Concept and realisation of stage videos for the opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Theater Bremen / 2019
Film collage created for the opera, shot in Bremen, sand quarry
Korngold was only 23 years old in 1920 when “Die tote Stadt” became the most glamorous premiere of the young Weimar Republic.
The opera is a bold mixture of dream play, study of decadence and psychological drama psychodrama, it struck at the heart of the zeitgeist traumatised by the First World War.
“Man is only really dead when nobody thinks about him any more.”
(Bertolt Brecht)
Paul's home resembles a museum of devotional objects. Here he pays monastic homage to the memory of his dead wife Marie and closes himself off from the profane world. But now Paul meets the Marietta, a dancer who resembles Marie down to the tips of her fingers. Marietta enters his life and his imagination.
MUSICAL DIRECTION Yoel Gamzou DIRECTOR Armin Petras STAGE Martin Werthmann VIDEO Rebecca Riedel COSTUMES Annette Riedel CHOREGRAPHY Berit Jentzsch