Synopsis
- Transit lounges are places for travellers on the way somewhere, for people passing through, spending a short period of time at rail stations and airports, in underpasses and or roadhouses. Halfway locations – or, as the philosopher Marc Augé describes them, non-locations.
Together with director Eva-Maria Abelein and composer Mischa Tangian the soloists of the Deutsche Oper Berlin explore the creative potential of transit lounges. Halfway locations generate flights of fancy and spawn melodies and rhythms. Individuals fall into conversation with strangers, go their separate ways. The transit lounge was only a stopgap, a fleeting phenomenon.
IN TRANSIT is an experimental piece with ensemble members in which anything goes except one thing – aria singing. Instead of that, the singers show off what they else they’re capable of: musicals, jazz, whistling, cooking, dancing, quilting, rapping, swinging..
Conductor: Kevin McCutcheon; Stage-Director: Eva-Maria Abelein; Composition, Arrangement: Mischa Tangian; Electronics, Arrangements: Lukas Truniger; Set design, Costume design: Lisa Däßler; Dramaturge: Sebastian Hanusa; With Alexandra Hutton, Elbenita Kajtazi, Christina Sidak, Carlton Ford, Martin Gerke, Jörg Schörner, Álvaro Zambrano, Mischa Tangian, Lukas Truniger
Performances on 6., 8., 9., 17., 18., 19. November, 2014
Crew
- Director: Lukas Truniger
