#Komische Oper

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Ansichtskarte

BERLIN, Hauptstadt der DDR Komische Oper

Magdeburg: Gebr. Garloff KG Magdeburg (N 1/68 IV-14-45 Z 4871)

1968

[theslottedspoon]

Probably one of the most impressive opera productions I ever saw. The Komische Oper Berlin built a pool inside of one hangar of former airport Tempelhofer Flughafen to be the "stage" for Henze's "das Floß der Medusa" (The Raft of the Medusa), staged by Tobias Kratzer.

They had the audience seat on both sides of the pool, and the orchestra at the end of the pool. The three main roles (Jean-Charles, Charon and the Death) as well as a very impressive choir were moving around the entire space, often surrounding/coming from/going to the audience.

The raft itself would decompose into multiple elements used to build different spaces onto the water, following the narration.

It was an incredible production already, and as an added bonus, a part of the cast held a pose on the draft as soon as the doors open, reproducing Théodore Géricault's eponymous painting while the audience took their seats.

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La Cage aux Folles - Ein Käfig voller Narren - Komische Oper Berlin

La Cage aux Folles Nun ist es also passiert. War ja nur eine Frage der Zeit. Ich habe es geahnt! Irgendwann musste die schönste Beinreihe von Berlin abgelöst werden, es ist nun nicht mehr der Friedrichstadt-Palast der sich diese Ehre geben darf, nein, nun ist es die Komische Oper und Barry Koskys überaus diverse und weniger uniforme Tanztruppe die die schönsten und heißesten Beine in die Luft…

[str4wanzerin]

Bayerische Mode-Philosophie 101

Süleyman: zeigt Anzug her

Zagreb: Naa, wir gehn doch ned aufs Oktoberfest. Unauffällig, elegant, lässig. Woaßt, a Spieler hat an Anzug an, aber so, dass ma gar ned merkt, dass a Anzug is. Woaßt, Nicht-Achmed.

Süleyman: Ja was jetzt? Anzug oder nicht Anzug?

Seppi: Des werd nix, Zagreb. Des werd nix.

Zagreb: klopft ihm auf die Schulter Doch, doch, des werd scho, Seppi. Und wenn i de Eleganz mitm Hammer in Dich neidreschen muss.

Seppi: Violett trag i ned, nicht für viel Geld.

Zagreb: So glaub i schick ma Dich aufn Strich, wennst Dei Probezeit ned bestehst. Grau bis dunkelblau.

Süleyman: Oh menno, grau und dunkelblau hab ich ohne Ende.

Zagreb: Dass Dir auch buchstäblich nix steht außer Deiner Lederhosn halt i scho langsam für a Katastrophe.

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Matthew Toogood at the Komischer Oper Berlin in December 2023

SEE SCHEDULE

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Kylie Minogue at the GQ Men of the Year Award held at Komische Oper on November 7, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 

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Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (Barrie Kosky with Komische Oper Berlin and 1927, 2012)

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Queen Camilla and First Lady Elke Büdenbender visit the Komische Oper, Berlin, Germany, 30.03.2023

[fanchonmoreau]

Is this the year I finally go to Berlin?

There's the music and opera reasons to, of course, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Komische Oper and the Berlin Philharmoniker, but it's also the city where my grandmother was born and then had to flee in 1933 when Hitler came to power. She got lucky, our family had money and connections in New York. She was three at the time. She's never returned to Berlin, but she still knows the name of the street where my great-grandfather's shop was, not like that really has meaning in postwar Berlin. But I'd try to find it anyway.

She's 93, and I'd like to get there before she dies so I can show her pictures. I know time is running out. I think it has to be this year.

[grandmaster-anne]

The King and The Queen Consort will undertake State Visits to France and Germany

The Royal Family | Published 3 March 2023

The King and The Queen Consort’s first State Visit of the new reign, to France and Germany, will take place from Sunday 26th March to Friday 31st March 2023.

The visit will celebrate Britain’s relationship with France and Germany, marking our shared histories, culture and values. It will also provide an opportunity to look forwards and demonstrate the many ways the U.K. is working in partnership with France and Germany, whether that be to tackle climate change; respond to the conflict in Ukraine; seize trade and investment opportunities or share the best of our arts and culture.

As well as speaking to the strength of the U.K.’s bilateral relationships with France and Germany, Their Majesties’ visits will include engagements highlighting the importance of sustainability and community – key themes which have been embraced by citizens of all our countries. There will also be opportunities to reflect on the sacrifices and challenges of our shared past, out of which has come an enduring legacy of cooperation and reconciliation.

