03 May 2005 TAMBURI in Berlin       back  More than four hundred invited guests from the worlds of politics, business, culture, and scholarship came to the Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg at the federal government in Berlin when the interactive installation Tamburi opened on April 26. Tamburi is a coproduction of the Forum Neues Musiktheater (FNM) of the Staatsoper Stuttgart with Studio Azzurro in Milan that was first shown, to overwhelming success and great public response, in autumn 2004 at the Römerkastell in Stuttgart. Now the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, together with the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, has given the FNM the funds to present it in Berlin, where numerous members of parliament and other visits took the opportunity to get to know this model project, unique in Europe, though the example of the Tamburi installation. The artistic director of the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Prof. Klaus Zehelein; the artistic director of the FNM, Andreas Breitscheid the artistic director of Studio Azzurro, Paolo Rosa; and the secretary of the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, Prof. Dr. Claus Eiselstein, following an introduction by the head of the ministry, Dr. Hans Freudenberg, provided a glimpse at the work, structure, and financing of the FNM, in a panel discussion moderated by the Stuttgart dramaturge and director Juliane Votteler. On this occasion Klaus Zehelein thanked the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg for its tremendous commitment and especially the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, whose head of communications, Stefan Schütz, took an early interest in supporting this extraordinary laboratory for the research and exploration of musical theater. In June 2006 an installation of Tamburi is planned for IRCAM’s Festival Resonances in Paris.
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