Endless Pleasures III: The Singing Head
2019
The chamber opera THE SINGING HEAD is based on Ovid’s epilogue to the story of Orpheus and Euridice and on the Chinese opera “The Peony Pavilion”. Is the Internet the key to eternal love? With the help of digital data, time and space, physical and mental inadequacies are overcome. This side/that side are seen as a metaphor for reality/virtuality in the context of the staging. At the center then is the eternal question of the fear of death. Would we miss in, would he be surmountable? Can we recognize fulfillment in him when we virtually dominate him? The multimedia collective schnellebuntebilder creates an immersive room on stage that merges reality and virtuality. For Orpheus, the boundary between life and death no longer exists. On the musical level, Marc Sinan explores the two diametrically opposed principles of digital change: on the one hand, algorithms mercilessly impose the beat on us; on the other, digital communication possibilities dissolve traditional principles of social hierarchy. If new, non-hierarchical ways of cooperation between artists is possible, this utopia could also apply to society. Sinan explores these possibilities in his score.
World premiere on April 5, 2019 Radialsystem, Berlin
Ensemble ConTempo BeijingXiongXiohan (Dizi) Fanhe Liu (Pipa) Jiakang Zhang ( Zheng) Yang Zheng ( Sheng) Marc Sinan CompanyOğuzBüyükberber (Clarinet) Daniel Eichholz (Percussion) Almut Kühne (Vocals, Performance) Marc Sinan (Electric Guitar. Electronics) Performance: Rike Schuberty Composition, musical & artistic direction: Marc Sinan Libretto: Maike Wetzel Stage design: schnellebuntebilder Objects/ concept & performance: Ulrike Langenbein Dramaturgy: Holger Kuhla, Maike Wetzel Production management: Eric Nikodym, Annika Stadler // YMUSIC
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