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LOCATION:Deutsche Oper Berlin\, Berlin
SUMMARY:Opening weekend
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DESCRIPTION:«Unless the people live here»\nMy dear people of Berlin\,When
  I was invited to envision the opening of the 2026/27 season at Deutsche O
 per Berlin\, I didn’t want to think of the conventional opening weekend.
  Instead\, I asked myself what it could mean to truly open up the house: f
 or time\, for the people of the city and for the many types of creating an
 d doing without which the opera could not even exist.\n\nNUR WENN DIE MENS
 CHEN HIER LEBEN – «Unless the people live here» – takes the idea of 
 the total work of art to broaden the perspective beyond the stage. Opera h
 as always been a collective endeavour – supported by musicians and singe
 rs\, costume designers and technicians\, ushers\, administrators\, buildin
 g services staff and many others whose work usually becomes invisible once
  the curtain rises. This project is based on the conviction that all these
  elements are equally important and that the opera house itself can be und
 erstood as a living system\, characterised by collaboration and care.\n\nT
 he theatre\, open for 30 hours to mark the beginning of the season\, unfol
 ds as an open structure\, accessible and in flux day and night. Over the w
 eekend\, Berlin-based artists will engage the building with site-specific 
 interventions that extend throughout the entire structure. They will work 
 on the stages as well as in workshops\, foyers and offices\, kitchens and 
 technical areas. The aim is not to transform the opera house into somethin
 g else\, but rather to bring its internal processes to the forefront.\n\nD
 eutsche Oper Berlin was founded as an opera house FOR THE PEOPLE\, and thi
 s history is significant in each of these interventions. The house is not 
 simply a curtain or merely a stage\, but an active participant. While you 
 move through the building\, you can encounter moments that seem familiar\,
  and others that undergo a subtle shift. There is no set path through the 
 weekend\, nor any expectation to see everything. What matters is the time 
 that you spend here.\n\nI hope you will join us during the last weekend in
  August\, be it for a brief visit or a longer period\, letting the time sp
 ent together take shape while you move through the building. After we have
  spent the weekend together: What might stay with you after you leave? Wha
 t will change when the mechanisms of communal life become visible?Until th
 en\, Rirkrit Tiravanija
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