“Great moments: world premiere of Thomas Larcher’s opera ’Das Jagdgewehr’ at the Bregenz Festival.“ (Wiener Zeitung) Thomas Larcher has adapted Yasushi Inoue’s best-seller The Hunting Gun for his first opera, with a libretto by Austrian Book Prize winner Friederike Gösweiner. Austrian actor and film director Karl Markovics made his debut as stage director for an opera. The story tells of three women, who speak in three letters addressed to the same man, a hunter – his wife, his lover and his lover’s daughter. As the women react to the revelation of illicit love, the hunter’s life is laid bare. “The Austrian composer’s first opera is inventive” (The Times), “a clear, powerful text, some striking imagery and a luminous score of great beauty and originality ensure this opera’s success.“ (The Observer)
Le Grand Macabre
Ligeti’s absurd-tragicomical masterpiece of the highest order ‘Le Grand Macabre’ blends popular theatre, comic, pop art, cabaret, apocalypse and caricature with a fascinating imaginativeness. The production by ‘La Fura dels Baus’ under the direction of Àlex Ollé already thrilled press and public alike in Brussels, London and Rome, and is considered as ‘one of the best staging’s’ (La Vanguardia) of the world-famous Catalan theatre group.
Medea
Marlis Petersen, Michaela Selinger, Elisabeth Kulman, Michael Roider, and Adrian Erod star in this Vienna State Opera production of the Reimann opera conducted by Michale Boder and directed by Marco Arturo Marelli.
Bregenz Festival 2018: The Hunting Gun
A world premiere at Bregenz Festival: Thomas Larcher has adapted Yasushi Inoue’s best-seller The Hunting Gun for his first opera, with a libretto by Austrian Book Prize winner Friederike Gösweiner. It tells the story of three women, who speak in three letters addressed to the same man, a hunter – his wife, his lover and his lover’s daughter. As the women react to the revelation of illicit love, the hunter’s life is laid bare. Award-winning Austrian actor and film director Karl Markovics gives his debut as stage director for an opera.