Staatsballett Berlin
In a very intimate moment, the ensemble's members introduce themselves to the audience one by one by sharing a fact–some basic, some quite moving, and some with great comical timing–about themselves.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Tosca is a thriller in which an unsuspecting artist couple living in an increasingly authoritarian Rome is caught up in larger-than-life (geo)political machinations and becomes collateral damage at the hands of a politician abusing the powers of his office for personal gain.
LaFiamma
Religious dominance is a driving motive in La Fiamma. Ultimately, we are reminded that historically, this has been the fate of tens of thousands of women who deviated from societal norm.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
There are two conflicts at the core of the Tannhäuser plot: One between the ideas of purity, love, piousness vs. lust, sexuality, profanity. The other between societal norms and expectations to behavior vs. self-actualization and pursuing “interests” deemed as undesirable.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
This opera is an excellent case study of how social conventions have evolved over the past 233 years since its first performance, when gender roles, understandings of love and marriage, and authority in general were understood vastly differently from what we have (more or less) agreed upon today.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
This production leans heavily into these tropes and paints an uncomfortable, but all too realistic picture of patriarchal sexuality and misogynist violence with rapey undertones that dominate throughout the piece.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
The main character of this opera is neither Tristan nor Isolde: it is the music. From the hints of atonality in the opening sequence, to the climactic resolution of the aforementioned chord four hours later, the music is entirely captivating and deeply moving.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Don Giovanni tells a story not just about toxic patriarchy, but about an abuse of power displayed in the (sexual) oppression of women and working-class people at the whim of aristocratic caprice.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
With all this grand geopolitical storytelling, “Nixon in China” does not let us forget that its characters are, first and foremost, people. There‘s a lot of raw emotion and intimate personality on stage.
Staatsballett Berlin
“Messa da Requiem” at Deutsche Oper Berlin with Staatsballett Berlin manages to cohesively bundle singers and dancers, groups and soloists, together into a uniform body where all participants seem to engage at eye level with little discernible hierarchy.