“Leading the orchestra with a sure and energetic hand, he coaxes the loveliest of sounds and maintains thrust throughout the performance. Condensing four acts into two parts with one intermission helps, but Gaffigan makes sure none of Bizet’s hit tunes misfires while building a strong narrative arc”
-Bay Area Reporter, full review here.
“Leading the orchestra with a sure and energetic hand, he coaxes the loveliest of sounds and maintains thrust throughout the performance.”
-Bay Area Reporter
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23nov7:00 pmLE NOZZE DI FIGAROKOMISCHE OPER BERLIN
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The mother of all musical comedies is coming to the Schiller Theatre! After Così fan tutte, Kirill Serebrennikov is now bringing us his second Mozart production on the stage of
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After Così fan tutte and The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni will follow in 2025, thus completing Serebrennikov’s staging of Mozart’s Da Ponte trilogy.
Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm
Location
Schillertheater – Großer Saal
Bismarckstraße 110 10625 Berlin
24nov6:00 pmSWEENEY TODDKOMISCHE OPER BERLIN
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With this grand musical on the stage of the Schiller Theatre, director Barrie Kosky reveals himself to be a master of the macabre. An equally dark and delightfully chilling
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The story of the ‘demonic barber of Fleet Street’ who became a mass murderer first appeared in 1846 as a penny dreadful entitled The String of Pearls, and has since served as the basis for numerous dramatic and cinematic adaptations. In composing this thriller musical, Sondheim drew inspiration from film soundtracks as well as Richard Wagner’s use of leitmotif. Barrie Kosky stages his vision of this classic musical as a ‘children’s theatre nightmare collage’, revelling in that lust for horror, wavering between disgust and laughter, that has always fascinated audiences.
He mercilessly digs into the question of what humans are capable of when they follow the logic of revenge to the bitter end, and what’s at stake in the process.
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Cannibalism has featured in myths and fairy tales since antiquity: Chronos eats his children, Titus Andronicus bakes his dead enemies into pies, and the wicked witch intends to eat Hansel for dinner.
Time
(Sunday) 6:00 pm
Location
Schillertheater – Großer Saal
Bismarckstraße 110 10625 Berlin
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This could be the most shocking and thought-provoking Figaro you will ever see. I’m happy to be bringing this back on stage, this time with a slightly different cast which will continue to change throughout the run! @Komische_Oper