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Deutsche Oper Berlin
Until the arrival of Kirsten Harms, Germany's first-ever female major opera boss, Berlin's largest opera house suffered from budget shortages and artistic mediocrity. Thanks to her vision, quality is up and so is attendance, despite some controversy in late 2006 over a production featuring the severed heads of Mohammed, Jesus, Buddha and Neptune.
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English Theatre Berlin
Berlin's oldest English-language troupe, formerly known as Friends of Italian Opera, specialises in works by contemporary English-speaking playwrights.
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Neuköllner Oper
You don't need public funding to run a good venue - Neukölln's refurbished prewar ballroom is easily the most creative opera house in the city, with an actively anti-elitist repertoire pitting children's and experimental shows against rare operas by greats such as Mozart and Schubert.
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Volksbühne Am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Nonconformist, provocative, radical: performances at the 'People's Stage' are not for the squeamish. Enfants terribles Frank Castorf and Christoph Schlingensief regularly tear down the confines of the proscenium stage with Zeitgeist -critical productions that are somehow both populist and elitist.
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