Midnight is a performance for video, light, and three performers.
This project is inspired by the scores of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. However, we will not hear Mozart’s music. Rather, we will see it. Mozart’s continued popularity and relevance derives from the intensity of his theatrical timing found throughout the structure of his compositions. The work Midnight visualizes this structure.
The artists will visualize Mozart‘s music through four stage elements: movement performer A, movement performer B, video and lighting. This work employs Mozart‘s compositional structure as the framework for the performance. Mozart‘s musical elements can be separated into piano, voice, winds and strings. These musical elements provide the structure and intensity for the four stage elements mentioned above.
A Q&A and reception with the artists will follow the performance.
ABOUT TILMAN HECKER
Tilman Hecker was born in Karlsburg, Germany in 1980. He studied architecture and scénographie in Berlin and Paris. During his studies he started working with Robert Wilson and Achim Freyer as assistant director and collaborator. Hecker made his directorial debut with the Mozart opera Mandina amabile at Berlin’s Radial System V in July 2009. Other directing credits include Jay Schwartz’s Narcissus and Echo for the Salzburg State Theatre and the Musicadhoy Festival Madrid (2011), La Finta Giardiniera by Mozart for the Wuppertal Opera (2012), Thomas Arne’s The Masque of Alfred for the Pocket Opera Company Nuremberg (2012), John Cage’s Songbooks for the Werkstatt for Staatsoper Berlin (2012), Domenico Cimarosa’s The Secret Marriage at the Nordhausen Opera (2013). In 2014 he will create an opera on Jean Genet’s Querelle together with the composer Birke Bertelsmeier for the Tischlerei / Deutsche Oper Berlin.
We would love to hear from you! Please complete the form and let us know how we can assist you. The information you provide is confidential and will not be used for any other purpose.