The Artistic Director of Deutsche Oper Dietmar Schwarz and Anne von Fallois, Chairwoman of the German AIDS Foundation, welcomed the audience

Rolando Villazón not only hosted the opera galain an amusing manner. He also wowedthe audience with his performance as a tenor

The tenors Pene and Amitai Pati fascinatedthe audience with the Maori song

Former Minister of Health Jens Spahn

Bild links: Spanish soprano Serena Sáenz amused the audience with her interplay between breathtaking singing and her pantomime performance as a puppet whose voice became stuck or dried up, only to ‘work’ again after conductor Daniele Squeo ‘readjusted’ it 
Bild rechts: Berlin’s honorary citizen Margot Friedländer, shortly before her 103rd birthday. The Holocaust survivor began campaigning against anti-Semitism andfor more humanity at the age of 88