Bernhard Glocksin will tell us something more about the contemporary opera pieces of Neuköllner Opera

Singing Avatars, Turkish Tango

Berlin’s Neuköllner Oper creates Opera about our contemporaries

Bernhard Glocksin

Since 30 years Berlin has an opera house, specialized in developing stories about  present topics and figures. At Neuköllner Oper, the plot and its sound (music) are the main protagonists. And therefore Neuköllner Oper produces exclusively original scripts, developed in teamwork by authors, composers, stage-directors, dramaturges and the theatre`s directorate.

Meanwhile more than 150 operas/ plays  in all genres like new opera, adaptations of classical opera and operetta, new forms and experimental opera involving dance, puppets and other performing arts, musicals, opera for young people, education programs and competitions for composers, authors and singers. The main focus are inter-cultural projects like German-Turkish operas/music theatre, a choir based on the idea of diversity, international cooperation and the OPEN OP Festival for alternative opera.

Bernhard Glocksin, artistic director of the Neuköllner Oper will inform about the way of producing and selecting projects of this  unique German opera house.

Bernhard Glocksin: Artistic director and dramaturge in chief at neuköllner oper in Berlin.

He studied music theory, German language and literature and politics at the universities of Colone, Tübingen and Marburg. From 1986 onwards, he worked as dramaturge in Hannover, Zürich und Salzburg. In 1995, he became dramaturge in chief and personal assistant of the artistic director at Staatstheater Mainz, and from 1999 until 2002 dramaturge in chief and vice artistic director of Deutsches Theater in Göttingen.
The focus of his activity is developing new forms in opera at Neuköllner Oper (e.g. BizetLounge:Perlenfischer or Create your life!), training programmes for authors and composers, writing texts for dance theatre, (Salzburg) and music theatre (Julie & Jean, music Gerhard Schedl, debut performance Vienna 2003; HesseIndia, music Raffael Reina, debut performance Amsterdam/Stuttgart/ Vienna 2007/09), director and script author of „Die getauschte Schule“ 2008, „Der Fall Rigoletto“ 2009, “Rheingold Feuerland” 2011. Parallel to that, he has some freelancing projects (Berlinale Talk 2004; coproduction Haus der Kulturen der Welt/schauspielfrankfurt 2004) as well as tutoring (Schauspielakademie Zürich, 1992) and juror activities („Körber Studio Junge Regie“ 2009, ITS Festival Amsterdam 2010). 2010 Leading the festival „OpenOP – European Festival for alternative Opera“