At this week’s press conference of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden director Jürgen Flimm and musical director Daniel Barenboim introduced the programme of the 2010/2011 season. This is the first season under the directorship of Jürgen Flimm, and the first season of the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater. During the extensive renovation of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Schiller Theater will be home for three years to Berlin’s oldest opera company. In summer the entire ensemble will move from Berlin-Mitte to this old-established theatre in Charlottenburg.
The programme for 2010/2011 contains no less than one first performance and eight music-theatre premiers in the large auditorium, with a further eight on the workshop stage. There are also 12 operas from the repertoire, four ballet productions, 70 concerts, the new festival for contemporary music-theatre INFEKTION!, the first children’s university for young opera fans and new formats such as the series Sleepless in Charlottenburg, Wunderhorn and My Schiller. The Bode-Museum and the ballroom of the Rotes Rathaus are new venues for chamber music. Over 350 events (220 opera and music-theatre performances, 70 concerts, 29 ballet programmes and more than 35 foyer dates) ensure a lively new season.
The Schiller Theater has been specially adapted for the Staatsoper and will reopen on 3 October with the first performance of the opera METANOIA – über das denken hinaus – by Jens Joneleit (music) und René Pollesch (text) in a production by Christoph Schlingensief under the musical directorship of Daniel Barenboim. A new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen begins this season with Das Rheingold and Die Walküre (Guy Cassiers/ Daniel Barenboim). Further premieres are The Rake’s Progress by Igor Stravinsky (Krzysztof Warlikowski/ Ingo Metzmacher), Antigona by Tommaso Traetta (Vera Nemirova/ René Jacobs), Wozzeck by Alban Berg (Andrea Breth/ Daniel Barenboim), Candide by Leonard Bernstein (Vincent Boussard/ Wayne Marshall), Tri Sestri by Peter Eötvös (Rosamund Gilmore/ Julien Salemkour) and Matsukaze by Toshio Hosokawa (Sasha Waltz/ Pablo Heras-Casado).
The workshop, the Schiller Theater’s former studio stage, with its seating capacity of around 100, will be the central venue for the events of the Young Staatsoper, with three premiers of operas for children and young people. Experimental music-theatre formats will also be presented here, including pieces by Hans Werner Henze, Salvatore Sciarrino, Brice Pauset, Erik Satie and Mauricio Kagel.
Ingo Metzmacher, Pietari Inkinen and James Levine are all for the first time guest conductors to the concerts of the Staatskapelle Berlin, which will also be directed by its principal guest conductor Michael Gielen, its honorary conductor Pierre Boulez, along with Zubin Mehta, René Jacobs and Alan Curtis. Sir Simon Rattle will give a charity concert. Daniel Barenboim himself will give four double concerts and appear several times as a pianist. During this season his Barenboim cycle encompasses seven concerts in the Schiller Theater. The stylistic spectrum is widened by a aria evening with Edita Gruberova, a jazz concert with Angela Denoke & Band, a rock night with Barbara Sukowa and her X-Patsys, and tangos with the Rodolfo Mederos Trio.
Donna Leon enables us to hear Handel’s “bestiary” and with Is it Possible? Vanessa Redgrave reads texts on the dreadful tradition of torture, accompanied by the Staatskapelle percussionist Dominic Oelze.
Together with the premiers of Wozzeck and Die Walküre the Easter holidays are marked by an orchestral concert with Daniel Barenboim and Gidon Kremer, and an evening of chamber music with Lang Lang and musicians from the Staatskapelle.
Magdalena Kožená, Nadja Michael, Christine Schäfer, Anja Silja, Violeta Urmana, Jonas Kaufmann, Bejun Mehta, Simon O’Neill and Thomas Quasthoff, will all make guest appearances alongside further outstanding singers during the coming season of the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater. The exceptional ensemble includes Anna Prohaska, Anna Amuil, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, René Pape, Stephan Rügamer and Roman Trekel.
From the Staatsoper to the Schiller Theater: thanks to BMW Berlin the Lindenoper finale will be another Staatsoper for All. On 5 June 2010 the last performance of the current season will be broadcast on Bebelplatz for many thousands of opera lovers: Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, with Rolando Villazón as Lenski. It will be followed by a big farewell party. On 6 June, after a festival for the whole family, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin will say adieu with a live concert in the same place.
On 26 September 2010 an East-West boat trip on the Spree will conclude the removals. Together with the Staatsoper’s orchestra, choir and ensemble, Jürgen Flimm and Daniel Barenboim will embark from the Nikolaiviertel in Mitte and sail with a few stopovers to the Gotzkowskybrücke jetty in Charlotten¬burg. And then there will be another party – an opening festival in the Schiller Theater.
The complete programme of the 2010/2011 season and all information about the new performance schedule is available now at www.staatsoper-berlin.de.
Advance booking for all performances in the 2010/2011 season begins on 1 May 2010.
Members of the Friends, subscribers and holders of a StaatsopernCard are entitled to earlier advance booking from 17 April 2010. Subscription sales also begin on 17 April 2010.
