Work in progress

A mobile phone opera in four acts.

“I’m sitting in the train. Where are you?” Everyone has a mobile phone these days and what was once a conversation in closed rooms is nowadays happening in the public sphere. The mindless phone monologues in busses and trains have irritated the German artist Karl Heinz Jeron for years. A few months ago he began to write them down – two notebooks have already been filled. This is the basis for the libretto of an opera performed by tiny singing robots: four soloists and a choir. For the setting to music he will collaborate with a professional composer.

The title is derived from Hermes, the god of elocution. The mobile phone conversations will be arranged around general concepts like secret, sex, guilt, betrayal. In these four acts the artists stages the recorded conversations and transform everyday life into artistic action.

Excerpt of the libretto, act one, “The Secret”:

Choir:
” Hallo Hallo”

Soloist:
“Was da passiert ist, wird immer klarer. Es geht um folgendes: Ich weiß, dass ich es unbewußt mein ganzes Leben lang tat. Und was voriges Jahr war, war auch bereits da.”

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