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  ANTIGONE IN NEW YORK   Hardly any other artist has divided critics as much as Milo Rau has in recent years – especially in the American press. While the director of the Vienna Festival was showered with superlatives by the US media and several of his shows were voted into the best-of polls of the New York Times, Five Easy Pieces at […]


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„Almost pornographic“: Milo Rau in New York

 

ANTIGONE IN NEW YORK

 

Hardly any other artist has divided critics as much as Milo Rau has in recent years – especially in the American press. While the director of the Vienna Festival was showered with superlatives by the US media and several of his shows were voted into the best-of polls of the New York TimesFive Easy Pieces at the Skirball Center disturbed with its „almost pornographic intensity„. The Atlantic even wrote of Rau’s oeuvre: „His career would be impossible in the United States.“

 

But judge for yourself: after Stockholm, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Belgrade, the Resistance Now Tour lands in the United States this week. Already today, the Segal Center in New York is showing two films by Milo Rau, followed by a debate with the director and Cameroonian-Italian activist Yvan Sagnet, who plays Jesus in Rau’s feature film The New Gospel.

 

HOW TO RESIST

 

“Resistance has no form, resistance is the form,” as Rau said in his Opening Speech „How to Resist?” at the International Theater Institute’s World Congress last Thursday. What is the aesthetic of the “most influential artist working in political theater”? Workshops on Rau’s films, plays, actions and books at the universities of Yale and Columbia culminate at the end of the week in the Antigone in the Amazon shows at the Skirball Center.

 

But that’s not all. Before his visit to New York, Rau will open the BITEF Theater Festival in Belgrade: “Can Beauty Save the World?” While Antigone in the Amazon is being shown in New York, Rau’s newest work, the “unbearable masterpiece” Medea’s Children, lands in Zagreb and at the Czech National Theater: the bloodiest tragedy of the Western canon – played by children!

 

NEWS & TOUR DATES

 

From The Interrogation to Familyfrom Medea’s Children to Everywoman, from Germany to China, from talks to a revival of Rau’s “heart-ripping” opera Clemenza di Tito, from a whole week of shows and debates in Taiwan to “ten days with Milo Rau” in France: This autumn will explore Rau’s „global realism“ on all continents and in all its facets.

 

“For where politics fails, where it chases after national discourse gains, only art can provide a remedy: a place where empathy with others, but also with one’s own blind spots, becomes possible. A place where a new, tragic poetry with all its contradictions and moral pitfalls can emerge.” (ITI Speech)

 

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  JELINEK & RAU: RESISTANCE NOW   “Vienna is finally back at the center in the world of theatre,” wrote DER SPIEGEL last Saturday in a review of Milo Rau’s first edition of the Vienna Festival, while a few days ago taz – die tageszeitung called him “without any doubt the hero of the season”.   Despite such enthusiasm, the […]


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RESISTANCE NOW: Elfriede Jelinek & Milo Rau Publish Appeal Against Far-Right

 

JELINEK & RAU: RESISTANCE NOW

 

“Vienna is finally back at the center in the world of theatre,” wrote DER SPIEGEL last Saturday in a review of Milo Rau’s first edition of the Vienna Festival, while a few days ago taz – die tageszeitung called him “without any doubt the hero of the season”.

 

Despite such enthusiasm, the Austrian radical right-wing party FPÖ (Austrian Freedom Party) is calling in their election program for an immediate stop to subsidies for “woke events” such as the European Song Contest and the Vienna Festival.

 

It’s just one particularly absurd point in a program “full of hate and conspiracy theories” that calls for the transformation of the country into a nationalist “Fortress Austria”, alluding to Joseph Goebbels‘ “Fortress Europe”.

 

Time to resist! Together with Elfriede Jelinek – with whom Rau is preparing a production of her mythical anti-fascist play Burgtheater – Rau is publishing today the RESISTANCE NOW appeal: “Not a single vote for the FPÖ!”

 

BURGTHEATER BY JELINEK & RAU

 

But it is not only in Austria that the radical right is reaching for power. “One European country after another is falling,” said Milo Rau recently on Swedish television, commenting on the dismissal of the director of the Slovakian National Theater for political reasons.

 

Nationalist parties are on the rise across Europe, from the German AfD to the French Rassemblement National, from Hungary to Austria – and their first victim is the freedom of art.

