Richard Wagner - The Drag Queen!
Wagner
Soloperformance
28.11.2025 – 30.11.2025 Ballhaus Ost Berlin
TRAILER
Richard Wagner is a drag queen, and Shlomi Moto Wagner’s great-grandfather was her drag mother. Together, they share not only family roots, but also a drag heritage in the Jewish House of Mazeltov. This pseudo-documentary musical theater performance delves into forgotten rumors and repressed facts about Wagner’s personality: his obsession with pink, the scandalous satin orders, and the question of whether hiding his desires was related to the hatred he simultaneously projected onto the world.
Could this project be his belated coming-out statement? Between classical Wagner motifs, electronic beats, lip-syncing, video projections, and lots of pink satin, a queer musical theater spectacle for the 21st century emerges.
So, Mazeltov Queen Richard Wagner - let’s go!
Credits
Directed, performed, and composed by Shlomi Moto Wagner — interdisciplinary performer*, trained opera singer*, composer*, author*, and drag queen a.k.a. Mazy Mazeltov, who charges classical music and forms with pop culture and queer mythology and reassembles them. Together with dramaturge and co-director Anne Welenc, a glittering and unsparing examination of arguably the most polarizing figure in opera history emerges. Jones Seitz provides the technical magic, while the 3D imagery is created in an exciting new collaboration with digital artist Alejandro Spano. Michel Wagenschütz designs the costumes, combining historical fantasy with the sensuality of drag.
A production by Shlomi Moto Wagner and The House of Mazeltov in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost. Funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln des Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Performing Arts Fund from funds provided by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media) and by Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin, Amt für Weiterbildung und Kultur, Fachbereich Kunst und Kultur (Pankow District Office of Berlin, Office for Continuing Education and Culture, Department of Art and Culture).
