K.O.9 Chöre:
Production notes

Music for choirs is on the playbill of the eleventh edition of K.O., the collaboration between Komische Oper Berlin, Scenic Design students at Universität der Künste Berlin and Theater Direction students at Hochschule für Musik »Hanns Eisler« Berlin. And it should be obvious that this is not going to be a concert. Three amateur choirs from Berlin have agreed to participate so that for the first time during the long-standing series of projects the students are offered an opportunity to test their work on a larger vocal ensemble. The three teams of students offer very different conceptual approaches and scenic solutions to choral works by Claudio Monteverdi, Hanns Eisler and Georg Katzer .

Anja Kühnhold (direction) und Jennifer Wjertzoch (design) have compiled a-capella choir compositions by Hanns Eisler dating mainly from the late 1920s. These works were used by Eisler to sound out the potential of workers' choirs in Berlin. Together with the choir canta:re, the production team will address the relationship between the individual and the crowd, between leaders and fellow travellers, beyond any hint of agitation.

Rahel Fiona Juschka and Felice Krowosch, together with Chorikos, will present the stage premiere of Georg Katzer's adaptation of the Grimms' The Fisherman and his Wife, involving a free musical language that features both speech and onomatopoeic and percussive singing.

Claudio Monteverdi's Lamento d’Arianna digs into Greek mythology. Dominik Wagner and Martin Miotk show Ariadne's loneliness multiplied to a choir (consortium vocale berlin).