Staatsballett Berlin
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.