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Die Verbesserung der Welt

Singer

Romana Amerling

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Bernd Fröhlich

Johanna Krokovay

Johannes Schwendinger

John Sweeney

Conductor

François-Pierre Descamps

Stage director

Kristine Tornquist

Set designer

Michael Liszt

Costume designer

Katharina Kappert

Dramaturge

Roberta Cortese

Bärbel Strehlau

Harald Wink

Lighting designer

Vladi Tchapanov

Markus Liszt

Jury Everhartz

Repetiteur

Petra Giacalone

Benjamin McQuade

Choreographer

sirene Operntheater

Orchestra

PHACE - Ensemble für neue Musik

Gearmáinis

Der Fremde

Vienna

Austria

Sirene Operntheater

THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE WORLD - a chamber opera festival
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Set subtitles on youtube! / with German subtitles 4 - DER STRANGER text. Martin Horváthhttps://www.sirene.at/site/assets/fil...
Music. Gerhard E. Winklerhttps://www.sirene.at/site/assets/fil...

A stranger asks for shelter. The father of the family welcomes the stranger, he invokes the law of charity. The son is outraged because it is against the law to lodge a stranger. The mother is irritated by the foreign culture and above all does not like the fact that the foreigner and the daughter get closer. The blind daughter alone sees the stranger with the eyes of her heart - unprejudiced and compassionate. 00.0:00:00 The stranger 01. 0:00:44Night. The Stranger 02.0:07:18In the room. The court 03.0:13:08In the chamber. The mother 04.0:18:58In the chamber. The daughter 05.0:23:50In the room. Law 06.0:28:32In the chamber. The mother 07.0:32:08In the chamber. The daughter 08.0:37:42In the chamber. The son 09.0:42:53In the room. The negotiation 10.0:46:06In the chamber. The daughter 11.0:51:20In the room. The judgment 12.0:56:02 Interlude 13. 1:00:32 Law and Mercy 14. 1:02:21Night. Farewell 00.1:10:41Applause daughter. Johanna Krokovay mother. Romana Amerling son. Bernd Oliver Fröhlich father. John Sweeney Stranger. Johannes Schwendinger Police. Bärbel Strehlau. Harald Wink director. Kristine Tornquist conductor. François-Pierre Descamps PHACE. Flute. Alessandro Baticci | Clarinet. Reinhold Brunner | Saxophone. Alvaro Collao León | Trumpet. Spiros Laskaridis | Trombone. Stefan Obmann | Oud. Marwan Abado | Accordion. Georgios Lolas | Piano. Mathilde Hoursiangou | Percussion. Berndt Thurner | Violin 1. Ivana Pristasova | Violin 2. Sophia Goidinger-Koch | Viola. Petra Ackermann | Violoncello. Manuel Schager | Double bass. Maximilian Ölz | Ensemble management. Reinhard Fuchs choreography. Bärbel Strehlau stage and props. Markus Liszt. Michael Liszt costume. Katharina Kappert light and technology. Vladi Tchapanov mask. Isabella Gajcic. Assistance. Conny Freisitzer coaching. Petra Giacalone. Benjamin McQuade assistant director. Heidelinde Schuster production manager. Jury Everhartz Filmproduktion. Peter compatriot. Paul compatriot. L + L video production floor F23. Lara Adaibat. Thomas Barcal. Alexander Lugmayr. Max Sperger. Erich Sperger This film was made possible by the kind support of the Department of Culture of the City of Vienna (MA7) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport (BMKOES) (From the Stage to the Video - New Start Culture). a siren production 2020 - 2021 Jury Everhartz. Kristine Tornquist siren opera theater | Lara Adaibat. Thomas Barcal. Alexander Lugmayr. Max Sperger. Erich Sperger This film was made possible by the kind support of the Department of Culture of the City of Vienna (MA7) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport (BMKOES) (From the Stage to the Video - New Start Culture). a siren production 2020 - 2021 Jury Everhartz. Kristine Tornquist siren opera theater | Lara Adaibat. Thomas Barcal. Alexander Lugmayr. Max Sperger. Erich Sperger This film was made possible by the kind support of the Department of Culture of the City of Vienna (MA7) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport (BMKOES) (From the Stage to the Video - New Start Culture). a siren production 2020 - 2021 Jury Everhartz. Kristine Tornquist siren opera theater |https://www.sirene.at

************ Der Standard, 09.10.2020, Ljubiša Tošić From the jukebox of fears The fourth world premiere of the siren opera festival "The Improvement of the World" leads to a little house in the alpine Somewhere. The hunter and wife dance around the little hut in which the father, mother, son and blind daughter are put into moral unrest. The visit of the help-seeking Gharib plunges the household into a dilemma between mercy and compliance with strict alien laws, which become an obsession for the son (Bernd Fröhlich), who climbs into populist slogans. The direction by Kristine Tornquist emphasizes the latent lack of empathy towards the newcomer through puppet-like design of the characters. Only the daughter (Johanna Krokovay) and the refugee (Johannes Schwendinger) have human features. The initially benevolent father (John Sweeney) is, however, rigidly fickle. And the mother (Romana Amerling) turns in a barbeque manner after initial sympathy against the intruder. Complexity can be found above all in the music, which the Ensemble Phace (conductor François-Pierre Descamps) delicately implements: the father sounds like the Magic Flute Sarastro, the mother indulges in Belkante coloratura. However, composer Gerhard E. Winkler also knows how to express the atmosphere of fear through free tonal, percussive structures. The music encourages you to indulge in a guessing game, such as tango, Bach, early jazz and songs like Ain't Misbehavin 'or Over the Rainbow to discover. The music, however, is not a musical history jukebox set in a score. She is a dense, dramatically refined, Stylish work that carries over the all too self-evident of the libretto - right to the end. Gharib starts a tune that Winkler wrote on the basis of an Arabic scale (maqam). The melancholy of a wanderer into the unknown can be heard - as the most haunting episode of the piece.

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