JA, MAI – Das Festival für neues und zeitgenössisches Musiktheater
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JA, MAI – Das Festival für neues und zeitgenössisches Musiktheater

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YES, MAY 2025: 2-11 MAY 2025

In the 2021-22 season, the Ja, Mai festival was launched, which is dedicated to early and contemporary music theater. After a break in the 2023-24 season, it will take place again in the 2024-25 season. As with its previous two editions, the core idea of the festival is to locate music theater in the present. In addition to the focus on contemporary music theater, the beginnings of music theater in the early 17th century will also be addressed. The aim is to create a link between yesterday, today and tomorrow, which is also reflected in the subject matter of the operas performed. In addition to the UTOPIA-Halle and the Cuvilliés-Theater as the main venues, new locations will be opened up for the supporting program in cooperation with other institutions in the city.

The third edition of the festival is entitled "Illusions", which refers to the ambiguous perception of reality. The focus is on the two operas Das Jagdgewehr by Thomas Larcher (2018) and Matsukaze byToshio Hosokawa, who was inspired by the Nō Theater when composing it in 2011. The directing duo Lotte van den Berg and Tobias Staab move between dance, theater and film and collaborate with the internationally active visual artist Alicja Kwade for the first time in Matsukaze . While a Japanese monk takes care of two restless ghosts of a pair of deceased sisters, The Hunting Rifle is based on a novella by Japanese poet Yasushi Inoue and describes different perspectives on an extramarital affair and the price of living with a lie. Director Ulrike Schwab is developing Das Jagdgewehr with a stage design by Jule Saworski. Both productions feature the young soloists of the Bavarian State Opera's Opera Studio.

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