STAATSTHEATER COTTBUS
Lloyd Webber - Jesus Christ Superstar
PREMIERE Jan 23
OPERNHAUS ZÜRICH
Puccini - La fanciulla del west
PREMIERE Feb 25
TEATR WIELKI OPERA NARODOWA
Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann
PREMIERE Jun 4
RUHRTRIENNALE
Ligeti - LE GRAND MACABRE
PREMIERE August 19

Biography

Momme Hinrichs is a co-founder of the artist duo fettFilm and one of the defining visual artists in contemporary music theatre. His work combines projection, space and music to create striking, atmospheric stage worlds and has been seen in Paris, Vienna, Dresden, Geneva, Salzburg, Bayreuth and Bregenz, among other places.

In the 2026/27 season, the stage and video artist will design, among other projects, Titanic at Theater Chemnitz, Arielle at Bühne Baden and Le Grand Macabre in a production by Lydia Steier at the Ruhrtriennale. In addition, several successful productions featuring his work will be presented at new venues, including Les Contes d’Hoffmann from the Bregenzer Festspielhaus to Oper Köln, Jesus Christ Superstar from Theater Bern to Staatstheater Cottbus, La fanciulla del West from the Berlin State Opera to Zurich Opera House, as well as Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. With Im weißen Rössl, he takes on set and costume design for the first time at the Bad Hersfeld Festival, in a production directed by Philipp M. Krenn; he is also designing Rocky at Bühne Baden.

Highlights of past seasons include Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Berlin State Opera, On the Town at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Der Rosenkavalier at Graz Opera, Die verzauberte Stadt at the Aalto Music Theatre Essen, and Jesus Christ Superstar at Theater Bern. Previously, Momme Hinrichs worked on Mefistofele for the season opening of the Semperoper Dresden, Der Freischütz at Staatstheater Cottbus, Tannhäuser at the Vienna State Opera and Der fliegende Holländer at the St. Margarethen Quarry Opera Festival. Further significant projects took him to the Grand Théâtre de Genève (Don Carlos), the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich (Die Zauberflöte), the Theater an der Wien (Candide), the Nuremberg State Theatre (Jesus Christ Superstar), the Baden-Baden Easter Festival (Die Frau ohne Schatten), and the Opéra national de Paris (Salome).
Since the early 2000s, Hinrichs has significantly shaped the development of an immersive visual language on the opera stage as a video designer and scenographer. Together with fettFilm, he established video art as an independent form of expression in music theatre. Since 2007, he has continuously expanded his work as a set designer and director.
His work has taken him to many important opera houses and festivals, including the Vienna State Opera, the Opéra national de Paris, the Semperoper Dresden, the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Theater an der Wien, as well as the festivals in Salzburg, Bayreuth, Bregenz and Baden-Baden. International engagements have also taken him to North America, China, India and the Middle East.
For his stage and video design of Der fliegende Holländer at the Donbass Opera Donetsk, he was awarded the Taras Shevchenko Prize, Ukraine’s highest cultural award, together with fettFilm in 2012.
2026/27
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