Klarkommen

How would it feel if nothing new were emerging ahead, if the present offered no support, and if the past dictated everything? And what would happen if things simply couldn’t go on as they have before? If fear suddenly became quite compelling, or if that sense of gloom grew overwhelming?

The situation would be dramatic. So dramatic that 16 young adults would have to take over the opera house. The opera house as an arena for negotiating resistance or social upheaval. As a stage for grand emotions and a space for shared existential endurance.

Wrapped in blankets, the 16 experts in active crisis management retreat there. They form an organism, a body, a collective self, and together activate the self-healing powers of a generation, while constantly wrestling with their inner selves and negotiating with the outside world. For what would an opera be without hope?