Wir sind so frei #1 Fidelio

In the first part of the Wir sind so frei trilogy, Novoflot makes Beethoven’s Fidelio sound like an echo of a liberty opera. In an exhibition performance for trumpet, sound installation, keys and voices, the achievements of the French Revolution appear as long-forgotten attributes amidst a stelae field of acoustic sources and artefacts. The protagonists of the opera sound like voices from the afterlife, which the composer Antonis Anissegos transforms into a kaleidoscope of sound, original music and new composition.

Sven Holm (direction), Vicente Larrañaga (musical direction), Antonis Anissegos (composition/sound installation), Elisa Limberg (stage), Anne Storandt (stage assistance), Silvie Naunheim (costumes), Mirko Borscht (video), Rafal Dziemidok (choreography), Sven Holm & Malte Ubenauf (concept) Ismael Schott (lighting design & technical direction), Koray Alkan (sound design), Dörte Wolter, Miriam Glöckler & Thorsten Cölle (production)

With: Antonis Anissegos, Damir Bacikin, Maxime Barbasetti, Konstantin Bez, Rafal Dziemidok, Almut Kühne, Vicente Larrañaga and Renae Shadler

Voices from the afterlife / sound installation: Rebecca von Lipinski (Leonore), Narine Yeghiyan (Marzelline), Florian Hoffmann (Jaquino), Antony Shelley (Rocco)

A project under BTHVN2020. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin. In cooperation with Akademie der Künste, Berlin.