Hamburg: City of Music I + II

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What does a city sound like? And what stories does it imprint on the people who live in it and move through it? Composition students at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT) explore Hamburg from a wide variety of perspectives and translate their impressions into original musical theater works.

Jiwon Seo: “The Optimized City Dweller”

In her multimedia mini-opera “The Optimized City Dweller,” Jiwon Seo turns her attention to the modern urbanite caught between efficiency, conformity, and the search for a voice of their own. Music, performance, and visual elements merge into a poetic reflection on life in the metropolis.

Haonan Guo: “Between Arrival and Disappearance”

With “Between Arrival and Disappearance,” Haonan Guo creates a music theater piece centered on water. At its heart is a ship—not merely as a setting, but as a mobile space of transition. Between departure and arrival, a unique community emerges for a brief moment. At the same time, the ship itself becomes a resonating body: it vibrates, rumbles, sways, carries memories, and weaves together music, movement, and space into a poetic reflection on encounter, change, and transience.

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The works were created as part of the ligeti zentrum’s “Musikstadt Hamburg” project and demonstrate how contemporary music theater can make urban spaces audible and tangible in new ways.

Event Schedule
September 23, 7:30 p.m. Musikstadt I + II
September 24, 7:30 p.m. Musikstadt I + II
September 26, 2:00 p.m. Musikstadt III
September 27, 10:30 a.m. Musikstadt III
September 27, 2:00 p.m. Musikstadt III