Rosie Aldridge opens her thrilling 2026/27 season this evening, making her role debut as Goneril in Aribert Reimann’s Lear, which launches the Komische Oper Berlin’s new season.

Rosie Aldridge returns to the company, where she previously appeared in The Nose and, most recently, as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd. She reunites with Barrie Kosky, who directs this new staging of Reimann’s powerful adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, presented at Berlin’s historic Tempelhof Airport and conducted by Nicholas Carter.

20th- and 21st-century opera plays a significant role in Rosie Aldridge’s wide-ranging repertoire, which includes Turnage’s Festen, Pintscher’s Das kalte Herz and Higgins’s The Monstrous Child.

This role debut, along with her upcoming debut as Katerina Ismailova in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Stuttgart, marks an important step in her progression towards some of the most complex roles in the Zwischenfach and dramatic-soprano repertoire, following recent role debuts as Kundry in Parsifal at Staatsoper Stuttgart and Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle.

Performances take place this evening and on September 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 29, and October 1 and 3.