Singer

Three norns are sitting at the foot of the world tree, spinning, knotting and severing the threads of life and thus determining the fates of individual mortals. They give life, fashion its course and bring it to an end. As do their mythological sister figures in other cultures, these Germanic goddesses of fate wield the power of life and death over human beings. In our secularised times death is now the No.1 taboo subject, and to temper the awfulness of it all, we make it our personal business to delay its arrival by cultivating “good” habits and living healthily. We make it our mission in life to fend off our own decay and arrest the ageing process.

Finite

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Little brothers are a nuisance. They are loud, always play differently than you want them to – and chase you out of your mother's bed: Hoshe is now too big and Elli is old enough to sleep alone in the children's room. But Elli doesn't feel comfortable there. How can she know that in the dark, when the lights are out, everything will stay the same and nothing will change? Because one night it happens. Elli finds herself in the house of the octopus lady. Here, door knobs, walls and floors come to life, she meets her goldfish Mr Puddles again – and ultimately learns that even the lady, despite her suction cups, ink and tentacles, has fears that she can only overcome with Elli's help.

Octopus lady

By the middle of the 19th Century, the figure of Salome, a woman who enforced her erotic desires by using lethal violence, had developed into both – incarnation of female ferocity and symbol for pure eroticism – in short to the most important Christian-mythological female figure within the world of music and literature. It resembles an ecstatic dance on the verge of a precipice which finally evolved into a symbol of decadence: Until today, the opera has not lost any of its equally fascinating and disturbing power.

Mezzo-soprano

Lana Maletić

Events

Past events

22 - 30 May, 2026

Finite · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Oct 31 - Nov 24, 2025

Octopus lady · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

A page in Salome by Strauss

Staatsoper Stuttgart

Mum / Octopus lady in Octopus lady by Corbett

Deutsche Oper Berlin

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