Name: Searching for Zenobia
Start: 2024-05-31
End: 2024-05-31
Location: Münchener Biennale

Organization

Admin

Münchener Biennale

Staatstheater Braunschweig

Stage director

Isabel Ostermann

Conductor

Susanne Blumenthal

Costume designer

Stephan von Wedel

Set designer

Dramaturge

Sarah Grahneis

Actor

Krista Birkner

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Milda Tubelytė

Mezzo

Mais Harb

Vocalist

Instrumentalist

Elias Aboud

Percussion

Orchestra

Braunschweig State Orchestra

Searching for Zenobia

Munich

Germany

Public

Private

Sushant Karmakar

Approved

Deutschland 2024: Zeina liegt im Sterben. Ihrer Tochter Leyla fällt das Tagebuch ihrer Mutter in die Hände, das Zeina geschrieben hat, um Leyla ihre eigene Geschichte näherzubringen. Mit Leyla tauchen wir in die Biografie der syrischen Archäologin ein, die einst Palmyra und die Geschichte der antiken Königin Zenobia erforschte, bevor sie sich durch den Krieg gezwungen sah, Syrien zu verlassen und in Deutschland Zuflucht zu suchen. Hier wandern ihre Gedanken immer wieder zurück in ihre Heimat. Vor allem begleitet sie die imaginierte Präsenz von Zenobia, mit der sie in einen intimen Dialog tritt.

Lucia Ronchetti und Mohammad Al Attar erzählen die Geschichten zweier syrischer Frauenfiguren: Zeina vereint reale und komplexe Erfahrungen der Flucht und Migration verschiedener moderner Frauen. Ihre eigene Biografie setzt sie ins Verhältnis zum Leben Zenobias. Deren musikalische Sphäre ist von Fragmenten aus Albinonis gleichnamiger venezianischer Oper und Elementen traditioneller syrischer Musik geprägt. Diese Einflüsse werden durch den Gesang von Mais Harb und den Perkussionisten Elias Aboud gestaltet, die – wie Al Attar – aus Syrien stammen und inzwischen zu den herausragenden Künstler*innen ihrer Kultur in Deutschland zählen.

Deutsch

Germany 2024: Zeina is dying. Her diary, which Zeina wrote to give her daughter Leyla a deeper insight into her life, falls into Leyla’s hands. Together with Leyla we dive into Zeina’s biography; once a Syrian archaeologist researching Palmyra and the story of the antique Queen Zenobia, she was forced by the war to leave Syria and seek refuge in Germany. Here her thoughts keep wandering back to her home country. In particular, it is the imaginary presence of Zenobia who is her constant companion and with whom she maintains an intimate dialogue.

Lucia Ronchetti and Mohammad Al Attar tell the story of two female Syrian figures: Zeina unites real and complex experiences of flight and migration for various modern women and contrasts her own biography to that of Zenobia. The musical element is guided by fragments from Albinoni’s Venetian opera of the same name combined with elements of traditional Syrian music. These influences are shaped by the vocals of Mais Harb and percussionist Elias Aboud, who – like Al Attar – come from Syria and are considered to be among the most outstanding artists of their culture in Germany today.

English

Searching for Zenobia by Ronchetti, Vin 31 Mai 2024, De la (2024/2024), Regizat de către Isabel Ostermann,, Dirijor Susanne Blumenthal, Münchener Biennale, Munich, Germany

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