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Gottfried Helnwein :
The Israeli Opera
Tel Aviv
Hanna Munitz

Director

HELNWEIN'S SET AND COSTUMES FOR THE OPERA "THE CHILD DREAMS"
A new Israeli production for the occasion of Tel Aviv's 100th anniversary. "The Child Dreams", is based on the play of Hanoch Levin, the most important Israeli playwrite. Levin's plays have been performed in Germany, France, and many other places all around the world. The Child Dreams is one of the most important, powerful and inspiring plays ever written in Israel. The music is composed by Gil Shohat and directed by Omri Nitzan, artistic director of the Cameri Theatre.
The coductor is maestro Asher Fisch, the music director of the Israeli Opera.

The production will premiere at the beginning of 2010


PROPHETIC DEAD CHILD:
"I saw an angel: He was sailing in the sun,
diving slowly as if in a sea of honey,
and he came down and whispered to me:
"Oh little lambs, silent screamers,
oh. my tender, impatient dead,
a tiny error was made in the inventory
and now it's final: one more child."

(a silence of disbelief)

"That's what he told me. 'Rest just a little more
Only one more child."

(From "The Child Dreams" by Hanoch Levin, scene 8 (Requiem)


Dramatis Personae:

THE FATHER
THE MOTHER
BLEEDING MAN
A SHOCKED OBSERVER OF DEATH
WOMAN BORN FOR LOVE
COMMANDER
WAILING WOMAN
THE CHILD
CROOKED-BLACK SOLDIER
OPTIMISTIC NEIGHBOR
MAN JEALOUS OF THE LIVING
SAILORS
A CONSOLING PASSENGER
MAN OF REASON
EXCITED PASSENGER
DEVOUT PASSENGER
GUARD
LAME YOUTH
CLERK
TOOTHLESS MAN
FEARFUL WOMAN PASSENGER
GOVERNOR
GOVERNOR'S WIFE
CLEVER SAILOR
LAZY ONE
DEAD CHILDREN
PROPHETIC DEAD CHILD
SENSITIVE DEAD CHILD
ARGUMENTATIVE DEAD CHILD
IMPATIENT DEAD CHILD
OBSERVING DEAD CHILD
"MESSIAH"
BRAVE SOLDIER
CHILD WHO TURNED TO DUST

Gottfried Helnwein : Modern Sleep I
Modern Sleep I 2003
99 cm x 300 cm
photograph


Gottfried Helnwein in einem Gespräch mit Peter Nedoma, dem Direktor der Galerie Rudolfinum in Prag
April, 2008:

"Die Entdeckung des Theaterstückes "The Child Dreams" von Hanoch Levin war ein Schock und eine Epiphanie für mich, denn noch nie war die künstlerische Arbeit eines anderen so nah an meinen eigenen innersten Bildern. Es ist als hätte er dieses Stück ausschliesslich all den Kindern gewidmet, die bisher in meinem Werk aufgetaucht sind - und all jenen, die noch kommen werden."

Gottfried Helnwein : Gottfried Helnwein, Omri Nitzan, artistic director of the Cameri Theatre Israel and assistant Zeevik "Lupo" Levy
Gottfried Helnwein, Omri Nitzan, artistic director of the Cameri Theatre Israel and assistant Zeevik "Lupo" Levy 2008
Working on the set for the oprea "The Child Dreams" by Hanoch Levin



2010 The Israeli Opera Hanna Munitz



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