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G. F. Händel
Piano
Clemens Flick
Serse
Valentina Stadler
Romilda
Marielou Jacquard
Arsamene
Tarik Bousselma
Atalanta
Anna Schors
Stage and Costumedesign
Mareike Hantschel
Sound
Max Baginski
Kyan Bayani
Martin Lutz
Marcus Thomas
February 2012
Tacheles
Berlin
The planet is rotating. Everybody is rotating.
The planet is a machine. Everybody is a machine.
King Serse loves the peace he finds in music. But peace and quietness are not an emperor’s duties. In Ombra mai fu Serse sings about the ideal natural state. It’ s about being alone and it’s about the deep believe that just far away from the humans he can find happiness. But the idyll of peace and music will be fractured by the machinery of war and power… And by his constant need for love.