Novoflot

Novoflot is an independent opera company based in Berlin. It was founded in 2002 by director Sven Holm, conductor Vicente Larrañaga and performance artist and dramaturge Sebastian Bark. The team’s productions of Ernst Krenek’s The Belltower and Tomma-so Traetta’s Antigona received widespread attention and recognition.

For Kommander Kobayashi, a new format the Opera Saga was developed – focussing on new ways of production and innovative concepts in music-theatre. Kommander Kobayashi, the title figure and his crew embark on a journey into unknown regions – an odyssey set to music in a series of creations by international composers. The format thus also highlights the hybrid universe of contemporary opera.

After several works, the project The T-House-Tour took place between September 2014 to February 2015 in cooperation with Volksbühne, Radialsystem and Akademie der Künste. The T-House-Tour is an improvisational work in progress about presentation formats of musical theatre that do not depend on the organizational and spatial circumstances of a single institution, but adapt to where they appear.