François Sarhan : La Philosophie dans le Boudoir

music theatre (2015/16)

music, stage design, concept, text compilation, animated films: François Sarhan

costumes: Katharina Müller
light: Mathieu Arnal und Ingo Jooß
performance in the animated films and masks: Janina Akhmetova
translations and arrangement of libretti: Titus Selge
playback surtitles: Marc Reichow
video: Matthias Schneider-Hollek

Neue Vocalsolisten
Johanna Zimmer, soprano: Ulrike Meinhof, Mme de Mistival, Mme M.
Susanne Leitz-Lorey, soprano: Klaus Croissant, Eugénie, CEO
Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano: prosecutor, Mme de St. Ange, CEO
Martin Nagy, tenor: prosecutor, Le Chevalier, Patrick le Lay
Guillermo Anzorena, baritone: Prinzing, Dolmancé, Alexandre de Juniac
Andreas Fischer, bass: Buback, Dolmancé, Charles Koch

A production by Musik der Jahrhunderte.

World premiere on 5 February 2016 at ECLAT Festival Neue Musik at Theaterhaus Stuttgart.

In his multidisciplinary work, François Sarhan examines the clichéd nature of social conventions and the gestures of power from three perspectives, regardless of whether it is about lost utopias, republican ideologies or the cynicism of the business world.

The main theme of musical theatre is oppression. Pressure exerted on an individual by a group. Even more specifically: on a woman by a group of men. This general theme is developed in three different contexts: the world of the global players, the RAF trial against Ulrike Meinhof and de Sade’s ‘Philosophy in the Boudoir’. A plot in the form of a libretto is developed for each of these contexts.