Opera, composition
- Title: The Fault
- Type: Opera in 5 scenes and an epilogue
- Music: Greg Beller
- Text: Frieda Lange and Matthias Piro
- Musical direction: Chloe Kerou Liu
- Performance: Marzie Nezam
- Scenic composition: Greg Beller
- Costume design: Meret Zürcher
- Video: Iman Jesmi and Jacob Sello
- Camera: Janina Luckow aka KLARA
- Cues and subtitles: Amelie Lopper
- Photos: Taizhi Shao
- Duration: Two hours
- Premiere on January 20, 2023 – 19:30 – Forum HfMT
- Performance on January 21, 2023 – 18:30 – Forum HfMT
- Streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY4AB65yx_4
- Tickets: eventim
- Website link: HfMT
Singers:
- Ella Hajdu (the woman)
- Vicente Sampaio (the man)
- Tina Scherer (the mother)
- Carmen Callejas (the midwife)
Ensemble:
- Aigerim Seilova (piano)
- Aleksandr Bukin (cello)
- Shion Tanaka (violin 1)
- Jessica Lim (violin 2)
- Ferec Akbarov (clarinet)
- Paul Linardatos (guitars)
- Irini Aravidou (drums)
- Greg Beller (Electronics)
Production:
- Production Manager: Benjamin Helmer
- Technical director: Oliver Kirschner, HfMT Forum Team (Thanks!)
- Webcast: Peter Wolf
- PhD Advisors: Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu and Prof. Dr. Jacob Sello
- Production: Stage 2.0, https://kiss.hfmt-hamburg.de/, Innovationslabor, Synekine Project, HfMT Hamburg, Studio Nezam
A young woman decides to give birth to a child as a surrogate mother for a stranger. Over the next nine months, she experiences strong interference in this decision and in her life. The contract she signs, as well as inscrutable feelings of guilt, promises, remorse and presumptuous hopes in her new environment, deny her body, her self-determination and her boundaries more and more justification and meaning. A struggle against the absence in her own history begins.
On stage, an artist creates a work before the eyes of the audience. The conflict between the space on display, the set time of the performance, and her creative process raises questions: Is it possible to create for others? Can the relationship between artist, work and audience ever be balanced? And can we observe artistic research without changing it?
Composer Greg Beller’s doctoral thesis uses new technologies for composition and performance: artificial intelligence, speech synthesis, interactive notation and a new instrument that enables spatial sampling in virtual reality.
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