THE GREAT LEARNING

Composer: Cornelius Cardew
Premiere 31.5.2024
Redoute / Theater Weimar

Choral Piece by Cornelius Cardew "The Great Learning"

Stage Direction: Margo Zālīte 
Costumes and Stage Design: Josa Marx, Margo Zālīte

Dramaturgy: Michael Höppner

Cornelius Cardew's "The Great Learning" from 1969 to 1971 is a large-scale choral piece set to a text by Confucius about learning community spirit. Its performance unfolds into a resonant and singing social sculpture, where the participants become the true creators of the event through rule-following and free expression. Professional and amateur singers, career and leisure musicians, and other performers of various backgrounds are involved. This spectacle, which ties the city to the festival proceedings, provides a fitting framework for "Passion :SPIEL – OPERA FOR ALL!" and uses the entire Redoute to playfully address the processes of creating and negotiating community.

Musical Direction: Jens Petereit
Choral Direction: Kerstin Behnke (University Choir HfM FRANZ LISZT Weimar), Benedikt Noll (University Choir Erfurt), Jens Petereit (Opera Choir of DNT), Ralf Jorik Schöne (Philharmonic Choir Weimar)

With the Opera Choir of DNT Weimar, the Choir of HfM FRANZ LISZT Weimar, the Philharmonic Choir Weimar, and the University Choir Erfurt, the drumming group Die Kongas from the workshops of Diakonie Saalfeld, and Emanuel Winter (organ).

Photo: Candy Welz

ELECTRIC MUSHROOM CHAPEL

Opening 1.9.2023
RELAXED PERFORMANCE as a closing of exhibition of HEALING COMPLEX MYCONOMIE / organized by URBANE KÜNSTE RUHR / St. Bonifatius Church Gelsenkirchern Erle

With modular synthesizers, Margo Zālīte creates a connection between the electrical impulses of mushrooms and the music she weaves into ethereal sonic landscapes.

Mushrooms not only possess healing properties but, through their vast underground root systems, also serve as metaphors for interconnectedness and coexistence, especially in a world threatened by fragmentation. The world of fungi becomes a utopian refuge to imagine new forms of community.

As an opera director, Margo views performance as an artistic opportunity to stage a timeless experience that audiences can immerse themselves in. You are invited to relax and enjoy the sound collage while lying down, sitting, or in any way that suits your comfort.

This event is designed as an inclusive Relaxed Performance. This means that special attention is given to accessibility to ensure that individuals with diverse needs have a comfortable experience. We create a relaxed event atmosphere: visitors can come and go at any time, alternative seating options are available, and sounds and reactions from the audience are expressly allowed and encouraged.

For more information about the "Relaxed Performance" format, you can visit this link: [Relaxed Performance Information](https://diversity-arts-culture.berlin/woerterbuch/relaxed-performance)

Additional information regarding accessibility at Healing Complex can be found here: [Accessibility Information at Healing Complex](www.healingcomplex.net/barrierefreiheit)

Here are some aspects of accessibility that will be considered during the event:

1. Venue Accessibility: Detailed information about the accessibility of the venue can be found here: www.healingcomplex.net/barrierefreiheit

2. Seating: Adequate seating will be provided to offer relaxation and comfort for all attendees during the event.

3. Sensitivity to Sensory Needs: The event will be sensitive to the sensory needs of participants. Care will be taken to ensure that light and sound effects are not overwhelming, and opportunities for relaxation and quiet will be provided.

Through these measures, we aim to ensure that this event is as inclusive as possible for participants, regardless of their individual needs and abilities. If you have specific on-site requirements, suggestions for improvement, or feedback about any barriers, please feel free to contact us at: contact [at] healingcomplex.net.

NANO OPERA`s

Paradeiser Productions
Four music theater miniatures about event and echo,
whales and mushrooms, magic and loss, night and fog


Чотири музичні театральні мініатюри про подію та відлуння, Кити і гриби, Магія і втрата, Ніч і туман

The four music theater miniatures are each designed for a very small audience. They are arranged together in the space and exist both independently and interconnected. Shaped by the perspectives of all present, a strange, tragic, hopeful, and somewhat meaningful universe emerges.

