Opera for 3 voices, percussion, synth, el. guitar and electronics

The year ends, the year begins. Although isolation, algorithms and artificial intelligence have long characterized our present, we still often perform rituals that are rooted in the past and community: we drive away evil spirits with fire in the air and watch flowing wax solidify in an attempt to interpret the future. But can we also decide about them? Tonight the three goddesses of fate Lachesis, Clotho and Atropos determine the fate of people in their annual ritual: they spin the thread, measure it and cut it. But what if a goddess wants to escape her own fate? Does she have this freedom?

Composer Andys Skordis has created such a musical place of contradictions for Jelena Vuksanovic’s text. His mystical sound pulsates between dynamic extremes: quiet whispers alternate with electronic, room-filling drone. The tonal ranges of the three singers span rumbling lows and jubilant highs. Driven by bass drum and gongs, flowing melismas unfold, only to be counteracted shortly afterwards by combative staccato sounds. Pulsating elements change to trance-like surfaces and bright dancing marimba movements give way to brutal, metallic sound worlds between electric guitar and synthetic organ.

Photographer: Thomas Koy

COMPOSITION & MUSICAL DIRECTION Andys Skordis TEXT Jelena Vuksanovic STAGE Miriam Götz STAGE & COSTUME Charlotte Morache VIDEO Maja Zagórska DRAMATURGY/EDITORING/TRANSLATION Änne-Marthe Kühn

WITH
Nina Guo (Lachesis)

Sophie Catherin (Clotho)

Caroline Schnitzer (Atropos)

Andys Skordis (live electronics, guitar, synthesizer)

Evi Filippou (percussion)

TECHNICAL PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Gregor von Glinski, Kim Titzmann LIGHT / VIDEO Moritz Schick SOUND Ronald Davila, Sebastian Vivas, Stefan van der Burg STAGE CONSTRUCTION Marc Schulze, Philipp Zumpe EVENING TECHNOLOGY LIGHT / VIDEO Torsten Litschko, Ralf Arndt COSTUME DEPARTMENT Kathy Tomkins (management), Christina Kämper DIRECTOR ASSISTANT / PRODUCTION MANAGER Maria Popara EVENING PLAY MANAGER Sophie Reavley, Regina Triebel PROGRAM BOOKLET TEXTS Änne-Marthe Kühn

This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views
expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.