brigitta muntendorf

*spring news*

MELENCOLIA will open 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 Vinyl MELENCOLIC MEDLEY will follow soon!

In April, another work by Muntendorf, ORBIT – A War Series, will be presented in cooperation with the Staatsoper Berlin and will then be performed in Hanover at the KunstFestSpiele HERRENHAUSEN, at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and at the ZKM Karlsruhe.

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.

22. March 2025, 5:00 pm

MELENCOLIA | Ensemble Modern | Berliner Festspiele & State Opera Berlin | Opening Maerzmusik

A show against the indifference of the universe

23. March 2025, 7:30 pm

La Traviata | Electroacoustic Parkour | German National Theatre Weimar

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