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The preparations lasted more than three years. For a long time it was uncertain whether there would even be a Forum Neues Musiktheater. Now this laboratory for the development of new music theater perspectives for the twenty-first century has become a reality. On Tuesday October 7, 2003 at 2:00 p.m., Prime Minister Erwin Teufel and the opera’s general director, Klaus Zehelein, will inaugurate this institution’s new accommodations (the Forum is attached to the Staatsoper Stuttgart) at the Römerkastell in Bad Cannstatt. In founding the Forum Neues Musiktheater, the Staatsoper Stuttgart has succeeded in creating a center for interdisciplinary music theater work that is new and unique in its genre. Its specially designed performance space offers optimal conditions for project work that is creative and, in its spatial conception, open. The Forum plans to use this space to test and present a diverse array of experimental theater approaches. The focus will be on the creative exploration of new narrative structures as part of the attempt to unify theoretical and practical work. An important aspect of the endeavor is the desire to incorporate new media and technologies, which the Forum will study with an eye to using them in a music theater context. The Forum regards itself as a laboratory where research, development, and practice are combined. The Forum entertains collaborative relationships with institutes in Germany and abroad—including ZKM in Karlsruhe, IRCAM in Paris, STEIM in Amsterdam, and SAMT (at the Bruckner Conservatory)—which are also committed to exploring electronic and digital media and their possible interactive applications in the audiovisual realm. The realization of the Forum Neues Musiktheater was made possible by the support of the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg foundation (which supported it as a model project) and the assistance of the LBBW, or Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, which as a partner of the Staatsoper Stuttgart made funds available to the Forum for its pilot project, Im Spiegel wohnen, as early as two years ago. That project also received assistance through the European Union’s program Kultur 2000. Thanks to these donations, the Forum Neues Musiktheater is currently funded through the end of the 2005/06 season. On Friday October 10, 2003 at 8:30 p.m., the Forum Neues Musiktheater will present its first production, the premiere of Im Spiegel wohnen. The work is a composition by Andreas Breitscheid based on the text Bildbeschreibung by Heiner Müller. The scenic realization is the work of director Jean Jourdheuil and set designer Mark Lammert. Stuttgart audiences met both of them last season through their work on Mozart’s La finta giardiniera at the opera house. Because the Forum Neues Musiktheater regards its work as a process or work in progress, subsequent performances on October 11, 12, and 13 and December 11, 12, 13, and 14, 2003 will open the way to further developments and new possibilities for creation and interpretation, so that every performances acquires its own particular character. Already on the day of the opening, October 7, 2003, at 7:30 p.m., there will be a public introduction to the work at the Forum Neues Musiktheater, with Klaus Zehelein, general director of the Staatsoper Stuttgart; Andreas Breitscheid, artistic director of the Forum and composer of the work receiving its premiere; director Jean Jourdheuil; and set designer Mark Lammert. A total of 148 seats is available for each performance. Tickets may be purchased in advance from the advance booking office at the Staatstheater (Tel: 0711/202090) or at the box office on the evening of the performance (if available) for EUR 15 (EUR 8 reduced). » FNM Photos » FNM OPENING Press Reviews |
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