At the Movies
Unlimited is taking the opera to the cinema: At one of the auditoriums at delphi Lux, artists whom we are meeting this opera season will show their secret favourite films, guilty pleasures or cinematic inspirations in the context of opera productions – and will personally present them. All in line with our season motto Make love …
with Susanne Kennedy > 30.9.26
To mark the opening of the new season at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Susanne Kennedy is staging Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht—an opera that turns consciousness itself into a stage. For the Im Kino series, she has chosen David Lynch’s Inland Empire.
with Fiston Mwanza Mujila > 4.11.26
Fiston Mwanza Mujila is Poet in Residence at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for the season 26/27 and a part of the Afrofuturist music theater Sunville at the Tischlerei. He has chosen Neptune Frost as his film for the At the Movies series.
with Bára Gísladóttir > 13.1.27
Bára Gísladóttir is Composer in Residence for the 26/27 season at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the composer of the world premiere Good Vibes Only. For the At the Movies series, she has chosen Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite.
with Maxime Pascal > 3.2.27
Maxime Pascal, Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Oper, will conduct Stockhausen’s Wednesday from Light this season and lead the symphonic concert Turangalîla – Messiaen’s overwhelming ode to love, inspired by the legend of Tristan and Isolde: love as a cosmic force, insatiable and boundless. For his film, he has chosen Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke: the same questions, a dying forest, no easy answers.
with Kornél Mundruczó > 24.3.27
Kornél Mundruczó brings Verdi’s Otello, based on Shakespeare’s play, to the Deutsche Oper – a production that takes the audience directly into the inner world of a man consumed by jealousy and guilt. His film selection: Michael Haneke’s Caché. What is repressed does not disappear.
with Dr. Aviel Cahn > 30.6.27
Aviel Cahn concludes his first season as artistic director of the Deutsche Oper with Derek Jarman’s War Requiem – the film adaptation of the same work by Benjamin Britten that is also being performed on the opera stage this season.