{"title": "Madama Butterfly", "start": "2026-11-21T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schillertheater", "address": "Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "»Madama Butterfly« is an opera by Giacomo Puccini, whose premiere takes place on 21 November 2026 at the Komische Oper Berlin at the Schillertheater. Andrea Breth directs the story of the young geisha Cio-Cio-San, who marries the American naval officer Pinkerton and is abandoned by him. While Pinkerton returns home to find a »proper« wife, Butterfly waits with their child for his return – until she grasps the truth and sees only one way out. The co-production with the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and the Opéra National de Lyon relies on a painterly aesthetic with kimonos, cherry blossoms and cranes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/madama-butterfly-5494/", "official_url": "https://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/spielplan/kalender/madama-butterfly/1389/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db4198048cbfedec02e82bc806e334829956dd81a3d2f19d3adabb58d35a1c90-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-21T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schillertheater", "address": "Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-28T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schillertheater", "address": "Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-12-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schillertheater", "address": "Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-12-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schillertheater", "address": "Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-12-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schillertheater", "address": "Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-12-18T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schillertheater", "address": "Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-12-27T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schillertheater", "address": "Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2027-01-02T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schillertheater", "address": "Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2027-01-15T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-15T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Schillertheater", "address": "Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Einführungsmatinee: Madama Butterfly", "start": "2026-11-08T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schillertheater", "address": "Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "Einführungsmatinee: Madama Butterfly is a matinee to which the Komische Oper Berlin invites visitors on Sunday midday, two weeks before a premiere. The director, conductor and stage and costume designers talk about their work at the Schillertheater and offer a preview of the upcoming premiere, accompanied by musical excerpts. Admission is free. From 10 am, an opera breakfast is available beforehand.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einfuhrungsmatinee-madama-butterfly-5492/", "official_url": "https://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/spielplan/kalender/em-madama-butterfly/1456/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Der fliegende Holländer", "start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsche Oper Berlin", "address": "Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin", "price": "33,00 €", "price_from": "33.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera/romantic-opera"], "description": "Der fliegende Holländer is a romantic opera by Richard Wagner at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In this premiere, the combative theatre-maker Milo Rau engagements for the first time with Wagner's work and cosmos, using the romantic opera as a starting point for a journey into the political depths of post-war Germany. At its centre is the cursed sailor who can only find redemption through a woman's loyalty, finding an obsessively determined ally in Senta. Musically, the young conductor Giedrė Šlekytė makes her Wagner debut here, with Tomasz Konieczny as the Dutchman and Aušrinė Stundytė as Senta.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/der-fliegende-hollander-15187/", "official_url": "https://deutscheoperberlin.de/de_DE/production/der-fliegende-hollaender.1385827?event_date=17919032", "image": "https://noky.io/images/248c41454159a4a269225f3b41a45f0a2e9a28eb0c2fbabf11164e7f62d4bb92-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Die Zauberflöte", "start": "2026-11-16T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsche Oper Berlin", "address": "Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin", "price": "28,00 €", "price_from": "23.00", "price_to": "28.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "Die Zauberflöte is a grand opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed in the Große Haus of Deutsche Oper Berlin. Tomáš Netopil conducts and Günter Krämer directs, with the chorus and orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin. Mozart set out to write a piece for everyone, and the blend of Viennese popular theatre, Singspiel and Italian opera serves every taste, from catchy songs to arias.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-zauberflote-15185/", "official_url": "https://deutscheoperberlin.de/de_DE/production/die-zauberfloete.1385471?event_date=17916129", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e4b6d4f7ca14a2190c7456aa0b50caa6819d40343e2f730037b7a2d7fc879763-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tosca", "start": "2026-10-11T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-05T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Staatsoper Unter den Linden", "address": "Unter den Linden 7, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "\"Tosca\" is a melodramma in three acts from 1900. Puccini created one of his harshest and most dramatic works with a taut dramaturgy: when the revolutionary-minded painter Mario Cavaradossi secretly helps a political fugitive escape, his beloved, the celebrated singer Floria Tosca, believes he is unfaithful, and the ruthless police chief Scarpia exploits her jealousy to entrap Cavaradossi before demanding a night with Tosca in exchange for the lover's release. The staging comes from Latvian theatre director Alvis Hermanis, who sets the action in the opera's creation period around 1900 and complements it with projected graphic-novel imagery from set and costume designer Kristine Jurjane. The performance runs about two and a half hours including a break after Act 1 and is sung in Italian with German and English surtitles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/tosca-7811/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4e7e7821a54b8f77e2f9a9163442c38965a1265ba5da8f90de70ff7e782f5e41-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Aspettando Puccini – Warten auf Puccini", "start": "2026-11-14T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden erbeten", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "The Kammerchor Nikolassee choir stages Puccini's operas \"Tosca\" and \"Turandot\" as experimental short operas of 35 and 30 minutes. Choir director and composer Vincent Andreas has filtered out the essential from the operas and reduced them without the great arias, accompanied by a grand piano instead of an orchestra. Three soloists and the choir share the roles around Floria Tosca and Princess Turandot. The short operas are framed by the ensemble's own compositions that lead into and connect Puccini's works; admission is free, donations are requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/aspettando-puccini-warten-auf-puccini-2605/", "official_url": "https://kammerchor-nikolassee.de/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b445291d4fd1fe4547d4a34f82aefd394357728f4d331696b6b36938b05c4dbc-600.webp"}, {"title": "L’incoronazione di Poppea", "start": "2026-11-20T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Staatsoper Unter den Linden", "address": "Unter den Linden 7, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": [], "description": "At Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Monteverdi's opera “L’incoronazione di Poppea”, an early-baroque masterpiece from 1642, is being performed. Diego Fasolis conducts and Eva-Maria Höckmayr directs, with Anna Prohaska as Poppea and Raffaele Pe as Nerone. The opera unfolds like a political thriller: Poppea wants to become empress at Nerone's side and seduces him into casting off his wife Ottavia, while Seneca and Ottone try to stand in her way. In the end, the most ruthless couple triumphs – it is sung in Italian with German and English surtitles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lincoronazione-di-poppea-32850/", "official_url": "https://www.staatsoper-berlin.de/de/veranstaltungen/l-incoronazione-di-poppea.94/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3ce49577241d1a54087436411fb56181138c13fdd256b93babb6b795238ddcc9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In 80 Tagen um die Welt", "start": "2026-11-15T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsche Oper Berlin", "address": "Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin", "price": "34,00 – 10,00 €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "34.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera", "literature"], "description": "\"In 80 Tagen um die Welt\" is an opera for children and the young at heart, shown on the main stage of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The opera by Jonathan Dove tells of Max, who loves to read and is captivated by the book \"In 80 Tagen um die Welt\" by Jules Verne. Giovanni Conti is responsible for the musical direction, and the production is staged by Peter Lund. Ulrike Reinhard and Hanna Sophie Stejskal designed the sets and costumes, with lighting by Franck Evin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/in-80-tagen-um-die-welt-24650/", "official_url": "https://deutscheoperberlin.de/de_DE/production/in-80-tagen-um-die-welt.1385725?event_date=17917872", "image": "https://noky.io/images/426fa2c41100c82a3e77c23745aafc008a24680a924df28831a5ff18806b7f67-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Verleihung des Götz-Friedrich-Preises", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsche Oper Berlin", "address": "Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin", "price": "Freier Eintritt", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "In the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Götz-Friedrich-Preis for music theatre directing is awarded. The honourees are Giulia Giammona for her staging of Hindemith's Cardillac at the Staatstheater Meiningen and Elena Maria Artisi for Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Theater Altenburg Gera; for the first time the jury chose two laureates. For more than twenty-five years the prize has supported outstanding directing talent and since the 22/23 season it has returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the main workplace of its namesake. The programme features appearances by the laureates and other members of the house, hosted by Beate Breidenbach; admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/verleihung-des-gotz-friedrich-preises-31891/", "official_url": "https://deutscheoperberlin.de/de_DE/production/verleihung-des-goetz-friedrich-preises.1403955?event_date=18022588", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0a7149a5193af40164fe4b94cbdbe59a8de7419e36923fa3b317be0d780888f6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Orpheus in der Unterwelt", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Puppentheater Felicio", "address": "Schivelbeiner Straße 45, 10439 Berlin", "price": "Erwachsene 15,00 €, ermäßigt 11,00 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/puppet-theatre"], "description": "Orpheus in der Unterwelt is a zestfully staged puppet play at Puppentheater Felicio in Berlin. The performance is presented by Puppentheater Felicio and features the music of J. Offenbach. The piece tells the Orpheus story in the underworld. It is performed on a puppet stage at the venue on Schivelbeiner Straße.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/orpheus-in-der-unterwelt-7602/", "official_url": "https://www.felicio.de/spielplan.php", "image": ""}, {"title": "Jewgeni Onegin", "start": "2026-11-14T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schillertheater", "address": "Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera/romantic-opera"], "description": "“Jewgeni Onegin” is an opera – “lyric scenes in three acts” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky – performed by the Komische Oper Berlin in the Great Hall of the Schillertheater. It is directed by Barrie Kosky, who stages the melancholy drama of the soul in overwhelming and richly detailed images of nature. It tells of four young people: the poet Lenski brings his mysterious friend Jewgeni Onegin, who harshly rejects the lovesick Tatjana, later kills Lenski in a duel, and years later is refused by the now-married Tatjana. With this work Tchaikovsky achieved his breakthrough as an opera composer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/jewgeni-onegin-5488/", "official_url": "https://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/spielplan/kalender/jewgeni-onegin/1252/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee099de6db18d86ed36ee521c507531af0760d9d0f83ec5797e604c93609e81c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jewgeni Onegin", "start": "2026-11-14T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Komische Oper Berlin @Schillertheater", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["stage/opera/romantic-opera"], "description": "Jewgeni Onegin is an opera in three acts by Pjotr I. Tschaikowski based on a book by Alexander S. Puschkin. Barrie Kosky's staging uses opulent, richly detailed images of nature to tell this melancholy drama of the soul about four young people whose hopes and longings come to nothing. In the end they realize how close happiness was. The production, created with the Opernhaus Zürich, is performed in Russian.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/jewgeni-onegin-30369/", "official_url": "https://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/spielplan/a-z/jewgeni-onegin/", "image": ""}]}