CARMEN
360° opera performance
Staatstheater Kassel
Director Florian Lutz
Conductor Kiril Stankow
Stage Sebastian Hannak
Costume Mechthild Feuerstein
Video creation Konrad Kästner
Lighting Marie Luise Fieker
Dramaturgy Kornelius Paede
Dramaturgy Kornelius Paede
This exuberant opera evening in a 360° multiperspective environment has premiered in the new RAUMBÜHNE ANTIPOLIS, an anti-city as an installative performance space, an open structure of interactions, a laboratory of experience, a city of dreams for a society.
In this case of the famous opera by Georges Bizet, we experience the emergence of an idea of a new society with captivating parties, protest and finally revolution, as dreamed by Carmen, the main character of the opera. In this huge installation that is built in three levels along the walls on the stage of the opera house, we seat an additional 250 Spectators in the whole space so they become part of the scenes.
70 tons of Scaffolding were used on the whole stage, and 20 monitors and 6 huge
projection screens with radio linked live and preproduced videocontent give us insight into corner s we cant actually see live.
Celebrating new perspectives in music theatre in a performance space that lets you immerse in a world of its own, the space is an invitation to the Audience to see and hear the captivating performances that enroll in this marvelous space. Exchanging viewpoints after the performance in our after show talk with the artists and leading team enables the spectators to share their own experiences created by a singular point of view.
And for me, creating three very different performances (see NUTCRACKER, DON GIOVANNI) within this space has been a huge pleasure and shows ANTIPOLIS in all its changeability.
