LASH / REBECCA SAUNDERS/ DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN
Fri 11 Jul
|Deutsche Oper
Acts of Love – Love, Mute, Loss Opera in three acts by Rebecca Saunders Libretto by Ed Atkins and Rebecca Saunders, based on an original text by Ed Atkins / World premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 20 June 2025
Time & Location
11 Jul 2025, 19:30 – 21:30
Deutsche Oper, 10625 Berlin, Germany
Info / Tickets
Info and tickets:
https://deutscheoperberlin.de/en_EN/production/lash-acts-of-love.1355969
About the work
A woman is suspended in the in the immediate aftermath of a death. She recounts fantasies and memories of love and loss and fucking and sickness, kissing, eyeballs, genitals, fingertips, lips and lashes – each scoured for consoling significance to hold back death’s meaninglessness. Through the imminence of her own body, her own mortality, she rediscovers loss as the precondition of experience – of love.
LASH is the first opera by celebrated German-British composer Rebecca Saunders. The work is based on the strikingly pictorial texts of video artist and writer Ed Atkins.