Chaosmos
Chaosmos

Summary/Abstract: With Europeras 1&2, based on a score by John Cage (premiere: 17 VIII 2012 in the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum), Heiner Goebbels launched the latest edition of the Ruhrtriennale Festival in 2012, for the first time as a curator. The director not only commemorated the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth, but also successfully carried out his “making music with stage devices” project. The play was not performed in the opera building, but in the post-industrial space of the Jahrhunderthalle, where Goebbels presented thirty-two sets of decorations and costumes – from set designs inspired by the Baroque maw of Leviathan, designed by Burnacini, to sketches by Appia, and Constructivist arrangements that were a good match for the topography of the Jahrhunderthalle.

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