Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera
2009•2h 0m•Released
Music
In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates the healthy from the sick. By making his cancer the subject of an opera, premiering on the largest German-speaking theater, he is putting the art district under pressure: a wonderful institution like the Burgtheater must use its artistic resources lavishly to reveal the entire "truth" about us humans. At the end of the day, when the scenery on Janina Audick's revolving stage has finally come to rest, when Isolde's last Liebestad has been sung enchantingly beautifully by Elfriede Rezabek and indescribable jubilation breaks out, then Schlingensief is completely alone with his illness.
Director
Christoph Schlingensief
Writer
Christoph Schlingensief
Languages
German
Studio
Hoanzl
Cast
Margit Carstensen
Gerda Cerne
Fritzi Haberlandt
Sachiko Hara
Friederike Harmsen
Irm Hermann
Carina-Roxana Isima
Lynne Kieran
Myorah B. Middleton
Agnes Palmisano
Mira Partecke
Elfriede Rezabek
Susanne Spahn
Elisabeth Wies-Campagner
Karin Witt
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