Opera Beast mixes extreme physical performance with opera singing.
Unique, dark and beautiful performances for opera, theater and concert stages, as well as clubs and unusual venues.
Opera Beast
This is Opera Beast
Opera Extraordinaire
Orpheus & Euridice
Body Suspension & Opera
Performed at the 3rd International Body Suspension Symposium, Malzfabrik, Berlin 2017.
Concept: Santa Sangre Body Rituals
Music: Claudio Monteverdi/Joa Helgesson
Photo: Aesthete Photography
Nessun Dorma
Body Suspension & Opera
Commission for Apokalipstick #The End, KitKat Club, Berlin, 2019.
Concept: Joa Helgesson, Hana Muza Mermaidova
Music: Giacomo Puccini/Joa Helgesson
Photo: Gili Shani
DivO
Opera/Performance
Commission for Exhausting the Body, Griessmuehle, Berlin, 2019.
Concept & Music: Joa Helgesson
Photo: Hector Riveros
Ode to Ecstacy
Body Suspension, Ritual & Opera
Performed at ORWOhaus, Berlin, 2022.
Concept: Louis Fleischauer/Aesthetic Meat Front
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven/Aesthetic Meatfront
Musical Arrangement: Joa Helgesson
Photo: Nika Kramer & Oliver Heinz
Untitled
Bodysuspension, Opera & Installation
Performed at Wasteland Summerfest, Amsterdam, 2022.
Concept: Louis Fleischauer/Aesthetic Meat Front
Music: Aesthetic Meat Front/Joa Helgesson
Photo: KinkyPrints
A Man Hanged
Body Suspension, Scientific Lecture & Opera
Performed at Halland Opera & Vocal Festival, Halmstad, 2018.
Concept: Joa Helgesson
Music: Peter Maxwell-Davies/Joa Helgesson
Scientific Lecture: Anna Zakrisson
Photo: Anna W Thorbjörnsson
Cold Genius
Body Suspension & Opera
Performed at Apokalipstick – CULT, KitKat Club, Berlin 2019.
Concept: Krousky Peutebatre
Music: Henry Purcell/Hardy Tilger (Crashzkitt)/Joa Helgesson
Latex Händel
Opera/Performance
Commission for Apokalipstick : Cabinet of Horror, Maze, Berlin, 2019.
Concept: Joa Helgesson
Music: Georg Friedrich Händel
Movie Still: Captain Christoph
Flowers of Flesh & Blood
Opera/Performance
Performed at Borderland, Denmark, 2019.
Concept: Joa Helgesson
Music: Bette Midler/Anders Wängdahl/Joa Helgesson
Photo: Yann Houlberg Andersen
©Joa Helgesson, 2018