Organization

Stage director

Florentine Klepper

Conductor

Francesco Angelico

Costume designer

Miriam Grimm

Set designer

Sebastian Hannak

Dramaturge

Kornelius Paede

Staatstheater Kassel

Blitze sprechen Deutsch

Kassel

Germany

Opernhaus

Public

Approved

Lightning bolts speak German - a story between opera, thriller and political fall, somewhere between real (West) German arms industry and military history, between World War I and a transatlantic alliance, as it could take place in a model city in Germany like Kassel. An investigator goes on a search - and the monstrous reveals itself: a world of intelligent electromagnetic phenomena and their influence on humanity. They exist in a time order that can only be told as a musical principle. The music theater commission of the new directorship of the Kassel State Theater by composer Felix Leuschner is a coup that only the  "only relevant science fiction writer of contemporary German-language literature"(Die Zeit) Dietmar Dath can design. Together with Leuschner, Dath has conceived a story that concentrates the pain points of German and European society in iconic figures. Felix Leuschner's tonal language encompasses a spectrum from large orchestral works to electronic music and extended vocal techniques. His music theater works allow theater and composition to merge, so that this work emerges as a piece development. Lightning speaks Germanwill establish an annual tradition of world premieres at the Staatstheater Kassel from the 2021/22 season. The musical director is GMD Francesco Angelico. The director Florentine Klepper is responsible for the production. She has not only made a name for herself as an expert in world premieres, but also regularly staged at the opera houses in Dresden and Frankfurt. 
 

Flashes speak German is a composition commissioned by the Kassel State Theater, financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

English

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Crew