I had my first week in rehearsals in Berlin this week as technical manager & lighting designer on a new production for Sounding Situations called Wagner Weltweit (Wagner Worldwide).
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 musicians from Berlin’s Echt Zeit scene, a multi-layered and heterogeneous live composition is created. Sensitive, contemporary, Dionysian and minimal – a real-time Ring of the Nibelung in the nightly news studio.
The show premieres in Hamburg at Kampnagel on April 24th and runs for four nights. Information and tickets can be found here.
From June 13th we will be performing in Berlin at Deutsche Oper Tischlerei for four nights. Information and tickets for this one can be found here.
Information about the production can also be found here on the Sounding Situations website.