Ben Frost The Murder of Halit Yozgat Staatsoper Hannover, 2020 dut, a t en ru subs

rus and eng subs are autotranslated 21yearold Halit Yozgat was assassinated in broad daylight, in his familys internet cafe on April 6, 2006 in Kassel Germany. Five witnesses were present in the 77 square metre space when Halit was shot twice in the head. Remarkably, an undercover agent from the German secret service was among those present in the cafe at the time of the murder, yet he claimed not to have heard gunfire nor noticed the body slumped at the front desk. A rigorous counterinvestigation by Londonbased research agency Forensic Architecture inspired the Australian composer and director Ben Frost to write the opera The Murder of Halit Yozgat. With his unconventional combination of sound art, electronic music and dark metal, Frost brings a performance in which a sound nobody heard irrevocably ties all of those present together. music Ben Frost, Petter Ekmann stage direction Ben Frost film and editing Trevor Tweeten director of photography Richard Mosse