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| Johannes Worms in the Gemäldegalerie – State Museums of Berlin (Photo: Jana Kiesser) |
The young German baritone Johannes Worms has been exploring the wider shores of song, presenting programmes that focus on playful explorations of queerness and social narratives. He and his duo partner, Nasti presented their programme Speak Low – Songs about masculinities and queer utopias in the recital hall of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg last season.
Now Worms is returning with another intriguing programme, Die Florenzer – L’amore masculino created by the Argentinian-German stage director duo Vöcks de Schwindt. Billed as a music theatre monologue for voice and lute the evening will feature Johannes Worms and lutenist Neo Gunderman in an imaginative monologue about homosexual desire in Renaissance Florence, a summer night of queer narratives, accompanied by delicately playful Renaissance music/
“In imagined stories and chants accompanied by lute play, we immerse ourselves in a seductive world of l’amore masculino, friendship+ and early modern daddies and twinks. While the verb florenzen historically meant mainly gay sex, the evening explores the affective connections behind it with speculative imagination. So revelling in stories of connectedness and friendship unfolds a picture of what the everyday life of the Florence could have looked like.”
The programme will be at the Monolog Festival at TD in Berlin in 8 and 9 November 2025.
Further details from the Monolog Festival website.
