The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced its 2023-24 season featuring six new productions.

Premieres 

Puccini’s “Il Trittico”  is set to be directed by Pınar Karabulut and conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. “Il Tabarro” will star Misha Kiria, Jonathan Tetelman, Mikhail Pirogov, Carmen Giannattasio, and Maria Motolygina. Meanwhile “Suor Angelica” will star Mané Galoyan, Violeta Urmana, and Annika Schlicht. Finally, “Gianni Schicchi” will be headlined by Misha Kiria, Mané Galoyan, Elisa Verzier, and Andrei Danilov.

Performance Dates: Sept. 30-Dec. 14, 2023 

Federica Lombardi headlines David Alden’s production of Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena.” The first cast will include Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, René Barbera, and Karis Tucker. The second cast will include Jana Kurucová, Xabier Anduaga, and Arianna Manganello. Enrique Mazzola and Daniele Squeo share conducting duites.

Performance Dates: Dec. 15, 2023-March 19, 2024

Mark Stone, Vera-Lotte Boecker, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Irene Roberts, and Chance Jonas-O’Toole star in George Benjamin’s “Written on Skin.” Marc Albrecht conducts the production by Katie Mitchell.

Performance Dates: Jan. 27-Feb. 15, 2024

Martin Muehle and Sondra Radvanovsky headline Tchaikovsky’ “Pique Dame.” The cast also includes Hanna Schwarz, Lucio Gallo, Thomas Lehman, Philipp Jekal, Annika Schlicht, and Karis Tucker. Sebastian Weigle conducts the new production by Sam Brown.

Performance Dates: March 9-27, 2024

Richard Strauss’ “Intermezzo” will be conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles and directed by Tobias Kratzer. The cast includes Thomas Johannes Mayer, Maria Bengtsson, Flurina Stucki, Alexandra Hutton, Thomas Blondelle, Jörg Schörner, Gerard Farreras, Kirsi Tiihonen, Padraic Rowan, Michael Bachtadze, and Tobias Kehrer.

Performance Dates: April 25-June 14, 2024

Kyle Miller, Thomas Lehman, Seth Carico, Ya-Chung Huang, Heidi Stober, and Hye-Young Moon star in John Adams’ “Nixon in China” with Daniel Carter conducting the production by Hauen und Stech.

Performance Dates: June 22-July 12, 2024

Repertoire 

Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote” is set to open the season and be performed throughout the year. The opera will star multiple casts headed by Tobias Kehrer, Patrick Guetti, Matthew Newlin, Attilio Glaser, Kieran Carrel, Hye-Young Moon, Sua Jo, Lilit Davtyan, Flurina Stucki, Maria Motolygina, Annika Schlicht, Arianna Manganello, Maire Therese Carmack, Lilit Davtyan, Meechot Marrero, Philipp Jekal, Artur Garbas, and Burkhard Ulrich.

Performance Dates: August 27, 2023-April 21, 2024

Rossini’s “Il Viaggio in Reims” is set to star Elena Tsallagova, Elmina Hasan, Hye-Young Moon, Hulkar Sabirova, Mingjie Lei, Omar Mancini, Joel Allison, Artur Garbas, Philipp Jekal, and Kyle Miller. Michele Spotti and Giulio Cilona conduct.

Performance Dates: Sept. 2-Oct. 1, 2023

Carmen Giannattasio, Elena Stikhina, and Camilla Nylund lead Puccini’s “Tosca.” Martin Muehle, Vittorio Grigolo, Ludovic Tézier, Gevorg Hakobyan, and Erwin Schrott also star. Sir Donald Runnicles and Andrea Battistoni star.

Performance Dates: Sept. 13, 2023-June 23, 2024

Anja Harteros, Mikhail Pirogov, Lauren Decker, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Arianna Manganello, Sua Jo, and Dean Murphy star in Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci.”Paolo Arrivabeni conducts.

Performance Dates: Sept. 7-22, 2023

Giulio Cilona and Lorenzo Passerini conduct a revival of Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” with Matthew Newlin, Juan de Dios Mateos, Alexey Zelenkov, Misha Kiria, Arianna Manganello, Cecilia Molinari, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Philipp Jekal, Mattia Olivieri, Gerard Farreras, and Elisa Verzier.

Performance Dates: Sept. 6-Dec. 31, 2023

Elena Stikhina and Asmik Grigorian headline Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” with Karis Tucker, Irene Roberts, Jonathan Tetelman, Joshua Guerrero, Markus Brück, Dong-Hwan Lee, Burkhard Ulrich, and Gideon Poppe.