 

This week, the Vienna Festival and partners from different countries are therefore launching the RESISTANCE NOW TOUR, starting with events in StockholmAmsterdam, Antwerp and New York.

 

RESISTANCE NOW TOUR

 

But the strongest resistance is art itself! While special focus programs are being organized in TaiwanFrance and Sweden, ZagrebPrague and Belgrade will experience the „unbearable masterpieceMedea’s Children which shook the Venice Biennale last July.

 

“Why isn’t American theatre like this?” asks The Atlantic in an essay. The Swiss director will try to answer this question in September: lectures, panels and films will be grouped around the guest performances of the North American shows of Antigone in the Amazon.

 

HOW CAN WE ACT TOGETHER

 

But the most beautiful recognition to Rau’s recent work as curator and director starts this Thursday at the Flemish and Dutch Theatre Festivals.

 

No less than 3 productions from his last season as Artistic Responsible of the Belgian company NTGent have been invited to the Flemish Theatre Festival 2024: Electra Unbound by Lua Casella, SERDI by Lara Staal and Gruis / aan de twijfel by Werktoneel – congratulations to all artists and the whole team!

 

Milo Rau himself opens the Dutch Theater Festival in Amsterdam with Antigone in the Amazon. And: Together with Lua Casella, Rau starts off the annual conference of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) on 19 September. Because the only answer to nationalism is artistic solidarity!

 

We look forward to an autumn full of debates, beauty and resistance!


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  THAT WAS THE FREE REPUBLIC   “Today, the Swiss Milo Rau and the Austrian Florentina Holzinger are the most important directors in the world“, declared the news magazine DIE ZEIT this week. The two „mavericks” shook up this year’s Wiener Festwochen, together with hundreds of their colleagues from Kornél Mundruczó to Angélica Liddell and […]


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„An Institutional Revolution“: Vienna Festival breaks all records!

 

THAT WAS THE FREE REPUBLIC

 

“Today, the Swiss Milo Rau and the Austrian Florentina Holzinger are the most important directors in the world“, declared the news magazine DIE ZEIT this week. The two „mavericks” shook up this year’s Wiener Festwochen, together with hundreds of their colleagues from Kornél Mundruczó to Angélica Liddell and from Pussy Riot to Elfriede Jelinek: 47 theater, opera and music productions from all over the world, as well as over 100 activist and art events took place in all parts of Vienna, the capital of modernism.

 

96% occupancy rate and 100,000 visitors made Rau’s first year of the legendary festival the most successful edition in recent decades. Several million viewers were reached via streams on television and social media, a total of 2800 media reports were published in 25 countries, and the festival debates even shook the city and national parliaments. “That’s what I like about Milo: there’s no fear of provocation”, as Florentina Holzinger revealed to Art Basel Magazine.

 

NUMBERS & QUOTES

 

The proclamation of the Free Republic of Vienna, the world’s first art republic, in front of 36,000 people on May 17 was followed by the appointment of a 100-member council, including citizens from all parts of Vienna, but also artists like Annie Ernaux or Sandra Hüller. In the Vienna Trials against the Austrian government, the right-wing party FPÖ and finally the festival itself, Milo Rau “put reality in trial” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). „The most exciting thing that theatre currently has to offer“, was how Die Welt summed up the fireworks that Europe’s largest crossover festival set off in 2024.

 

With the Vienna Declaration, the Wiener Festwochen became the first festival ever to adopt guidelines that set out quotas, the democratic organization of curation and ethical and ecological standards. “An institutional revolution that no other festival in Europe has delivered”, reported Agence France Presse.

 

VIENNA DECLARATION

 

But it is not just politics and discourse, but intensive structural work that is at the heart of the Free Republic of Vienna. “Frustrated by the persistent gender imbalance in classical music, the Wiener Festwochen  have this year founded the Academy Second Modernism, an initiative that will present works by 50 female and non-binary composers over a period of five years,” as the New York Times reported.

 

“Staging an entire city” and “creating a Baroque World Theater” – that is what Rau and his fantastic team have achieved in Vienna, according to media reports. But that’s not all: the 2023/24 season continues at the Venice Biennale (Italy) with the “unbearable masterpieceMedea’s Children and at the Aranya Theater Festival (China) with Rau’s and Edouard Louis‘ performance The Interrogation. We wish you a provocative, but also relaxing end of the season!

