music theatre

Red Rooms

02.Nov.2022 // 19:30 (wp)

4./5./6. Nov. 2022

Wien Modern / Schauspielhaus

Production i5haus with the kind support of Stadt Wien Kultur, BMKÖS, Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (FONCA) Mexico, SKE der Austro Mechana | Co-production Wien Modern, PHACE, Musica Strasbourg, La Muse en Circuit, ORF Ö1 Kunstradio | Cooperation Schauspielhaus Wien

Angélica Castelló Idea, concept, composition, musical direction
Miguel Ángel Gaspar Concept, direction, movement
Ximena Escalante Dramaturgy
Ximena Escalante, Angélica Castelló, Miguel Ángel Gaspar Libretto

Bartholomaeus Wächter Stage design
Anna Hostek Costumes
Arnold “noid” Haberl Sound engineering
Oliver Mathias Kratochwill, Christoph Pichler in collaboration with Jan Machacek, Miguel Ángel Gaspar Lighting
Kira David, Valerie Holfeld Production management
Ariel Uziga Assistant director and choreographer

Theresa Dlouhy, Isabelle Duthoit Little Red Riding Hood (voice)
Romain Bischoff Wolf (voice)
Raphaela Danksagmüller, Thomas List, Maja Osojnik Grandmother (recorders, voice)
Jérôme Noetinger Other Wolf 1 (Revox, tapes, electronics)
Jan Machacek Other Wolf 2 (live video)

PHACE
Victor Lowrie viola
Roland Schueler violoncello
Maximilian Ölz double bass, electric bass
Reinhold Brunner bass clarinet
Alvaro Collao León saxophone
Stefan Obmann trombone
Berndt Thurner drums

Radio voices:
Wolfram Berger Salvador Novo
Hagnot Elischka Old Wolf
Christian Reiner Young Wolf
Martina Spitzer Grandmother
Sabine Marte Little Red Riding Hood
Natascha Gangl Tame Little Riding Hood
Miki Malör Forest
Elisabeth Findeis Neutral Voice

Red Rooms or seven episodes about a precarious relationship: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf inspired by Louise Bourgeois’ installation Red Room (Child) and Red Room (Parents).

A music theater about truth and lies, about lust and abuse, about love and power for voices, chamber ensemble, recorder trio, Revox tape machine, radios, cassette players and electronics in seven acts (2021-2022 premiere).

Color is stronger than language. It’s a subliminal communication.
Red is an affirmation at any cost — regardless of the dangers in fighting — of contradictions, of
aggressions. It symbolizes the intensity of the emotions involved.
(Louise Bourgeois)

On the stage are three cages and a family trapped in their own patterns — mother, son and granddaughter. They listen to the radio, talk, sing, drink, eat, sleep, kiss, fuck, puke, shit… The radio broadcasts interviews, news and commercials from Radio Roja, recognizable in German, English, French, Spanish. On stage on the other hand, a wild mixture of artificial language, onomatopoeia, noises, quotations from literature and diaries is produced with voices and other sound generators. The music speaks the language of Angélica Castelló: Dreamlike slowness and anti-virtuosity, minimalism and offbeat friction, the fearless misappropriation of early music (Gibbons, Ockeghem, Monteverdi), pop music and other objets trouvés. Quiet passages meet walls of noise, rock, drones, sine waves and low frequencies. And while the radio keeps playing, the Revox tape machine forms the gut through which everything passes, the intestines in which all incoming raw materials are devoured and transformed. (Speaking of food: Somewhere in the forest, deep in the subconscious of the Red Rooms, live the grandmother, Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf, in various incarnations.) The 15 musicians and soloists on stage, the dense network of electronics and field recordings conjure up external landscapes as well as intimate atmospheres of the rooms, making the emotional states of those present audible as well as the hopeless interpenetration and mixing of role models. The inner and outer spaces – whereby “inside” does not only stand for the psyche and “outside” not only for society or culture – open up existential experiences in different degrees of abstraction. In seven episodes, behavioral patterns of a familial, moral or erotic nature come to the surface. The stage is both a crime scene and a temple, a place of memories and events. The audience becomes the listening voyeur of a claustrophobic, immersive world full of innocence, danger, life, death, sex and eros.

