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Loosely inspired by the comic book The Reddest Rose Blooms by Liv Strömquist. Digital dating tools produce a spectral phenomenon, a proliferation of ghosts. Drawing on personal accounts and documentary material, A Redder Rose explores relationships haunted by these ghosts: spaces of power where waiting, fear of loneliness and strategies designed to hold the other person's gaze intermingle.

A Redder Rose

La Manufacture

Chamber Opera by Wolfgang Rihm (*1952)
Text by Michael Fröhling after Georg Büchner’s «Lenz»

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Jakob Lenz

Opernhaus Zürich

Almost three centuries have passed since the English painter, satirist and “forefather of the cartoon” William Hogarth created a series of eight paintings (and later on engravings), tellingly titled A Rake’s Progress – the path, development, simply the life of a libertine. They capture the story of a young man who inherits an immense fortune and proceeds to squander it on luxurious living, gambling and prostitutes. It is not a trait exclusive to the 18th century that people indulging in such a lifestyle end up at a psychiatric hospital, called during Hogarth’s time (and until recently) an “asylum”.

Composer, Singer, Musician

Mélanie Huber

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 21 - Feb 9, 2027

The Rake’s Progress · Národní divadlo

Past events

Jul 4, 2026

A Redder Rose · La Manufacture

6 - 16 May, 2025

Jakob Lenz · Opernhaus Zürich

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