Lash - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Lash
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01.07.2025 , Tuesday
19:30
Deutsche Oper, Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin, Germany
Seating plan
Acts of Love
Opera in three acts by Rebecca Saunders
based on a libretto by Ed Atkins and Rebecca Saunders
World premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on June 20, 2025
1 hour 30 minutes / No intermission
In English with German and English surtitles
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
Recommended for ages 16 and up
About the piece
A woman is on the threshold of death and in a seemingly endless cascade, questions burst out of her, directed at a loved and desired counterpart who is no longer present. Memories of a life lived appear, of the longing for love and sex as well as the failure of her longing and the tragedy of death hidden behind it. The figure of the woman breaks down into four different facets of her personality and is divided into four actresses who represent different perspectives and viewpoints of a person. A network of relationships emerges from seeing and being seen, touching and being touched, feeling and being felt, understanding and being understood. And a sensual game about sex, body, love and death unfolds - with a surprising outcome. With LASH, the celebrated German-British composer Rebecca Saunders writes her first opera and, based on the powerful images of the video artist and writer Ed Atkins, creates a work about the basic existential experiences of the human body with which we are in the world and at the same time experience and understand it.
About the production
LASH is brought to the stage by the Irish directing collective Dead Centre with the two directors Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel, the set and costume designer Nina Wetzel and the video artist Sebastian Dupouey. Dead Centre staged the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's IL TEOREMA DI PASSOLINI here in 2023. With LASH they are now going one step further towards an opera aesthetic that moves in a field of tension between concrete narration and the creation of more abstract spaces of perception and experience and the auditory, visual and emotional worlds created in them. Thus, in LASH there will be large-format dream images on the border of abstraction as well as concrete snapshots of the protagonist's life disintegrated into fragments. There will be a microscopic view of the smallest body details such as eyelashes, skin flakes or hair, enlarged to fill the stage, but also a gradually assembling puzzle of a life with its desires and the question of the extent to which these have been fulfilled, with concrete encounters, hopes and disappointments.
Subject to change.
Opera in three acts by Rebecca Saunders
based on a libretto by Ed Atkins and Rebecca Saunders
World premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on June 20, 2025
1 hour 30 minutes / No intermission
In English with German and English surtitles
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
Recommended for ages 16 and up
About the piece
A woman is on the threshold of death and in a seemingly endless cascade, questions burst out of her, directed at a loved and desired counterpart who is no longer present. Memories of a life lived appear, of the longing for love and sex as well as the failure of her longing and the tragedy of death hidden behind it. The figure of the woman breaks down into four different facets of her personality and is divided into four actresses who represent different perspectives and viewpoints of a person. A network of relationships emerges from seeing and being seen, touching and being touched, feeling and being felt, understanding and being understood. And a sensual game about sex, body, love and death unfolds - with a surprising outcome. With LASH, the celebrated German-British composer Rebecca Saunders writes her first opera and, based on the powerful images of the video artist and writer Ed Atkins, creates a work about the basic existential experiences of the human body with which we are in the world and at the same time experience and understand it.
About the production
LASH is brought to the stage by the Irish directing collective Dead Centre with the two directors Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel, the set and costume designer Nina Wetzel and the video artist Sebastian Dupouey. Dead Centre staged the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's IL TEOREMA DI PASSOLINI here in 2023. With LASH they are now going one step further towards an opera aesthetic that moves in a field of tension between concrete narration and the creation of more abstract spaces of perception and experience and the auditory, visual and emotional worlds created in them. Thus, in LASH there will be large-format dream images on the border of abstraction as well as concrete snapshots of the protagonist's life disintegrated into fragments. There will be a microscopic view of the smallest body details such as eyelashes, skin flakes or hair, enlarged to fill the stage, but also a gradually assembling puzzle of a life with its desires and the question of the extent to which these have been fulfilled, with concrete encounters, hopes and disappointments.
Subject to change.