A Paradeiser production featuring texts by authors from the theaters of playwrights in Kyiv.

TEXT:

Tetiana Kytsenko / Olha Mazjupa / Iryna Harets / Julia Gonchar

PERFORMANCE: Essi / Burçin Keskin / Annika Nippoldt / Katharina Sim

MUSIC: Kai Niggemann

STAGE/COSTUME: Katya Markush

STAGE DIRECTING: Ruth Schultz, Margo Zālīte

DRAMATURGY: Julia Gonchar, Sandra Reitmayer

PRODUCER: Kristina Wydra

PRESS: Neurohr & Andrä

GRAFIC: AlexOffice

PREMIERE: 03.06.2023 18.00 & 20.00 Konzertkeller 647FM, Köln

04.06.2023 18.00 & 20.00 Konzertkeller 647FM, Köln

29.07.2023 Imagine Festival, Pathos Theater München

30.09.2023 18.00 & 20.00 Konzertkeller 647FM, Köln

01.10.2023 18.00 & 20.00 Konzertkeller 647FM, Köln

02.10. 18.00 & 20.00 Konzertkeller 647FM, Köln

MONEY: Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen von NEUSTART KULTUR, dem Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, dem Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW im Rahmen der Konzeptionsförderung Theater des Landes NRW.

In Kooperation mit 647FM, Köln und dem Pathos Theater München

Der Paradeiser Performance e.V. wird von der Rheinenergiestiftung Kultur gefördert.

www.paradeiserproductions.com

MUSHROOM NANO OPERA

Chaga Tea Ceremony
organizer: URBANE KÜNSTE RUHR
event: part of the HEALING COMPLEX MYCONOMIES
location: Former Church of St. Boniface in Gelsenkirchen-Erle

Reopening of the HEALING COMPLEX MYCONOMIES Exhibition Series.

Mushrooms serve as food, medicine, or even a form of intoxication, forming a vast underground network known as mycelium. Could this be a model for a new sense of community among people in the Ruhr region, a basis for a new economy? Urban Arts Ruhr and artist Irena Haiduk are exploring this artistic practice in Gelsenkirchen-Erle within the former Church of St. Boniface.

Margo shares her own fascination with mushrooms, saying, "There were many things in the (post-)Soviet Union that I couldn't understand or embrace, except for my devotion to mushrooms. My childhood pastime (like that of most Latvians) was mushroom picking. When it was August/September, there were only mushrooms for us. The cities were empty. Everyone went to their SECRET mushroom spots, which were never revealed to anyone."

Co-performer: Burçin Keskin

Foto: Daniel Sadrowski




RADIO-broadcsat about the event:

WDR 3 Kultur am Mittag

 28.03.2023

 04:17 Min.

 Verfügbar bis 27.03.2024

 WDR 3

 Von Diana Zulfoghari

https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr3/wdr3-kultur-am-mittag/audio-kunst-aus-pilzen-in-gelsenkirchen-100.html

KANNST DU PFEIFEN, JOHANNA

Theater Freiburg

Premiere December 2022

Childrenopera by Gordon Kampe (after Book byUlf Stark, Libretto: Dorothea Hartmann

Directing, Stage, Costumes, Video, Lights: Margo Zālīte // Dramaturgy Annika Hertwig // Conducting Johannes Knapp

WITH: Juan Orozco (Nils), Hyunhan Hwang (Berra), Dominik Salber (Ulf), Isabella Kammerer (Production), Pia Giesenhagen (Productionassistance)