The State Visit Programme

Their Majesties will travel to France on Sunday 26th March until Wednesday 29th, undertaking engagements in Paris during that time and on Tuesday 28th, visiting Bordeaux. Highlights of their French programme will include:

The King and The Queen Consort will join President and Mrs. Macron for a ceremony of Remembrance and wreath laying at the Arc de Triomphe;

His Majesty will address Senators and members of the National Assembly at the French Senate;

Her Majesty, together with Mrs. Macron, will officially open the new Manet and Degas exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay;  

Their Majesties will be guests of honour at a State Banquet hosted by President and Mrs. Macron at the Chateau de Versailles;

His Majesty will witness first-hand the devastation caused by last summer’s wildfires on the outskirts of Bordeaux, hearing from emergency workers and the local community about their experiences;

Their Majesties will mark the opening of the British Consulate in Bordeaux and meet members of the local French and British communities;

The Royal couple will tour an organic vineyard, which has pioneered a sustainable approach to wine making.

Their Majesties will arrive in Berlin on Wednesday 29th March. On Thursday 30th, they will undertake engagements in Berlin and Brandenburg, before heading to Hamburg on Friday 31st March.

In Germany, highlights of their programme include:

A ceremonial welcome by President Steinmeier and Frau Büdenbender at the Brandenburg Gate;

Their Majesties will be guests of honour at a State Banquet, hosted by the President and his wife at Schloss Bellevue;

His Majesty will address the Bundestag, the German Federal Parliament;

His Majesty will meet refugees recently arrived from Ukraine and hear about the support Germany provides for them;

Her Majesty, accompanied by Frau Büdenbender, will visit the Komische Oper in Berlin, to learn more about the opera company’s outreach projects and community engagement;

In Brandenburg, His Majesty will meet representatives from a joint German/U.K. military unit and see a demonstration of their bridge-building amphibious vehicles;

In Hamburg, Their Majesties will visit the St. Nikolai Memorial, the remains of a church which was destroyed when the Allies bombed the city during the Second World War. His Majesty and the President will lay wreaths during a short ceremony of remembrance.

His Majesty will learn more about the port of Hamburg’s adoption of green technologies, meeting representatives from some of the firms involved.

The King and The Queen Consort will attend a celebratory reception with Hamburg residents and members of the local British community, accompanied by the President and Frau Büdenbender, marking the end of their State Visit.

[hobbygilda]

Komische Oper Berlin

AUDITION! Die Komische Oper Berlin sucht professionelle Musical–Tänzer (m/d) mit sehr guten Skater-Fähigkeiten für die Wiederaufnahme »Die schöne Helena« und damit spoilern wir auch die erste Produktion der Spielzeit 2024/25 … am 13. März präsentieren wir euch das gesamte neue Programm.

Regie: Barrie Kosky / Choreographie: Otto Pichler / Musikalische Leitung: Adrien Perruchon

Die Audition findet ausschließlich am 25. März 2024 im Zeitraum 13:30 Uhr bis ca. 16:30 Uhr im Schillertheater statt (bitte eigene Rollschuhe mitbringen).

Teilnahme an der Audition nur nach vorheriger schriftlicher Einladung! Probenbeginn ist am 27. Januar 2025 mit der Wiederaufnahme am 22. Februar 2025 und 7 Vorstellungen bis 30. März 2025 (im Schillertheater).

Wir freuen uns auf aussagekräftige Bewerbungen bis zum 20. März 2024 mit Vita inkl. 2 Bildern (Porträt und Ganzkörper mit max. 1 MB) in einer *.pdf Datei und einem Skatevideo an folgende Mailadresse: j.fischer@komische-oper-berlin.de"

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Der fliegende Holländer - Komische Oper Berlin

Der fliegende Holländer – Komische Oper Berlin

Murmel Murmel Wagner! Lang, schwer, schwermütig! Oder eben von Herbert Fritsch inszeniert. Herbert Fritsch, von dem ich zum ersten Mal hörte, als er an der Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz “Murmel Murmel” zeigte. Eine Freundin war ganz begeistert und wollte mich mitnehmen. Worum geht es denn da, fragte ich. Und bekam nicht wirklich eine Antwort. Ja, worum geht es denn bei “Murmel Murmel”? Es…

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Martin Schneider - a life for music 🕯

Martin Schneider, was a Opera director, professor and father of Constanze (costume designer) and Christoph (Rammstein drummer)

Martin passed away in 2021, and Tagesspiegel posted an obituary for him, which i thought you might like to read 🌺

Obituary for Martin Schneider: Felsenstein says yes

He always returned from trips to the west. Not because of the country. Because of the family and the opera.

