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Pop opera after Molière

We will die! Like this. Now it's out. Even if we are usually quite good at suppressing our mortality - such a global virus brings even the most gifted suppression artists back down to biological facts. On the other hand, don't the gods envy us our mortality?


Argan, the imaginary sick person, is such a candidate who does not accept his own finiteness. With his fear of death he feels left alone, all hope is attached to the supposedly positive effects of enema and bloodletting. Look more times. But the following might give courage, as long as we are still afraid of death, we are still alive after all. However, the premiere of 1673 already delivered macabre headlines. Molière, who himself played the imaginary sick man, suffered a severe haemorrhage during the fourth performance and died still in his costume.

In our musical version of this great comedy, "The Imaginary Sick One" is a musical, an inclusive, a pop opera, a grotesque about shining love and laughing death. The production is part of Studio 21. Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds and by the State of Berlin, Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

(Program in German)

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Participating artists
Beatrix Brandler (Kostüm & Maske)
Jacob Höhne (Regie)
Micha Kaplan (Musik)
Gero Kindermann (Bühne)
Steffen Sünkel (Dramaturgie)
Alexander du Prel (Video)
Molière (Autor/in)
Christian Behrend
Lioba Breitsprecher
Heiko Fechner
Eva Fuchs
Claudia Graue
Moritz Höhne
Hans-Harald Janke
Shirly Klengel
Tobias Kreßmann
Anil Merickan
Joachim Neumann
Sascha Perthel
Hieu Pham
Zora Schemm
Leo Solter
Sebastian Urbanski
Michael Wittsack
Dates
March 2025
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