RESET. Everything is breathing!

“Reset” describes a new start. It describes the moment when you stop and have to decide whether and how to continue. Then you breathe in together and a utopian idea emerges: where there is singing, an intimate togetherness becomes audible and change gets possible.

Five Düsseldorf ensembles test revolutions outside and sing their way to new, shared visions of the future. Singing against stagnation, the singers perform music ranging from classical, jazz and electro to pop, punk and collective improvisations, while at the same time questioning themselves and us: what does a collective new beginning of polyphony sound like?

The playful, interactive stage set consists of 6 movable elements filled with air. They are carried by the musicians during the concert, rolled across the square, stacked in a heap, knocked over and gently bounced. Waving stripes in bright red-orange tones stretched across the square create a stage with an inviting atmosphere.

Client: Deutsche Oper am Rhein / UFO Junge Oper Urban
Location: Frankenplatz, Düsseldorf
Year: 2024

Director: Clara C. Siewering
Musical Director: Jonas Urbat
Artistic Director UFO: Elise Schobeß & Theresa von Halle
Conductor: Dan Raţiu
Technical Director: Christian v. d. Heide
Assistant Director: Lisa Kanthack
Assistant Stage Designer: Wenyu Zhang
Music Workshop: Rap Spax

Ensemble / Choirs:
Frohsing Chor
Jugendchor der Akademie für Chor und Musiktheater
Soulville Jazz Singers
Düsseldorfer Impro Voices
Kurs Darstellen & Gestalten der Joseph-Beuys-Gesamtschule
Soloist: Morenike Fadayomi

(c) Video: Jan Klinkhammer