2023-04-27 15:43:02
The Ruhrtriennale is once again showing a broad program of opera, drama, music and dance in the last year of the artistic directorship of Swiss director Barbara Frey.
Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, a dance choreography with Bochum skaters and an opera in which the singers stand in the middle of the audience – the Ruhrtriennale is once again showing a broad program of opera, drama and music in the last year of the rotation of the artistic director of the Swiss director Barbara Frey and dance. The festival takes place every three years under an artistic direction in former industrial halls in the Ruhr area – in 2023 from August 10th to September 23rd.
34 productions and projects with more than 600 participants are planned, said managing director Vera Battis-Reese on Thursday when the program was presented. Advance sales for around 34,000 tickets also started on Thursday.
The opening premiere of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is being staged by Frey together with the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater on August 10th in the huge former powerhouse of the Duisburg Landscape Park. For the opera “From a House of the Dead” by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček, director Dmitri Tcherniakov built a walk-in stage installation in Bochum’s Centennial Hall with practically no separation between audience and artists.
The visitors are “closer than ever to the singers,” Frey promised at the press conference. The play is based on a play by Dostoyevsky based on experiences in a prison camp. “This is music that will ring in your ears until the end of your life,” said Frey. In “Skatepark” by the Danish artist Mette Ingvartsen, skaters from the Ruhr area stand together with dancers on the stage of the Centennial Hall. (dpa)
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