 

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MEDEA’S CHILDREN   The myth of Medea is the bloodiest in the European canon. It begins with Medea’s love for Jason and ends with the murder of their children. Milo Rau’s version of the play is a radical re-reading. For Medea’s Children, he mixes Euripides‘ version with a modern murder case. And: all the roles […]


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Trigger Warning: MEDEA performed by Children

MEDEA’S CHILDREN

 

The myth of Medea is the bloodiest in the European canon. It begins with Medea’s love for Jason and ends with the murder of their children. Milo Rau’s version of the play is a radical re-reading. For Medea’s Children, he mixes Euripides‘ version with a modern murder case. And: all the roles are played by children!

 

After the globally acclaimed reinventions of Aeschylus‘ revenge trilogy Oresteia (Orestes in Mosul) and Sophocles‘ Antigone (Antigone in the Amazon), Milo Rau turns to a classic of Greek tragedy literature for the third time with Medea’s Children.

 

Together with six child actors, Milo Rau, his dramaturge Kaatje De Geest and NTGent create a synthesis of Greek tragedy and childish wisdom, made of film, music and performance. Bitter and sweet, tender and cruel, absurd and gory – like love itself.

 

TRAILER

 

How can affection turn into hate? Are we forced to make the same mistakes again and again? From the hunt for the Golden Fleece to a quintuple murder: Medea’s Children is an examination of the human soul through the eyes of children.

 

Medea’s Children celebrates its premiere on April 18 at NTGent, followed by premieres in the Netherlands and France. The German-language premiere is on May 31 at the Wiener Festwochen.

 

And: Medea’s Children is the prelude to Rau’s “oldest dream”, the ALL GREEKS FESTIVAL, for which NTGent will have all the classic tragedies restaged in public spaces over 32 days – conceived by Milo Rau himself, curated by Matthias Velle and Benoît Vanraes. Find all details here.

 

ALL GREEK FESTIVAL

 

 

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  FREE REPUBLIC OF VIENNA   “Really? Balaclavas at the programme conference, skating nuns, Pussy Riot and the proclamation of a republic”, wrote Austria’s largest daily newspaper, the Kronenzeitung. And indeed: it was certainly the craziest press conference that the Wiener Festwochen, Europe’s largest crossover festival, has ever experienced. Followed by the fastest ticket sales […]


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Skating Nuns & Balaclavas: Join the Free Republic!

 

FREE REPUBLIC OF VIENNA

 

“Really? Balaclavas at the programme conference, skating nuns, Pussy Riot and the proclamation of a republic”, wrote Austria’s largest daily newspaper, the Kronenzeitung. And indeed: it was certainly the craziest press conference that the Wiener Festwochen, Europe’s largest crossover festival, has ever experienced. Followed by the fastest ticket sales in the history of the festival: a third of all places is sold in just 10 days after the programme conference!

 

“The cultural event of this spring” was how the French culture blog Mediapart summarised it, while the Belgian Standaard wrote: “Milo Rau is tackling it big at his first edition at the head of the Wiener Festwochen.” A total of more than 45 projects are planned – from Mateja Meded’s Cunt slime power to Peter Brook’s Tempest Project, from the creation of the Academy Second Modernism to the Vienna Trials, from the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra’s Kaddish Requiem to Rau’s newest play Medea’s Children.

 

Meanwhile, the Council of the Republic is growing. New members are joining every day: Elfriede Jelinek, Annie Ernaux, Yannis Varoufakis, Kirill Serebrennikov, Kim de l’Horizon, Carola Rackete, David Van Rreybrouck – and dozens more!

 

Be with us when the Free Republic of Vienna is proclaimed on 17 May in front of 50,000 spectators in the center of Vienna and live on television. Because we owe the world a revolution!

 

PROFESSIONALS

 

 

NEWS

 

  • Is Putin happy? – Milo Rau on Navalny, the Vienna Trials and the need for a civil society uprising

  • I can’t think alone – Rau on his late friend, playwright and director René Pollesch

  • Draw for change – ARTE documentary about Victoria Lomasko, official draughtswoman of the Free Republic of Vienna

  • Pure and simple – Belgium tour of The Interrogation, Milo Rau’s collaboration with the writer Édouard Louis, launched

  • Antigone in Australia – after Europe, Antigone in the Amazon tour continues in Australia


