A voice, a room, a girl shortly before her 16th birthday. A pile of discarded dolls. Then voice messages from outside, the shrill laughs of a sitcom, the vacation posts of an avatar and the girl's attempt to be her, to become someone else, to disguise herself, to change. We enter a fluffy world where anything is possible. In which dolls come to life and the neighbor becomes a doll. In which flesh wants to become plastic and objects begin to speak. Dollhouse tells of the empowering power of cuteness and play. We become part of a search for belonging and identity, beyond normative (family) structures. "The light alarm clock simulates the first sunrise, flight mode off, first messages arrive" - the story begins.

Dollhouse

Opera Stabile Werk/Wirkbühne of the State Opera

In the heart of Hamburg: a warm late summer night, hustle and bustle, conviviality and brilliant sounds in the open air - chief conductor Kent Nagano, the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera have once again brought a special gift to their loyal audience this year. With powerful choirs, rousing rhythms and beautiful melodies: with Carl Orff's cantata "Carmina Burana", the orchestra, together with the choir of the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Boys' Choir, are bringing one of the most popular musical creations ever to the Rathausmarkt. "O Fortuna, your moods change like the image of the moon," is how the opening chorus first addresses the goddess of fate, before moving on in several stages through the different stages of human life. The wheel of fate rolls relentlessly between joy and sorrow, love and consolation, telling of the autumn of one's own existence and yet offering the decisive hope: that a new spring will come - O, Fortuna!

Rupert Burleigh

Events

Past events

Nov 29 - Dec 7, 2024

Dollhouse · Staatsoper Hamburg

Aug 31, 2024

Rathausmarkt Open Air · Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Carmina Burana by Orff

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Piano in Prélude à L'après-midi d'un faune by Debussy

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Conductor in Dollhouse by Thomas

Staatsoper Hamburg

Piano in If Bach had bred bees ... by Pärt

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

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