Deutsche Oper Berlin
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Location | Berlin, Germany |
Coordinates | 52°30′46″N 13°18′30″E / 52.51278°N 13.30833°E |
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The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house (after Munich's[1]) and also home to the Berlin State Ballet.
Since 2004, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, like the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), the Komische Oper Berlin, the Berlin State Ballet, and the Bühnenservice Berlin (Stage and Costume Design), has been a member of the Berlin Opera Foundation.[2]
History
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The company's history goes back to the Deutsches Opernhaus built by the then independent city of Charlottenburg—the "richest town of Prussia"[3]—according to plans designed by Heinrich Seeling from 1911. It opened on 7 November 1912 with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, conducted by Ignatz Waghalter. In 1925, after the incorporation of Charlottenburg by the 1920 Greater Berlin Act, the name of the resident building was changed to Städtische Oper (Municipal Opera).
With the Nazi
After the war, in what had now been called West Berlin, the company, again called Städtische Oper, used the nearby Theater des Westens; its opening production was Fidelio, on 4 September 1945. Its home was finally rebuilt in 1961 but to a much-changed, sober design by Fritz Bornemann. The opening production of the newly renamed Deutsche Oper, on 24 September, was Mozart's Don Giovanni.
On the evening of 2 June 1967,
Past
The current Intendant (artistic director) of the company is Dietmar Schwarz, and his current contract with the company is through 31 July 2025.[7] The current executive director of the company is Thomas Fehrle, who is currently contracted with the company through 2027.[7] In February 2023, the company announced the appointment of Aviel Cahn as its next Intendant, effective 1 August 2026.[9]
Idomeneo controversy
In September 2006, the Deutsche Oper's then-
- "This is about art, not about politics ... We should not make art dependent on religion – then we are back in the Middle Ages."[11]
At the end of October 2006, the opera house announced that performances of Mozart's opera Idomeneo would then proceed.[12]
Premieres
Städtische Oper Berlin
- 1923: Emil von Reznicek, Carl Meinhard, Rudolf Bernauer: Holofernes
- 1932: Franz Schreker: Der Schmied von Gent
- 1932: Kurt Weill, Caspar Neher: Die Bürgschaft
Städtisches Opernhaus Berlin
- 1952: Boris Blacher: Preußisches Märchen
Deutsche Oper Berlin
- 1961: Giselher Klebe: Alkmene
- 1964: Roger Sessions, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese: Montezuma
- 1965: Hans Werner Henze: Der junge Lord, (Libretto: Ingeborg Bachmann)
- 1966: Roman Haubenstock-Ramati: Amerika
- 1968: Luigi Dallapiccola: Ulisse
- 1969: Boris Blacher: 200 000 Taler
- 1970: Günter Grass, Marcel Luipart: Die Vogelscheuchen (Ballett)
- 1972: Wolfgang Fortner, Matthias Braun: Elisabeth Tudor
- 1979: Wilhelm Dieter Siebert, Untergang der Titanic[13]
- 1981: Mauricio Kagel: Aus Deutschland
- 1987: Wolfgang Rihm: Oedipus
- 1987: Erhard Grosskopf: Lichtknall
- 1988: Marc Neikrug: Los Alamos
- 1990: Hans Werner Henze: Das verratene Meer, (Libretto: Hans-Ulrich Treichel)
- 1992: Aribert Reimann: Das Schloß, (based on Franz Kafka's novel of the same name)
- 2005: Isabel Mundry: Ein Atemzug – Odyssee
- 2008: Walter Braunfels: Szenen aus dem Leben der Heiligen Johanna (szenische UA)
- 2017: Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini: Edward II
- 2017: Aribert Reimann: L'invisible, (Trilogie lyrique after Maurice Maeterlinck)
Intendanten (General Managers)
- Georg Hartmann (1912–1923)
- Wilhelm Holthoff von Faßmann (1923–1925)
- Heinz Tietjen (1925–1931)
- Carl Ebert (1931–1933)
- Max von Schillings (1933)
- Wilhelm Rode (1934–1943)
- Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1943–1944)
- Michael Bohnen (1945–1947)
- Heinz Tietjen (1948–1954)
- Carl Ebert (1954–1961)
- Rudolf Sellner (1961–1972)
- Egon Seefehlner (1972–1976)
- Siegfried Palm (1976–1981)
- Götz Friedrich (1981–2000)
- André Schmitz (interim, 2000–2001)
- Udo Zimmermann (2001–2003)
- Heinz Dieter Sense / Peter Sauerbaum (interim, 2003–2004)
- Kirsten Harms (2004–2011)
- Christoph Seuferle (interim, 2011–2012)
- Dietmar Schwarz (2012–present)
Generalmusikdirektoren (Music Directors)
- Ignatz Waghalter (1912–1923)
- Bruno Walter (1925–1929)
- Kurt Adler, resident conductor (1932–1933)
- Artur Rother (1935–1943, 1953–1958)
- Karl Dammer (1937–1943)
- Ferenc Fricsay (1949–1952)
- Richard Kraus (1954–1961)
- Heinrich Hollreiser, chief conductor (1961–1964)
- Lorin Maazel (1965–1971)
- Gerd Albrecht, resident conductor (1972–1974)
- Jesús López Cobos (1981–1990)
- Giuseppe Sinopoli (1990)
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (1992–1997)
- Christian Thielemann (1997–2004)
- Renato Palumbo (2006–2008)
- Sir Donald Runnicles (2009–present)
References
- ^ imeonov, Jenna. "Bayerische Staatsoper". Schmopera. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ Oper in Berlin on oper-in-berlin.de
- ^ Gundlach, Wilhelm (1905). Geschichte der Stadt Charlottenburg, erster Band: Darstellung. Vol. 1. Berlin: Springer. p. 502.
- ^ "Carl Ebert, German-born opera director". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ Ben Mattison (7 October 2005). "Deutsche Oper Berlin Names Music Director". Playbill Arts. Retrieved 2 September 2007.
- ^ Matthew Westphal (31 October 2007). "In Sudden Appointment, Donald Runnicles Named Next Music Director of Deutsche Oper Berlin". Playbill Arts. Archived from the original on 1 November 2007. Retrieved 1 November 2007.
- ^ a b c "Vertragsverlängerungen der Leitungsspitze der Deutschen Oper Berlin" (Press release). Deutsche Oper Berlin. 2 November 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- ^ "Sir Donald Runnicles verlässt die Deutsche Oper Berlin bereits 2026" (Press release). Deutsche Oper Berlin. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ^ "Aviel Cahn übernimmt Intendanz der Deutschen Oper Berlin" (Press release). Deutsche Oper Berlin. 6 February 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ^ David Fickling (27 September 2006). "Merkel voices concern over opera cancellation". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 September 2006.
- ^ "Fear Of Muslim Ire Stops German Opera". CBS News Online. 27 September 2006. Retrieved 27 September 2006.
- ^ "Shelved Muhammad opera to return". BBC News Online. 27 October 2006. Retrieved 10 November 2006.
- ^ "Siebert, Wilhelm Dieter – Untergang der Titanic (1979)", work details, Boosey & Hawkes