ENDLESS PLEASURES II: ORPHEUS & THE PEONY WOMAN

Endless Pleasures II: Orpheus & the Peony Woman

2019

Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" and Tang Xianzu's "Peony Pavilion", Europe and China, myth and the present are connected by Marc Sinan's transmedial music theater.

In the European version of “Orpheus and Euridice,” just as in the Chinese text, the beloved returns from the underworld. In “Endless Pleasures” love becomes an anarchic force. It builds a bridge that reaches beyond death. It does not respect the established order of nature and the world. The couples fall deeper and deeper into an intoxicating frenzy between reality and fiction.

The Puppentheater Halle, the ensemble ConTempo Beijing, the media collective schnellebuntebilder, the Marc Sinan Company and other artists unite in a transdisciplinary format of new music, puppetry, traditional instruments, digital stage design and opera.

Past Performances

World premiere on October 19, 2019 Pushkin House, Halle (Saale)

Conveyor

Supported by the Doppelpass Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation

Cast

Christoph Werner Director

Marc Sinan Music

Maike Wetzel Libretto

Ralf Meyer Dramaturgy

Angela Baumgart Stage and costumes

Lili Laube, Hagen Tilp Dolls

Sebastian Huber / schnellebuntebilder lighting design

Lea-Katharina Gramzow Assistant director

Alfiia Koneewa Equipment assistance

Claudia Luise Bose Mama E

Ines Heinrich Frank / Claudia Luise Bose Peony woman

Simon Buchegger / Ines Heinrich Frank Big O

Nils Dreschke / Nico Parisius Manager, Narrator

Nils Dreschke / Simon Buchegger Landlord, Judge

Nico Parisius Cook

Franziska Rattay Double Singer

Ensemble ConTempo: Zhang Luqi Sheng Zheng Yi Zheng Li Xingmei Pipa

Other musicians: Wu Wei Sheng Ming Wang Zheng Weiping Wang Pipa

Marc Sinan Company: Hasti Molavian mezzo-soprano Marc Sinan guitar Oğuz Büyükberber clarinet Maria Schneider percussion Miako Klein recorder

A cooperation of the Marc Sinan Company, the Puppentheater Halle and the whiteBOX Munich in collaboration with the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing