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Das kalte Herz

Opera in 12 pictures (2025)

Music from Matthias Pintscher
Text from Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg

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The heart is an especially popular symbol as the physical locus of human feelings, longings, and pain. A man would like to live without the painful feelings in his heart; his lover wants to unite with his heart, while transcendental powers would also like to win it over. The composer Matthias Pintscher invents overwhelming and gripping sounds for the mysterious and strange events that take place in his opera Das kalte Herz (The Cold Heart).

Pianist and poet Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg wrote the libretto loosely based on Wilhelm Hauff’s fairy tale of the same name from 1827. In his new poetic text as well, the forest serves as a fascinating backdrop for various worlds of human emotion and uncanny moments of human existence. In cooperation with his team, director James Darrah Black, who works for the opera, theater, and film, will open mysterious spaces on stage for the special sonic worlds of this new opera.

Uraufführung
Duration: approx. 1:50 hrs without an interval
Language: In german language with german and english surtitles
Recommended age: 16 years and older
Age recommendation: as of 16 years

Cast

Tickets
  • Login StaatsopernCard / Fest-Abonnement
Duration: approx. 1:50 hrs without an interval
Language: In german language with german and english surtitles
Recommended age: 16 years and older
Age recommendation: as of 16 years

Cast

Tickets
  • Login StaatsopernCard / Fest-Abonnement
Duration: approx. 1:50 hrs without an interval
Language: In german language with german and english surtitles
Recommended age: 16 years and older
Age recommendation: as of 16 years

Cast

Tickets
  • Login StaatsopernCard / Fest-Abonnement
Duration: approx. 1:50 hrs without an interval
Language: In german language with german and english surtitles
Recommended age: 16 years and older
Age recommendation: as of 16 years

Cast

For the last time this season
Tickets
  • Login StaatsopernCard / Fest-Abonnement
Duration: approx. 1:50 hrs without an interval
Language: In german language with german and english surtitles
Recommended age: 16 years and older
Age recommendation: as of 16 years

Cast

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    Trailer Das kalte Herz

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    Waldinterview mit Matthias Pintscher & Daniel Gerzenberg

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    Picture credits: Bernd Uhlig
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    Picture credits: Foto: Maximilian Semlinger / Artwork: Laura Buechner

“Samuel Hasselhorn develops a baritone beauty that effortlessly brings together romanticism and modernity, filial loyalty and lostness."

Die deutsche Bühne, 12 January 2026

“Powerful and disturbing.”

B.Z., 12 January 2026

“The Staatskapelle Berlin does excellent work.”

Berliner Morgenpost, 12 January 2026

“Delicate and opulent.”

Musik heute, 12 January 2026

  • Coproduction with the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris

  • Mit freundlicher Unterstützung