Deutsche Oper Berlin (in Der Deutschen Oper Berlin)

I looked at the Nussknacker in winter 2013 and was overwhelmed by the opera. Everything is very huge and you can run quickly, but at every corner there are employees who give you the room. The sound was also bombastic. An absolutely recommended place for people who want to enjoy something special.

I love the Deutsche Oper Berlin! I was lucky to receive an annual subscription of 2 cards per month to three years in a row, and since then I am one of the largest opera fans in the world, although my age does not suggest it. Opera is usually something for pleasure or hate, but it is emotionally charged. Here is laughed, cried, dead, killed, families and love dramas are just as big pillars of the opera as political and social themes. The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a modern opera house that is also staged controversially, which, unlike classical pieces, likes to hold and also offers jazz evenings. With this, Deutsche Oper Berlin is an opera house that seems to be polarized but also standard in every opera house. Not all opera enthusiasts love a modern staging of a Wagner and tear the productions accordingly. Nevertheless, I believe that modern, booming staging for every opera is essential to survive, not to die before aging of the audience. Young vegetables and audiences need every opera in general and for this the Deutsche Oper Berlin has found its horse. I was also allowed to take part in a tour and am impressed by the opera house: The stage is, for example, 70 meters long (backward), the orchestral trench is somehow phenomenal, the workshops where the props are made impressive and remind me of Alice in Wonderland. What overwhelmed me was the stage of the Egyptian Helena by Richard Strauss, which is not part of the everyday repertoire of an opera house and is therefore one of the very rare operas worldwide. The real opera fans came from all over the world to see this rare performance (now played in Germany in 1970). All possible stars for this opera house!

The old opera house, built in 1935, was bombed on 23rd November 1943 to large parts destroyed. Only on September 24, 1961, Deutsche Oper Berlin was reopened as the youngest and largest Berlin opera house under its current name in the new building of Bismarckstraße, which was built according to plans by Fritz Bornemann. With 1.885 seats, Deutsche Oper Berlin is the largest opera house in Berlin today. The building is sober, monumental and imposing. You sit like in an amphitheater of the Romans with an optimal view every single place and the best acoustics of all Berlin music stages. Almost all ideas are given for a better understanding of the text with titles.