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  FREE PUBLIC WEBSITE PROGRAM BOOK   This morning (01.02.24), Artistic Director Milo Rau, Executive Director Artemis Vakianis, artists Florentina Holzinger, Bushra El-Turk and Caroline Guiela Nguyen, together with members of the Council of the Free Republic of Vienna, unveiled the programme of Rau’s first edition of the Wiener Festwochen in the mythical venue Hotel […]


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Revolution Now! Milo Rau, Elfriede Jelinek, Pussy Riot, Carola Rackete, Florentina Holzinger and many others proclaim Free Republic of Vienna

 

FREE PUBLIC WEBSITE

PROGRAM BOOK

 

This morning (01.02.24), Artistic Director Milo Rau, Executive Director Artemis Vakianis, artists Florentina Holzinger, Bushra El-Turk and Caroline Guiela Nguyen, together with members of the Council of the Free Republic of Vienna, unveiled the programme of Rau’s first edition of the Wiener Festwochen in the mythical venue Hotel Imperial in the Austrian capital.

 

On 17 May 2024, the Wiener Festwochen, Europe’s biggest crossover festival, will proclaim the Free Republic of Vienna in front of 50.000 people, broadcasted live on Austrian television. The grand ceremony marks the beginning of a 5 week long festival showcasing over 45 projects of theatre, opera, activism, music and dance – and the creation of several revolutionary institutions. Find the whole artistic program here.

 

The one-hundred-strong Council of the Free Republic includes, among others: Elfriede Jelinek, Carola Rackete, Annie Ernaux, Yanis Varoufakis, Kirill Serebrennikow, Oksana Lyniv, Jean Ziegler, Kid Pex, Sibylle Berg, Camille Etienne, members from the Landless Movement MST, the ZAD – Zone à Défendre, Rojava – and over 100 citizens and initiatives from the city of Vienna.

 

Join the Free Republic of Vienna! Because we owe the world a revolution!

 

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FREE REPUBLIC NOW! PRESS CONFERENCE   Where do you hear the music of Pussy Riot side by side with Mozart? Which festival writes its own constitution together with its audience, several Nobel Prize winners and declares itself a Free Republic? The 2024 edition of the Wiener Festwochen – one of the world’s largest crossover festivals for theatre, […]


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We Owe the World a Revolution: Free Republic of Vienna is Unveiled!

FREE REPUBLIC NOW!
PRESS CONFERENCE

 

Where do you hear the music of Pussy Riot side by side with Mozart? Which festival writes its own constitution together with its audience, several Nobel Prize winners and declares itself a Free Republic? The 2024 edition of the Wiener Festwochen – one of the world’s largest crossover festivals for theatre, opera, music, art and political activism under the Artistic Direction of Milo Rau – will be unlike any other.

 

On Friday 1st March 10:00 (CET), together with composer and Academy Second Modernism member Bushra El-Turk, choreographer Florentina Holzinger, director Caroline Guiela Nguyen and music curator Fuzzman, Artistic Director Milo Rau, Executive Director Artemis Vakianis and City Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Science Veronica Kaup-Hasler present the programme of the Festival Edition 2024, including messages from festival accomplices Sibylle Berg and Kid Pex.

 

The programme presentation takes place at the Imperial Hotel, Kärntner Ring 16, 1015 Vienna. The event will be broadcasted via livestream.

 

LIVESTREAM

 

In the midst of a crucial election year, the Wiener Festwochen will proclaim the Free Republic of Vienna, thus making the festival the very first to ever have its own hymn, flag, and revolutionary institutions.

 

In the tradition of the Paris Commune, Vienna – one of the five largest cities in the EU and the birthplace of classical Modernism around Schönberg, Freud and Klimt – will become the international capital of a Second Modernism this spring: a place for debates, events and celebration, where social movements meet intellectuals and artists to seek out alternatives for a common future.

 

During five-and-a-half unique weeks from 17 May to 23 June, the Wiener Festwochen will fuse political resistance with artistic virtuosity. The great names of classical music, opera, theatre and activism arrive in Vienna. At the same time the Vienna Trials are staged, holding politics, the media and the art scene accountable.

 

Join the Press Conference at Hotel Imperial, meet the festival team, our accomplices and the Free Republic’s Collective Dramaturgy Jana Beckmann, Carmen Hornbostel, Thomas Kasebacher & Iris Raffetseder.

