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Synopsis
What is Infinity How do you portray it How do you calculate it How do you measure it All
these questions determined the life and work of the great mathematician Georg Cantor (1845
– 1918). ‘My opera is an artistic drama’, Ingomar Grünauer wrote. ‘I wasn’t very interested in
portraying mathematical laws, rather I was interested in the existential conflict of this outsider,
who disregards concrete knowledge and thus encounters resistance from his colleagues,
because of his revolutionary but unprovable statements about infinity. But what tempted me
most was the extreme tension that characterized Cantor‘s life: his vacillation between absolute
euphoria in his vision and his descents into deep depression.’ (Source: Opernhaus Halle 2006)
Cantor – Die Vermessung des Unendlichen
10.11.2006 Opernhaus Halle
To have Georg Cantor as the protagonist of a newly commissioned work has the potential to attract
much wider audiences than the core group of aficionados. [...] But the fact that we can talk about
this piece as a bestseller (the second performance is already sold out and advance sales are going
strong) is truly surprising even for the managerial staff of the Halle Opernnhaus.
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14.11.2006)
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