A Christmas Carol
Music theater (electropop opera) by UMS'nJIP based on the novella of the same name by Charles Dickens, 2020, English with German subtitles
Original text: Charles Dickens
Libretto & music: UMS'nJIP
Director: Wolfgang Beuschel
Stage & lighting: UMS'nJIP
Participants: Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, Javier Hagen
Duration: 70m
Performance date
Friday December 5, 2025, 7.30 pm
Saturday December 6, 2025, 7.30 pm
Sunday December 7, 2025, 7.30 pm
Venue
MEbU (Münster Earport)
Furkastrasse 647, 3985 Münster (Goms)
http://m ebu.umsnjip.ch
Admission free (collection)
Reservations recommended: mebu@umsnjip.ch
About the power of kindness and compassion.
A Christmas Carol, based on the story of the same name by Charles Dickens, is a musical theater with music by UMS'nJIP(Ulrike Mayer-Spohn and Javier Hagen). A Christmas Carol transforms the well-known story into a musical sound space - a performative radio play, so to speak - that subversively mixes electropop with experimental sounds: Morton Feldman and Bronski Beat join hands here.
UMS'nJIP are interested in gray areas, transitions, sound spaces, the ambivalence of a word between sound and meaning, the ambivalence of an image between appearance and meaning, the simultaneity and interweaving of different media.As if guided by a ghostly hand, video projections, music, song and staging interact: footage of Accra's mountains of waste, Vietnamese war victims, industrial slaughterhouses and American slums flicker - you hardly notice - backwards across window openings reminiscent of Christmas baubles, mysteriously interwoven with the duo's sound mixes. Analogous to a fragmented perception of reality, the video projections appear fragmented, and always through different glasses. As soon as Scrooge's soul takes a turn for the better, the images - footage of dangerous school routes in Latin America - flow forward. In life, though not easy, it is never too late to learn and do things better.
"A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas" from 1843 is one of Charles Dickens' best-known stories. It is about the moneylender Ebenezer Scrooge, an old, grumpy miser who receives a visit from his deceased partner Jacob Marley and then from three other ghosts in a single night, who ultimately help him to change his life. A Christmas Carol contains strong social criticism, with which Dickens denounces the grievances of 19th century England. Probably the greatest legacy of his Christmas story, however, is the message that kindness and compassion for one's fellow human beings are among humanity's greatest assets. Not just at Christmas, but all year round.
UMS'nJIP are one of the most active contemporary new music ensembles: over 1500 concerts in 40 countries, guest lectureships at over 50 universities worldwide and over 35 international prizes line their almost 20-year artistic path. In 2022, they will settle in Goms and establish the MEbU (Münster Earport), an art space for contemporary music in the heart of the Valais Alps.
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