 

FESTIVAL PAGE

 

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  MAKING OF JUSTICE   “It is the first production of these dimensions in which Congo and Europe join hands. And it is also the first opera to deal with the subject of modern-day mining“, wrote the major German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung after the „brilliant“ (Neue Musik Zeitung) world premiere of Justice last week.   […]


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NO EXCUSES ANYMORE: Academy Second Modernism debuts in New York!

 

MAKING OF JUSTICE

 

“It is the first production of these dimensions in which Congo and Europe join hands. And it is also the first opera to deal with the subject of modern-day mining“, wrote the major German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung after the „brilliant“ (Neue Musik Zeitung) world premiere of Justice last week.

 

An opera like never before”, judged German television ARD after the premiere at the Grand Théâtre de Genève of this “reinvention of opera” (Tribune de Genève). “Opera has never been so radically decolonized,” reported the influential Deutschlandfunk, Swiss television SRF dedicated a whole documentary to Rau’s newest project. Parallel to the opera, Milo Rau launched the Justice for Kabwe crowdfunding campaign together with various NGOs.

 

Now Rau and Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival) – Europe’s largest crossover festival for performance, music, opera, art and discourse – are coming to New York to present their new initiative to change the music world from scratch: the Academy Second Modernism.

 

Did you know that only 2% of the works included in concert subscriptions hail from women? To change this, the Wiener Festwochen and many partner institutions all over the world are now launching a brand new global platform for female composers and presenting it in New York on February 6 and 7.

 

Together with Pulitzer Prize Winners and Academy Members Du Yun and Tania León, representatives from New York art institutions such as the Metropolitan Opera and under the patronage of music icon Nuria Nono-Schoenberg, we call for action to address the devastating current state of representation when it comes to female composers on the contemporary classical stage, opera, concerts, musical spaces and festivals. 

 

The aim of the Academy Second Modernism is the commitment of theatres, operas, festivals and ensembles to significantly increase the proportion of works by women composers in their programmes. Join us in New York to discuss and create a global manifesto demanding immediate change and decolonization in a still deeply entrenched field resisting to change!

 

“When someone is actually meaning to take action, there is a way. No excuses anymore.”

Nuria Nono-Schoenberg

 

ACADEMY SECOND MODERNISM

 

6 February 2024, 10:00
Austrian Cultural Forum
PRESS CONFERENCE

 

with Melina Tsiamos (Deputy Director ACF), Milo Rau (Artistic Director Wiener Festwochen), Jana Beckmann (Dramaturgy Wiener Festwochen), Du Yun (member Academy Second Modernism)
Register here.

 

7 February 2024, 18:30
Segal Center New York
BEYOND THE 2% – A MANIFESTO

 

with composers and Pulitzer Prize winners Tania León and Du Yun, Marcia Sells/Met Opera NYC, Kristin Marting/PROTOTYPE, Milo Rau and Jana Beckmann (Wiener Festwochen).
More info and live stream here.

 

7 February 2024
Segal Center New York
A DAY WITH MILO RAU

 

Join us for an afternoon with Milo Rau discussing his latest book Reclaiming the Future and the search for new forms of thinking, feeling, and collective action – plus an excerpt screening of Rau’s film work.
More info and live stream here.

 

 


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  OPER FÜR GERECHTIGKEIT Pressekonferenz & Premiere   „Die erste Oper über die kongolesische Minenindustrie, entwickelt mit den Betroffenen und aufgeführt in einem der größten Opernhäuser der Welt: für mich als kongolesischer Künstler ist das eine Revolution.“ Serge Kakudji   Mit der kongolesisch-europäischen Opernproduktion JUSTICE fordern Milo Rau, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Hèctor Parra und ihr […]


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„Das ist eine Revolution“: Die erste Bergbauoper der Geschichte feiert Premiere!

 

OPER FÜR GERECHTIGKEIT

Pressekonferenz & Premiere

 

„Die erste Oper über die kongolesische Minenindustrie, entwickelt mit den Betroffenen und aufgeführt in einem der größten Opernhäuser der Welt: für mich als kongolesischer Künstler ist das eine Revolution.“
Serge Kakudji

 

Mit der kongolesisch-europäischen Opernproduktion JUSTICE fordern Milo Rau, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Hèctor Parra und ihr Team das Opern-Genre heraus: JUSTICE ist nicht nur die erste kongolesische-europäische Musiktheater-Produktion dieser Grössenordnung – es ist die erste Oper über die Minenindustrie überhaupt, uraufgeführt in Genf, dem weltgrössten Umschlagplatz für Rohstoffe und einer der Geburtsorte der Internationalen Menschenrechte.