music theatre

Der Besuch vom kleinen Tod

based on „La visite de Petite Mort“ by Kitty Crowther, 2005, German translation by Maja von Vogel. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2011

2.-6.11.2021 Vienna, Dschungel, Museumsplatz 1

Klaus Lang – music
Michael Scheidl – text & direction
Nora Scheidl – stage & costumes

with Rino Indiono & Jasmin Steffl &

PHACE

Sylvie Lacroix, Flöte
Doris Nicoletti, Flöte
Stefan Obmann, Posaune
Thomas Märzendorfer, Posaune
Georgios Lolas, Akkordeon
Berndt Thurner, Schlagwerk
Thomas Wally, Violine
Daniele Brekyte, Violine
Rafal Zalech, Viola
Roland Schueler, Cello
Maximilian Ölz, Kontrabass

Eine Produktion von netzzeit im Dschungel Wien.
Kompositionsauftrag von netzzeit, gefördert durch die Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

Der Besuch vom kleinen Tod
music theatre by Klaus Lang (music) & Michael Scheidl (direction, libretto)

…Little Death is desperate: The people he brings to the realm of the dead are sad. They sigh. They freeze. They are scared. No one ever speaks to him …Until the evening when Little Death visits Elisewin. “You are finally here!” she says with a smile … Elisewin is happy: Little Death takes away all her pain…

more infos & tickets – website of NETZZEIT: https://www.netzzeit.at/soon/der-besuch-vom-kleinen-tod/

music theatre

Der Fremde

06. / 07. / 08. / 09. Oktober 2020 //  20:30
F23 Kulturzentrum
Breitenfurter Str. 176, 1230 Wien

ARTISTS

Gerhard Winkler, music
Martin Horvarth, text
Kristine Tornquist, director 
François-Pierre Descamps, conductor

with:
Romana Amerling. Bernd Fröhlich. Johanna Krokovay
Johannes Schwendinger. John Sweeney. Harald Wink

PHACE

 Alessandro Baticci, flute
Reinhold Brunner, clarinet
Alvaro Collao Leon, saxophone
Spiros Laskaridis, trumpet
Stefan Obmann, trombone
Marwan Abado, oud
Georgios Lolas, accordion
Mathilde Hoursiangou, piano
Berndt Thurner, percussion
Ivana Pristasova, violin
Sophia Goidinger-Koch, violin
Petra Ackermann, viola
Roland Schueler, cello
Maximilian Ölz, double bass

production

Jury Everhartz
Sirene Operntheater

music theatre

701 BRITISCHE TEELÖFFEL – VIVA LA MUERTE!

AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
Oct. 24. 2019
further performances: Oct. 26./31. & Nov. 01./02. 2019

OFF Theater Wien
Kirchengasse 41
1070 Wien

a production by netzzeit, in Coproduction with the Haydn Foundation

Creative Team

Arturo Fuentes, composition
Petra Weimer, direction
Ernst Kurt Weigel, Ilse Helbich, Lukas Meschik & Ensemble, text
Nora Scheidl, scenography
Florian Bach, sound design

Alexander Riff, assistent to director
Caroline Wiltschek, assistent to scenographer
Barbara Vanura, press

Actors

Kristina Bangert, May Garzon, Valentin Ivanov, Peter Raffalt, Jutta Schwarz, Tamara Stern

PHACE

Sylvie Lacroix, flute
Spiros Laskaridis, trumpet

Dying is distressing. Even in Vienna, where according to a folkloristic cliche, a very familiar handling with the ultimate concerns is cultivated, dying doesn`t fit into the concept of neoliberal performance society. The mexican incarnation of death, La Catrina, stirs up a Viennese wedding party, who don`t suspect that on their reputed best day of their life they are entering the last path.  Santa Catarina leads and seduces the partying people to an excess, with different aspects of transcendences. Live music and sound clouds enable an ambiance for a narration out of monologues, dialogues, surreal images and tweets.

