ONDŘEJ ADÁMEK - INES
libretto written and directed by
Katharina Schmitt
Conductor
Ondřej Adámek
Dramaturgy
Svenja Gottsmann
Set and costumes
Patricia Talacko
Lights
Nicol Hungsberg
Video
Rebecca Riedel
Choir conductor
Rustam Samedov
Photographer
Matthias Jung
Cast
O (Orpheus)
Hagen Matzeit
E (Eurydice)
Kathrin Zukowski
Doubles of E / Girls of Hiroshima
Tara Khozein,
Alina König Rannenberg,
Olga Siemieńczuk
Doctor
KS Dalia Schaechter
Narrators
David Howes, George Ziwziwadze, Lasha Ziwziwadze
Nurse
Meiyan Han
A voice
Boris Djuric
Choir of Oper Köln
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Premiere
June 16th, 2024, Oper Köln
An adaptation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set after a nucelar catastrophe, INES explores relationships between voice and trauma in a composition for solo voices, choir and orchestra. Based on the INES scale, which is used to determine incidents in nuclear power plants, composer Ondřej Adámek and librettist and director Katharina Schmitt develop with INES, their second joint work. Between silence and deafening noise, nuclear winter and heat, glaring light and darkness, the characters in INES sing about human limits and the difficulties of overcoming them.