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In 1945, as bombs were falling on Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonic’s orchestra attendant Friedrich Mohr had a dream of one last performance. He assembled the musicians in bunkers to play Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung for radio broadcast throughout Berlin. However, the transmission was interrupted. Inspired by Mohr’s story, Belgian theatre group BERLIN together with radio station Klara, the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen orchestra and actor Martin Wuttke attempted to realise the failed endeavour in the here and now. Their research for the project – which is documented by filmmaker Fien Leysen – has, however, uncovered more and more incongruities in Mohr’s tale. In the combination with live music, the boundaries between fiction and documentary, video and live performance are blurred. It is a stirring play full of surprising twist and turns.
Direction Yves Degryse With Yves Degryse, Koen Goossens, Jonathan van der Beck (Horn) and on film Friedrich Mohr, Martin Wuttke, Stefan Lennert, Werner Buchholz, Alisa Tomina, Krijn Thijs, Chantal Pattyn, Symphonic Orchestra Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Alejo Pérez, Caroline Große, Michael Becker, Claire Hoofwijk, Alejandro Urrutia, Marek Burák, Marvyn Pettina, Farnaz Emamverdi Video, Editing Geert De Vleesschauwer, Fien Leysen, Yves Degryse Scenography Manu Siebens Musical Composition, Mixing Peter Van Laerhoven Music film Peter Van Laerhoven, Tim Coenen, Symphonic Orchestra Opera Ballet Vlaanderen Musical direction Alejo Pérez
Production BERLIN Coproduction DE SINGEL (Antwerp), le CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (Antwerp), VIERNULVIER (Ghent), C-TAKT (Limburg), Theaterfestival Boulevard (Den Bosch), Berliner Festspiele Supported by the Flemish Government, Sabam for Culture, Tax Shelter of the Belgian federal government via Flanders Tax Shelter
Premiere May 2022, DE SINGEL (Antwerpen)
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