The Staatsballett Berlin will present the world premiere of Wunderkammer on 31 October 2025 at the Komische Oper Berlin @Schillertheater, the first full-length choreography by Artist in Residence Marcos Morau for the company.
Image above: Rehearsals for Wunderkammer, photo: Yan Revazov.
The Spaniard was recently named “Choreographer of the Year” for the second time in tanz magazine’s annual critics’ survey. After Overture, he is now working on his second creation with the Staatsballett Berlin ensemble.
With his unmistakable stage worlds, Marcos Morau evokes familiar places, which he simultaneously transposes into dreamlike and unreal spheres. The title Wunderkammer refers to the historical cabinets of curiosities that served as collections of extraordinary and ‘curious’ objects in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. Marcos Morau takes up this theme and interweaves it with Berlin’s nightlife from the 1920s to the present day: “I was inspired by the nocturnal worlds of cabaret and the dark worlds of nightlife, in which grotesque humour, playful exaggeration and an aura of the hidden appear.”
Elements of the 1920s also merge visually and acoustically with contemporary aesthetics, which is reflected in the costumes by Silvia Delagneau, the set design by Max Glaenzel and the music. Spanish composer and sound designer Clara Aguilar and Berlin composer and sound designer Ben Meerwein have collaborated on the music composed especially for this production. Together they create a sound that combines past and present, electronic sounds, film-like scores and vocals and for which the dancers perform not only movements but also spoken words.
WHEN?
World premiere: Wunderkammer
Friday, 31. October 2025, 7:30 pm., Komische Oper Berlin
WHERE?
Komische Oper Berlin @Schillertheater
Bismarckstraße 110
10625 Berlin
COST?
Regular: 70–112 EUR
Reduced: 36-57 EUR
