Friendly Fire (Opera)
| Work data | |
|---|---|
| Original title: | Friendly fire |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Klaus Arp |
| Libretto : | Andreas Bisowski |
| Premiere: | September 9, 2004 |
| Place of premiere: | Neukölln Opera in Berlin |
| Place and time of the action: | In the USA after a war in the desert |
| people | |
|
|
Friendly Fire is an opera by Klaus Arp (music) and Andreas Bisowski (libretto). The world premiere took place in 2004 at the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin under the direction of Robert Lehmeier. The musical director was Hans-Peter Kirchberg , the stage design came from Tom Musch.
action
After a "desert mission", a young American GI returns to his family, who want to venerate him as a hero in order to legitimize the hard-hitting war mission. But the son (Tommy) comes back from the war as an obviously badly marked soldier in the local idyll. He expresses what he saw in the war: torture , senseless killings, sadism . The family breaks up because of the relentless reports they do not want to hear and decides to dispose of the "problem Tommy" by the father "redeeming" Tommy, that is to say killing, in order to restore peace at home.
Web links
- Details about the world premiere on the Neukölln Opera website