Performance Dates: Sept. 10, 2023-June 20, 2024

Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer” is set to star Tobias Kehrer, Elisabeth Teige, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Robert Watson, Matthew Newlin, Lauren Decker, Michael Volle, and Noel Bouley. Ivan Repušić and Dominic Limburg conduct.

Performance Dates: Oct. 28-Nov. 24, 2023

Catherine Foster and Ewa Plonka headline Puccini’s “Turandot” with Martin Muehle, Fabio Sartori, Clemens Bieber, Maria Motolygina, Sua Jo, Michael Bachtadze, and Samuel Dale Johnson.

Performance Dates: Oct. 3, 2023-Jan. 7, 2024

Bizet’s “Carmen” will star Aigul Akhmetshina, Meechot Marrero, Arianna Manganello, Maria Motolygina, and David Butt Philip. Ben Glassberg conducts the revival.

Performance Dates: Oct. 16-26, 2023

James Conlon conducts Wagner’s “Lohengrin” with a cast that includest Ryan Speedo Green, David Butt Philip, Jennifer Davis, Jordan Shanahan, Yulia Matochkina, and Dean Murphy.

Performance Dates: Oct. 29-Nov. 25, 2023

The company will present the “Operngala für die Deutsche AIDS-Stiftung.”

Performance Dates: Nov. 4, 2023

Johan Reuter, Albert Pesendorfer, Philipp Jekal, Clay Hilley, Ya-Chung Huang, Elena Tsallagova,  and Annika Schlicht star in Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.” Ulf Schirmer conducts.

Performance Dates: Nov. 18-Dec. 3, 2023

The company will present “Babykonzerte.”

Performance Dates: Nov. 15 & 16, 2023

Richard Wagner’s “Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg” will be conducted by Pietari Inkinen.  Tobias Kehrer, Stephen Gould, Samuel Hasselhorn, Attilio Glaser, Joel Allison, Jörg Schörner, Gerard Farreras, Elisabeth Teige, and Lilit Davtyan.

Performance Dates: Nov. 11-Dec. 2, 2023

Giorgio Battistelli’s “Il Teorema di Pasolini” is set to star Davide Damiani, Monica Bacelli, Nikolay Borchev, Meechot Marrero, and Andrei Danilov. Daniel Cohen conducts.

Performance Dates: Nov. 16-28, 2023

Andrei Danilov, Roman Burdenko, Julia Muzychenko, Aigul Kishmatullina, and Patrick Guetti star in Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” Sesto Quatrini conducts.

Performance Dates: Nov. 30-Dec. 18, 2023

Aigul Kishmatullina and Adela Zaharia star in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” with Thomas Lehman, Andrzej Filończyk, Ioan Hotea, Andrei Danilov, and Matthew Newlin.

Performance Dates: Dec. 1, 2023-March 17, 2024

Samuel Penderbayne’s “Die Schneekönigin” will star Sophia Körber, Alexandra Ionis, Martin Gerke, Hanna Binder, Jone Bolibar Núñez, Louise Leverd, Jack Adler-McKean, Henriette Zahn, and Daniel Eichholz.

Performance Dates: Dec. 1-18, 2023

John Fiore conducts Puccini’s “Il Trittico” Misha Kiria, Mikhail Pirogov, Maria Motolygina, Elisa Verzier, Annika Schlicht, and Andrei Danilov.

Performance Dates: Dec. 9 & 14, 2023

Aida Garifullina and Mané Galoyan lead Verdi’s “La Traviata.” The cast also includes Pene Pati, Pavol Breslik, Thomas Lehman, and Markus Brück. Ivan Repušić and Dominic Limburg conduct.

Performance Dates: Dec. 21, 2023-April 19, 2024

Lorenzo Passerini conducts Rossini’s comic masterpiece “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” with Juan de Dios Mateos, Matthew Newlin, Misha Kiria, Alexey Zelenkov, Cecilia Molinari, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Mattia Olivieri, and Philipp Jekal.

Performance Dates: Dec. 28 & 31, 2023

The company will present “Unser Adventskalender.”

Performance Date: Dec. 24, 2023

Samuel Dale Johnson, Joel Allison, Maria Motolygina, Ulrike Helzel, Irene Roberts, Karis Tucker, Meechot Marrero, Alexandra Hutton, Burkhard Ulrich, Patrick Cook, and Sua Jo star in Humperdinck’s “Hänsel und Gretel.” Dominic Limburg conducts.

