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Mea Culpa - A ReadyMadeOpera

Mea Culpa - A ReadyMadeOpera

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 11, 2009

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

Music

Original Title

Mea Culpa - Eine ReadyMadeOper

Production Companies

Hoanzl

Director

Christoph Schlingensief

Description

In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates the healthy from the sick. By making his cancer the subject of an opera, premiering on the largest German-speaking theater, he is putting the art district under pressure: a wonderful institution like the Burgtheater must use its artistic resources lavishly to reveal the entire "truth" about us humans. At the end of the day, when the scenery on Janina Audick's revolving stage has finally come to rest, when Isolde's last Liebestad has been sung enchantingly beautifully by Elfriede Rezabek and indescribable jubilation breaks out, then Schlingensief is completely alone with his illness.