Intolleranza 1960

Tickets
Address Behrenstr. 55-57, Berlin
Tags Drama, Musiktheater
Entry € 12–94
Venue's website www.komische-oper-berlin.de
Director Marco Štorman
Release 23.09.2022

Performing: Sean Panikkar (ein Flüchtling), Gloria Rehm (Gefährtin des Flüchtlings) Deniz Uzun (eine Frau), Tom Erik Lie (Algerier), Tijl Faveyts (ein Gefolterter), Josefine Mindus (Sopran-Solo), Ilse Ritter (Sprecherin)

At the end of September until the beginning of October, the music theater Intolleranza 1960 by Luigi Nono will be performed at the Komische Oper Berlin in a production by Marco Štorman.

A guest worker flees the juggernaut of a miners' settlement. Leaving his uncomprehending wife behind, he gets caught up in political unrest while trying to find his way home, is guiltlessly interrogated, tortured and locked up in a concentration camp. He experiences brutality and arbitrariness, but also solidarity. He is able to escape, wants to fight against injustice, finds support in the love of a companion. Finally he is stranded in a village that is swept away by the floods of a high tide. The last words of the chorus are taken from Bertolt Brecht's poem To Those Born After: "… you, when the time comes that man is a helper to man, remember us with forbearance."

Musically, Nono employs a freely handled seriality that retains tremendous color and emotional permeability in its high complexity. Framed by two large contemplative choruses, the composer vehemently points out the ills of a dysfunctional society. The final flood seems today, even more than at the time of its composition, a frighteningly plausible consequence of human inadequacy. Director Marco Štorman finds his way beyond illustrative images: The real battles rage within. Márton Ágh's stage design, which takes up the entire stage house, draws each:n into the middle of the action and makes tangible what may come when the flood has gone: silence.

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