Staatsoper Berlin
Falstaff at Staatsoper Berlin
Berlin’s queer aesthetics, stripped of queerness—a glossy appropriation where underground culture becomes set dressing for straight comfort.
Philip Zuschke
Lifelong opera stan projecting my sociological and queer perspective onto what’s playing on Berlin‘s big and small classical stages.
Staatsballett Berlin
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.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
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.
Budapest Festival Orchestra
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.
Staatsoper Berlin
Die schweigsame Frau at Staatsoper Berlin
Between camp and complicity, this production plays with tropes it should interrogate—and ends up reinforcing the very norms it claims to question.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at Deutsche Oper Berlin
A libertarian fever dream becomes a masterclass in why community is our only defense against collapse—and fascism.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Werther (concertante) at Deutsche Oper Berlin
A stirring Werther finale doubled as farewell and protest, as Berlin’s mayor applauded opera amid massive cultural budget cuts.
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour x Opera: “The Reclamation of America”
A genre-defying, politically charged performance that reclaims and reframes American identity through music, imagery, and unapologetic cultural ownership.
Maxim Gorki Theater
Carmen at Maxim Gorki Theater
A bold, stripped-back Carmen that reclaims, reframes, and reimagines—queer, critical, and culturally aware in all the ways opera should be today.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Don Carlo at Deutsche Oper Berlin
A meditation on individual agency and love, caught and ground down between the machinery of faith and the weight of worldly power.
Dutch National Opera
Boris Godunov at Dutch National Opera
A searing, harrowing, emotionally devastating production that turns Mussorgsky’s opera into a portrait of complicity, grief, and the cost of silence.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Andrea Chenier at Deutsche Oper Berlin
Power tilts, collapses, and reshapes in this searing production—a physical meditation on revolution, wealth, and who gets to fall.