"The Gala Nights of Deutsche Oper Berlin which have been headed by conductors such as Lawrence Foster, Jiri Kout, Kent Nagano and Christian Thielemann combine the glamorous event with a light-hearted approach to the world of opera true to Loriot???s style and at the same time have helped those people in urgent need of support thanks to the considerable donations generated for the German AIDS-founda" . . . . . . .