[in]operabilities is an artistic research project in contemporary music theater and links the art form of opera with the question of its accessibility. In the canon and cosmos of opera, artists and interdisciplinary researchers search for forms of multi-sensory music-making and the usefulness of „opera-abilities“ for encounter, intimacy and our shared everyday life. Over the course of three years, theatre productions are created that are accompanied by intensive research, collegial exchange, networking, laboratories and workshops.

[in]operabilities was initiated in 2021 by Benjamin van Bebber, Leo Hofmann, Franziska Henschel and Jeanne Charlotte Vogt, and is supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste (Performing Arts Fund) with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Department for Culture and the Media.

This is our new website: inoperabilities.net

Our projects

• A Singthing – music theater production
• Workshop #1
• Workshop #2
• Laboratory on haptic music-making
• Die Insel – music theater production (in progress)

 

Collaborators [in]operabilities

Athena Lange (Performance), Benjamin van Bebber (Director), Carolin Jüngst (Audio Description), Emil Leske (Outside-Eye), Eyk Kauly (Outside-Eye, Drawings), Franziska Henschel (Dramaturgy), Jeanne Charlotte Vogt (Dramaturgy, Creative Producing & PR), Laa Walther (Drawings), Ladislav Zajac (Light & Space), Leo Hofmann (Composition, Performance), Ludmila Rodrigues (Stage), Marie Sophie Richter (Performance, Voice-Coaching), Naomi Sanfo (Outside-Ear), Nic Meyer (Audio Description), Sabrina Ma (Performance), Sophia Neises (Performance), Susanne Tod (Outside-Eye, PR), Vivian Celina Wu Mei Chu (Assistance), Workshop Participants & Hosts: Corina Arbenz, Jan Burkhardt, Christina-Gabriela Galli, Mischa Gohlke, Ines Helke, Teresa Hoffman, Pauline Jacob, Prof. Nathalie Mälzer, Theresa Michel, Gökce Ogultekin, Lucia Rainer, Catalina Rueda, Marco Scariot, Paul Whittaker, Torsten Wolfsdorff, Ji Hyun Yoon, Laboratory Participants: Pascal Dufaux, Marcus Franze, Caroline-Sophie Pilling, Lynn Pook, Gunda Schröder, Pernille Sonne, Alina Spieler, Michael Turinsky, Sarah Wendt, Documentary Team: Elena Friedrich (Video), Robin Hinsch (Photo, Video), Jens Seemann (Photo, Video), Sign Language Interpreters: Christina Müller, Céline Sawkins, Marie Schaper, Ronja Hollenbach

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Das Projekt [in]operabilities wird gefördert im Rahmen der Konzeptionsförderung vom Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien und durch die Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien.
Die Vorrecherche zu [in]operabilities wurde ermöglicht durch die freundliche Unterstützung des „Was zählt!“-Fonds für Kunst- und Kulturschaffende der Claussen-Simon-Stiftung.
Die Musiktheaterproduktion A Singthing wird außerdem gefördert von dem Susanne und Michael Liebelt Stiftungsfonds unter dem Dach der Hamburgischen Kulturstiftung, der Schweizer Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia und der Stadt Zürich Kultur.