Sammy Van den Heuvel — scenography

Each space grows within a specific frame that is formed through conversations; with the director, with the choreographer, with the text, the music, the material, with the dramaturg, with the production team, with the artists and builders in the workshops, with the stage technicians. Ultimately, the built space engages in a conversation with the performers, and, through them, in a conversation with the audience.
Wozzeck

Seraphim
No yogurt for the dead
Tipping point
Angel's bone
Le nozze di Figaro
The man who fell from the sky
A safe space for male bodies
Szenen aus Goethes Faust
The world’s wife
Vanishing point
Die Vorüberlaufenden
The future is not what it used to be
Solitary dialogues
Solitude
Each time we fall a city rises
Quartett
A requiem for lost things
Als niemand me ziet
Totentanz
#truth: ein sokratischer Abend
Ich rufe meine Brüder
3000 Euro
Ich bin wie ihr, ich liebe Äpfel


sammyvandenheuvel@gmail.com
Die Vorüberlaufenden 

At night, a man comes running towards you in the street. Should you talk to him? Does he need help? In his short story “The passers-by”, Franz Kafka describes a situation that challenges you to consider whether to intervene—and, if you don’t, at least to demand justification for your inaction. 

Kafka's text raises fundamental questions about moral courage, humanity, and civil disobedience. This is the starting point for Gerhild Steinbuch’s libretto, put to music by composer Andrej Koroliov. 

The audience is seated on either side of an imposing bridge that cuts through the space — the opera’s former wood workshop. As situations on stage grow increasingly more tense, the bridge teases the characters into certain patterns and positions.


musical directionVicente Larrañaga

directionTheresa von Halle 

dramaturgySebastian Hanusa

scenography, costume and light designSammy Van den Heuvel

/Deutsche Oper Berlin 2021

(c) Sammy Van den Heuvel
(c) Sammy Van den Heuvel
(c) Eike Walkenhorst
(c) Eike Walkenhorst
(c) Eike Walkenhorst
(c) Eike Walkenhorst
(c) Sammy Van den Heuvel
(c) Eike Walkenhorst
(c) Sammy Van den Heuvel
(c) Eike Walkenhorst