taz Berlin, 25th September 2008
… Coloraturas are sung, but also fizzling, wheezing, strange accentuation, syncopation, daring disharmonies, sometimes one after another, sometimes even simultaneously. In doing so neither baroque nor contemporary music are loosing, but in the end it is a third party that is winning: the artificially fogged musical; as insane as comical an idea, this can only happen in the world of the pop-affine high culture of the Novoflot opera … Whoever enjoys watching a grand opera singer, wearing moon boots and sweat pants singing an Italian baroque aria in front of a monster-sound spitting car wreck, breathless as she is pulling a sledge, on which 2 highly gifted children are smiling diabolically, should not miss Novoflot.
… Coloraturas are sung, but also fizzling, wheezing, strange accentuation, syncopation, daring disharmonies, sometimes one after another, sometimes even simultaneously. In doing so neither baroque nor contemporary music are loosing, but in the end it is a third party that is winning: the artificially fogged musical; as insane as comical an idea, this can only happen in the world of the pop-affine high culture of the Novoflot opera … Whoever enjoys watching a grand opera singer, wearing moon boots and sweat pants singing an Italian baroque aria in front of a monster-sound spitting car wreck, breathless as she is pulling a sledge, on which 2 highly gifted children are smiling diabolically, should not miss Novoflot.
Neues Deutschland, 25th September 2008
… HOW WE FEEL #1 Scream Queen is not only a music pleasure, but also a picture-intensive performance that in a context of fear and destruction shows, what despairs human beings and how this fundamental situation looks in an operatic format.