Johannes Müller / Philine Rinnert:
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’ Salomé.

WITH Hauke Heumann, Bianca Fox, Shlomi Wagner, Cian McConn CONCEPT Johannes Müller, Philine Rinnert DIRECTION, SPACE, COSTUMES Philine Rinnert CO-DIRECTION Johannes Müller AUDIO DESIGN Lenard Gimpel ANALYSIS, ADVICE Werner Hintze CHOREOGRAPHY Ronen Moshe LIGHT Wassan Ali ASSISTANT DIRECTION Carolin Kister ASSISTANT MIS-EN-SCÈNE Nadiye Ünsal PHOTOGRAPHY Florian Krauss MANAGEMENT ehrliche arbeit - freies Kulturbüro

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

Performing 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.

Photo © Florian Krauss