Organization

Acteur (+1)

Willem Dafoe

Film Actor

Regisseur

Dirigent (+1)

Lynsey Peisinger

Licht ontwerper

Licht ontwerper (+2)

Urs Schönebaum

Video

Nabil Elderkin

Dramaturg

Benedikt Stampfli

Schrijver

Scenarioschrijver (+1)

Petter Skavlan

Visuele Intermezzo's

Video (+1)

Marco Brambilla

Acteur (+7)

Marina Abramović

Performance

Actor

Sopraan (+1)

Flurina Stucki

Norma

Antonia Kim

Cio-Cio-San

Diana Lamar

Floria Tosca

Dirigent

Dirigent (+2)

Yoel Gamzou

Set designer

Kostuum ontwerper

Riccardo Tisci

Sopraan

Mané Galoyan

Violetta Valéry

Sopraan (+2)

Valeriia Savinskaia

Desdemona

Antonia Ahyoung Kim

Mezzosopraan (+2)

Irene Roberts

Carmen

Adela Zaharia

Lucia Ashton

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Bayerische Staatsoper

Opéra National de Paris

Greek National Opera

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

No singer can ignore the dramatically dying woman; she owns the most famous arias in opera history. Maria Callas also died many times in her career. The performance icon Marina Abramović takes seven of her operatic deaths as a starting point: she detaches them from the plot and experiences them herself, projected on a video screen. Each time the artist is killed in a different way. The aesthetically exaggerated pain ritualizes and stylizes the Callas' love and death into a myth. At the same time as the video, seven sopranos will sing the famous Callas arias live. At the end of the evening, Abramović himself is on stage when it comes to the death of Maria Callas and reality and her portrayal merge. In 7 DEATHS OF MARIA CALLAS the Serbian artist deconstructs the opera and places it in dialogue with performance art: as her personal homage to one of the greatest singers of the time, but also as a snapshot of a life for art; along with the pain and fascination it can cause.

Marina Abramović, who was born in what was then Yugoslavia, has had a major impact on the international art scene and, above all, performance art since the 1970s. Her partner in this production is the American film actor Willem Dafoe, known among other things for his portrayal of Vincent van Gogh in "At Eternity's Gate" and his membership in the Wooster Group. The new composition by the young Serbian Marko Nikodijević complements the original arias from the seven operas.

7 Deaths of Maria Callas, Nikodijević

Cast

Film Actor

Performance

Actor

Norma

Cio-Cio-San

Floria Tosca

Violetta Valéry

Desdemona

Carmen

Lucia Ashton

Productieteam

Dirigent

Regisseur

Set designer

Kostuum ontwerper

Licht ontwerper

Dramaturg

Video

Schrijver

Visuele Intermezzo's

Instrumentatie

Producent

Producent

Ensemble

Orkest

Co-producent

Co-producent

Foto's

Ontdek

Componist

Beschrijving

Productie synopsis