Die Jaffa-Orangen des Richard W. – ein israelisches Rheingold

A single person can threaten an entire state. When this person renounces love and thus turns himself into a weapon, no walls and no rockets will stop him. An Israeli Rheingold tells of the situation of a country torn between the struggle for survival and the security system, between the love of life and the occupying power, between the fear of the future and the violent present. The plot and the music of Richard Wagner are filtered and translated to tell of another, a new Rheingold: Israel, the open wound, the attempt of a state that combines longing and hatred.

Based on Richard Wagner's Rheingold, the music theater production The Jaffa Oranges of Richard W. deals with the situation of Israel. As in Wagner, it is about human action in the tension between violence and counter-violence, disputes over territory and the search for security.

Director Alexander Charim and composer Georg Nussbaumer find an explicitly political music theater that gives expression to the struggle for a relationship with Israel between longing and criticism. Interventions in Wagner's sounding orchestral intoxication let the original disappear in parts behind new sound worlds.

Performed by singers, actors and musicians and supplemented by texts by Amos Oz and David Grossman, among others, different perspectives and attitudes are reflected, which tell of identity and society in a torn country.