The power of music or the fragility of civilisation

When the allegorical figure of Music appears at the beginning, she quickly makes it clear what the opera is about: using Orfeo, she wants to demonstrate her power over humans. However, after the devastating mass dynamics of the 20th century, we know that propaganda and mass manipulation are just as much pat of the triumph of La Musica, who does not think in moral categories. We therefore read Monteverdi's opera as a parable about power, which we narrate as a nightmare about a grotesque system in which La Musica throws Orfeo. There, through the power of his voice , he becomes the leader of a circle of characters who are consumed by his singing and increasingly become independent. Orfeo meets his shadow side and his fears, once he has lost his Euridice. The only way to fix this all is to disappear and never come back

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Director: Max Nattkämper

Set design: Elena Popova

Costume design: Bina Zinsmeister

Dramaturgy: Jurij Kowol