In this season passions and crises will be brought to life on stage in different ways. Joseph Haydn composed “L’isola disabitata” which was modeled after the then popular Robinson Crusoe story. The Brit Harrison Birtwistle has gods and demons appear; in George Antheil’s “Venus in Africa” a man sells his wife and in Darius Milhaud’s “Le pauvre matelot” a woman’s own husband is disposed of in a rain-water tank.
And the crisis of the “real world”? All too often it succumbs to a pretense and reveals nothing less than deepest insecurity, boundless self-overestimation and a disquieting lack of ability to find adequate solutions.
Azione teatrale in due parti
Libretto by Pietro Metastasio
in Italian
Next Performances:
October 23, 26, 28, 30
November 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 16
at: 19.30 Uhr
A Chamber Opera
Libretto by Stephen Plaice
in English
Next Performances:
February 12, 15, 17, 19, 22, 24
at: 19.30 Uhr
Complainte en trois actes
Libretto by Jean Cocteau
in French
1st performance in Austria
Opera in One Act
Libretto by Michael Dyne
in English
Next Performances:
May 19, 21, 24, 26, 28, 31
June 2, 4, 7, 9, 11
at: 19.30 Uhr