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DER TEUFEL IM LIFT
THE DEVIL IN THE LIFT
Event by: Neuköllner Oper
Location: Vorwerck Restaurant - Erlebnis & Event, Karl-Marx-Straße 131, Berlin - Bezirk Neukölln
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MUSICAL THEATER BY J.S. BACH, JOHN VON DÜFFEL AND THE LAUTTEN COMPAGNEY BERLIN
Strange things happen in the lobby of the Hotel Heaven. At five o'clock in the morning, three guests meet by chance, but is that a coincidence? While the internationally sought-after brain specialist Prof. Sanchez comes across a “light seer” named Blanche while checking out, the young journalist Raquel is stuck in the elevator. As soon as you free yourself it becomes clear: this elevator has something special. In the truest sense – a dead man who shortly afterwards falls into the lobby with blinding light and the sounds of Bach. What is it about this unknown person who transforms the night and sends a perplexed porter and his guests into surreal dreams, encounters, longings and fears? Is he a fallen angel, is he Lucifer or the devil, as so often sung about in the cantatas?
An erratic game begins in which Blanche and Raquel look into the future and past and Prof. Sanchez presents his research that is supposed to change lives. Ultimately, the work of the unknown brings everyone to personal limits where the big questions about meaning, faith, death, transience and futility lurk - reflected, played around and commented on by the timeless music and deep spirituality of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The montage of well-known and lesser-known cantatas and motets set up for this evening includes the crucial question about what sustains our lives: “Now tell me, how do you feel about religion?” – or about science? The night in the hotel not only invites its theater guests to think, but also to sing along to one or another chorale (of course only if you want). Welcome to your Hotel Heaven!
At the invitation of the Neukölln Opera, the internationally renowned ensemble lautten compagney BERLIN plays a premiere, developed in close collaboration, which brings Bach's cantata work into the scenic space and offers a new, different perspective Dealing with Bach is possible.
ARRANGEMENTS & MUSICAL DIRECTION Wolfgang Katschner TEXT John von Düffel STAGE Ansgar Weigner STAGE AND COSTUME DESIGN Jürgen Kirner CONCEPT & DRAMATURGY Bernhard Glocksin VIDEO Martin Mallon
WITH< br/>Elias Arranz, Frieda Jolande Barck, Johannes Wieners, Christian Pohlers and Claudia Renner as well as the musicians of the lautten compagney BERLIN with Javier Aguilar (violin II), Helen Barsby (trumpet), Ulrike Becker (cello), Sabina Chukorova ( Harpsichord/organ), Thor Harald Johnsen (lute), Ulrike Ködding (traverso), Axel Meier (percussion), Ulrike Paetz (viola), Andreas Pfaff (violin I), Annette Rheinfurth (double bass), Eduard Wesly (oboe)
With Spanish and English surtitles about
OPERA ACCESS
We would like to thank the Samariterkirche Berlin-Friedrichshain, where
we visited for the photo shoot of the production photo were allowed to be.
Strange things happen in the lobby of the Hotel Heaven. At five o'clock in the morning, three guests meet by chance, but is that a coincidence? While the internationally sought-after brain specialist Prof. Sanchez comes across a “light seer” named Blanche while checking out, the young journalist Raquel is stuck in the elevator. As soon as you free yourself it becomes clear: this elevator has something special. In the truest sense – a dead man who shortly afterwards falls into the lobby with blinding light and the sounds of Bach. What is it about this unknown person who transforms the night and sends a perplexed porter and his guests into surreal dreams, encounters, longings and fears? Is he a fallen angel, is he Lucifer or the devil, as so often sung about in the cantatas?
An erratic game begins in which Blanche and Raquel look into the future and past and Prof. Sanchez presents his research that is supposed to change lives. Ultimately, the work of the unknown brings everyone to personal limits where the big questions about meaning, faith, death, transience and futility lurk - reflected, played around and commented on by the timeless music and deep spirituality of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The montage of well-known and lesser-known cantatas and motets set up for this evening includes the crucial question about what sustains our lives: “Now tell me, how do you feel about religion?” – or about science? The night in the hotel not only invites its theater guests to think, but also to sing along to one or another chorale (of course only if you want). Welcome to your Hotel Heaven!
At the invitation of the Neukölln Opera, the internationally renowned ensemble lautten compagney BERLIN plays a premiere, developed in close collaboration, which brings Bach's cantata work into the scenic space and offers a new, different perspective Dealing with Bach is possible.
ARRANGEMENTS & MUSICAL DIRECTION Wolfgang Katschner TEXT John von Düffel STAGE Ansgar Weigner STAGE AND COSTUME DESIGN Jürgen Kirner CONCEPT & DRAMATURGY Bernhard Glocksin VIDEO Martin Mallon
WITH< br/>Elias Arranz, Frieda Jolande Barck, Johannes Wieners, Christian Pohlers and Claudia Renner as well as the musicians of the lautten compagney BERLIN with Javier Aguilar (violin II), Helen Barsby (trumpet), Ulrike Becker (cello), Sabina Chukorova ( Harpsichord/organ), Thor Harald Johnsen (lute), Ulrike Ködding (traverso), Axel Meier (percussion), Ulrike Paetz (viola), Andreas Pfaff (violin I), Annette Rheinfurth (double bass), Eduard Wesly (oboe)
With Spanish and English surtitles about
OPERA ACCESS
We would like to thank the Samariterkirche Berlin-Friedrichshain, where
we visited for the photo shoot of the production photo were allowed to be.