FOTO: Britt Shilling

PRESS: "For the young audience, there's already a lot to discover: lots of instruments, lots of silver foil, colorful shadows and, in the background, a huge round flokati carpet with a bunch of neon-colored cardboard stick figures. Cuddly, playful picture-book children's room atmosphere - with pink theatrical fog set into pre-Christmas magic. (...) In the following hour, a miracle bag of brightly poetic stage directors ideas explodes on stage. The story is told in fast-cut images and dynamic transitions. (...) a listening and viewing experience of a special kind."   (Marion Klötzer, Badische Zeitung)

ANHELLI

Slowacki / Przybylski / Zalite
Teatr Wielki Poznan, Poland

World Premiere 6.12.2019

“Anhelli” is an international music theatre project, inspired by the ideas and life of a young man, who was the main character in Juljusz Slowacki´s novel “Anhelli”. He creates universal picture of a contemporary human being // Duration: 1h 20min // interdisciplinary music theatre with 200 hundred audience on big stag, plus with 80 choir singers and 10 soloists, plus two small stage on the side. Intence audience flows shortly before corona restrictions. 

HOME/NONHOME

Worldpremiere 27.4.2018 Latvian National Museum of Art / Running 27.04. -17.06.2018.

Fluxus Nano Opera “At Home/Not at Home”,
2018, installation 0,9 × 0,9 × 2,6 m,
video and audio, 10’
Concept: Margo Zālīte
Composition: Dariusz Przybylski
Counter-tenor: Jan Jakub Monowid
Scenography: Uldis Trapencieris
Video: Alise Sondore
Co-producer: Sansusī festival

Part of travelling Exhibition PORTABLE LANDSCAPES.
Comprehensive Latvian Exile and Emigrant Contemporary Art Project
Riga, Paris, New York, Gotland and Berlin
13.01.18 - 01.01.19

Performance at 27.-28.4.2018 Riga (Visit of Princess Victoria of Sweden)

ORGANIZER:

Latvian Center for Contemporary Art

https://lcca.lv/en/events/parnesajamas-ainavas--br-latvijas-trimdas-un-emigracijas-laikmetigas-makslas-izstazu-cikls/#izstade

Nano opera is a unique format for opera that
involves the creation of a work of multimedia
art in the space of one square meter. Fluxus
Nano Opera “At Home/Not at Home” deals with
Margo Zālīte’s feelings after ten years of
commuting between Riga and Berlin. It is a
confession of fondness for the feeling of
“being between”: the only tolerable feeling
within an otherwise intolerable existence.

RAKES PROGRESS Igor Stra-whisky

Latvian National Opera

Premiere 15.2.2018

for further shows --  https://www.opera.lv/lv/izrade/izvirtibas-hronika/

CROSSING THE BRIDGES – Grand Concert of Children’s and Youth Choirs

A grand multi-media musical performance of children’s and youth choirs telling a story about the diverse and different worlds we live in and the bridges that connect us.

Worldpremiere 20.7.2017 Arena Riga (10 000 seats)

Soloists: Aminata, Daumants Kalniņš, DJ Monsta, saxophonist Oskars Petrauskis, accompanied by a group led by Kristaps Krievkalns.
Direction/costumes, choreography and video concept –  Margo Zālīte.
Scenography –  Kristaps Skulte.

FULL VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_LTQOmp3kU

GIDON KREMER 70th birthday

Premiere 9.6.2017 Vidzemes concerthall

Gidons Krēmers, violine
 „Kremerata Baltica”, orchestra
 Guna Zariņa, actress
Inga Kalna, soprano
Lucas Debargue, piano
Juste Gelgotaite, oboe
  Choir “Kamēr...”, conduct. Jānis Liepiņš
concept and stage -  Margo Zālīte
Programm: G.F.Telemann, F. Schubert,  F.Glass, G.Pelēcis, L.Debargue / R.M.Rilke /

LMT ANNIVERSARY

Latvian National opera

FULL VIDEO: http://straume.lmt.lv/lv/kultura/kultura/lmt25/1005389

PRIZES in 2 eventmanagement categories:

1) best concept of a concert, 

2) best closed society event.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART "THE LITTLE MAGIC FLUTE"

