Composition and performance: Trond Reinholdtsen

With: Snorre Hvamen, Tobias Schülke, Kai Johnsen, Amund Sjølie Sveen, Harald Kolaas

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In 2009 Trond Reinholdtsen founded his own opera house "The Norwegian Opra" to construct a utopian situation of absolute artistic freedom as, in today's world and contemporary music climate, it is essential to gain TOTAL CONTROL OVER ALL ASPECTS OF THE PRODUCTION APPARATUS. In practice this meant that the opera director was also the composer, main diva, orchestra, director, light designer, restaurant chef, propaganda minister, ticket master, audience, leader of the Worker's Union etc etc. It all amounted to a radical withdrawal from official contemporary music and social life in general, into a private paradisiacal echo chamber with no critical or pragmatist input from the corrupted "Outside". In the latest phase of the history of the institution a new potentially infinite series of opra episodes titled "Ø" has been produced in the cellar of the opera house villa, now situated in the countryside of Sweden, as filmed performances. This epic structure is centered around three posthumanlike characters doing experiments in alchemy, political theory and modernist art in preparation for the totally world changing "Event". After nearly three years of introverted incestous activity the Norwegian Opra crew of superstars will now break their isolation and embark on a 14-day European periphery tour with three new spectacular episodes in the trunk of their Opra Van. Every day a documentary road movie opra, depicting the struggle to build a new European collectivity around "Ø" and to dismantle the internet, will be produced and screened at appropriate venues in the Munich public sphere as the suspense is slowly building. When the increasingly hairy and smelly group of travelleing dilletant-geniouses finally arrives at the famous cutting-edge Biennale, a whole army of so called "Followers" have surprisingly joined the party under the parole "Vom Privatsache bis Weltreligion" and join in for a totalumwälzende ritualistic operatic sermon reminicent of the early days of the Apostles.