Il Teorema di Pasolini - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Il Teorema di Pasolini
Musical theater by Giorgio Battistelli
Libretto by Giorgio Battistelli loosely based on the film and novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini
World premiere on June 9, 2023 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
recommended from 16 years
approx. 1 hour 45 minutes / no break
In Italian with German and English surtitles
Teorema, released in 1968 both as a film and as a novel, is not only one of Pier Paolo Pasolini's best-known works, but also one of his most radical. Using the example of an Italian industrial family, Pasolini diagnoses the collapse of bourgeois society. In turn, all members of this family are seduced by a young man who shows up as a guest in the house. This experience makes it impossible for everyone to continue to live in their rigid conventions, and each individual tries in his own way to free himself from the constraints that have so far determined his existence. While the housemaid Emilia finds fulfillment in her faith, her son decides to become an artist; while the daughter goes insane and the mother seeks her salvation in random sex adventures, the father leaves all possessions behind.
No one less than the great German composer Hans Werner Henze recognized the music-theatrical potential of "Teorema" early on and secured the rights to the material. However, Henze did not write the opera himself, but as director of the Munich Music Biennale entrusted the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli, who had already caused a sensation around the world with his experimental opera EXPERIMENTUM MUNDI, to set it to music. In 1992, a first version of TEOREMA was created as part of a chamber opera with silent actors. Now, 30 years later, Battistelli dares to tackle the material again, turns it into a full-length opera with singers and a large orchestra and incorporates all the experiences that he has had in the meantime with works such as RICHARD III. and most recently GIULIO CESARE have become one of the most important contemporary opera composers.
To the staging
With the production of IL TEOREMA DI PASOLINI, the British-Irish theater collective Dead Center presents itself for the first time on the stage of an opera house. In the theater sector, Dead Center have established themselves as one of the most interesting directing teams with their works shown internationally at festivals, but also with their productions for the Vienna Burgtheater and the Schaubühne Berlin. They ventured into music theater for the first time in 2019 with the production of Olga Neuwirth’s opera BÄHLAMMS FEST for the Ruhrtriennale. Illusionistic effects are characteristic of her work, blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality and providing a cinematic clarity of what is happening on stage.
Subject to change.
Libretto by Giorgio Battistelli loosely based on the film and novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini
World premiere on June 9, 2023 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
recommended from 16 years
approx. 1 hour 45 minutes / no break
In Italian with German and English surtitles
Teorema, released in 1968 both as a film and as a novel, is not only one of Pier Paolo Pasolini's best-known works, but also one of his most radical. Using the example of an Italian industrial family, Pasolini diagnoses the collapse of bourgeois society. In turn, all members of this family are seduced by a young man who shows up as a guest in the house. This experience makes it impossible for everyone to continue to live in their rigid conventions, and each individual tries in his own way to free himself from the constraints that have so far determined his existence. While the housemaid Emilia finds fulfillment in her faith, her son decides to become an artist; while the daughter goes insane and the mother seeks her salvation in random sex adventures, the father leaves all possessions behind.
No one less than the great German composer Hans Werner Henze recognized the music-theatrical potential of "Teorema" early on and secured the rights to the material. However, Henze did not write the opera himself, but as director of the Munich Music Biennale entrusted the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli, who had already caused a sensation around the world with his experimental opera EXPERIMENTUM MUNDI, to set it to music. In 1992, a first version of TEOREMA was created as part of a chamber opera with silent actors. Now, 30 years later, Battistelli dares to tackle the material again, turns it into a full-length opera with singers and a large orchestra and incorporates all the experiences that he has had in the meantime with works such as RICHARD III. and most recently GIULIO CESARE have become one of the most important contemporary opera composers.
To the staging
With the production of IL TEOREMA DI PASOLINI, the British-Irish theater collective Dead Center presents itself for the first time on the stage of an opera house. In the theater sector, Dead Center have established themselves as one of the most interesting directing teams with their works shown internationally at festivals, but also with their productions for the Vienna Burgtheater and the Schaubühne Berlin. They ventured into music theater for the first time in 2019 with the production of Olga Neuwirth’s opera BÄHLAMMS FEST for the Ruhrtriennale. Illusionistic effects are characteristic of her work, blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality and providing a cinematic clarity of what is happening on stage.
Subject to change.
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