Singer

"A scandal? No, joy. Exuberant joy," was the verdict of the Süddeutsche Zeitung after the Schwerin premiere of SANCTA. Florentina Holzinger's opera performance combines Paul Hindemith's one act opera Sancta Susanna with elements of the Catholic liturgy to create a new and radical vision of the Holy Mass ritual. Together with her performers, Holzinger embarks on spectacular physical borderline experiences and explores individual spirituality and faith, sexuality and pain, shame and liberation. Magic and religious miracles are reinterpreted in an ecstatic celebration of community and self-determination, in which J.S. Bach meets metal, the Weather Girls meet Rachmaninov - and naked nuns meet roller skates.

HOLY

Stuttgart Opera

At the beginning of the last century, the American composer Charles Ives had a rather crazy dream: to create radically new music by layering all the styles he loved. Let's be crazy too and make this dream a grand celebration!

Parade

Place du Théâtre

"A scandal? No, joy. Exuberant joy," was the verdict of the Süddeutsche Zeitung after the Schwerin premiere of SANCTA. Florentina Holzinger's opera performance combines Paul Hindemith's one act opera Sancta Susanna with elements of the Catholic liturgy to create a new and radical vision of the Holy Mass ritual. Together with her performers, Holzinger embarks on spectacular physical borderline experiences and explores individual spirituality and faith, sexuality and pain, shame and liberation. 

Soprano

Caroline Melzer

Events

Past events

Oct 3 - Nov 2, 2025

HOLY · Staatsoper Stuttgart

20 - 24 Sep, 2025

Parade · Opéra de Lille

Future and recently performed repertoire

Susanna in Saint by Hindemith

Staatsoper Stuttgart

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