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Münchener Biennale

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Ondřej Adámek

Stage director

Katharina Schmitt

Set designer

Patricia Talacko

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Singer

Dominic Kraemer

Archivar

Tobias Müller-Kopp

Kathrin Zukowski

archivarin

Landy Andriamboavonjy

Thérèse Wincent

Steve Zheng

Instrumentalist

Jeanne Larrouturou

Miguel Ángel Garcia Martin

Dramaturge

Götz Leineweber

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Percussion

German

Alles klappt

Basel

Switzerland

Gare du Nord

Strasbourg

France

Germany

Alles Klappt

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Liebste Kinder. Sind gut angekommen. Schlafen gut. Warm. Seid unbesorgt! Konzerte und anderes. Laufend Pakete auf Zulassungsmarken. Kochgelegenheiten. Seid gesund! Ständig denke ich an Euch."
Eine Gruppe von Archivaren pflegt gleichsam sorgfältig und entfremdet eine Sammlung. Es scheint, als hätten sie sich und ihre Erinnerungen dem Magazin ausgeliefert. Während einer Betriebsfeier entstehen Störungen im Ablauf: Gegenstände ergreifen Besitz von den Archivaren; sie beginnen, mit fremden Stimmen ihre Geschichten zu erzählen. Andenken ist Privatsache und will immer wieder belebt werden. Das Musiktheater "Alles klappt" basiert auf Archivmaterial des jüdischen Museums in Prag, einem von Ondřej Adámeks Großvater mitgestalteten Treuhandkatalog, sowie auf Briefen und Postkarten, die dem Nachlass der Familie Adámek angehören. Ausgehend von den Propagandatexten sowie dem unbeugsamen Optimismus, den die vorgefundenen Postkarten aufrufen, komponiert Ondřej Adámek Wort für Wort, Phonem für Phonem, musikalische Gesten zwischen Flüstern, rhythmischem Sprechen, Schreien und Singen. Das Vergangene ist nicht tot, es ist nicht einmal vergangen.

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Alles klappt
Composition commissioned by the City of Munich for the Munich Biennale, and financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
A production of the Munich Biennale, in cooperation with the Residenztheater Munich; Theaterakademie August Everding; and enoa (European Network of Opera Academies), with the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission
funded by the German-Czech Future fund

Composition: Ondřej Adámek; libretto and direction:  Katharina Schmitt; musical direction: Ondřej Adámek; stage and costume design: Patricia Talacko; dramaturge: Götz Leineweber; speaking coach: Caroline Scholz Ott

With: Kathrin Zukowski (soprano), Thérese Wincent (soprano), Landy Adriamboavonjy (soprano), Steve Zheng (tenor), Dominic Kraemer (bass), Tobias Müller-Kopp (baritone), Jeanne Larrouturou (percussionist), and Miguel Ángel Garcia Martin (percussionist)

"Dearest children. Arrived safely. Sleeping well. Warm. Don't worry! Concerts and other things. Packages continuously with license stickers. Opportunities to cook. Stay healthy! Always thinking of you."
A group of archivists cultivate a collection in a, as it were, careful and disaffected manner. It appears as if they have surrendered themselves and their memories to the repository. During a company party disturbances in the operations occur: objects possess the archivists, and they begin to tell their stories in strange voices. Based on archive material in the Jewish museum in Prague, a trust catalogue Adámek's grandfather helped to compile, letters and postcards from the Adámek family's estate, the propaganda texts, and the unfaltering strategy of optimism summoned by the postcards, Ondřej Adámek composes word for word, phoneme for phoneme musical gestures between whispering, rhythmic speaking, screams, and singing. Impersonal voices mechanically repeat themselves, and interrupt a counterfeit good piece of news from a beloved relative written shortly before he died. At first the deceased appear in human form and then later on in their natural form: as a cupboard, as a rug, as a kitchen device ... Neither pure negation nor an overabundance of positivism provides an escape, for the past is not dead, it has not even passed.

Alles klappt by Adámek, From (2018/2018), Directed by Katharina Schmitt,, Conductor Ondřej Adámek, Gare du Nord, Basel, Switzerland

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