Saray : Mozart alla Turca
Saray : Mozart alla Turca (2006-2007)
opera / installation
What would Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have thought of an execution of his Die Entführung aus dem Serail in the Turkish language? How would he have felt if all his scenes were inverted and Turkish instruments would have collided with electronica?
Simply put, the characters, the context and the piece itself is transposed into emblematic images in this opera installation celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart in Vienna 2006.
We are living in a period that is characterized by seemingly extreme paradoxes and schisms. Where does those supposed paradoxes come from? Obviously, the very schisms we are playing with tell us something about the Zeitgeist and perhaps the paradox is the Zeitgeist itself. For we create the very paradoxes unconsciously to justify our internal/ external perceptions and window dressings. For in this interpretation of Saray, the intention here to create and deliberately play with the very cultural and sexual paradoxes that plague the highly politicized tensions between the West and her so called “Oriental” partners.
In collaboration with conductor Serdar Yalcin, dramaturge Gabriel Smeets, set Stefanie Wihelm, costumes Aziz Bekkaoui, video design Marc Perroud aka t-zèd, lights Stefanie Wihelm & Michael Zerz
ensemble : Serap Gögüs, Alev Irmak, Çigdem Soyarslan, Görkem Ezgi Yildirim, Michael Doumas, Erdem Erdogan, Ali Murat Erengül, Martin Niedermair, musicians : Martin August Fuchsberger 2nd conductor with Orchestra: Didem Basar Dermen, Güniz Yilmaz, Serkan Mesut Halili, Binnaz Çelik, Neva Özgen, Eren Özek, Turgut Aktas, assistant director: Vladimir Petkovic, production team : Hiroyo Masumura, Nicole Rutrecht, Burak Büyük, Tolga Kirnaz, Ece Anisoglu, Stefanie Koscher, Birgit Kellner, Aleksandra KIica Sebastian Bauer, Almut Bertha and Kathrin Kölsch
Commissioned by WIENER MOZARTJAHR, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the composer in Vienna
2005 – 2006 Created during an artist in residency at the Schauspielhaus Wien // 2007 Toneelhuis Antwerpen / Grand Théâtre de la Ville Luxembourg / Mannheimer Mozartsommer Festival
