Barocco

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#playwithfire / A musical manifesto / by Kirill Serebrennikov / directed by Kirill Serebrennikov

The 1968 student uprising in France, the attack on Andy Warhol in New York, the self-immolation of Jan Palach in Prague a year later – what do all these events have in common with the Baroque period from hundreds of years earlier? In his musical theatre project "Barocco", the Russian film and opera director Kirill Serebrennikov – currently artist in residence at the Thalia Theater and ‘opera director of the year’ – bridges the centuries  and traces connections between the passion and fragility of people from very different times who rose up against the established order.

"Barocco" is a manifesto for freedom and an artistic revolt on behalf of beauty against a world stifled by social constraints. A work that blends opera, theatre and dance into a sublime artistic whole.

Kirill Serebrennikov first put on "Barocco" in Moscow – a production that required him to go to elaborate lengths, since he was kept under house arrest for years. For Hamburg, he has now created an updated version of 'Barocco' that incorporates more recent events and experiences. 

Premiere on 25th May 2023, 8PM, Thalia Theater