Zelle, wenn es Dunkel
wird,
is an answer without a question.Winter on a mountain.
On the mountain there's a cabin. In the cabin there’s a woman. In
the woman there’s a secret. In the secret there are questions.
Questions without an answer. Only the certainty that a crime has
been committed. It is an immaterial and technological staging,
where the darkness takes us to a light in a cell from which only
questions can free us, although there is no answer to them, in the
darkness. Isn’t it in the darkness where the light shines
most?
ZELLE
Jamie Man
El 16 de septiembre de 2022
Teatre Martín i Soler
ZELLE
Jamie ManA chamber opera
Creative Team
Stage direction and composition
Jamie Man
Text
Peter Stamm
Set and lighting designer
Ezra Veldhuis
Costume designer
Fredrik Tjaerandsen
Dramaturgy
Tomas Serrien
Cast
Contratenor
Steve Katona
Nōh
Ryoko Aoki
Throat Singer
Olesya Zdorovetska
Asko|Schönberg
Electric guitar
Wiek Hijmans
Percussion
Joey Marijs
Electronics
Tatiana Rosa
In collaboration with Festival ENSEMS
A Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía new production, in co-production with LOD muziektheater, Theater und Musikgesellschaft Zug, deSingel, Asko Schönberg, Festival de Aix-en-Provence, De Munt/ La Monnaie and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; with the support of ENOA
Synopsis
It is winter. A woman is found alone in a small hut high up in the
mountains. She is suspected of having killed her children. The
interrogator questions the woman and in doing so, receives no
answers, leading her instead to reflect on her own state of mind.
As time passes, the fog thickens and clarity dissipates as it
becomes harder and harder to find what was never lost.
A mind in a body in a room in a story in a mind in a body in the world. One by one, the layers fall away in a ritual of unravelling and we are immersed in darkness, in light, in sky, as we follow the transformative power of letting go of the need for answers to our questions.
A mind in a body in a room in a story in a mind in a body in the world. One by one, the layers fall away in a ritual of unravelling and we are immersed in darkness, in light, in sky, as we follow the transformative power of letting go of the need for answers to our questions.
