Im Dickicht by Mundry, Frá (2023/2023), Leikstýrt af David Hermann,, Hljómsveitarstjóri Peter Rundel, Samuel Hogarth, Großes Haus, Mainz, Germany

A man is murdered and his wife is raped. A court tries to solve the crime with the help of witnesses. But the statements contradict each other. Each gives a different twist to what is happening. How deceptive are perception and memory? Can the truth be reconstructed or does it remain hidden in the thicket of statements? The laconic stories by the Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, which almost never come to a valid conclusion, emanate a great deal of fascination and irritation. His story Im Dickicht forms the basis for a new music theater work by the composer Isabel Mundry, which is dedicated to the subject of testimony and memory. Isabel Mundry is one of the most prominent contemporary German composers. Now she has again dealt intensively with the phenomenon of the voice. In her new composition she explores the difference between what a voice says and what a voice reveals - for example through nuances in tone or a slight tremor. In the librettist Händl Klaus, she has found a congenial partner for working on this subject.