Adam Maor, The Sleeping Thousand

After a successful world premiere at the festival d’Aix-en-Provence (5 representations) in July 2019, Adam Maor‘s opera The Sleeping Thousand will go on tour to stop at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg on January 8th, and then at the Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation on January 16th.
Other representations are planned later during the year in Helsinki and Brussels.

A thousand administrative detainees go on hunger strike. When the Prime Minister decides to induce a deep sleep to avoid international attention, the thousand sleeping Palestinians cause insomnia on the people of Israel. It is urgent to send an emissary to dream world to stop it…

Through his oneiric parable, swaying between seriousness and lightness, composer Adam Maor and playwright Yonatan Levy, both Israelis, talk about a devastated land, a multicultural society seen by authorities not as an organic whole, but rather as an irreconcilable fragmented space. The opera is based on one certainty: “There is no other homeland than that of the space between one soul and another.”

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Elena Schwarz, conductor. Yonathan Levy, libretto and stage director. Julien Brun, stage designer. Anouk Schiltz, costume designer. Omer Shizaf, lighting designer. Amir Farjoun, dramaturge.

United Instruments of Lucilin

André Pons-Valdès, violin. Danielle Hennicot, viola. Jean-Philippe Martignoni, violoncello. Henning Sieverts, double bass. Marcel Lallemang, clarinet. Frin Wolter, accordion. Pascal Meyer, clavier and electronics live. Guy Frisch, percussions.

Tomasz Kumięga, Prime Minister. Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod, Nurit, his assistant. David Salsbery Fry, S, Head of Secret Services. Benjamin Alunni, a voice of the World (Minister of Agriculture/demonstrator/cantor).

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A co-production with Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg / Ircam-Centre Pompidou / Helsinki Festival / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbonne) / Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie/De Munt (Bruxelles) / Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel

With the support of Enoa and Programme Europe Creative of the European Union.

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1h15 (without break)

In Hebrew with French and English surtitles