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Composition and Concept: Hans Tutschku Stage Direction: Françoise Rivalland Live Electronic Design: Carl Faia Live Video Processing: Mark Coniglio Musical Director: Alexander G. Adiarte Singers: Anne-May Krüger, Sarah Maria Sun, Soprano Dancer: Hans-Georg Lenhart Speaker: Peter Rauch Ensemble ascolta Erik Borgir: Cello Florian Hoelscher: Piano Martin Homann: Percussion Zoltán Kovács: Clarinet Nataa Marić: Flute Live-Video-Processing Assistance: Katrin Jedon Dramaturgy Assistance: Peter C. von Salis The Die Süße unserer traurigen Kindheit (The Sweetness of our sad Childhood) is a music theater project which approaches Georg Trakl, one of the leading figures of literary expressionism, with multi-layered musical, scenic, and visual materials based on his texts and letters. His poems have previously been the starting point for chamber and electro-acoustic compositions by Hans Tutschku. In this piece, he combines his musical settings of the texts with an unconventional stage setting, five instrumental soloists, two singers, a dancer, and video projections. The audience is thus integrated into the performance space and the borderlines between the performers and the observers are questioned. The stage direction concept by Françoise Rivalland was developed in close collaboration with the composer and supports their common vantage point. Namely, that there cannot be a clear interpretation of the poems. A selection of poems and excerpts from Trakls letters will be presented from different perspectives. Texts were chosen for the piece, which in many ways focus on the theme of childhood. First of all, poems and fragmenst of letters, which deal directly with Trakls biography, his youth, and with his strong relationship to his sister, were chosen and furthermore, other texts which remind the composer of his own childhood are used. The stage set is made up partly of natural materials, which are taken from Trakls visual world his world of nature with its extraordinary colors and atmospheres. Water, stones, leaves, and branches are used both as visual and aural elements in the piece, and resurface in the video projections as well. The result is a unique and moving music theater about the contemplation of fragility due to intimacy. The project is made possible with the generous support of the Akademie Schloss Solitude.. Discussion with the production team after each performance. Open Rehearsal: Sep 08, 2005, 19.00 » DIE SÜSSE UNSERER TRAURIGEN KINDHEIT Photos » DIE SÜSSE UNSERER TRAURIGEN KINDHEIT Press Reviews » HANS TUTSCHKU Biography » HANS TUTSCHKU Homepage » ENSEMBLE ASCOLTA Homepage |
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