NOVOFLOT is an independent opera company based in Berlin. It was founded in 2002 by director Sven Holm, conductor Vicente Larrañaga and performance artist and dramaturge Sebastian Bark.

Since 2002 forty-fife experimental opera productions were created.

In 2014 Novoflot has been awarded with the George Tabori Award.

2018 the book „Novoflot – Die 15. Spielzeit“ has been published by the publisher Theater der Zeit


Novoflots production and performance venues and co-producers have been among others:

The State Opera Hamburg, the Ultraschall Festival, the Festival Warschauer Herbst/Teatr Wielki, the Théâtre National du Luxembourg, the Trafó in Budapest, the Radialsystem Berlin, the Sophiensaele Berlin, the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, the Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxenburg-Platz Berlin, Gare du Nord Basel, the Theatre Zürich/Schiffbauplatz,Matucana100 in Santiago de Chile, the Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, the Festival Weimar/ German Nationaltheatre Weimar, the House of Statistik Berlin, the Philharmonie Cologne, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens and the Copenhagen Opera Festival.


In the past years Novoflot cooperated with following artists and ensembles among others:

Antonis Anissegos, Patrik Baboumian, Tara Bacia, Maxime Barbasetti, Conny Bauer, Jörg Bittner, Blaskapelle Köpenick, Lisa Böffgen, Hayden Chisholm, Rafael Clamer, Thorsten Coelle, Chris Dahlgren, Rafał Dziemidok, ensemble apparat, Ensembe DissonArt, ensemble mosaik, Elisa Fluch, Ichi Go, Golden Gorkis (Henriette Bothe, Liz Schmidt, Johanna Skirecki, Renate Sörensen), Olivia Grigolli, Aleksandra Gryka, Rosemary Hardy, Jonny La Marama, Kalle Kalima, Sara Kittelmann, Jürg Laederach, Mädchenchor der Singakademie zu Berlin, Susanne Meyer, Lucas Niggli, Claudio Puntin, Zahava Rodrigo, Hans-Peter Scheidegger, Eric Schaefer, John Schröder, Karolina Serafin, Anne Storandt, Hanna Dóra Sturludóttir, Komi Mizrajim Togbonou, Michael Wertmüller, Nils Wogram, Yuka Yanigahara


Team Members of Novoflot:

Sven Holm Direction and artistic director 
Vicente Larranaga Musical director 
Dörte Wolter Company manager and head of production 
Malte Ubenauf Dramaturgy

Elisa Limberg Stage design  Graft Architekten Stage design  Nina von Mechow Costume design  Mirko Borscht Film  Miriam Glöckler Production management  Heike Diehm k3 berlin Press & public relations Philip Kießling Video  Falko Siewert Photos  Emanuel Tschumi Graphic design