The great Buddha
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Two poor best friends - Nabel and Pickle. Nobody knows their real names behind these absurd nicknames. And to be honest, nobody cares either. Day after day, they toil away in the Buddha factory of their boss Kevin, an artist with divine ambitions.
Everyone knows Kevin's name, everyone knows about his piety - but no one knows his extravagant private life, and even less about his two faces: humble upwards, condescending downwards.
What Kevin doesn't know is that his spicy dashcam videos are the highlight of every night shift in the boring porter's lodge for Nabel and Pickle. One click, one listen - and suddenly not only humans are listening, but also the gods.
Even the things that don't want to be heard.
"The Great Buddha" is a chamber opera by Yixuan Hu, created as a final project for the composition concert exam at the HfMT. The opera was adapted from the Taiwanese film The Great Buddha by Huang Hsin-Yao and combines black humor with an artistic reflection on classism, religious hypocrisy and violence against women.
Content Note
In this production, themes such as social exclusion and classism, the hypocrisy of religious power structures, sexuality and violence against women are addressed - not explicitly, however, but in an abstract, artistically conveyed form. Strobe lighting and fake blood are used.
Cast:
Nabel - Yutao Gu, tenor
Pickle - Yutong Wei, baritone
Kevin - Nick Hohlbach, speaking role
Production team:
Composition: Yixuan Hu
Libretto: Rongji Liao & Yixuan Hu
Musical director: Sangjun Han
Director: Sang-jin Han
Stage & costume: Simone Ballüer
Stage assistant: Mia Bernecker
Dramaturgy: Rongji Liao
Vocal coach/repetiteur: Shihao Zhai
Performers
Elvin Rodriguez Alvarez
Yu Sun
Iiris Piri
Yixu Wang
Yuanyuan Zhang
Inhye Lee
Shuwen Jiang
Yuchan Shi
Juhee Kim
Yaopu Zhang
Xinyu Shao
Yucheng Yue
Contributors
Ioanna Miliou
Jari
Hongxiao He
Subtitles & assistance
Yan Gu
Yilu Bao
Yuanzheng Qin
Yan Wang
Bangxin Wang
Special thanks to
Xinjian Hu
Bangxin Wang
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Exclusive after-party experience at the Yu Garden Hamburg
For all those who would like to end the evening not only with music but also in a festive way, there is an after-party ticket.
After the performance, we invite you to the unique ambience of the Yu Garden Hamburg - a restaurant that combines traditional Chinese elegance with modern sophistication.
There you can expect:
A special performance by our creative team, exclusively for this occasion.
An atmospheric ambience that harmoniously combines tradition and modernity.
A welcome drink to round off the evening.
The afterparty offers the opportunity to talk to artists, friends and like-minded people in an extraordinary atmosphere and make the evening unforgettable.
Please note: There are two ticket categories - with and without afterparty. For an all-round special experience, we recommend the afterparty ticket.
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Normal price: 12 euros
reduced: 7 euros
HfMT students: Free admission
Performance + afterparty normal price: 18 Euro
Performance + afterparty reduced: 13 Euro
Performance + afterparty HfMT students: 6 Euro
Tickets are available at eventim.
The advance sale has ended. A few remaining tickets are available at the box office. Our box office opens one hour before the start of the event.
Kooperation
Tingshu Zhu, Xinyu Liang
Eine Kooperation mit: Chinesischer Akademikerverein Hamburg e.V.
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