Performance Date: Dec. 23, 2023-Jan. 6, 2024

Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” is set to star Thomas Lehman, Maria Motolygina, Elisa Verzier, Meechot Marrero, and Artur Garbas. Corrado Rovaris and Giulio Cilona alternate as conductor.

Performance Date: Jan. 5-Feb. 20, 2024

Thomas Lehman, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Valeriia Savinskaia, Irene Roberts, Clemens Bieber, Maire Therese Carmack, Flurina Stucki, AJ Glueckert, Thomas Blondelle, and Joel Allison star in Rued Langgaard’s “Antikrist.” Hermann Bäumer conducts.

Performance Date: Jan. 13 & 26, 2024

Wagner’s “Parsifal” is set to star Jordan Shanahan, Günther Groissböck, Klaus Florian Vogt, Joachim Goltz, and Irene Roberts. Sir Donald Runnicles conducts.

Performance Date: Feb. 25-March 8, 2024

Sondra Radvanovsky headlines Verdi’s “Aida” with Andrew Harris, Patrick Guetti, Yulia Matochkina, Jorge Puerta, Byung Gil Kim, and Jordan Shanahan.

Performance Date: Jan. 28-Feb. 17, 2024

Carmen Giannattasio sings the title role of Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda” alongside Marianne Cornetti, Marko Mimica, Judit Kutasi, Joseph Calleja, and Noel Bouley. John Fiore and Giulio Cilona conduct.

Performance Date: Feb. 3-25, 2024

Attilio Glaser, Dean Murphy, Thomas Lehman, Gerard Farreras, Sua Jo, and Elisa Verzier headline Puccini’s “La Bohème” with Giulio Cilona conducting.

Performance Date: March 30-April 7, 2024

Bach’s “Matthäus-Passion” will be conducted by Alessandro De Marchi and will star Kieran Carrel, Padraic Rowan, Michael Bachtadze, Dean Murphy, Siobhan Stagg, Annika Schlicht, and Joel Allison.

Performance Date: March 24-31, 2024

Beethoven’s “Fidelio” returns to the company with a cast led by Philipp Jekal, Markus Brück, Valentyn Dytiuk, Flurina Stucki, Tobias Kehrer, Lilit Davtyan, and Gideon Popp.

Performance Date: April 12-20, 2024

The Ring Cycle will be performed three times. “Das Rheingold” will star Iain Paterson, Thomas Lehman, Attilio Glaser, Thomas Blondelle, Jordan Shanahan, Ya-Chung Huang, Albert Pesendorfer, Tobias Kehrer, Annika Schlicht, and Flurina Stucki .

“Die Walkure” is set to star Michael König, Tobias Kehrer, Derek Welton, Elisabeth Teige, Annika Schlicht, and Ricarda Merbeth, while “Siegfried” will be headlined by Clay Hilley, Ya-Chung Huang, Iain Paterson, Jordan Shanahan, Tobias Kehrer, Lindsay Ammann, and Elisabeth Teige.

Finally, “Gotterdammerung” will be sung by Clay Hilley, Thomas Lehman, Jordan Shanahan, Albert Pesendorfer, Ricarda Merbeth, Felicia Moore, Annika Schlicht, Lindsay Ammann, Karis Tucker, and Sua Jo.

Ring Cycle Dates: May 11-20, 2024; May 21-26; May 28-June 2, 2024

Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem” will be conducted by Dominic Limburg and Jonathan Stockhammer. Olesya Golovneva, Annika Schlicht, Karis Tucker, Attilio Glaser, Andrei Danilov, and Lawson Anderson star.

Performance Dates: June 8-July 9, 2024

Davide Luciano, Flurina Stucki, Matthew Newlin, Patrick Guetti, Maria Motolygina, Joel Allison, Artur Garbas, and Lilit Davtyan lead a production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Daniel Cohen conducts.

Performance Date: June 26-July 2, 2024

Michael Weinius, Günther Groissböck, Tamara Wilson, Leonardo Lee, Jörg Schörner, and Annika Schlicht star in Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” Juraj Valčuha conducts.

Performance Date: June 30-July 13, 2024

Amartuvshin Enkhbat stars in the title role of Verdi’s “Nabucco” with Jorge Puerta, Roberto Tagliavini, Ekaterina Sementschuk, and Karis Tucker.

Performance Date: July 5-11, 2024