Six people wearing various abstract animal masks stand close together, slightly bent over in a dark forest. A cloud of mist billows up in front of them.
© Andrea Vollmer
Six people wearing various abstract animal masks stand close together, slightly bent over in a dark forest. A cloud of mist billows up in front of them.
© Andrea Vollmer
Music Theatre / Performance

Sounding Situations

Wagner Weltweit

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22/15 Euro (conc. from 9 Euro, [k]-Karte from 7,50 Euro)

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Recommended from the age of 16. Possible triggers: Thematization of war and violence, high volume, fog

Past dates

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Thursday

4/24/25

8:00 PM

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Friday

4/25/25

8:00 PM

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Friday

4/25/25

9:45 PM

9:45 PM

Publikumsgespräch

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Saturday

4/26/25

8:00 PM

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Sunday

4/27/25

6:00 PM

In June 2023, the “Wagner Group” mercenaries marched on Moscow and announced their intention to take power in Russia. The founder, a self-confessed Russian neo-Nazi, had named the group after the German composer Richard Wagner. The mercenaries described themselves as musicians, the weapons were their instruments and they saw the war as an opera. With WAGNER WELTWEIT, the music theatre collective Sounding Situations, based in Hamburg and Berlin, creates a multi-perspective production about the activities of the “Wagner Group” in musical cinemascope. Together with the instrumentalists, a multi-layered and heterogeneous live composition is created. Sensitive, contemporary, Dionysian and minimal – a real-time Ring of the Nibelung in the news studio.


With Hauke ​​Heumann (performance), Klaus Janek (double bass fx), Elena M. Kakaliagou (horn), Katsia Kaya (soprano, performance), Hannes Teichmann (live electronics), Michael Thieke (clarinet), 1key (video performance) Concept, musical direction, direction and text Sounding Situations / Jens Dietrich, Milena Kipfmüller, Klaus Janek Music Richard Wagner / Ring in adaptation by the performing musicians Research Lyubov Kasperovich, Masha Borzunova Stage Doris Dziersk Video Severin Renke Graphic design Projections Sonya N - Class Digital Graphics Prof. Christoph Knot – HFBK Hamburg Costume Anja Ruschival Lighting design and technical direction Chris Umney Production Ann-Leonie Niss Press Sarah Rosenau Assistant Franziska Jakobi Dramaturgy Deutsche Oper Flavia Wolfgramm Internship Mateo Primavesi Graphic design Stephanie Roderer Direction Support; Transcription, Translation, Arrangement of Social Media Projections Franziska Jakobi

WAGNER WELTWEIT is a co-production of Kampnagel Hamburg and Deutsche Oper Berlin

Supported by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media, the Fonds Darstellende Künste, the Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, the Zeit Stiftung Bucerius and the Ilse und Dr. Horst Rusch-Stiftung

Media partnerships: taz, field notes, Digital in Berlin