FREEDOM COLLECTIVE

Opera by Davor Branimir Vincze

Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen 
10.02.2024 Premiere
11.02.2024
17.02.2024
 
Theater Bremen
30.03.2024 Premiere
04.04.2024
07.04.2024
 
Staatstheater Darmstadt
24.05.2024 Premiere
06.06.2024
15.06.2024

In “Freedom Collective”, we move at the intersection of different realities. The audience is invited to immerse themselves in an interactive theatre labyrinth and lose themselves on various levels of experience. The libretto tells an adventure story in a possible near future. In the “Freedom Collective”, an underground club, people enter virtual worlds.

In this capitalist underworld, a space where drug excesses, doping attempts and the insatiable desire for entertainment reign, the boundaries between bodies and genders dissolve over time. Live music and electronics, real and digital actions, parallel truths blur together. The result is a love story that, in the end, we don’t know whether it actually takes place or is just a fiction born out of desire.

CAST
Composition Davor Vincze
Libretto Aleksandar Hut Kono
Musical direction / Conducting Premil Petrović
Director Heinrich Horwitz
Co-Director Darmstadt Max Gadow
Stage/ Costumes Magdalena Emmerig
Video/ Lighting Rosa Wernecke
Electronics Remmy Canedo
Production management Jasna Witkoski

CAST MUSIKTHEATER IM REVIER GELSENKIRCHEN
Fan Nayun Lea Kim
Andrei Bele Kumberger
Zsuzsi Soyoon Lee
Karl Yancheng Chen

CAST THEATER BREMEN
Fan Emma McDermott
Andrej Constanze Jader
Zsuzsi Nerita Pokvytytė
Karl Christoph Heinrich

CAST STAATSTHEATER DARMSTADT
Fan Janina Schweitzer
Andrei Constanze Jader
Zsuzsi Nike Tiecke
Karl Georg Festl

CAST AVATARS
Alan Coates, Agata Demel, Markus Emig, Martin Gernhardt, Vanessa Hofmann, Tristan Knöchel, Josephine Tancke

ENSEMBLES
Opera Studio NRW
New Philharmonic Orchestra Westphalia
Bremer Philharmoniker

FUNDING PARTNERS
A production as part of the funding initiative NOperas! – an initiative of the Experimental Music Theatre (feXm). Jointly organised by NRW KULTURsekretariat and Kunststiftung NRW, in co-operation with Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Theater Bremen and Staatstheater Darmstadt.