Tickets are available from the booking office of the Staatsoper, online at www.staatsoper-berlin.de or by telephone under 0049 30 20 35 45 55.
Schiller Theater – Bismarckstr. 110 – 10625 Berlin - Germany
The programme for 2010/2011 contains no less than one first performance and eight music-theatre premiers in the large auditorium, with a further eight on the workshop stage. There are also 12 operas from the repertoire, four ballet productions, 70 concerts, the new festival for contemporary music-theatre INFEKTION!, the first children’s university for young opera fans and new formats such as the series Sleepless in Charlottenburg, Wunderhorn and My Schiller. The Bode-Museum and the ballroom of the Rotes Rathaus are new venues for chamber music. Over 350 events (220 opera and music-theatre performances, 70 concerts, 29 ballet programmes and more than 35 foyer dates) ensure a lively new season.
The Schiller Theater has been specially adapted for the Staatsoper and will reopen on 3 October with the first performance of the opera METANOIA – über das denken hinaus – by Jens Joneleit (music) und René Pollesch (text) in a production by Christoph Schlingensief under the musical directorship of Daniel Barenboim. A new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen begins this season with Das Rheingold and Die Walküre (Guy Cassiers/ Daniel Barenboim). Further premieres are The Rake’s Progress by Igor Stravinsky (Krzysztof Warlikowski/ Ingo Metzmacher), Antigona by Tommaso Traetta (Vera Nemirova/ René Jacobs), Wozzeck by Alban Berg (Andrea Breth/ Daniel Barenboim), Candide by Leonard Bernstein (Vincent Boussard/ Wayne Marshall), Tri Sestri by Peter Eötvös (Rosamund Gilmore/ Julien Salemkour) and Matsukaze by Toshio Hosokawa (Sasha Waltz/ Pablo Heras-Casado).
The workshop, the Schiller Theater’s former studio stage, with its seating capacity of around 100, will be the central venue for the events of the Young Staatsoper, with three premiers of operas for children and young people. Experimental music-theatre formats will also be presented here, including pieces by Hans Werner Henze, Salvatore Sciarrino, Brice Pauset, Erik Satie and Mauricio Kagel.
Ingo Metzmacher, Pietari Inkinen and James Levine are all for the first time guest conductors to the concerts of the Staatskapelle Berlin, which will also be directed by its principal guest conductor Michael Gielen, its honorary conductor Pierre Boulez, along with Zubin Mehta, René Jacobs and Alan Curtis. Sir Simon Rattle will give a charity concert. Daniel Barenboim himself will give four double concerts and appear several times as a pianist. During this season his Barenboim cycle encompasses seven concerts in the Schiller Theater. The stylistic spectrum is widened by a aria evening with Edita Gruberova, a jazz concert with Angela Denoke & Band, a rock night with Barbara Sukowa and her X-Patsys, and tangos with the Rodolfo Mederos Trio.
Donna Leon enables us to hear Handel’s “bestiary” and with Is it Possible? Vanessa Redgrave reads texts on the dreadful tradition of torture, accompanied by the Staatskapelle percussionist Dominic Oelze.
Together with the premiers of Wozzeck and Die Walküre the Easter holidays are marked by an orchestral concert with Daniel Barenboim and Gidon Kremer, and an evening of chamber music with Lang Lang and musicians from the Staatskapelle.
Magdalena Kožená, Nadja Michael, Christine Schäfer, Anja Silja, Violeta Urmana, Jonas Kaufmann, Bejun Mehta, Simon O’Neill and Thomas Quasthoff, will all make guest appearances alongside further outstanding singers during the coming season of the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater. The exceptional ensemble includes Anna Prohaska, Anna Amuil, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, René Pape, Stephan Rügamer and Roman Trekel.
From the Staatsoper to the Schiller Theater: thanks to BMW Berlin the Lindenoper finale will be another Staatsoper for All. On 5 June 2010 the last performance of the current season will be broadcast on Bebelplatz for many thousands of opera lovers: Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, with Rolando Villazón as Lenski. It will be followed by a big farewell party. On 6 June, after a festival for the whole family, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin will say adieu with a live concert in the same place.
On 26 September 2010 an East-West boat trip on the Spree will conclude the removals. Together with the Staatsoper’s orchestra, choir and ensemble, Jürgen Flimm and Daniel Barenboim will embark from the Nikolaiviertel in Mitte and sail with a few stopovers to the Gotzkowskybrücke jetty in Charlotten¬burg. And then there will be another party – an opening festival in the Schiller Theater.
The complete programme of the 2010/2011 season and all information about the new performance schedule is available now at www.staatsoper-berlin.de.
Advance booking for all performances in the 2010/2011 season begins on 1 May 2010.
Members of the Friends, subscribers and holders of a StaatsopernCard are entitled to earlier advance booking from 17 April 2010. Subscription sales also begin on 17 April 2010.
Tickets are available from the booking office of the Staatsoper, online at www.staatsoper-berlin.de or by telephone under 0049 30 20 35 45 55.
Schiller Theater – Bismarckstr. 110 – 10625 Berlin - Germany
