Johannes Müller / Philine Rinnert: HERCULANUM – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Johannes Müller / Philine Rinnert:
HERCULANUM
HERCULANUM
Félicien David’s opera Herculanum, which ended with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was a grand success in Paris in 1859, but then however it fell into oblivion. In their exhumation in four acts, Johannes Müller and Philine Rinnert search for relicts of this opera - then combine and reinvent them. They explore the Grand Opéra as a privileged representational medium for horror - they create scenarios and ask themselves, what catastrophe would work as a grand finale nowadays.
WITH Tobias von Glenck, Maja Lange, Martin Lorenz, Friedemann Mewes, Theo Nabicht, Simon Robinson, Ulrike Schwab, Thomas Volle u.a. DIRECTION Johannes Müller SCENOGRAPHY Philine Rinnert ARRANGEMENT, COMPOSITION Martin Lorenz DRAMATURGY Eike Wittrock COMPANY MANAGEMENT ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
Produced Johannes Müller/Philine Rinnert in coproduction with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin - Senatskanzlei - Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Hauptstadtkulturfonds, ProHelvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung and Palazetto Bru Zane - Centre de Musique Romantique Francaise. Supported by Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Napoli. Special thanks to our media partners Siegessäule, Opernwelt und taz.die tageszeitung.
Photo © Philine Rinnert
Johannes Müller / Philine Rinnert develop music theatre hybrids that focus on the past of opera, its effects and techniques, but which are also an archaeology of the present, of entertainment and queer culture. For their work Reading Salomé they received the jury prize at the Favoriten Festival 2016. In 2019 they were invited to Impulse Theater Festival with White Limozeen. www.johannesmueller.eu | www.philinerinnert.de
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