 

Aber mit JUSTICE setzen Mujila, Parra und Rau die Frage nach Gerechtigkeit nicht nur in Szene, sie setzen sie um: Zugleich zur Premiere startet, in Zusammenarbeit mit kongolesischen und schweizerischen NGOs und Anwält:innen, eine Crowdfundingkampagne, um den Betroffenen der porträtierten Verbrechen endlich Gerechtigkeit widerfahren zu lassen!

 

Die Premiere wird von über hundert Sänger:innen, Instrumentalist:innen und Schauspieler:innen live aufgeführt (Dirigat: Titus Engel), darunter der legendäre Bassbariton Willard White, der in Kolwezi geborene Countertenor Serge Kakudji, der kongolesische Gitarrist Kojack Kossakamvwe und der für den Booker-Preis nominierte Librettist Fiston Mwanza Mujila selbst.

 

„Diese Oper ist ein Akt gegen das Vergessen genauso wie eine Demonstration für die Wahrheit. Ein Ruf nach Gerechtigkeit und eine Brücke zwischen den Kontinenten.“
Fiston Mwanza Mujila

 

KAMPAGNE

 

22.1.2024 Grand Théâtre de Genève
18:00 Pressekonferenz
20:00 Premiere JUSTICE

 

Pressekonferenz mit Serge Kakudji (Sänger), Fiston Mwanza Mujila (Librettist), Hèctor Parra (Komponist), Milo Rau (Regisseur), Johannes Wendland (HEKS), Céline Tshizena (Afrewatch), Josue Kashal (CAJJ).

 

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  OPER FÜR GERECHTIGKEIT Pressekonferenz und Premiere   Mit der kongolesisch-europäischen Opernproduktion JUSTICE fordern Milo Rau, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Hèctor Parra und ihr Team das Opern-Genre heraus: JUSTICE ist nicht nur die erste kongolesische-europäische Musiktheater-Produktion dieser Grössenordnung – es ist die erste Oper über die Minenindustrie überhaupt, uraufgeführt in Genf, dem weltgrössten Umschlagplatz für Rohstoffe […]


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Einladung Uraufführung: Oper „Justice“

 

OPER FÜR GERECHTIGKEIT
Pressekonferenz und Premiere

 

Mit der kongolesisch-europäischen Opernproduktion JUSTICE fordern Milo Rau, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Hèctor Parra und ihr Team das Opern-Genre heraus: JUSTICE ist nicht nur die erste kongolesische-europäische Musiktheater-Produktion dieser Grössenordnung – es ist die erste Oper über die Minenindustrie überhaupt, uraufgeführt in Genf, dem weltgrössten Umschlagplatz für Rohstoffe und einer der Geburtsorte der Internationalen Menschenrechte.

 

Aber mit JUSTICE setzen Mujila, Parra und Rau die Frage nach Gerechtigkeit nicht nur in Szene, sie setzen sie um: Zugleich zur Premiere startet, in Zusammenarbeit mit kongolesischen und schweizerischen NGOs und Anwält:innen, eine Crowdfundingkampagne, um den Betroffenen der porträtierten Verbrechen endlich Gerechtigkeit widerfahren zu lassen!

 

Die Premiere wird von über Sänger:innen und Instrumentalist:innen live aufgeführt (Dirigat: Titus Engel), darunter der legendäre Bassbariton Willard White, der in Kolwezi geborene Countertenor Serge Kakudji, der kongolesische Gitarrist Kojack Kossakamvwe und der für den Booker-Preis nominierte Librettist Fiston Mwanza Mujila selbst.

 

„Diese Oper ist ein Akt gegen das Vergessen genauso wie eine Demonstration für die Wahrheit. Ein Ruf nach Gerechtigkeit und eine Brücke zwischen den Kontinenten.“
Fiston Mwanza Mujila

 

PROJEKT INFOS

 

22. 1. 2024 Grand Théâtre de Genève
18:00 Pressekonferenz
20:00 Premiere JUSTICE

 

Pressekonferenz mit Serge Kakudji (Sänger), Fiston Mwanza Mujila (Librettist), Milo Rau (Regisseur), Johannes Wendland (HEKS), Céline Tshizena (Afrewatch).

 

ANMELDUNG