»At 4.48 am, when clarity descends for an hour and twelve minutes, I’m in my right mind.« Philip Venables’ award-winning chamber opera from 2016, based on the play of the same name by the English playwright Sarah Kane (1971-1999), draws the audience deep into the psyche of a person suffering emotional turmoil, fears and illness by means of 24 situational tableaux.
The constant and deeply touching struggle for normality, love, life and acceptance blurs the boundary between sickness and health. Again and again we are forced to ask: How can a life be in harmony with itself? From the musical perspective of six singers and twelve orchestral musicians, the unspeaking silence expands into a tangible space by means of highly poetic and at the same time ruthless texts. Tobias Heyder’s German-language premiere places the performers, musicians and audience in a »mental space«, where scenery and action are reduced to the essentials.
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