Opernwelt Yearbook 2005
Nominated as premiere of the year


Berliner Zeitung, January 19th 2005

... A weightlessness, unknown by the postmodernism until now… Here, we are dealing with an urban evening entertainment, which’ chic is in the equalization of one’s own interpretation and one’s own dissolution. In comparison, common coolness works like a campfire.

Klaus Georg Koch


taz Berlin, January 21th 2005

... Sven Holm directs operas, in which both singers and audience are brought beyond the limits of habit...

Katrin Bettina Müller


Die Welt, 17. Januar 2005

... As up to voice, theatre, dance and gym, the four „Hermenauten“ achieve the incomparable. … Sven Holm (direction) and Leonie von Arnim (stage) play virtuoso at the keyboard of esthetical certified absurdness...


Opernwelt 3/2005

... And just like we know it from well-done series: One cannot wait for the next sequel.

Olaf Wilhelmer