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HANNI

21.Apr.2023 // 19:30
Pfarrkirche Bad Zell

11.Nov.2022 //20:00
Tischlerei Melk Kulturwerkstatt

25.Jun.2021 // 19:30
Brucknerhaus, großer Saal

30.Jun.2021 // 19:30
Radiokulturhaus Wien

31.Jan.2021 // 19:30
Brucknerhaus, großer Saal
(cancellation due to Covid-19)

13.Feb.2021 // 19:30
Radiokulturhaus Wien
(cancellation due to Covid-19)

10.March 2020 // 19:30
Brucknerhaus, großer Saal
(cancellation due to Covid-19)

ARTISTS

Maxi Blaha | actress & voice
Wolfgang Kogert | organ

PHACE

Reinhold Brunner | Klarinette & Bassklarinette
Spiros Laskaridis | Trompete & Flügelhorn
Ursula Fatton | Harfe
Maximilian Ölz | Kontrabass

PROGRAMM
Hanni. Monologue with music (2018/19) (world premiere)

Gerald Resch
music for »Hanni. Monologue with music« for clarinet, trumpet, harp, double bass and organ   (2018/19) (UA)

commissioned by Brucknerhaus Linz

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Wechselwirkung

public performances cancelled due to Covid19
13.Nov. 2020 // 19:00
14.15.Nov. 2020 // 17:00
Wien Modern
WUK Projektraum
Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Wien 

a project by Pia Palme, Paola Bianchi, Juliet Fraser, Irene Lehmann, Christina Lessiak −
an artistic research collaboration group as part of the Austrian Science Fund
PEEK Project »On the fragility of sounds« [AR 537]

Lars Mlekusch – conductor
Pia Palme – concept, composition, text, bass recorder
Juliet Fraser − voice (soprano), dance
Paola Bianchi − choreography, dance
Molly McDolan − oboe da caccia
Sonja Leipold – harpsichord

PHACE

Christina Bauer – sound design, recording
Christina Lessiak − artistic assistant, research, production
Irene Lehmann − dramaturgy
Veronika Mayerböck – light
Christian Sundl – event assistant

For the video & trailer
Martin Siewert – sound editing
Michaela Schwentner – film direction and concept, editing
Martin Putz – camera

Funded by the FWF Austrian Science Fund
The project is hosted by the KUG University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Centre for Gender Studies
Produced in cooperation with Wien Modern 2020

The performances will be carried out at the announced time in an adapted form as part of the research project of the Art University Graz. The filmmaker Michaela Schwentner will film the performances. The film will be made publicly available free of charge at www.wienmodern.at at the earliest possible point in time; the release date will be announced as soon as possible.

PROGRAM

Pia Palme
Wechselwirkung
music theatre for soprano and ensemble (2019/20) world premiere 70’

Combining the distinctive creative process of choreographer Paola Bianchi with the compositional practice of Pia Palme, the piece is being devised in an experimental, non-hierarchical, collaborative way, using both devised material and improvisation. The question of transmission between disciplines is woven into the process, embracing the particularities of each individual. Soprano Juliet Fraser brings in her expertise as performer, bringing together Palme’s score with Bianchi’s oral instructions, giving feedback at every step during the process. The theatre scholar Dr. Irene Lehman and Christina Lessiak, musicologist and cultural worker, join the group and further enrich the collaborative practice and discourse. The results explore the consonance, dissonance and interferences between voice and body, a polyphony in which movement shapes music, sound shapes bodies.

The piece is an experiment, an experimental opera, a music theatre work in the widest sense. Pia Palme: ‘I began with some devised material which I knew would form only a starting point; the process is like walking into a room with a blindfold on.’

Paola Bianchi uses her archive of postures to work from: ‘I have been using my archive of postures (or non-postures, collective images), which I am interested to share with others to see how they are transformed. These are my tools. It is like seeing how different ingredients fit together or can be destroyed.’

More information about the piece can be found under https://www.fragilityofsounds.org/wechselwirkung/

production of FWF PEEK project »On the fragility of Sounds« AR 537, supported by Kunstuniversität Graz
co-production Wien Modern

music theatre

Lies of Civilization

18.Jul.2019 // 20:00 (world premiere)
19.Jul.2019 // 19:00
Stuttgart, Theaterhaus – Südseite P1

Musiktheatertage Wien
13.Sept.2019, 19:00 (austrian premiere)
14.Sept.2019, 19:00
WUK Projektraum
Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Wien

Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart

Truike van der Poel, Mezzosopran
Martin Nagy, Tenor
Guillermo Anzorena, Bariton
Andreas Fischer, Bass

Soloists of PHACE

 Mathilde Hoursiangou, keyboard/sampler
Reinhold Brunner, clarinet(s)
Berndt Thurner, percussion

TEAM
Staging: Gable & Romy Roelofsen / Het Geluid Maastricht
Equipment: Davy van Gerven;
Light: Luc Schaltin
Dramaturgy: Georg Steker, Christine Fischer, Het Geluid
Idea and Concept: Georg Steker
Production Manager: Jakob Berger / Music of the Centuries Stuttgart

a coproduction by Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart (DE), Musiktheatertage Wien (AT), Operadagen Rotterdam (NL), National Opera Bergen (NO) und Het Geluid Maastricht (NL).

