louise pons

Ur-Oper: das Finale

2023 | Ballhaus Ost | Costume design, Performance

After a year of searching, we reach the finale of the original opera. After stops in Barbieland, the Spanish Civil War and outer space, the search now finds itself, ending in a story that only seems banal: a soap opera. On the scene of a funfair, we meet the young naive Paul at the shooting gallery, the trophy girl Ines, and Angelika, who always masters life with a smile, and ask questions about sacrifice and self-sacrifice, and what else all this has to do with (soap) opera. Gradually, a different tone is revealed and a hidden myth emerges, whose story tells of horror and redemption from ancient times. Is it a classical story at all, or are we not here with something quite different, more archaic?

Direction, music, stories, play: Emir Tebatebai, Amy G Dala, Florian Hein, Anne Kulbatzki, Jakob Dobers, Christina Berger, Maxim-Ali Tebatebai, Florian Loycke, Louise Pons, Felix Loycke
Music: Amy G Dala
Choir direction: Florian Hein
Choreography: Sasa Quelix
Costumes" Louise Pons
Light, technical direction: Fabian Eichner
Stage design: Fabian Eichner, stage design class of the UDK Janina Audick
Painting, puppets: Felix Loycke
Dramaturgy: Emir Tebatebai and Florian Loycke, all
Artistic collaboration: Peter Frost
Production: Natascha Tertre
Press: Richard Mattmüller

A production by Das Helmi in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost, supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Premiere 07.12.2023