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Don Carlo
Plots are hatched, lies are told, and deceit abounds—yet at times, light breaks through the darkness when friendship and love are invoked with compelling power and sincerity. Giuseppe Verdi’s universal drama of the world and the family is an opera of grand state ceremonies and powerful emotions, marked by theatrical intensity and inspired music.
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Symphoniekonzert VIII
The Staatskapelle Berlin’s final symphony concert once again features grand orchestral sounds and virtuoso solo passages. The program includes Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Violin Concerto, with its rich melodic qualities, harmonic subtleties, and rhythmic intensity. In the second half, the Staatskapelle Berlin performs Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, which is undoubtedly considered one of the masterpieces of French Impressionism.
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Premiere of Mozarts Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Director Andrea Moses approaches the work with a particular focus on the themes of external attribution, projection, and cultural identity, which are already embedded in the text and music. Bülent Ceylan plays a special role in this production, appearing on the opera stage both in the speaking role of Bassa Selim and in his capacity as a comedian, providing commentary throughout the evening, including stylistic elements familiar from his stage shows.
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Pelléas et Mélisande
With the world premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902, Claude Debussy challenged the listening habits of his contemporaries. The work is based on the play of the same name by the Flemish symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck, a fairy-tale-like love triangle with a tragic ending involving the stepbrothers Golaud and Pelléas and the enigmatic Mélisande, whom both men love. In 1991, Ruth Berghaus, one of the greatest directors of the 20th century, staged the opera at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, demonstrating a keen sense of its unique atmospheric nuances.
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Samson et Dalila
Despite the successful premiere, Camille Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila—in its German translation—did not achieve a breakthrough in his native France until 1890, after a series of setbacks. The work is being restaged by Argentine film director and screenwriter Damián Szifron, who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015 for his film Wild Tales.
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