“In the name of civilization, Western values, democracy and peace …”

LIES of CIVILIZATION investigates the fractures of the “myth of civilization”, which is deeply woven into the values ​​of Western cultural history. Four representatives of a young generation of composers formulate their positions on CIVILIZATION LIES and know that the euphoria over civilization achievements all too often obscures the inhumane machinations and crimes behind it.
All four short pieces are staged by Het Geluid Maastricht and put into a full-length musical theater. With the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and the Ensemble PHACE, two internationally renowned artist groups are ready for this.

PROGRAM

Yiran Zhao: THE SINGLE DAY (working title)*
for mezzo soprano and three instruments ^wp

“I invite you to think more carefully about what we believe we know and what the real reality of the relationship between us and our environment is.” (Yiran Zhao)

Natalia Domínguez Rangel: The Invisible
for tenor, bass, percussion, synthesizer and electronics ^wp

“Political power is exercised on the individual so that he must obey the laws and rules himself – usually without using force. I like this idea of ​​invisibility. An underlying force, invisible and effective (good or bad). “
(Natalia Domínguez Rangel)

Øyvind Mæland: Part of the Job
for four voices, clarinet and percussion ^wp

“What worries me is the extent to which people are actually habit animals: today with all the knowledge acquired about human psychology, the causes of climate change and social inequality … even the well educated people among us are part of this spiral.” (Øyvind Mæland)

Malte Giesen: white border
for three male voices, three instruments and electronics ^wp

“I’m interested in frames, framing, contexts, framing – in particular, the mediatedness of any communication.” (Malte Giesen)

Duration: 75 minutes, no break – In English with German subtitles

Composition commissioned by the Musiktheatertage Wien, financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

music theatre

Dionysos Rising

by Roberto David Rusconi

AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

Sept. 19./20./21. 2019 MQ, Halle G
Vienna

a production by netzzeit, in Coproduction with the Haydn Foundation

Creative Team

Roberto Rusconi, music
Roberto Rusconi, Michael Scheidl, libretto
Michael Scheidl, direction
Timothy Redmond, musical direction
Nora Scheidl, scenography
Elias Kern, sound design
Florian Bach, sound engineer
Claire Lefèvre, choreography
Niki Neuspiel,production manager
Alexander Riff, assistant director
Angela Karpouzi, sceno­graphy assistant

Singers

Zachary Wilson, Dionysos
Ray Chenez, Ampelos
Cho Da Yung, Telete
Anna Quadrátová, Semele

Dancers

Britt Kamper-Nielsen, Juliette Rahon, Evandro Pedroni, Luan de Lima

PHACE

Sylvie Lacroix, flute
Doris Nicoletti, flute
Heri Choi, oboe
Peter Tavernaro, oboe
Reinhold Brunner, clarinet
Walter Seebacher, clarinet
Edurne Santos, bassoon
Christian Walcher, bassoon
Ivana Pristasova, violin 1
Manon Stankovski, violin 2
Valerie Gahl, violin 3
Daniele Brekyte, violin 4
Petra Ackermann, viola
Roland Schueler, cello
Maximilian Ölz, double bass

Dionysos Rising is an opera-ritual without gods and mythological creatures. It is the story of ordinary humans, who are marked by the sufferings of life and driven by fear: A mother, who has lost her son; a lonesome daughter; a young man, deluded by grandeur, unable to fulfil his roles as a son, father and companion. All of them struggle with their inner spirits and desperately try to escape their sorrow for just an instant, alleviating their pain with drugs. For his composition, Roberto David Rusconi makes use of the impressive hyperreal sound space – an immersive sound experience created with L-ISA technology by L-Acoustics.