MEDIATHEK

Maniozis-2. Continuation and Conclusion is the second part of Alexander Belousov’s chamber opera. It is constructed as a musical and philosophical reflection, and it leans heavily on Benedict Spinoza’s treatise The Ethics. The work’s title imperfectly combines the words “mania” and “gnosis” – “mania” and “knowledge.”
 Musically speaking, the opera Maniozis-2 is a sound installation, that is, elements, including melodies and noise, are organized in space in a complex manner. However – and this is unusual for this kind of music – it has a plot that tells the tale of a maniacal, out-of-control Author, the nature of whose mania changes each time he murders anew. Every mania shall be vanquished – this, according to Spinoza, corresponds to the third type of knowledge.