CHRISTOPH MARTHALER Erste letzte Sekunde – Eine Gala

In the organizer's words:

For 35 years, director Christoph Marthaler has been liberating the theater from textual burdens, acting conventions and time pressure with musicality and subtle humor. Now the Swiss director, who lives in Hamburg, is coming to the summer festival for the fourth time to stage one last big gala before the upcoming renovation of the Kampnagel halls (and the transition to something new). For this show relic from times when glamorous public celebrations were held at great expense and watched or attended by millions of people, Marthaler is bringing together a European ensemble and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of its chief conductor Sylvain Cambreling on the large Kampnagel stage. Marthaler turns the memory of gigantic decorations, ballets, international star guests, golden rain, wind machines and elegantly greyed presenters with sly humor into a celebration of form itself: The focus is on the gala being in all imaginable sounds, shapes and colors. Does the gala offer solace in the difficult hours of change, farewell and departure? Perhaps, because it is not the gala that passes away, but the individual person again and again. What prospects!

DIRECTOR Christoph Marthaler DRAMATURGY Malte Ubenauf CO-CREATION DIRECTOR Joachim Rathke STAGE Duri Bischoff COSTUME Sara Kittelmann WITH Tora Augestad, Liliana Benini, Raphael Clamer, Bendix Dethleffsen, Rosemary Hardy, Ueli Jäggi, Hardy Kayser, Clemens Sienknecht, Sebastian Zuber ORCHESTRA Symphoniker Hamburg - Laeiszhalle Hamburg Orchestra MUSICAL DIRECTOR Sylvain Cambreling

PRODUCTION International Summer Festival Kampnagel in co-production with Lausitz Festival and Symphoniker Hamburg.

Price information:

9-52 Euro (50 % discount with festival ticket) In German and other European countries