DON GIOVANNI

 

360° opera performance

Staatstheater Kassel

 

Costume                                                                                                    Anna Rudolph

Video creation                                                            Konrad Kästner and Chris Fromm

Lighting                                                                                                         Jürgen Kolb
Dramaturgy                                                                                                 Teresa Martin

 

This opera evening of Mozarts´ superthriller in a 360° multiperspective environment takes place in the redesigned RAUMBÜHNE ANTIPOLIS, an installative performance space that is laid out on the whole stage of Staatstheater Kassel, connecting Auditorium and scenic space as one open structure of interactions. Conceived as a laboratory of an ultimate music theatre experience, a city of dreams for a participating society, for this run of shows i redesigned the whole space with an overall checkerboard pattern that serves as a strict, sectarian place in which a collective attempt -together with the audience that finds itself onstage- is made to fight the seducer DON GIOVANNI. Once again a chance to experience this space as musictheaterdreammachine from within!

In this huge installation we seat an additional 250 Spectators in the whole space on three levels along the walls on the stage of the opera house. Also being able to participate in different sections of the space, the audience also become part of the scenes. 

70 tons of Scaffolding were used on the whole stage, and 20 monitors and 6 huge 

projection screens with radio linked live and preproduced videocontent give us insight into corners we cant actually see live.

Celebrating new perspectives in music theatre in a performance space that lets you immerse in a world of its own, the space is an invitation to the Audience to see and hear the captivating performances that enroll in this marvelous space. Exchanging viewpoints after the performance in our after show talk with the artists and leading team enables the spectators to share their own experiences created by a singular point of view. 

And for me, creating three very different performances (see NUTCRACKER, CARMEN) within this space has been a huge pleasure and shows ANTIPOLIS in all its changeability.