To kick off the new season at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Susanne Kennedy is staging Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht (Wednesday from Light) — an opera that turns consciousness itself into a stage. For her film selection in the At the Movies series, she has chosen David Lynch’s Inland Empire.

Nikki Grace, once a famous actress, is hired for a film project. Shortly before filming begins, she learns that it is a remake of an earlier version that was never completed due to mysterious deaths. Nikki agrees to take on the role anyway. But as she slips into her new character and begins an affair with her colleague, she seems to increasingly lose touch with reality and the boundary between the present and the past, fictional and real people and places.


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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…