Overview

• The premiere of 'Lash—Acts of Love' at the Deutsche Oper Berlin featured direction by Dead Centre and was conducted by Enno Poppe.
• British artist Ed Atkins supplied the four-act libretto, transforming his video installations into a poetic meditation on love, death and bodily fragmentation.
• Nina Wetzel’s dark, minimalist set and Jörg Schuchardt’s stark lighting are overlaid with Sébastien Dupouey’s intense video projections that magnify the performers’ presence.
• Saunders’s score layers two Korg synthesizers, electric guitar and full orchestra to forge a dense, electronic-infused sound world.
• Critics praised the singers’ versatility and the work’s visceral impact while questioning the libretto’s loose narrative structure and its heavy reliance on video elements.