Ondřej Adámek – Everything Goes to Plan
Alles klappt is a music-theatre piece inspired by archival material from the 1940s belonging to composer Ondřej Adámek’s Jewish family in Prague. Some of Adámek’s relatives were sent to concentration camps and wrote letters to family members remaining in Prague. Paradoxically, the content of these letters is positive and even cheerful. Another source for the libretto was a catalogue that Adámek’s grandfather was forced to compile under the Nazis, advertising empty flats that had belonged to Jewish families sent to the camps, presented as new real estate. Drawing on the cold, propagandistic language of this catalogue and the emotional language of the letters, Schmitt and Adámek created a work exploring memory, trauma, and the relationship between people’s histories and the histories of objects.
Composer and Conductor
Ondřej Adámek
Director and Libretist
Katharina Schmitt
Set & Costume Design
Patricia Talacko
Dramaturgy
Götz Leineweber
Photographer
Armin Smailovic
Cast
Kathrin Zukowski, Thérese Wincent, Landy Adriamboavonjy, Steve Zheng, Dominic Kraemer, Tobias Müller-Kopp, Jeanne Larrouturou, Miguel Garcia Martin
Premiere
June 6st 2018, Marstall/Residenztheater München/Biennale für neues Musiktheater
(German Premiere), Gare du Nord, Basel 2019 (Swiss Premiere), Festival Musica Strasbourg 2019 (French Premiere)
An audio version of the French Premiere in Strasbourg recorded by France Musique can be found here.