Neukölln Opera

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Neukölln Opera and the Passage Cinema

The Neuköllner Oper is a free theater in the Berlin district of Neukölln .

history

In 1972 the composer and director Winfried Radeke founded a chamber choir, from which the Neukölln Opera emerged in 1976. The theater tries to find an alternative to traditional opera between drama and musical theater . Initially, the ensemble played at different venues. Only in 1988 it was given by the Berlin Senate in the Karl-Marx-Straße own house.

Concept of the Neuköllner Oper e. V. has been bringing music theater of various genres to the stage since its foundation . The program ranges from the baroque opera (Tom Jones) to the musical (Das Wunder von Neukölln) , from the operetta (Messeschlager Gisela) to the soap opera (Die Krötzkes) , from the grand opera ( Macbeth ) to the contemporary opera ( Angela. A national opera by Frank Schwemmer ), from the revue (Well, it 's going to be ) to children's music theater ( Hillary the witch goes to the opera ) .

In the area of ​​promoting young artists, the Neukölln Opera cooperates with the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music and the Berlin University of the Arts . Here it is primarily the musical / show course that can be seen once per year with its own production in the opera. The Neukölln Opera has been cooperating with the children and youth program of the Berlin International Literature Festival since 2012 . As part of the collaboration, the premiere of the play Frerk, du Zwerg! based on the children's book of the same name by Finn-Ole Heinrich in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele .

The Neukölln Opera regularly organizes the “Berliner Opernpreis” composition competition, which is advertised throughout the German-speaking region and sponsored by GASAG Berliner Gaswerke AG .

The around 290 performances of the Neukölln Opera each year (with a capacity of around 75 percent) are performed in the old ballroom of a former society house in Rixdorf on today's Karl-Marx-Straße.

Guest appearances but was also in the Grips Theater Berlin (The Miracle of Neukölln and Midsummer Night's Dream) , at Kampnagel in Hamburg (also The Miracle of Neukölln ), the Renaissance Theater Vienna / Theater der Jugend Wien (The Elephant Man , Cinderella fits what not) to the Wiener Festwochen (Cosi fan tutte) and in the shell of the Bundestag underground station (Angela. A national opera) .

From 1996 to 2004, alongside Winfried Radeke, the director and author Peter Lund was artistic director of the Neukölln Opera. The conductor Hans-Peter Kirchberg has been the musical director of the house since 2002 .

The Neukölln Opera hosted a European festival for other music theater from April 8th to 18th, 2010 under the title OpenOp . This was funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation and was organized in the Neukölln Opera House and in the neighboring home port on Karl-Marx-Straße. A highlight was the gala Heroes of the Opera , which the composer Hans-Jörn Brandenburg and the puppet maker Suse Wächter brought to the stage.

architecture

The house in which the Neukölln Opera is located today was built in 1909 by Reinhold Kiehl , who - among numerous other buildings in Neukölln - also designed the town hall and the Stadtbad (see list of cultural monuments in Berlin-Neukölln ).

Web links

Commons : Neuköllner Oper  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 38 ″  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 25 ″  E