MEDIATHEK

On May 29th, 2015 the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen celebrated the premiere of the fantastic opera in 10 pictures "Nahod Simon” (Simon, the Foundling) composed by the Serbian composer Isidora Žebeljan in a scenic interpretation by the Dutch director and setdesigner Michiel Dijkema. “Nahod Simon” based on the Serbian folk-poem “Nahod Simeun” and the novel “The chosen” by Thomas Mann (1951), which tell the story of the child and the adult Simon, son of an incestuous relationship between brother and sister and his way of life. His life is destined to be good and kind in a world of fear, aggression and refusal. Monks found the baby and raised him and he goes on a journey to look for his mother and father. After some stations, where he tried to help and to inspire the men, he meets his mother by accident, not knowing, she is his mother and they became lovers. When they realized, what they’d done, Simon fell in despair and leave the manhood and tries to disappear. He became a healer and in the end he meets his father, heal him and went to the sky. It’s a fantastic story between myth and reality, Good and Bad, Life and Death.