A man and a woman. Maybe the last humans. Your love has given way to the cold. They play to feel alive and hide their own emptiness. They are at stake themselves: as a projection surface for their fantasies between lust, power and violence, oppression, humiliation and injury, they cross borders.
Set before the French Revolution and after the Third World War, »Quartett« – a music theater work by Luca Francesconi based on Heiner Müller’s play of the same name and based on the famous epistolary novel »Gefahrliche Liaisons« by Choderlos de Laclos – premiered in English in 2011. In »Quartett«, the Italian composer Luca Francesconi, whose works are influenced by Azio Corghi, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio, combines soundscapes reminiscent of dream sequences and a spatial sound created by live electronics with a colorful chamber music-like basic gesture of the music. At the opening of the season, »Quartett« will see the premiere of the German version in Berlin with director Barbara Wysocka, who is making her debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden alongside Daniel Barenboim.
