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Sänger ohne Schatten

doncept, director: Boris Nikitin
sound, concept: Matthias Meppelink
stage design: David Hohmann, Boris Nikitin
costumes: Anna Sophia Röpcke
singers and performers: Yosemeh Adjei, Karan Armstrong, Christoph Homberger, Stefan Wirth
dramaturgy: Stephan Buchberger
assistant director: Martina Neu
production managment: Annette Hardegen


commissioned by Ruhrtriennale 2014.

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An evening oscillates between authentic performance and great illusion: one enters a studio stage, with cables lying about, a flickering television, a control panel. There are voices to be heard, later a piano as well: three opera singers and a pianist turn towards us. They speak about their lives as singers, they sing, alone or together, the pianist as well occasionally touches the keys. They tell of their profession, their bodies as instruments, and how this work changes them.

We get to know three personalities, American soprano Karan Armstrong, former prima donna at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, Christoph Homberger, the Swiss tenor known for his unconventional work with Herbert Wernicke and Christoph Marthaler, and the German countertenor Yosemeh Adjei, who could be heard at Ruhrtriennale 2012 in John Cage’s Europeras 1&2. They are the stars of the evening: an unlikely combination of three highly notable singers, three vocal types, three age groups, three professional paths, and at the same time three experts in reproducing feeling: Are singers lying to us? Do we allow ourselves to be seduced by song? What is true?

D/E
  • Demons
  • Season One. 20 Years Big Brother
  • 24 frames per second
  • Swiss Propaganda-Conference
  • Attempt on Dying
  • Revolution of the vulnerable
  • It's The Real Thing '19
  • The Opposite of Things
  • don't be yourself - eight self portraits
  • Power and Vulnerability 1-8
  • Presentation of a fake sermon
  • Meet Your Enemy at the Social Muscle Club
  • Martin Luther Propagandasymposium
  • It's The Real Thing 17
  • Hamlet
  • Martin Luther Propagandapiece
  • The audition
  • Sonnet 20
  • X-Appartments Athens
  • It's The Real Thing 15 - Basel Documentary Platform
  • The Joburg Auditions
  • Sänger ohne Schatten
  • Documentation, fake, reality
  • Exit
  • Also the real thing
  • Sei Nicht Du Selbst
  • It's The Real Thing - Basel Documentary Platform 13
  • How to win friends & influence people
  • Bartleby oder Sicherheit ist ein Gefühl
  • Das Grundgesetz
  • Diese Kinder sind in Ordnung
  • Universal Export
  • The broken jar
  • Die Zeitmaschine 1980-2010
  • Woyzeck (Radioplay)
  • X- Schulen
  • Imitation of Life
  • F for Fake (after Orson Welles)
  • Woyzeck