Organization

Lucerne Festival im Sommer

Conductor

Johanna Malangré

Lighting designer

Markus Güdel

Video designer

Paolo Pachini

Leonardo Romoli

Singer

Sofia Jernberg

Soloist

Orchestra

Ensemble des Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra

Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Sofia Jernberg | Johanna Malangré

Lucerne

Switzerland

Verkehrshaus der Schweiz

Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Sofia Jernberg | Johanna Malangré: Young Voices of Lucerne Erla Björnsdóttir (+3 More)

Public

Young Voices of Lucerne

Web Studies for violin, viola, harp, prepared piano, live electronics and interactive video

The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc

An Index of Metals

Approved

The third edition of Forward starts on the biggest screen in Switzerland: the Filmtheatre at the Swiss Museum of Transport, where we will show An Index of Metals. In this video opera created shortly before his premature death in 2004, the Italian Fausto Romitelli transgressed all boundaries of genre. Sound, video projection and lighting, new music, rock and techno, instrumental sonorities and the electronically filtered soprano of Sofia Jernberg all merge together into a “magma of flowing tones, shapes, and colors” — an overwhelming synesthetic, and even psychedelic, experience. The French artist Clara Maïda similarly intertwines video and music in Web Studies, reflecting on our hyper-connected world in which “every micro movement can induce an intense upheaval …”

English

Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Sofia Jernberg | Johanna Malangré by Erla Björnsdóttir, Maïda, Eastman, J., Romitelli, From (2023/2023), Conductor Johanna Malangré, Verkehrshaus der Schweiz, Lucerne, Switzerland

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble

Program, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues