Mazy Mazeltov

Shlomi moto Wagner is an interdisciplinary performer, opera singer, songwriter, and drag queen aka Mazy Mazeltov. Born in Israel, he studied at the Tel Aviv Music Academy and the Manhattan School of Music in New York, receiving an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts. As an opera singer, Shlomi was a member of the Israeli Opera Studio and sang as a soloist with orchestras worldwide.

Since moving to Berlin in 2012, he has worked with various opera ensembles and experimental theater makers, including Philine Rinnert and Johannes Müller, and can be seen at the Sophiensaele, HAU, and English Theater in Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, the Staatsoper and Theater Rampe in Stuttgart, the Operadagen festival in Rotterdam, Burg Hülshoff in Münster, and the Favoriten festival in Dortmund.

Founder of House of Mazeltov, a drag performance group with which he explores the performative boundaries of voice, gender, tradition, and identity. His performance “Salvation (Glitter doesn’t care I’m a boy)” was part of the supporting program of the Performing Arts Festival Berlin 2017, and he recently premiered a new performance entitled “ADAMA: secret life of stones.”