Komische Oper Berlin: Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO / DIE HOCHZEIT DES FIGAROS / 

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO

If you haven't already had a chance to see this very witty production at the Komische Oper Berlin, currently "Opera House of the Year", then there is one last chance this coming Friday ... the 13th at 19:30. 

Care of www.komische-oper-berlin.de

Directed by Barrie Kosky, who is now Intendant of the Komische Oper, this is a fast paced, well-comedic-timed production. While it is a long opera (3.5 hrs) it remains a very good opera to introduce newcomers, and the benefit at the Komische Oper are the individual seat subtitles, whereby you can choose your language of German, English, French or Turkish. 

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Tickets are still available, either online via 
www.komische-oper-berlin.de and naturally there is an english portal, otherwise in person at the ticket office at Unter den Linden 41, or at the box office just before the performance.

Photo: Gunnar Geller

And the cast for the final performance in this season should be:

Graf Almaviva Dominik Köninger

Gräfin Almaviva Brigitte Geller

Susanna Jasmina Sakr

Figaro Philipp Meierhöfer

Cherubino Annelie Sophie Müller

Marcellina Caren van Oijen

Basilio Stephan Boving

Don Curzio Peter Renz

Bartolo Stefan Sevenich

Antonio Hans-Martin Nau

Barbarina Adela Zaharia

Erste Brautjungfer Saskia Krispin

Zweite Brautjungfer Mechtild Sauer 

Conductor Hendrik Vestmann

Continuo Matthew Toogood

Leben? Oder Theater? Ein Singspiel

LEBEN? ODER THEATER? EIN SINGSPIEL
(Life? Or Theatre? A Song-Play)

Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist originally from Berlin, who created a series of autobiographical paintings while she was hiding from Nazi persecution in Southern France 1941-1943. Tragically she was deported to Auschwitz in 1943, where both she and her unborn child were executed. 

Self Portrait 1940. Charlotte Salomon - care of Wikipedia.

Marie Pohl and her father Klaus Pohl have developed Salomon's "wagnerian" work of gouaches into a libretto, which will be presented as a semi-staged reading with music at the Komische Oper Berlin this coming Monday late evening.

Care of Joods Historisch Museum, www.jhm.nl

There is a real eclectic mix of international artists involved with this project, including writers, actors, directors, musicians, singers, etc from America, Cuba, Australia, England and Germany. 

The performance will take place in the foyer of the Komische Oper Berlin, Behrenstrasse 55-57 on Monday night 2 June 2014 starting at 22.15. Tickets are only €15 and the performance should last 75 minutes.

Further details are available in German on the Komische Oper website here: and more history of Charlotte on wikipedia.