Reading Salomé

Opera - as the cradle of horrifying gender images. In their new musical theater project, Johannes Müller and Philine Rinnert take Richard Strauss’ opera Salomé head on with techniques straight out of the drag scene – a genre that understands gender as a melodramatic roll. Lip syncs, elaborate costumes and malicious gossip fuse together into a discourse about the exotic opera and the question of whether it could be a release to be a monster like Strauss’ Salome.

performed by Hauke Heumann, Bianca Fox, Shlomi Wagner, Cian McConn and Werner Hintze

• CONCEPT Johannes Müller, Philine Rinnert
• DIRECTION, SPACE, COSTUMES Philine Rinnert
• CO-DIRECTION Johannes Müller
• AUDIO DESIGN Lenard Gimpel 
• ANALISIS, ADVICE Werner Hintze 
• CHOREOGRAPHY Ronen Moshe 
• LIGHT Wassan Ali 
• ASSISTANCE DIRECTION Carolin Kister 
• ASSISTANCE MIS-EN-SCÈNE Nadiye Ünsal 
• PHOTOGRAPHY

Thanks to Carolyn Abbate, Jackie Baier, Omri Reinhorn, Daniel Heer, Christian Wolf/Richard-Strauss-Institut Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Kathrin Böhnisch/Archive of the Semperoper Dresden 

Music Rights: Richard Strauss-Salome ©Verlag Fürstner

Produced by Johannes Müller/Philine Rinnert in co-production with Kampnagel Hamburg and SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Rudolf Augstein Stiftung. media partner: taz.die tageszeitung

Sophiensaele Berlin 8./9./10./11. October 2015 20.00

Kampnagel Hamburg 12./13./14.November 2015 20.00