BAROCCO

In the organizer's words:

Moscow, 2018: Kirill Serebrennikov uses digital sticks to stage a Gesamtkunstwerk of dance, drama and music from house arrest at the hottest stage in the metropolis. What's more, the focus is on baroque arias of all things, a triumph of excessive beauty. One wonders in amazement: How did he come to this?
In 2023, Kirill Serebrennikov once again tells the story of how the special and unique, the celebration of life, all too often has no place. In a performance with an international cast, he reminds us that the word "baroque" stands for an irregular, slanted pearl that doesn't want to fit into a chain - an image for wanting to be different. He places the extravagance of the baroque in relation to special people who revolted against systems in 1968, such as Jan Pallach, who burned himself to death in protest against the Soviet invasion - a painful and also a beautiful unconditionality?

"Barocco" is a manifesto for freedom and an artistic revolt of beauty against a world that threatens to suffocate under its social constraints.

We dedicate the performance to persecuted artists - in Russia and all over the world.

A co-production with the Elbphilharmonie

Duration 2.15h, without intermission

Premiere 25 May 2023, Thalia Theater

World premiere (Moscow 2018 - Hamburg 2023)