opera

with the Ensemble Modern, the German Chamber Choir, the actor David Bennent and the Baritone Georg Nigl

composer & director Heiner Goebbels
stage/light Klaus Grünberg
costumes Florence von Gerkan
assistant director Stephan Buchberger
musical director Franck Ollu
musical collaboration Hubert Machnik
sound director Norbert Ommer

premiere Opera Geneve, Oktober 2002

since then performed more than twenty times in Switzerland, France, Austria, Netherlands, Germany
the last performance has taken place in the opera of Caen (Normandy) in February 2004

co-production of Berliner Festspiele, Festspielhaus St. Pölten, la Filature-Scène nationale de Mulhouse, Ensemble Modern, Kulturstiftung Deutsche Bank, Fondation fédérale pour la culture

after texts and motivs of Giordano Bruno, Arthur Chapman/Estelle Philleo, T.S.Eliot, Francois Fénelon, Michel Foucault, Katharina Fritsch, Claude Lorrain, Henri Michaux, Nicolas Poussin, Max Reger, Gertrude Stein, Diego Velázquez, Leonardo da Vinci, Sisley Xshafa

ENSEMBLE MODERN
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D-60314 Frankfurt
Germany
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