Münchener Biennale: Searching for Zenobia
In the organizer's words:
Music theater for mezzo-soprano, actress, Syrian vocalist, female vocal ensemble, strings and Syrian percussionist
Germany 2024: Zeina is dying. Her daughter Leyla comes across her mother's diary, which Zeina has written to bring Leyla closer to her own story. With Leyla, we immerse ourselves in the biography of the Syrian archaeologist who once researched Palmyra and the history of the ancient Queen Zenobia before she was forced by the war to leave Syria and seek refuge in Germany. Here, her thoughts keep wandering back to her homeland. Above all, she is accompanied by the imagined presence of Zenobia, with whom she enters into an intimate dialog.
Lucia Ronchetti and Mohammad Al Attar tell the stories of two Syrian female characters: Zeina combines real and complex experiences of flight and migration of various modern women. She relates her own biography to the life of Zenobia. Her musical sphere is characterized by fragments from Albinoni's Venetian opera of the same name and elements of traditional Syrian music. These influences are shaped by the singing of Mais Harb and the percussionist Elias Aboud, who - like Al Attar - come from Syria and are now among the outstanding artists of their culture in Germany.
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