Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What happens when the lights go out? On her first night alone in bed, little Elli is caught up in a strange, invisible world: snoring walls, resistant floors, wandering drawers, oversized goldfishes, and - an octopus lady. What's going on?

In our brand-new children's opera TINTENFISCHLADY, Lara Yilmaz and Coline Meret Lola Jud use whimsical, colorful images to tell young audiences about our fear of the unknow.

Composition: Sidney Corbett
Libretto: Chiara Corbett
Musical direction: Leonard Martynek
Director: Lara Yilmaz
Set & costume design: Coline Meret Lola Jud
Lighting design: Nicolai Roloff, Steffen Hoppe;

With Evelina Smolina, Lana Maletić, Felix Che Groll, Matthias Badczong, Marion Ravot / Clara Simarro and Kobus Prins / Lukas Zeuner

World premiere on 31 Oct 2025
Next performances on 13/15/16/18/20/22/24 Nov
All about it https://trfy.eu/d2EPM

A commissioned work by the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

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