Great themes, great emotions, great gestures, great form: Opera. In her new production, Hamburg director Mable Preach appropriates the sanctuary of high culture and, together with her team, embarks on an enjoyable ‘decolonisation of the ears’. In OPERA OF HOPE, elements of opera, gospel, choral and solo singing merge to tell a story of arrival. A story in which hardship turns into hope, which threatens to be shattered again and again by the reality of life in Germany. It is the story of a young black woman on her way to an uncertain future. It is a story that stands for so many similar stories, because every day people make the arduous, often life-threatening journey to Europe and are confronted with the fact that they not only have to justify their motivation for migration, but also their humanity itself. Those arriving become those who wait forever.Together with the CHOIR OF THE UNCIVILIZED VOICES, Mable Preach opens up a space of possibilities and takes a look at violent continuities and gloomy futures. The result is a web of longings, lost dreams and powerful connections. In the end, the question remains: how to carry on when tomorrow threatens to be even worse?
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