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FULL VERSCHOLLENE GESÄNGE (Mehran Sherkat Naderi) Berlin 2025 Elbenita Kajtazi, Luna Celemín Trevín, Rodrigo Andrade
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Mehran Sherkat Naderi
- Composer: Mehran Sherkat Naderi
- Libretto: Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany
- Recorded: November 8 & 9, 2025
- Type: Staged Opera Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
About the Work:
The work unfolds across several interlocking layers that collectively paint a multifaceted picture of human experience and societal structures. When memories of the past transform into images—and those images are enacted in the present—we ought to realize, by the time we look toward the future, exactly where we stand as human beings and where we wish to stand:
What is it that humans truly strive for?
What distinguishes us—with all our intelligence, cultural conditioning, and cherished ideals—from the wild?
To what extent do we draw closer to it or drift away from it? Upon what foundations and values is our communal life built?
In terms of time, the work spans past, present, and future. The characters move across temporal planes, linking personal memories with collective experiences. Socially, the family is explored as the starting point for many conflicts: exclusion, a lack of recognition, the abuse of power, and authoritarian behavior shape relationships and resonate far beyond the private sphere.
On a societal level, the work sheds light on how deeply defensive attitudes are anchored in social structures.
Symbolic elements appear that allude to totalitarian systems, warning against their resurgence in contemporary discourse. At the point where people cease to speak and listen to one another, three psychological perspectives emerge: the first is adopted by those who strive for power or, as passive followers, submit to existing power dynamics, driven by their own evasions and resentments.
The second group consists of the so-called “indifferent”—those who choose ignorance as a strategy.
The third group comprises the resigned: the frustrated individuals who have been stripped of their strength, space, and voice.
People constantly shift back and forth among these three groups—sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of joy, and sometimes out of pain.
Yet the question remains: are we even aware of which groups we belong to and what responsibility we bear for one another?
Mehran Sherkat Naderi