Premiere 19.3.2016 Latvian National Opera

Music Director and Conductor: Andris Veismanis

Dramaturge/Stage director: Margo Zalite

Set Designer/Vidoe: Ineta Sipunova

http://www.opera.lv/en/production/the-little-magic-flute/

Costume Designer: Berta Vilipsone

Light Designer: Jānis Sniķers

DARIUSZ PRZYBYLSKI "ORPHEE"

tragédie lyrique en musique

Premiere 15.12.2015 Warsaw Chamber Opera

adapted by Margo Zalite, Dariusz Przybylski

7 solosists, vocal ensemble proMODERN, chamber choir, orchestra

Music Director and Conductor: Maja Metelska

Stage director/Set Designer: Margo Zalite

Costume Designer: Marlena Skoneczko/Margo Zalite

Video: Marek Zamojski

language consultant: Annabelle Richard

"SAULITE SLIMNICA"

Worldpremiere 21.10.2015 Riga Children Hospital, Latvia

composers: Imants Zemzars, Rihards Dubra

Lyrics: Jānis Rainis, Inese Zandere

Light Designer: Jānis Sniķers

Video: Austra Hauks


musicians: Riga Dome School children, doctors from the Hospital

IMANTS KALNIŅŠ "NO SALDENĀS PUDELES"

|From the sweet bottle|

symphonic singspiel by Imants Kalnins, Rudolfs Blaumanis and Janis Peters (1975)

Premiere 30.7.2015 Ventspils Theatre, Latvia

Music Director and Conductor: Aigars Meri

Set Designer: Dace Pudāne

Costume Designer: Juta Ķimenīte

Light Designer: Jānis Sniķers

Video: Ineta Sipunova

"LŪGŠANA LATVIJAI" (a prayer for Latvia)

Worldpremiere 5.7.2015 St.Petri Church / Live stream in TV and Radio

staged concert for Latvian Song festival

space/concept: Margo Zalite

full video

https://ltv.lsm.lv/lv/raksts/06.07.2015-garigas-muzikas-koncerts-lugsana-latvijai.id52348/

ĒRIKS EŠENVALDS "NORTHERN LIGHTS"

Worldpremiere 27.4.2015 Latvian National Opera

multimedial symphony
staged oratorio based on 23 storytellers from all Northern regions

concept/stage/positions: Margo Zalite

"POTATO OPERA"

Worldpremiere 24.11.2014 Latvian National Opera, New Hall

special Event in programm of Riga Culture Capital 2014

Composers - Lolita Ritmane, Evija Skuķe, Rihards Dubra, Līga Celma-Kursiete, Mārtiņš Brauns, Andris Sējāns

Libretto - Inese Zandere

Cunductor - Aira Birziņa

Potato Opera orchestra, 70 person girls choir "Tiara", 15 soloists

Video/stage - Ineta Sipunova (O.Dregis)

costume designer - Liene Dobrāja (D.Sloka)

lights - Uģis Ezerietis

http://kartupelu-opera.mozello.com/galerija/kartupelu-opera-ventspili/

GIUSEPPE VERDI "RIGOLETTO"

Premiere Latvian National Opera 18.9.2014

Music Director and Conductor: Martins Ozolins

Set Designer: Aída-Leonor Guardia

Costume Designer: Liene Dobraja

Dramaturge: Johanna Mangold

Light Designer: Stefan Bolliger

Video: Ineta Sipunova

www.opera.lv/en/productions/productions/operas/rigoletto

(c) Foto Gunars Janaitis

DARIUSZ PRZYBYLSKI "FALL"

Chamber opera

Premiere: 20th June 2014, Tischlerei, Deutsche Oper Berlin

Libretto, Stage Directo: Margo Zalite
Choreographer: Ahmed Soura
Dramaturge: Curt A. Roesler
Video: Chloe Guerbois
Queen I: Bini Lee
Queen II: Jörg Schörner
With Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchester: Musiker des Orchesters der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Video cut: Uschi Gutter

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART "3 X COSI FAN TUTTE"

Premiere 20.09.2013 Mumuth Graz / 26.10.2013 Tischlerei Deutsche Oper Berlin
Martin Miotk – stage/costumes

Production of the University of the Arts Graz, in partnership with Universität der Künste Berlin, Bayerische Theaterakademie, Hanns Eisler HfM, Deutsche Bank Stiftung, Aventis Foundation and Förderkreises der Deutschen Oper Berlin e. V.

