© Stan Hema Lash: Deutsche Oper Berlin
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin — Main stage
About the Event
A woman stands on the threshold of death and in a seemingly endless cascade, questions erupt from her, directed at a loved and desired counterpart who is no longer present. Memories of a life lived appear, of the longing for love and sex as well as the failure of her longing and the tragedy of death that lies behind it. The figure of the woman breaks down into four different facets of her personality and is divided into four actresses who represent different perspectives and points of view of one person. The result is a network of relationships between seeing and being seen, touching and being touched, touching and being touched, understanding and being understood. And a sensual game about sex, the body, love and death unfolds — with a surprising outcome. With LASH, the acclaimed German‐British composer Rebecca Saunders writes her first opera and, based on the visually powerful texts by video artist and writer Ed Atkins, creates a work about the existential fundamental experiences of the human body, with which we are in the world and at the same time experience and understand it.
LASH will be staged by the Irish directing collective Dead Centre with the two directors Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel, the set and costume designer Nina Wetzel and the video artist Sebastian Dupouey. Dead Centre already staged the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's IL TEOREMA DI PASSOLINI here in 2023. With LASH, they are now going one step further towards an opera aesthetic that moves in a field of tension between concrete narration and the creation of rather abstract spaces of perception and experience and the worlds of hearing, seeing and feeling created therein. LASH will therefore feature large‐format dream images bordering on abstraction as well as concrete snapshots of the protagonist's life, which has disintegrated into fragments. There will be a microscopic view of the smallest body details such as eyelashes, skin flakes or hair, enlarged to stage‐filling format, but also a gradually piecing together puzzle of a life with its desires and the question of the extent to which these have been fulfilled, with concrete encounters, hopes and disappointments.
Cast / Production
Musical direction — Enno Poppe
Staging — Dead Center
Stage, costumes — Nina Wetzel
Lighting — Jörg Schuchardt
Video — Sébastien Dupouey
Dramaturgy — Sebastian Hanusa
Actresses‐ Anna Prohaska, Noa Frenkel, Sarah Maria Sun,Katja Kolm
Synthesizer — Christoph Grund, Ernst Surberg
Electric guitar — Adrian Pereyra
Orchestra — Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
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