Dancing answer to questions of faith

After two hours of song and movement performance on the workshop stage on Wednesday, there was much applause for all participants. The Berlin theater group asked about the possibility or impossibility of faith in our time and kept closely to the original version of the mass, which Rossini had composed for two pianos and harmonium as well as twelve voices. However, these twelve singers did not act at all like the twelve apostles. With wry faces, they count money during the Credo. In the "Resurrexit," the resurrection takes place in the manner of an airport checkpoint. Doubts about faith are also expressed by a young man dressed in white, whose name is Benedict, of all things. The answer to his questions about faith is mostly a joke, breathtakingly articulated both in dance and song, with the helpless search for faith extending to all sorts of esoteric things. Director Nicola Hümpel, in her third year at the Bregenz Festival, has once again provided a radiant highlight with a veritable flood of gripping images.

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