Name: Matthias Brandt & Jens Thomas
Start: 2025-02-09T00:00:00
Location: Theater Bonn Opera House

Matthias Brandt

Jens Thomas

Theater Bonn

After its great success in 2025, the production returns to Bonn for the second consecutive year! Who doesn't know Carl Orff 's Carmina Burana ? In this multidisciplinary production from Ukraine, all artistic disciplines merge: a large orchestra plays for the dancers and the adult and children's choirs, while video installations are played in the background. Over 135 people are involved in this evening.

Carmina Burana

Theater Bonn Opera House

Hervé Koubi describes SOL INVICTUS in his working notes as follows: The universe, the passage of the seasons, how do we fit into these vast, swirling, changing spaces? This space, connected to the meaning of our lives, is limited by its beginning and its end; our fate is equal within it, and that is why—connected to and confronted with it—I dance.

The Unconquered Sun

The evening begins with the award-winning solo "PODE SER," a solo about the difficulties of being oneself. " Pode ser " means " It could be " in Portuguese. Through the angry body of a dancer, the question of being and non-being, of being able to be, of wanting to be, of having to be, reaches us. A solo about all the roles we play, will play, and have played. And about those we could have been, perhaps.

Identity Pode Ser / Maldoned

He sees things and hears sounds that no one else perceives. He becomes increasingly absorbed in the idea that a terrible, unknown being is taking possession of him. The invisible becomes an obsession, until one day he is faced with the realization: "I can no longer want, but someone wants for me."