Things to do in Berlin on Thursday 31 December

Ryuichi Sakamoto: his first major retrospective in Europe.

Tosca: Puccini's opera of jealousy, by Alvis Hermanis.

Pippi Longstocking: children's opera for the family.

Philharmoniker close the season with Harding, Hadelich.

Performing Arts Season by the Berliner Festspiele.

Sophie Calle: Is It Better?, photos, texts and video works.

Das Herz eines Boxers: Jojo meets ex-boxer Leo.

Oh, wie schön ist Panama: Janosch musical theatre, age 4 up.

Art and migration in Kreuzberg since 1960.

Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch

Ruin and Rush: 1920s Berlin with Kirchner, Dix and Höch.

Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem: Schlingensief retrospective.

Focus Japan: Japan's performing arts at the Festspiele.

Preis der Nationalgalerie: Maurizio Cattelan.

Stress Test: post-1945 art with Beuys, Abramović, Warhol.

Offenbach's operetta, wittily staged by Barrie Kosky.

BAUBAU: Free play space for kids at the Gropius Bau.

Genghis Khan: treasures of Mongolia.

Lovis Corinth: exhibition on his Berlin years.

Next Door: Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman in the Rieckhallen.

Rubens, Jordaens, van Dyck: Flemish Baroque drawings.

Shilpa Gupta: works on language, borders, power.

WIR SIND AM LEBEN: Musical about early-90s Berlin.

Portraits: Botticelli to Lempicka.

Gursky, Miró, Warhol meet the long 19th century.

Salon Rosie – Das Musical, starring Steffi Irmen.

Thumbelina as a puppet play for ages three and up.

Staatssicherheitsinhaftierung: portraits by André Wagenzik.

Linie 1: Musical revue about big-city life in Berlin.

BLINDED by DELIGHT: Grand Show of dreams and happiness.

KOO JEONG A – OUSSSEAN: glowing paintings and magnet towers.

Alberto Giacometti – works from the Klewan collection.

Zu Risiken fragen Sie Ihre Nebenwirkungen: cabaret.

Susan Hiller – Bad Dreams: dreams and the unexplained.

Kintsugi!: Contemporary circus by Machine de Cirque.

Horst Evers tells and reads new, funny stories.

Intermezzo: Helmut Newton photography exhibition.

Light installation by Mischa Kuball.

ENCOUNTERS: art on migration, bodies, borders.

Cirque du Soleil ALIZÉ: open bar upgrade for the show.