BLACK EURYDICE // SCHWARZE EURYDIKE // EURYDICE NOIRE - a COUNTER-OPERA

Based on the first modern opera in Europe - Monteverdi's "Orfeo" (Mantua 1607) - kainkollektiv not only gets to the bottom of the exclusions mentioned, but also designs an (Afro-)futuristic, feminist & post-colonial COUNTER-OPERA OF EURYDICE.

With "BLACK EURYDICE // SCHWARZE EURYDIKE // EURYDICE NOIRE", five non-European, contemporary composers - from Iran, Cameroon, South Africa and Canada - combined Monteverdi's baroque music from "Orfeo", which is considered the first modern opera in Europe, with visionary, contemporary, post-classical to electronic compositions and in the process designed a completely new, polyphonic vision of the future of music theater in a feminist composition collective together with kainkollektiv and other European and non-European performers - also and not least as a new survey of the patriarchal heritage of the cultural institution theatre/opera and the imagination of a different history of its future.

However, kainkollektiv's “superheroine” BLACK EURYDICE is less interested in “saving the world” than their male heroic counterparts. Rather, it is about the vision of a transformation of different world experiences in a polyphonic, interdisciplinary and transnational artist ensemble that tells of what happened to Eurydice - from the time of her first forced silence to the present day, in which women's rights are currently being fought all over the world - such as those laid down in the "Istanbul Convention" - are again seriously questioned and suspended.

Or as Claudia Hötzendorfer writes in her review of the production in the Rheinische Post: "The message of the kain collective from the underworld is clear: society needs a feminine view of the past in order to endure the present and to prepare itself for the future."

Languages: German, English & French with English and German surtitles