Bernhard Gander: LIEDER VON VERTREIBUNG UND NIMMERWIEDERKEHR (Official trailer)
Channel: DeutscheOperBerlin
Date: 2022-05-12

"Culture is the ability to speak about life in the presence of the dead."
The Ukrainian author and musician Serhij Zhadan has written an oppressively topical libretto for the new music theatre LIEDER VON VERTREIBUNG UND NIMMERWIEDERKEHR (Songs of Exile and No Return).

With poetic ruthlessness and the intensity and, in a positive sense, almost physical music of the Austrian composer Berhard Gander, the suffer of escape and loss for people is exemplified here - not without giving hope.

Premiere on 21 May (further performances on 22/24/25/26 May 2022) 

Composer: Bernhard Gander
Text: Serhij Zhadan
Conductor: Elda Laro
Stage director: Alize Zandwijk
Set design: Theun Mosk
Costumes: Anne Sophie Domenz
Dramaturge: Carolin Müller-Dohle

With Carl Rumstadt, Andrew Robert Munn, Antonia Ahyoung Kim, Nadine Geyersbach, Carlo Schmitz, Dongfang Xie, Lisa Ziehm, Natalia Labourdette, Amelie Baier, Yixuan Zhu, Devi Suriani and musicians of Ensemble Modern (Hugo Queirós, Ueli Wiget, Sven Pollkötter, Giorgos Panagiotidis, Paul Cannon)

Video by Chris and the FATSOX

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