brigitta muntendorf

*spring news*

MELENCOLIA has successfully opened the international festival MAERZ Musik at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele on 21 and 22 March with two sold-out shows. Following the world premiere of this music theatre show at the Bregenz Festival 2022 and a guest performance in Amsterdam at the HOLLAND Festival 2024, the concert version MELENCOLIA Suite also recently premiered successfully at the Alte Oper Frankfurt – and the new Vinyl MELENCOLIC MEDLEY is now available!

2025 is the year of ORBIT – A War Series: After five performances in collaboration with Staatsoper Berlin next station will be at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg followed by performances in Hanover at the KunstFestSpiele HERRENHAUSEN, and at the Darmstadt summer courses.

Following the US premiere in New York in 2024, TRILOGY, which was awarded the German Record Critics’ Award in 2023, will be presented by pianists Ning Yu and Cory Smythe in May 2025 at the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress in Washington.

*new release* MELENCOLIC MEDLEY with Ensemble Modern and Geert Lovink on Vinyl

On March 21, 2025, Ensemble Modern and Brigitta Muntendorf release the vinyl album MELENCOLIC MEDLEY on Ensemble Modern Media: a post-digital medley based on the musical theatre show MELENCOLIA, featuring the media theorist Geert Lovink performing his own spoken texts. With Ensemble Modern and special guest Saeid Shanbehzadeh.

On March 22 at 2:30 pm, the album release takes place as part of the opening of the Library of Maerzmusik at the upper foyer of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

31. May 2025, 7:30 pm

La Traviata | Electroacoustic Parkour | German National Theatre Weimar

Andrea Moses (direction), Dominik Beykirch (musical direction), Raimund Bauer (stage design)

31. May 2025, 8:00 pm

Trilogy for Two Pianos | Library of Congress | Washington

Thomas Jefferson Building | Presented in association with WorldPride Washington, DC 2025.

07. June 2025, 7:30 pm

ORBIT - A War Series | Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen | Hannover

Space Oratorium für AI-Stimmklone, 3D-Audio und Elektronik

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