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Comique et extravagance olé olé sont les mots clés de cette production réjouissante signée Barrie Kosky et incarnée par une distribution aux multiples talents...

Reprise de l'Onéguine de Barrie Kosky à Berlin : un spectacle toujours aussi bouleversant, avec cette fois-ci Ruzan Mantashyan en Tatiana.

Le fameux Ball im Savoy de 2013 fait son retour dans la mise en scène de Barrie Kosky mais aussi avec la distribution de l'époque, donnant lieu à des retrouvailles aussi réjouissantes qu'émouvantes.

Barrie Kosky, qui célèbre sa dixième et ultime saison à la tête du Komische Oper, se fait un petit plaisir en reprogrammant la production créée en 2017, qui n'a pas pris une ride.    

Dans le cadre de sa programmation estivale, l'opéra comique de Berlin proposait une nouvelle production de Barbe-Bleue de Jacques Offenbach.

Kirill Serebrennikovs Auftakt zu seinem Berliner Da Ponte-Zyklus liefert interessante Ansätze, rutscht aber allzu häufig in die Klischeeschublade ab. 

Thanks to Barrie Kosky's flamboyant imagination and a solid cast, the Komische Oper's new production of La Cage aux Folles glitters, but could be more gay.

Vor 25 Jahren feierte Andreas Homokis Inszenierung von Prokofjews Oper Premiere; in dieser Saison ist sie ein letztes Mal zu sehen. 

Sailor suits and powder-puff bows as Herbert Fritsch directs a colourful new production in Berlin. 

Marking the beginning of a new artistic direction, the Komische Oper's new production of Nono's Intolleranza 1960 proves a success, with director Marco Štorman's deep rethinking of the theatre stage.

A dearth of nuance affects this new production of Verdi's late masterpiece in Berlin, set in Sir John's gourmet kitchen. 

Komische Oper Berlin presents Leoš Janáček's masterpiece as a tight-knit psychodrama in a new production conducted by Giedrė Šlekytė.

Leigh Melrose appears in a strong new Œdipe directed by Evgeny Titov to open the 2021-22 season at the Komische Oper. 

The Komische Oper's new, socially-distanced Offenbach staging shows plenty of glitzy defiance in its brief appearance before Germany's latest lockdown. 

Dagmar Manzel und Barrie Kosky bringen die Schönheit und Tiefgründigkeit von Musiktheater zum Strahlen.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Semele willingly pays the price of death through transformation. 

Nicola Raab's production doesn't quite provide the bold rethinking it promises, but stylish execution and a fine cast make for an effective modern Traviata. 

The Staatsballett Berlin in Jefta van Dinther's Plateau Effect questioning social interaction.

Sophisticated interpretation of The Bassarids by Hans Werner Henze at the Komische Oper Berlin

In Robert Carsen's staging, the “dead city” is absent: the scenery showing a bourgeois room that one imagines overlooking a bright avenue in Vienna or Berlin rather than a dark alley in Bruges.

M – a city searches for a murderer, by Moritz Eggert and Barrie Kosky, receives its world premiere at the Komische Oper Berlin.

Loyalty and misdeeds in the jungle of emotions in Handel's Poro, re dell'Indie.

The new version of La bohème at the Komische Oper Berlin follows a hard Verismo-beat.

Serious farce, warm-hearted sarcasm, operatic Broadway: Barrie Kosky and Komische Oper turn Bernstein's problem child into a show that thrills from start to finish.

Pierangelo Valtinoni’s take on the classic story is a charming introduction to opera for children. 

The Komische Oper's new staging of Korngold's opera doesn't quite offer the necessary scale or atmosphere. 

To reassure the sceptics, the break from tradition of Stijn Celis’ Your Passion is Pure Joy to Me, and Sharon Eyal’s and Gai Behar’s Half Life made for a great start to the Staatsballett Berlin’s new season.

There’s no doubt that Mélisande endeavours to escape past troubles when she first appears in Barrie Kosky’s production of Debussy’s opera, yet Nadja Mchantaf is no reticent, wispy maiden. Every vocal and physical gesture – always precise and penetrating – displays an atypically forthright quest for vitality, something that Arkel’s chauvinistic world does not readily offer.

Franz Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten (The Branded One) is an unsettling work given the storyline’s background of abduction and clandestine sexual abuse. Calixto Bieito, as expected, eschews ambiguity regarding what goes on behind the scenes, and casts even the titular cripple Alviano Salvago in a damning light.

Shostakovich's early masterpiece is fêted at the Komische Oper Berlin

Handel’s Semele is presented as a flashback at the Komische Oper in Berlin. 

Tchaikovsky's opera packs a powerful emotional punch in the Komische Oper's concentrated and dreamlike production.

Stefan Herheim packs puns and gags into a three-hour long show, but less could have been more. 

With many costume changes, notably into a Sun-King with very prominent phalic sunburst, Houtzeel held centre-stage in the title role.

The Spanish director offers a controversial angle but tones it down to focus on dark psychology rather than spectacle in his staging of Schrecker's hothouse opera.

“Fiddler on the Roof” as a universal parable of tradition 

Duato | Shechter by the Staatsballett Berlin at the Komische Oper is a classic yet sleekly contemporary programme. 

Introspected and atmospheric, this late romantic opera appeals to the psychotherapists within us.

Artistry and politics intertwine in a remarkable concert at the Komische Oper Berlin.

Allzu lange kaute Rameau für den Geschmack des damaligen Publikums auf der Gegenüberstellung von Gut und Böse, Schwarz und Weiß herum. Wäre die Neuproduktion der Komischen Oper Berlin die Uraufführung gewesen, hätte es Rameaus Bühnenmusik wohl auch nicht leichter gehabt. 

A woman, mother and outcast needs to make life choices in a hostile environment.

Barrie Kosky spielt in einer neuen Fassung von Die Krönung der Poppea an der Komischen Oper mit traditionellen Konventionen des Männlich-Weiblichen.

Sorochyntsi Fair was last performed at Berlin's Komische Oper in 1948 by the legendary stage director Walter Felsenstein. Now Barrie Kosky, stage director and intendant, has tried his hand.

Could this be the most perfect fusion of music and visuals known to mankind!?

A hilarious pearl of an operetta. Barry Kosky reigns supreme in Berlin!

Auch nach vier Jahren lockt die Produktion von Mozarts Evergreen das Publikum in Scharen ins Opernhaus und verspricht einen anregenden Abend.

Barrie Kosky's 2011 production confines the action of the opera to a stark white room. A fine ensemble of singers made for a successful evening.

Darkly illuminated music at Berlin's Komische Oper.