Along new and old borders, from Germany to the bay of Gdańsk as far as Kaliningrad, directing-team K.A.U. & Wdowik and composer Wojtek Blecharz make a journey to the Eastern border of Europe. The loss of the voice as a metaphor for the crisis in Europe is the starting point for a search for reverberant expressions and new sonic worlds. At the border zones of local music traditions, the European opera repertoire, new compositions and filmic footage of the journey, FIASKO opens up unknown musical and visual spaces. As the esult of a unique trans-European collaboration, this opera-installation is both: a farewell to the European work and its rebirth.

ARTISTIC DIRECTION K.A.U&Wdowik (Philipp Bergmann, Thea Reifler, Matthias Schönijahn, Malgorzata Wdowik) Composition/Musical Director Wojtek Blecharz CinematographY Dino Osmanovic LIGHT, SOUND Jones Seitz ACCORDION Stefanie Mirwald FLUTE Sylvia Hinz VOCALS Rupert Enticknap

A production by K.A.U.&Wdowik/Blecharz in coproduction with Staatstheater Darmstadt, Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Hellerau, Nowy Teatr Warsaw, studiobühneköln and SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Fonds Doppelpass der Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung