retrospect – Page 4 – Neuköllner Oper Berlin

Stella

Stella is 20 years old when Hitler decrees that Berlin is to be finally made “free from Jews”. Stella is blond and young and beautiful and wants to become a singer. Or a film star, like Marlene Dietrich. But the Goldschlag family does not receive a visa. Instead of her dream of a big career, Stella gets a yellow star

Premiere on 04. October 2018.
To 04. November 2018.

Schöner Wohnen

Berlin’s apartment is being fragmented, divided, quartered and, from a hipsters side, drawing nearer to the state that used to be the setting of the metropolis of the 1920s. Focussing the history of the Berlin tenement such as the „Richardsburg“ a satirical living theatre is staged – with elements from slapstick, songs, dance and scenes.

Premiere on 09. May 2023.
To 28. June 2023.

SAVE THE LAST KIEZ

Neukölln Originals The analog everyday life goes on – and not only since Corona the neighborhood has been fighting for survival. Rising rents and real estate speculation threaten all the small pubs, stores and micro-institutions that enliven the neighborhood around the Neuköllner Oper. In our new video series, we bring the neighborhood into the music […]

Premiere on 23. July 2020.
To 31. January 2021.

Rette uns, Okichi!

Okichi is supposed to save everything: the modern government, the old empire and, most of all, the entire country of Japan. Unfortunately, this girl neither wants to grant the government’s wish and serve as a geisha to the U.S. consul nor interest in dealing with the gaijin with a swift stab to the back, as Yoshida, a samurai loyal to the empire demands. What to do?..European Premier 18.02. 2017

Premiere on 07. November 2017.
To 14. January 2018.

Reboot Berlin

A series of suggestions and ideas to take back (at least partially) our city.

To 31. December 2020.

Radioland

This is the story of the most successful and longest-lived micronation in the world. And it is the story of the Bates family, whose members began as pirates and became princes. It’s the 1960s and the BBC has slept through the social upheaval: it doesn’t play pop music on any of its stations. In order […]

Premiere on 26. January 2023.
To 26. February 2023.

PIZZA, PIZZA (ODER WENN DIE PIZZA NICHT KOMMT)

Imagine YOU are sitting at home…. Boredom, stressful day, bad grades, trouble with your friend… One phone call: a PIZZA is ordered. But the wait for the PIZZA turns out to be completely different than expected: Every time it rings, YOU think it’s PIZZA, but there are all kinds of people with all kinds of […]

Premiere on 23. June 2024.
To 24. June 2024.

Paradise Lost – THE GENESIS OF MUSICAL

Yes, it was paradise…Pan danced through the woods, the mermaids sang in the surf, all the animals played and loved each other.Only man could not do anything. Neither singing, nor dancing, nor playing. And then came the snake… The triple gift as the fall of man. That is the basic idea of the new musical […]

Premiere on 28. November 2022.
To 07. January 2023.

ORPHEUS OPTIMAL

An evening of failures large and small, setbacks and of dealing with grief – we follow Orpheus into the realm of the dead and save what can be saved.

Premiere on 31. May 2019.
To 31. May 2019.

OPERA FOR SALE – Die Webserie

Recently, the rent cap was overturned … Find out what else is driving the rental madness in the web series OPERA FOR SALE, our musical real estate infotainment (music: Yuval Halpern, lyrics/direction: Felix Krakau).

Premiere on 30. July 2020.
To 03. September 2020.

Opera for Sale

Berlin in the not too distant future: the city has lost the battle against international investors, has been upgraded. The Neuköllner Opera House also became a share deal – the new owner of the building invites to an exclusive music theatre event for a widely travelled audience: authentic music theatre as it used to be…

Premiere on 12. March 2020.
To 15. May 2020.

Ocaña, Queen of the Ramblas

Barcelona, you gorgeous and rebellious city, what has happened to you and your stars? At a conference for urban history in Berlin, a speaker remembers the “wild” years in the 1970s, when Spain dared to free itself from the rigidity of Franco’s dictatorship, the counterculture whose illustrious star Ocaña, the artist, rebel and drag queen: Ocaña

Premiere on 12. December 2018.
To 25. January 2019.