by Dzovinar Mikirditsian, Katharina Rosenberger and Eklekto
Sillons de Mémoires
Installative Music Theatre Performance
Thursday, 5 to Saturday, 7 February 2026, 19h30
Opernhaus Zürich – Studiobühne
A collaborative work by Dzovinar Mikirditsian and Katharina Rosenberger with Eklekto
and Louis Delignon / Katharina Rosenberger
featuring the turntable installation “Topographies”
Steven Whiting, Direction, Choreography
Jana Beckmann, Dramaturgy
Eklekto, percussion, turntables, performance
Anne Briset / Louis Delignon / Corentin Marillier / Pascal Viglino
with soloists from the International Opera Studio,
the SoprAlti and Extra Chorus of Zurich Opera House,
and the Extras Association of Zurich Opera House
“Sillons de Mémoires” refers to traces that inscribe themselves indelibly into bodies, biographies, and collective memories. At the heart of this music theatre performance are questions of home, migration, and displacement, as well as the fragility of memory and its simultaneous persistence. How vivid, how fleeting and ephemeral is memory? What happens when the memory of a place becomes fragmented, contested, or erased? How do experiences of war, crisis, and loss shape one’s self-image and one’s outlook on the future?
For the development of the piece with the percussion collective Eklekto, works by the Lebanese composer Dzovinar Mikirditsian and the Zurich-based composer Katharina Rosenberger, recipient of the Swiss Music Prize for her transboundary artistic practice, are interwoven into an installative setting. The audience is immersed in a pulsating sound world in which percussion, voice, and live electronics interact in complex and layered ways.
The libretto for Katharina Rosenberger’s composition Sam and Flavia – Récits of the Desert: Acts of Resistance are based on the Transborder Immigrant Tool poetry by Amy Sara Carroll. We thank Amy, Ricardo Dominguez, and the Electronic Disturbance Theater / b.a.n.g. lab for graciously making their poetry and recorded recitations available to us.
Cast, tickets, and further information
https://www.opernhaus.ch/spielplan/kalendarium/sillons-de-memoires/