Die Insel

Somewhere, not far from here, there is an island. We know it, because we invented it. It's called the «Insel der Freude» («Island of joy»)"Island of Joy" and this is where we want to meet.

The music theatre «Die Insel» is inspired by the opera «Rinaldo und Alcina» by the composer Maria Theresia Paradis. As a blind musician, she caused a sensation 300 years ago - today the music from her opera is lost. Based on the surviving libretto, the group [in]operabilities has created a new, multi-sensory composition of the opera. On the «Insel der Freude», an emotional testing ground for encounters and touch, four characters and their different styles of perception come together. In the company of the audience, they explore the sensuality of communication, struggle for understanding and develop a musicality of shared being. It is about intimacy, paradoxical feelings, the competition between two magicians and the great power of imagination.

With

Benjamin van Bebber (director/libretto); Leo Hofmann (musical
direction/performance) direction/performance); Athena Lange, Sophia Neises, Marie Sophie Richter (performance/co-development); Ladislav Zajac (light/space); Ludmila Rodrigues (object/costume); Sofia Chionidou (assistance object/costume); Franziska Henschel (dramaturgy); Jeanne Charlotte Vogt (assistant director); Susanne Tod (sign language dramaturgy); Caro Jüngst, Naomi Sanfo (access dramaturgy audio description); Emil Leske (assistant director)

Program

«Die Insel»- a multi-sensory new composition of the opera «Rinaldo und Alcina» by Maria Theresia Paradis (1759) and Ludwig von Baczko (1756)

Info

Loud music is played in some places and odours may be diffused into the
room via several diffusers. The stands are made to vibrate at certain points in the piece. The performers play close to the audience, but do not touch them without being asked. There are places with flickering light that appears on large monitors and light reflections from some props.

Duration

75 minutes, no break

Prices

CHF 35.-/25.-/15.- (free choice at the box office or in advance)
Free admission applies to persons with residence permit N, F or S. / CHF 5.- students of the Hochschule für Musik FHNW and the Musicology Seminar of the University of Basel / CHF 10.- members Colourkey and children under 12 years.

Links

→ inoperabilities.net