Costume Designer

Virginia Woolf called it "the most boring novel in the world." Kurt Tucholsky compared this work to a Maggi bouillon cube that would be brewed mediocrely for generations.

Ulysses

tif - Theater at the Fridericianum

"My peace is gone" —one of the lines that lingers when one considers the wealth of quotations from Goethe's Faust. A quote that reflects the dilemma of Margarete, called Gretchen. The well-to-do scholar Dr. Heinrich Faust, on the other hand, is in the throes of an existential crisis. Rejuvenated by his alliance with Mephistopheles, he is increasingly driven to world-shaking adventures, and, incidentally, he is also drawn to the  "Eternal Feminine  ." Heinrich is torn and seeks the noise of the world. And Gretchen?

Faust Gretchen

Culture creates meaning and structure. The music theater project by Christopher Rüping, Omer Meir Wellber, and Malte Ubenauf demonstrates that it can even provide existential support. Here, for an extraterrestrial group, Mozart's music becomes a daily reminder and admonition of what it means to be and remain human. And what happens when it all falls silent. Thus, we rediscover Mozart's music in distant worlds.

The Great Silence

Hamburg State Opera

The new life

Staatstheater Hannover

“Amore, sommissione, dolcezza” – the traits that Giuseppe Verdi gave his eponymous heroine, Aida, who embodies pure love, tenderness and submissiveness. And these characteristics put her firmly in the tradition of 19th-century female protagonists who were not so much fully rounded personalities as sex objects and a focus for male fantasies, women whose inevitable fate was to die of a broken heart. And Aida is no different.

Aida

Deutsche Oper Berlin

When the young Handel was working on his Agrippina, which is to be performed this year at Halle Opera, he also lifted whole sections from the score of Octavia by his former superior in Hamburg, Reinhard Keiser – here, for the first time, you have the opportunity of comparing the two works. One point of interest is that the two title characters are the mother and first wife of the Roman emperor, Nero, who won legendary status as a persecutor of Christians, untalented musician and arsonist. In Keiser’s opera, Octavia, who is being urged by her husband Nero to commit suicide, uses cunning to save her life. On the advice of the philosopher Seneca, she appears to Nero as her own ghost and succeeds in making him relent.

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Octavia

Goethe Theatre Bad Lauchstädt

This oratorio tells the story of the last days in the life of Jesus Christ. Exactly three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach set the Gospel text to music: The premiere was held on Good Friday in 1727. Benedikt von Peter’s production takes the inherent tradition of the Stations of the Cross seriously: Bach’s double-choir masterpiece unfolds as an acoustic crucifix; the audience sits amidst the musical action, exposing their own bodies to this Passion and its unsettling beauty. Betrayal, mortal agony, sacrifice and forgiveness do not appear as a distant event of salvation, but as a sober question for our present: What are the sins for which the Son must be sacrificed year after year? Not the Evangelist, but children bring the parable to life. They shoulder the cross, prevent Judas’s suicide with an embrace, and put the value system of a Christian society up for discussion. Marc Minkowski, a renowned specialist in Baroque vocal music and a guest at the Deutsche Oper for the first time, conducts this special revival exactly on the 300th anniversary of the work!

Costume Designer

Lene Schwind

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 25 - Apr 4, 2027

St Matthew Passion · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Past events

Mar 16 - Apr 17, 2026

Ulysses · Staatstheater Kassel

Mar 15 - Apr 24, 2026

Faust Gretchen · Staatstheater Kassel

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