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Elia Rediger (1985) born in Kinshasa/Democratic Republic of Congo, is a Swiss artist, artistic director, composer, writer and singer. In addition to orchestral compositions (“Oh Albert”, 2016, Basel), he was an in-house writer at the Konzerttheater Bern (2016/2017), frontman of the pop group The bianca Story and the big band orchestra Brigade Futur 3. At Deutsche Oper Berlin he directs the music theater format “Macht der Künste / Aus dem Hinterhalt. “Hercules of Lubumbashi – an oratorio of mines” was his second collaboration with the Congolese choreographer Dorine Mokha after the play “Oh Boyoma – 387 verses about a forgotten city” (KonzertTheaterBern 2017). In 2020, Mokha/Rediger founded GROUP50:50 together with the Congolese curator Patrick Mudekereza and the Swiss dramaturge Eva-Maria Bertschy. After Dorine Mokha’s sudden death, they decided to continue GROUP50:50’s mission and joined forces with Christiana Tabaro and Michael Disanka for a new production.
Elia Rediger. Photo: Max Zerrahn 