Participating artists:Conductor / Musical Director: Gellért Szabó; Soloists: Madeline Cain, Steven Klose; Choir: Valentin Schneider, Barnabas Jacob Herrmann, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Maximilian Bischofberger; Instruments: Thomas Kolarczyk (double bass), Susanne Stock (accordion), Babett Niclas (harp), Myrsini Bekakou (violin); Instrument making (Bell): Friedrich Hartung
Period (opening hours):Tues, Thurs–Sun: 10 am–6 pm, Wed: 12 noon–8 pm
Venue:MdbK - Museum der bildenden Künste
Katharinenstraße 10
04109 Leipzig
mdbk.deWith their multi-channel video installation "re:miserere! (8:45 mins, 2025/2026), the artist duo Mailand / Innenhof (*1988 / *1989) bring the aria "Miserere" from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera "Il trovatore" into our time in a unique way. To this end, they have broken the piece down into five components: the orchestra, the conductor, the choir, the soprano solo and the tenor solo. These five parts were performed unannounced in various public spaces in the form of artistic interventions: in the packed waiting area of a jobcentre branch, the soprano suddenly begins to sing. The four-piece orchestra plays in a supermarket next to the bottle return machine, whilst the conductor directs the visitors to a public library and the choir interrupts a church concert to sing before the congregation. Finally, the tenor performs his aria to the surprise of the animals in the middle of a pigsty.
Through the simultaneous projection of film footage from the five interventions, the aria is subsequently reassembled in the exhibition space, whereby the sublimity of the music creates a peculiar tension with the social reality of the performance venues.
