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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
World Premiere of Lash – Acts of Love at Deutsche Oper Berlin
A surreal meditation on loss and memory, Lash lingers in the echo of a vanished presence—fractured voices, flickering images, and the intimate textures of a body learning to live again.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Les Vêpres Siciliennes at Deutsche Oper Berlin
Olivier Py’s production grapples with Empire and violence, but its chaotic staging at times drowns out Verdi’s emotional and musical clarity.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Tosca at Deutsche Oper Berlin (2025)
Sondra Radvanovsky’s Tosca is heartbreakingly human—playful, vulnerable, and losing her faith—breathing new soul into a timeless, tragic role.
Komische Oper Berlin
Die Perlen der Cleopatra at Komische Oper Berlin
A glitter-soaked, high-camp spectacle full of extravagant costumes, cheeky humor, and irresistible tunes—operetta at its most outrageous and entertaining.
Philharmonie Berlin
Der Ring ohne Worte with Tarmo Peltokoski and DSO Berlin
An orchestral program moving from ghostly textures and whispered tones to richly woven Romantic drama, delivered with striking clarity and emotional depth.
Komische Oper Berlin
Don Giovanni/Requiem at Komische Oper Berlin
A hallucinatory journey through guilt, lust, and liberation—set in a liminal world where spirits linger, identities blur, and music becomes a final act of grace.
Staatsballett Berlin
Winterreise by Staatsballett Berlin
A genre-blurring production where postmodern soundscapes, haunting choreography, and fragments of tradition collide in an unsettling, unforgettable winter journey.