CRIME OF PASSION – Neuköllner Oper Berlin

CRIME OF PASSION is the new work by non-binary Berlin based artist and musician Anthony Hüseyin. It examines femicide in opera, its historical roots, and its presence in our daily lives. Carmen, Salome and Violetta refuse to die again and again on stage. Instead, they reclaim their narratives, offering an ancestral, musical, and spiritual resistance. The trio dismantles the white, male, sexist, and racist gaze in high art while intervening in femicide cases, demanding accountability: Why do you kill me?

Inspired by Hüseyin’s own experience of preventing an attempted femicide while studying opera in Istanbul, the performance confronts how femicide is both romanticized and upheld by cultural and legal systems. It exposes the Crime of Passion law – rooted in Napoleonic codes – and its enduring role in justifying violence until today.

Team

WITH Anthony Hüseyin (voice, Piano, Guitar, Live-Electronics), Dima Dawood (Kanun), RUSNAM (Live-Electronics) and the voices of
Rebekka Gruber, Katharina Beatrice Hierl and Riah Knight

DIRECTION, TEXT, COMPOSITIONS, ARRANGEMENTS, MUSIC PRODUCTION Anthony Hüseyin DRAMATURGY Dennis Depta STAGE DESIGN / COSTUME Elin Laut 3D VIDEO ANIMATION Can Karaalioglu SOUND DESIGN, MIX, MUSIC PRODUCTION RUSNAM 3D VISUALS Can Karaalioglu DIRECTOR ASSISTANT / DRAMATURGICAL ASSISTENCE Mick Besuch OUTSIDE EYE Negar Foroughanfar

LANGUAGES English and Turkish, with German surtitles

NOTE The event is also accessible to people with limited mobility – details here