with Lilit Davtyan, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Hye-Young Moon, Hulkar Sabirova, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Omar Mancini, Joel Allison, Artur Garbas, Philipp Jekal, Kyle Miller, Padraic Rowan, Chance Jonas-O’Toole, Alexandra Ionis, Alexandra Oomens, Davia Bouley, and Jared Werlein.
Performance Dates: Dec. 27, 2024-Jan. 6, 2025
Janáček’s “The Cunning Little Vixen” will star Joel Allison, Geon Kim, Meechot Marrero, Alexandra Oomens, Arianna Manganello, and Martina Baroni. Marko Letonja conducts.
Performance Dates: Dec. 19, 2024-Jan. 5, 2025
Karis Tucker, Annika Schlicht, Meechot Marrero, and Nina Solodovnikova lead Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” with Burkhard Ulrich, Patrick Cook, Artur Garbas, and Maria Motolygina. Friedrich Praetorius conducts.
Performance Dates: Dec. 13-28, 2024
Sir. Donald Runnicles and Friedrich Praetorius lead Puccini’s “La Boheme” with Andrei Danilov, Attilio Glaser, Kyle Miller, Philipp Jekal, Dean Murphy, Geon Kim, Patrick Guetti, Byung Gil Kim, Maria Motolygina, Elena Tsallagova, Alexandra Oomens, and Nina Solodovnikova.
Peformance Dates: Dec. 6-31, 2024
Andrei Danilov, Etienne Dupuis, Juan Jesús Rodríguez, Brenda Rae, and Hye-Young Moon star in Verdi’s “Rigoletto” with Patrick Guetti, Tobias Kehrer, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, and Lindsay Ammann. Michele Spotti, Friedrich Praetorius, and Giulio Cilona conduct.
Performance Dates: Jan. 10-June 6, 2025
Petr Popelka and Sir. Donald Runnicles conduct “Tristan und Isolde” with a cast that includes Clay Hilley, Albert Pesendorfer, Georg Zeppenfeld, Derek Welton, Ricarda Merbeth, Stéphanie Müther, Thomas Lehman, Leonardo Lee, Jörg Schörner, Irene Roberts, and Annika Schlicht.
Performance Dates: Oct. 27, 2024-Jan. 18, 2025
Saioa Hernández stars in Puccini’s “Turandot” with Clay Hilley, Sua Jo, Maria Motolygina, and Byung Gil Kim. Jordan de Souza conducts.
Performance Dates: Feb. 1-14, 2025
Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer” will star Derek Welton and Anthony Clark Evans alongside Patrick Guetti, Gabriela Scherer, Flurina Stucki, Attilio Glaser, Kieran Carrel, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Chance Jonas-O’Toole, and Andrei Danilov. John Fiore and Giulio Cilona conduct.
Performance Dates: Feb. 16-April 26, 2025
Thomas Lehman, Padraic Rowan, Karis Tucker, Elissa Pfaender, Davia Bouley, Alfred Kim, Heidi Stober, and Hye-Young Moon star in John Adams’ “Nixon in China.” Daniel Carter conducts the masterwork.
Performance Dates: Feb 28-March 5, 2025
Olesya Golovneva stars in Strauss’ “Salome” with Thomas Blondelle, Evelyn Herlitzius, Jordan Shanahan, and Kieran Carrel. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts.
Performance Dates: March 8 & 14, 2025
Strauss’ “Elektra” will star Violeta Urmana, Elena Pankratova, Camilla Nylund, Burkhard Ulrich, and Tobias Kehrer. Thomas Søndergard conducts.
Performance Dates: March 22-April 1, 2025
Strauss’ “Arabella” will star Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Jennifer Davis, Heidi Stober, Thomas Johannes Mayer, and Sean Panikkar. Sir. Donald Runnicles conducts.
Performance Dates: March 7-20, 2025
Sir. Donald Runnicles conducts Strauss’ “Intermezzo” with Philipp Jekal, Maria Bengtsson, Elliott Woodruff, Anna Schoeck, Thomas Blondelle, and Clemens Bieber.
Performance Dates: March 13-23, 2025
Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” will star Thomas Johannes Mayer, Albert Pesendorfer, Magnus Vigilius, Chance Jonas-O’Toole, Elena Tsallagova, and Annika Schlicht. Ulf Schirmer conducts.