Sometimes  it all begins with an urgent wish, the origin of which remains a mystery, but which sets the course for a whole life: Martin Schneider, whose life has been about classical music, opera and, to a large extent, everything subtle, wanted a violin at the age of seven. His parents, his mother a housewife and his father an accountant, fulfilled his wish in Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt. His cot and his mother's zither were exchanged for it, and with a briquette in one hand and the violin in the other, the boy went to the violin teacher, the piece of coal being part of the fee.

He later became a member of the "Schäfer Choir" and many years later played Bach's Double Concerto in the Cathedral of Merseburg with Gerhard Schäfer, his choirmaster for 13 years. So the direction was set, and the young Schneider continued to follow it consistently: He studied music education, German and musicology at the Martin Luther University in Halle, graduated with a diploma, and when, in the summer of 1961, after all his studying, he went on vacation to the Feldberg Lakes in the Uckermark, he learned about the construction of the Wall in Berlin and also about his first job in the music department of the Berlin Radio. Berlin, the big city that was still unknown to him, in which he had only once seen “The Good Man by Sezuan” with the young Käthe Reichel at the Berliner Ensemble, would from now on be his new home, but would also from now on be divided.

The leaders and steerers get involved

He started the journey with great excitement. And then noticed that he was expected to be an editor on children's radio. He had thought more of editing for serious music, but that didn't help, he accepted the challenge. But he soon looked elsewhere: he was far too annoyed that the socialist leaders and steerers themselves interfered in the selection of children's songs. He had experienced that often; he remembered this time best: he appeared in the editorial office and all his colleagues looked at him in horror. Nobody said "How could you!", but it was clearly evident in their eyes. What happened? He had put the song "Now we're driving across the lake, across the lake" into the program on the very day a republic refugee paddled across the Baltic Sea in the direction of freedom. An unintentional coincidence, but he was accused of bad intention. This is how it could go in the socialist cultural apparatus.

Such experiences made him keep an eye out, he wanted to work creatively, maybe even use his own voice, but unfortunately it wasn't suitable, as the voice coach at the Komische Oper confirmed. She advised him to apply there as a dramaturge or assistant director, for him, as he will later say, "a sign from heaven". The rest is quickly told. Director Walter Felsenstein says yes, Martin Schneider starts with a trainee salary in September 1962: 450 marks gross. The salary increases in the coming years, as does the reputation of the new employee. He stays with the company for twelve years, succeeds and becomes a producer. Collaborates on Rigoletto, Don Carlos, Eugen Onegin. And Felsenstein makes many things possible, even the young father's move from a backyard dwelling with an outside toilet to a two-room apartment with hot running water. Daughter and son are born, Constanze becomes costume creator and designer, Christoph drummer for the rock band Rammstein. Their music is not really the father's taste, but he is happy that the son decided to go into music.

29 years "Bluebeard"

Martin Schneider always returns to the GDR from guest performances in western countries. Staying away is not an option, the connection to the family and to the opera is too important. In 1974 he moved to the Halle Opera House, became first director and took over the post of director in 1978. Felsenstein persuades him the promise to continue to supervise the "Blaubart" at the Berlin Komische Oper as evening director with a guest contract. He does this until 1992. In 29 years, the play has had 369 performances.

Another departure in 1980: Martin Schneider decides to become a freelancer. He works as a director and university teacher with teaching assignments at the Leipzig Music Academy. He becomes a professor at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin.

A life for music, but also for many other things. For friends, good conversations, the Baltic Sea again and again and also for a new love. His first wife Brigitte does not return from a visit to the West in 1987, the marriage ends. On the beach at Ückeritz he meets Antje, who is eight years younger, comes from Cottbus and was a music dealer there. She now lives in Berlin. Even in Cottbus, friends had raved about him, she absolutely should get to know this Schneider, he was directing at the Cottbus Theater, a great guy. But there is no meeting, only many years later their time on Usedom.

Two aesthetes come together here, enjoying each other's clever minds. They even make a program out of it, with which they will go on a tour through the whole country from 2000, a literary-musical reading tour, 1400 times in 20 years! They absorb literature that was not accessible to them in the GDR and pass it on to a grateful audience.

And they also travel a lot privately, to Rome, to Prague and again and again to the Baltic Sea. At home they invite you to song recitals, Schubert's "Winterreise" is on Martin Schneider's mind until the end. On March 1, 2020 he sings it one last time.

With a good friend, he oracles over a beer as to who will be on cloud seven or eight first. It almost becomes a bet. Martin Schneider would have lost now. He dies on January 22, losing to the cancer that has bothered him for eight years. He wanted his son to play a drum solo for his funeral service. And "The Song of the Moldau" by Brecht and Eisler. He had wanted to record it himself, but he didn't manage anymore.

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Queen Camilla visits "Komische Oper" in Berlin

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The New York Times Komische Oper Gets Nomadic, in a Pool and an Airport Hangar