Novoflot: Die 5. Jahreszeit #4 - NO NAME (GOD)

NO NAME (GOD) is a pilgrimage presented as musical theater: wild spinning instead of walking, a round table with singing instead of a censer. 

With NO NAME (GOD), Novoflot explores previously undiscovered potentials of togetherness and uncovers them in the ancient quests and journeys of pilgrimage. Contemplation, insight, and euphoria are the three central categories through which the Berlin opera company seeks to frame pilgrimage as a distinct form of musical theater. As the audience moves from station to station, they experience their own highly individual opera performance and find themselves immersed in Novoflot’s musical-theatrical proposal for a completely new form of pilgrimage: wild spinning instead of walking, drama and ecstasy instead of introspection, Wertmüller’s compositional power instead of silence and contemplation. 

The team behind the pilgrimage research opera NO NAME (GOD) includes several top-tier musicians from the fields of jazz and contemporary music, two choirs with a total of over 50 members, guests from intercultural communities, and an ensemble of performers.

Together, they mark the stages between organ, choir, free-jazz session, and gospel, forming a novel pilgrim community that, a few centimeters removed from penance and vows, seeks new paths to finally draw closer to the nameless God on a personal level.