COLOGNE OPERA
Offenbach - Hoffmann's Tales
PREMIERE Nov 28
COTTBUS STATE THEATRE
Lloyd Webber - Jesus Christ Superstar
PREMIERE Jan 23
Zurich Opera House
Puccini - La fanciulla del west
PREMIERE Feb 25
TEATR WIELKI OPERA NARODOWA
Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann
PREMIERE Jun 4

Biography

Momme Hinrichs is a co-founder of the artist duo fettFilm and is one of the defining visual artists of contemporary music theater. His works combine projection, space and music to create impressive, atmospheric stage worlds and have 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 things, Titanic at the Chemnitz Theatre, The Little Mermaid at the Baden Theatre, and Le Grand Macabre in a production directed by Lydia Steier at the Ruhrtriennale. He is also distinguished by numerous transfers of successful productions, including Les Contes d'Hoffmann from the Bregenz Festival to the Cologne Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar from the Bern Theatre to the Cottbus State Theatre, La fanciulla del West from the Berlin State Opera to the Zurich Opera, and Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. With Im weißen Rössl (The White Horse Inn), he will design the sets and costumes for the first time at the Bad Hersfeld Festival, directed by Philipp M. Krenn; he will also design Rocky at the Baden Theatre.

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 the Graz Opera, Die verzauberte Stadt at the Aalto Music Theatre Essen, and Jesus Christ Superstar at the Bern Theatre. Previously, Homme Hinrichs directed Mefistofele for the season opening of the Semperoper Dresden , Der Freischütz at the Cottbus State Theatre, Tannhäuser at the Vienna State Opera and The Flying Dutchman at the St. Margarethen Quarry Opera Festival. Further significant engagements took him to the Grand Théâtre de Genève ( Don Carlos ), the Gärtnerplatz Theatre in Munich ( The Magic Flute ), the Theater an der Wien ( Candide ), the Nuremberg State Theatre ( Jesus Christ Superstar ), the Baden-Baden Easter Festival ( Die Frau ohne Schatten ), and to 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 theater. Since 2007, he has continuously expanded his activities as a stage designer and director.
His work has taken him to many important houses and festivals, including the Vienna State Opera, the Opéra de Paris, the Semperoper Dresden , the Grand Théâtre de Genève, 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 The Flying Dutchman at the Donbass Opera Donetsk, he was awarded the Taras Shevchenko Prize, the highest cultural award in Ukraine, in 2012 together with fettFilm.
2026/27
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