stage direction
Ludger Engels
costume design
Raphael Jacobs
stage design
Ric Schachtebeck
conductor
Justus Thorau
Il trionfo is an oratorio by George F. Handel, the basis for our production of this play of the four friends Beauty, Pleasure, Time and Disillusionment. The four characters and their attitudes, which couldn't be more different, collide in an escalating contest to beat beauty to the side of pleasure or time and disillusionment. The entire opera space is transformed into the scene of the spectacle, turning into a catwalk where the smartphone becomes the essential medium of self-expression. In my concept, the protagonists' clothes act as miniatures of allegories, allowing themselves to be filmed and imbuing the scene with live impressions of the characters' different worlds.