SANCTA - Berliner Festspiele
April 8, 2025

Florentina Holzinger's opera performance piece SANCTA was voted one of the ten most remarkable productions of the year by the Nachtkritik-Jury of the Theatertreffen / Berliner Festspiele, allowing us (I sing in the choir) to return to the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin for three more performances in May 2025:
Thursday, May 8th at 7:00 pm
Friday, May 9th at 7:00 pm
Saturday, May 10th at 3:00 pm
If you wanted to see the show and couldn't get tickets, you may have a chance this time. Tickets will go on sale on May 17th, 2025 at 2:00 pm via the Volksbühne website. It will probably sell out very quickly.
Excerpt from the statement of the jury:
Isn’t there a little bit of sorcery in every mass? Don’t they turn bread into flesh, wine into blood? Florentina Holzinger uses Paul Hindemith’s short opera “Sancta Susanna” about a nun’s experience of sexual awakening as the launching pad for her captivating version of a Catholic service. [...] In the opera, it is the church’s insignia of sacrifice, guilt and authority, in Holzinger’s physical reading, it is uninhibited sex, transgression and shamelessness. Her queer-feminist company overwrites sacred images and interprets biblical scenes as visceral borderline experiences.[...]