13th Munich Biennale: Nucleus

Nucleus 13th Munich Munich Biennale Muffathalle
Of 03 to 19.05.2012 is the 13th Munich Biennale, the international festival for new music theater, rather than (we reported). This festival is spread over several venues, which also applies to the project nucleus, which is composed of ten individual performances will take place in the Muffathalle, Gasteig and Hard Reiter in Munich.

As part of the nucleus are eight composers of the younger generation (average age mid-30s), their tight, compact and provocative short answers to the question prior to the core of the opera. What is the core of an opera, a contemporary musical theater piece, a single, individual composition? Or there is the question of the core of opera at all, from musical theater today: What is the medium? To reduce what it can, that we are still thinking, "It's musical theater"? That would be the question of the form. And what is a core? A beginning, a fresh start - a latent ability to germinate under favorable conditions, can develop and flourish? Or end of a process, as it were, the quintessence and the tiny final maturation with the power to renew?

The eight composers in the framework of the nucleus-series are set this highly complex question: Michael Emanuel Bauer (b. 1974), Minas Borboudakis (b. 1974), Nicholas Brass (b. 1949), Manuela Kerer (* 1980), Thomas Meadowcroft (* 1972), Stefan Schulzki (b. 1970), Eva Sindichakis (b. 1975) and Alexander Strauch (born 1971).