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Musiksalon // Extras: A world premiere based on Albert Camus

The world premiere of the opera "The Stranger" based on Albert Camus was a surprise success at the last "Mannheim Summer". Now we are looking forward to the winning team of the chamber music prize, which we awarded at the same time: Elnaz Seyedi and Ehsan Khatibi, both multiple award-winning shooting stars of the German music scene. Both come from Tehran, studied in Germany with Manfred Trojahn or Younghi Pagh-Paan and yet approach Camus' masterpiece "The Stranger" from their own cultural perspective. For their semi-staged chamber music work for speaker, voice and chamber ensemble, which is currently in the making, they want to devote themselves in particular to the courtroom scene that ends the book. In addition to an ensemble made up of members of the National Theatre Orchestra, more unusual sound generators will also be used: did you know, for example, that the most magical sounds can be elicited from a standard spatula? At Studio Werkhaus, the magical music of Elnaz Seyedi and Ehsan Khatibi is interwoven with light, text and projections to create a total work of art. Our recommendation: listen! This content has been machine translated.