
Szenenbild aus „At Your Doorstep/Vor deiner Tür“ Kammeroper in 30 Szenen UA in Johannesburg/Bielefeld 29.3.2023 Komponisten: Matthew McFarlane/Marc L. Vogler Inszenierung und Libretto: Robert Lehmeier Ausstattung: Marie-Luise Otto/Karabo Mtshali, Nthabiseng Makone
Johannesburg
Robert Lehmeier’s production of Romeo’s Passion in Johannesburg in 2018—a work based on material created in interactive workshops with young South Africans—left me with the distinct impression that I was glimpsing opera’s future, or at least its future in places outside the world’s wealthiest metropolitan centres (December 2018, pp. 1527-9). His new chamber opera (seen on April 4) has both recreated and extended that sense, not least because it now also involves state-of-the art technology that bridges distance and difference in our divided world.