The Deutsche Oper Berlin is the city's largest opera house. And yet you can see world-class opera on stage from every seat. Open and inviting, this is how the Deutsche Oper Berlin presents itself. The straightforward and unadorned architecture of the building focuses on the essentials: wide foyers invite guests to linger in the breaks, the glazed window facades provide a view of the lively Bismarckstrasse, and the auditorium gives itself democratically, as it offers the best view in all squares promises. Above all, it's about big, world-class opera. Selected Repertoire The Deutsche Oper Berlin maintains a classical opera repertoire of the 19th century. Century with focus on the works of Verdi, Puccini, Wagner and Strauss. French composers and works of Italian bel canto have their place as well as rediscovering lost pieces from the early 20th century. Century. Intendant Dietmar Schwarz and General Music Director Donald Runnicles are planning new productions from the oeuvre of Meyerbeer and Britten for the 2017 | 18 season. Special attention is also given to contemporary music theater. With commissioned work and targeted promotion of young talent, the team of the Deutsche Oper sharpens its own profile and gives new impulses in the opera world. In the individual director's theater, the Deutsche Oper Berlin has already enjoyed great success in the past, among others with Götz Friedrich, Hans Neuenfels or Achim Freyer. New, curious, groundbreaking - The rehearsal stage in the carpentry The old carpentry has become a new heart of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The large room invites like a blank sheet of paper to try out new formats. Stage space and spectator seats overlap, can be varied depending on the performance - an ideal prerequisite for experimental music theater. And not only the stage happenings, but also the audience is special: with baby concerts and music theater for children from the age of two years, big theaters are already offered here for the little ones. Music theater beyond the horizon The opera stage focuses on the individual and his fate. And the opera house also directs its gaze beyond the stage into the world. In changing exhibitions in the house, photographs are displayed that flank and reflect the playing time. The result is a dialogue outside of the stage or as a continuation of a glass of sparkling wine in the foyer ... The largest opera house in Berlin The opera for the citizens of Berlin - that was the German Opera at the beginning of the 20th Founded with a modern program and without boxes, but with good seats for all spectators. This is still Berlin's largest opera house with almost 2,000 seats today. After the building in the 2. World War II was destroyed, moved the ensemble (still under its old name "Municipal Opera") in 1961 in the new building. This was created after plans of the architect Fritz Bornemann. During the German division it was the only opera house in the western part of the city.
