Eat Me

When is too much enough? Eat Me starts there. A table is set. Glasses fill up. The meal never really makes it to the table. Someone is cooking. Someone is serving. The appetite continues. Another bite. Another sip. Regisseur Aïda Gabriëls approaches opera and music theater as an open space where music, performers, and spectators constantly renegotiate their roles. Sound is not background but architecture. In Eat Me organizes the space: who serves, who consumes, who continues long after saturation should have set in. Componist Jonathan Bonny builds the score as a banquet without end. Courtly splendor of Jean-Baptiste Lully clashes with the urge of Antonio Vivaldi, only to dissolve into electronics and fragments of pop mythology. Yes, Britney Spears is sitting at the table. Ornaments multiply. Bass lines keep insisting. Pleasure becomes rhythm. Performed live by B’Rock Orchestra and singers who move between guest, host, and accomplice, the music circulates through the space.