Performance Dates: April 12-27, 2025
Attilio Glaser takes on the title role of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” with Flurina Stucki, Jordan Shanahan, Nina Stemme, Dean Murphy, and Byung Gil Kim. Ivan Repušić conducts.
Performance Dates: April 6-20, 2025
Rued Langgaard’s “Antikrist” will star Kyle Miller, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Maria Vasilevskaya, Arianna Manganello, Thomas Cilluffo, Martina Baroni, Flurina Stucki, and Thomas Blondelle. Stephan Zilias conducts.
Performance Dates: April 24 & May 2, 2025
Verdi’s “Les Vêpres Siciliennes” will be conducted by Dominic Limburg and stars Hulkar Sabirova, Valentyn Dytiuk, George Petean, and Roberto Tagliavini.
Performance Dates: May 18-31, 2025
Daniel Okulitch, Georgia Jarman, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Anna Werle, and Thomas Blondelle star in George Benjamin’s “Written on Skin” with Marc Albrecht conducting.
Performance Dates: May 4-20, 2025
Paolo Arrivabeni conducts Verdi’s “Nabucco” with Juan Jesús Rodríguez, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Jorge Puerta, Liang Li, Ewa Płonka, and Karis Tucker.
Performance Dates: May 10-23, 2025
Jonathan Tetelman leads a star-studded cast for Verdi’s “Don Carlo” with Alex Esposito, Gihoon Kim, Patrick Guetti, Federica Lombardi, and Irene Roberts. Sir. Donald Runnicles conducts.
Performance Dates: May 8-29, 2025
Verdi’s “Aida” will star Tobias Kehrer, Judit Kutasi, Hulkar Sabirova, SeokJong Baek, Byung Gil Kim, and George Petean. Paolo Arrivabeni conducts.
Performance Dates: May 3-22, 2025
Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades” will star Brian Jagde, Sara Jakubiak, Jennifer Larmore, Lucio Gallo, Thomas Lehman, and Karis Tucker. Juraj Valčuha conducts.
Performance Dates: June 21-29, 2025
Gregory Kunde, Pavel Yankovsky, and Sondra Radvanovsky star in Giordano’s “Andrea Chenier.” Axel Kober conducts.
Performance Dates: May 30-June 7, 2025
Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote” will showcase several casts with Tobias Kehrer, Patrick Guetti, Andrei Danilov, Kieran Carrel, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Matthew Newlin, Attilio Glaser, Markus Brück, Padraic Rowan, Michael Bachtadze, Joel Allison, Hye-Young Moon, Lilit Davtyan, Nina Solodovnikova, Hye-Young Moon, Alexandra Oomens, Sua Jo, Philipp Jekal, Artur Garbas, Chance Jonas-O’Toole, Burkhard Ulrich, and Thomas Cilluffo. Petr Popelka and Sir. Donald Runnicles conduct.
Performance Dates: Sept. 15, 2024-July 12, 2025
“Emersion” will showcase Flurina Stucki and Geon Kim.
performance Dates: July 11-13, 2025
Playground Festival will see the Deutsche Oper Berlin transformed into a techno club.
Performance Date: July 19, 2025
Concerts
Sir. Donald Runnicles conducts a program of Verdi, Respighi, and Nono. The concert includes soloists Lilit Davtyan, Thomas Cilluffo, Federica Lombardi, and Roberto Alagna.
Performance Date: Sept. 10, 2024
Arianna Manganello, Andrei Danilov, and Nina Solodovnikova perform Italian songs alongside John Parr.
Performance Date: Oct. 22, 2024
There will be a Festive opera night for the German Aids Foundation.
Performance Date: Nov. 2, 2024
Hye-Young Moon and Christine Buffle sing Ravel and Strauss with John Parr.
Performance Date: Feb. 4, 2025
Maxime Pascal and Marianne Crebassa lead a program of music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel.
Performance Date: Feb. 10, 2025
Lilit Davtyan, Chance Jonas-O’Toole, and Jared Werlein perform Haydn and Mozart with John Parr.
Performance Date: April 23, 2025
Flurina Stucki, Artur Garbas, Kieran Carrel, and John Parr perform Strauss.
Performance Date: May 7, 2025
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