extended version: THE FLYING DUTCHMAN - Part 3 (2024)

22.15-02.00
extended version: THE FLYING DUTCHMAN - part 3
from 18 years

22.15-23.00
Swan Song
Performance lecture with singing by Olga Hohmann

23.15-00.00
I FLY ON YOU (world premiere)
A Singspiel by Jan Koslowski

00.00-00.40
Oversea Riddim
Dance, words and song with Stéphane Peeps Moun and Thomias Ludovic Radin

00.45-01.45
PRELUDE TO GREYSCALE
Concert by Xzaxier Stone

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER is Richard Wagner's shortest opera and accordingly there is much that does not appear in the play: stories, songs, music, dances, texts. Author and director Jan Koslowski has made it his task to bring all this to the stage. In continuation of the successful series AUS DEM HINTERHALT, he has invited numerous artists from genres beyond the world of opera to join singers and musicians from the ensembles of the Deutsche Oper in taking a close look at Wagner's most popular opera, to work on material from it, to question it critically, to draw inspiration from it and to rewrite it from today's perspective - in order to bring to the stage everything that is not experienced in the original.

The result is an "extended version" of ten hours duration, divided into three parts:

At 4 p.m., the whole family is treated to sailor stories and sea tales, read at "Captain's Tea" by Vicky Krieps and Samuel Schneider - before Lary alias Larissa Sirah Herden sings ballads and songs about homesickness and wanderlust, storms and doldrums and the windward and leeward sides of life.

The second part will be opened at 6 pm by the two performance artists Magdalena Mitterhofer and Shade Théret, followed by two concerts by this year's Tischlerei scholarship holders of the Musicboard Berlin. With their storytelling performance "Meryem's Ballad", the German-Turkish band Babelfis juxtaposes one of the best-known pieces from Wagner's opera, the Senta Ballad, with an entirely different female fate and an alternative concept of femininity. Afterwards, the Berlin musician Steve Mekoudja from Cameroon will perform with a large band, background choir and dancers.

At the centre of the late programme from 10.15 pm is the world premiere of Jan Koslowski's new play I FLY ON YOU, a Singspiel based on Wagner's original libretto, but with an extended plot. Before that, Olga Hohmann's lecture performance SCHWANENGESANG can be experienced, and after the witching hour Stéphane Peeps Moun and Thomias Radin will take to the stage with their programme OVERSEA RIDDIM, before the Swiss Xzavier Stone closes the evening.