SANCTA

By Florentina Holzinger
A production by Florentina Holzinger/Spirit, neon lobster, Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin and Staatsoper Stuttgart in co-production with Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin with Komische Oper Berlin as well as Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Julidans, Theater Rotterdam

Florentina Holzinger takes Paul Hindemith’s short opera “Sancta Susanna” about the sexual awakening experience of a nun as the point of departure for a powerful interpretation of a Holy Mass, where the performers fathom the limits of their physical forms of expression.