L'Italiana in Algeri at Deutsche Oper Berlin

A lucha libre mask on the curtain, two gyms, one wrestling ring, and Rossini completely dismantled—then rebuilt into something that actually works today.

All Balanchine III at the New York City Ballet

Balanchine in New York, Berlin in the audience—and a reminder not to take any of it for granted.

Nurejew at Staatsballett Berlin

A gay Soviet defector, a ballet banned in Russia, a director now based in Berlin—and a premiere that felt like the most important cultural event of the season.

Les Contes d'Hoffmann at Staatsoper Berlin

A man collapses outside a peep show, and spends the rest of the evening learning why. On shame, desire, and the particular wreckage of a man who never healed his inner child.

Selemo at Neuköllner Oper

Two traditions, one stage, and the quiet insistence that spring, contradiction, and simultaneity don't need your permission.

Don Giovanni at Staatsoper Berlin

A rotating enchanted forest, a Giovanni who bleeds through the whole opera, and the production that knocked the wind back into my opera-tired lungs.

Jewgeni Onegin at Komische Oper Berlin

An opera about not getting over a crush—and a production so gorgeous it makes 150-year-old heartbreak feel like yesterday.

Violanta at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Psychoanalysis as science fiction: rooms within rooms, each one a door into what you've buried—some doors you open, and some you don't.

Falstaff at Staatsoper Berlin

Berlin’s queer aesthetics, stripped of queerness—a glossy appropriation where underground culture becomes set dressing for straight comfort.

Wunderkammer by Staatsballett Berlin and Marcos Morau

A hypnotic descent into Berlin’s queer club culture—where wonder carries the weight of otherness, and belonging is never guaranteed.

Tristan und Isolde at Deutsche Oper Berlin (2025)

Between night and light, between longing and annihilation, lies a space where love becomes both wound and salvation.

Don Giovanni at Vicenza Opera Festival

Between marble grandeur and moral decay, a centuries-old story of charm and cruelty becomes a mirror for power, privilege, and our age of artifice.