{"id":472,"date":"2011-09-29T14:53:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T14:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/?p=472"},"modified":"2013-03-05T14:54:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T14:54:18","slug":"the-blind-by-lera-auerbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"The Blind by Lera Auerbach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Blind<\/strong> by Lera Auerbach<br \/>\nBehind the scenes : Public rehearsal of an a cappella opera after Maurice Maeterlinck<\/p>\n<p>Musical Director: Philip Mayers<br \/>\nDirector: Cornelia Heger<br \/>\nStage Design: Frank Michael Zeidler<br \/>\nCostumes: Manuela Mildt, Anja Mikolajetz<br \/>\nDramaturgy: Katharina Tarj\u00e1n<br \/>\nProduction Manager: Karin Lindner<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/L1060936.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/L1060936.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"L1060936\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/L1060936.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/L1060936-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vocalconsort Berlin<\/strong><br \/>\nwith: Inge Clerix | Yvonne Friedli | Claudia van Hasselt | Helena K\u00f6hne | Angelika Weber | Viola Wiemker | Kai-Uwe Fahnert | Maciej Straburzynski | Friedemann Hecht | Tobias M\u00fcller-Kopp | Thomas Stimmel | Oliver Uden<\/p>\n<p>In order to enjoy the last rays of sun before the winter, a priest has shepherded a group of 12 blind people from their home out into the woods. Whilst searching for a clearing, he has wandered away from his charges, who, supposedly helpless and unable to cope with their surroundings, find themselves at the mercy of an unknown fate&#8230;. &#8220;The Blind&#8221; is considered to be Maurice Maeterlinck&#8217;s most important symbolist play. In this piece, Maeterlinck, who achieved international literary fame after winning the 1911 Nobel Prize for Literature, subtly addresses the great human issues: &#8220;where have we come from?&#8221; and &#8220;where are we going to?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lera Auerbach ist one of the most-performed composers of her generation. Born in Siberia in 1973, the pianist and composer emigrated in 1991 to New York, where she now lives. In &#8220;The Blind&#8221;, her first opera, she limits her forces to the unaccompanied human voice, thereby availing herself of the most moving and immediate implements of human expression.<\/p>\n<p>A co-production of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berlinerkammeroper.de\/?p=196\">Berliner Kammeroper<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.konzerthaus.de\/\">Konzerthaus Berlin<\/a><br \/>\nSupported by funds from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berlin.de\/sen\/kultur\/index.de.php\">Berliner Kulturverwaltung<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blind by Lera Auerbach Behind the scenes : Public rehearsal of an a cappella opera after Maurice Maeterlinck Musical Director: Philip Mayers Director: Cornelia Heger Stage Design: Frank Michael Zeidler Costumes: Manuela Mildt, Anja Mikolajetz Dramaturgy: Katharina Tarj\u00e1n Production Manager: Karin Lindner Vocalconsort Berlin with: Inge Clerix | Yvonne Friedli | Claudia van Hasselt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mica-moca-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}