Ein Musikdrama nach Adalbert Goldschmidt • Filips
For the first time since 1876, Adalbert von Goldschmidt’s allegorical musical drama THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS – a piece for soloists, choir and orchestra – are shown in Berlin.
The monster performance, which includes a gigantic orchestra, six opera soloists and a mass choir, was a sensation when it premiered at the Berlin Reichshallen (Leipziger Straße) back then.
However, it soon met with political resistance directed at the Jewish composer and son of the Rothschild-Goldschmidt family from Vienna, who dared to present himself as new prophet of modernity and Richard Wagner successor. Yet a bunch of anti-Semites, who were forming as a political party around that time, felt ready to prevent this.
Volksbühne actors Sophie Rois, Silvia Rieger and Margarita Breitkreiz, in team with vocalists of the Sing-Akademie Berlin set out on a journey to rediscover this forgotten piece, directed by Christian Filips.
It’ll show that the ghosts that haunted the legendary Cafe Größenwahn in Vienna in 1876 still haven’t ceased troubling us.
Today’s world is full of historical ghosts and revenants. The deadly sins, Vilém Flusser once wrote, are a torrent thundering over – and beneath – human kind, to carry us away in its progression.
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Participating artists
Staats- und Domchor (Männer, Kapellchor, Cambiata)
Maximilian Brauer
Susanne Bredehöft
Margarita Breitkreiz
Benjamin Bruns
Christian Filips (Text & Regie)
Sara Gouzy
Haupt- und Mädchenchor der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin
Gerrit Illenberger
Kai-Uwe Jirka
Kammersymphonie Berlin
Arttu Kataja
Ariel Nil Levy
Yury Makhrov
Mima Millo
Silvia Rieger
Sophie Rois
Sabine Zielke
Daniela Zorrozua
Christian Filips (Autor/in)
Sara Gouzy (Sänger:innen)
Gerrit Illenberger (Sänger:innen)
Arttu Kataja (Sänger:innen)
Yury Makhrov (Sänger:innen)
Mima Millo (Sänger:innen)
Kai-Uwe Jirka (Dirigent und musikalischer Leiter)
Daniela Zorrozua (Bühne & Kostüme)
Sabine Zielke (Dramaturgie)
Dates
November 2024
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