@ Deutsche Oper Repertoire >

 

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS "CANTICLES OF THE HOLY WIND"

Premiere Riga Tabac Factory 25.5.2013
Youth Choir "Kamēr..."
Conductor Jānis Liepiņš
Light designer Gints Gabrāns
Foto © Ansis Starks

BENJAMIN BRITTEN "THE TURN OF THE SCREW"

Premiere Berlin Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eissler 7.2.2013
6 singers, 1 piano, 1 ghost-noise-percussionist.
Video by Uschi Gutter

 

RICHARD WAGNER "WALKÜRE"

Premiere Berlin Akademie der Künste 24.1.2013
3 Singers, 4 Musicians, scream-choir, Live-Electronics
a counter-position to the Wagnerian intemperance
Foto © Marcus Lieberenz, Annette Staack

@ Akademie Der Künste > 

Meža Measure

Opening performance of the festival SURVIVAL KIT 4
(90 international artist participants)

Premiere Riga Tabacco Factory, 06.09.2012
7 dancers, 2 piglets, 30kg human hair from Berlin and Riga
Kristine Alksne - site specific installation, Margita Zalite - stage direction, performance, sound installation of Latvian Anthem

Franz Schubert "Die Verschworenen"

Premiere Berlin HAU2, 8.10.2011
3 arrangers, 11 Singers, one 82-years-old-actress, 8 musicians

Arthur Honneger "La Danse des Morts"

Luis Bacalov "Misa Tango"

Premiere Train Museum Riga 27.8.2011
Orchestra, choir, 4 soloists, 1 actress, 6 dancers. Nomination for the best stage direction. Conductor Maris Sirmais, bandoneon Héctor Ulises Passarella

Giuseppe Verdi, "Traviata"

Premiere Academy of Music Berlin 3.2.2011
piano, 2 singers, 5 silent roles, death theme played by the Golden Saw winner of Finland - Mimosa Pale

Liga Celma "Jārsokys Dereiba"

Prime time in Latvian Television and Radio, Worldpremiere at Latvian State Opera, 3.4.2010
For choir and orchestra. Conductor Maris Sirmais.

Concept for 3 concerts

New music festival ARĒNA

Music by Saed Haddad, Czaja Czernowin a.o., Great Guild Riga, October 2009
2 stages, 2 orchestras, vocal ensemble, 5 solo, 2 actresses, video.

Euripides "Bakchen"

One-woman show

Directors competition Leipzig 2009

The Beginning Was The Word

after M.Zalites iniciative 11 Latvian leading poets and composers write motets for Latvian Stateschoir “Latvija”

Premiere St.Peteris church Riga 11.9.2007
Choir, circus artist, 400 Liter self made birch juice, 8 original animation videos.
Nomination for best film at the poetry Film festival ZEBRA.

Liga Celma "Vedību Rits"

for woman choir, long wooden sticks, organ

Worldpremiere in Annas Church, Jelgava, 16.4.2006

Selected assistance work

Oper Graz / MAHAGONNY, leading of reopening / 2013 / dir. Calixto Bieito
States Opera / Berlin / SATIESFACTIONS / 2012 / dir. Juergen Flimm
Komische Oper / Berlin / KARMELITINNEN / 2012 / dir. Calixto Bieito
Residenztheater / Munich / KIRSCHGARTEN / 2012 / dir.Calixto Bieito
Handicaped Theater Thikwa / Berlin / 2009 / dir. Elfi Mikesch