“NOperas!” invites you to the next round: On 10 February, “Freedom Collective” by Emmerig/Horwitz/Hut Kono/Vincze will celebrate its premiere at the Musiktheater im Revier as the fifth world premiere of the funding initiative supported by the NRW KULTURsekretariat and the Kunststiftung NRW.
In “Freedom Collective”, we move at the interface of different realities. The audience is invited to immerse themselves in an immersive theatre labyrinth and lose themselves on various parallel levels of experience. The libretto tells an adventure story in a possible near future. In the “Freedom Collective”, an underground club, visitors enter virtual worlds, with fight clubs in particular still serving the experience of closeness and physicality. Fan, the main character, is in search of the fulfilment of elementary desires, but remains torn between conflicting human relationships and divergent realities. In this capitalist underworld, where drug excesses, doping attempts and the insatiable desire for entertainment reign, Fan and Kämpfer:fall in love with Andrei. The result is a love story that, in the end, we don’t know whether it actually takes place or whether it is just a fiction born of longing.
Composition: Davor Vincze | Libretto: Alexandar Hut Kono | Musical direction: Premil Petrović | Production: Heinrich Horwitz | Stage and costume design: Magdalena Emmerig | Video: Rosa Wernecke | Lighting: Mario Turco, Rosa Wernecke | Sound: Fabian Halseband | Electronics: Remmy Canedo | Artistic production management: Jasna Witkoski | Dramaturgy: Hanna Kneißler | Dramaturgy feXm: Roland Quitt
With: Nayun Lea Kim, Bele Kumberger, Soyoon Lee, Yancheng Chen, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen
There will be further performances of “Freedom Collective” on 11 and 17 February, after which the production will be further developed at the theatres in Bremen and Darmstadt. The world premieres will take place on 30 March at the Bremen Theatre and 24 May at the Darmstadt State Theatre.
