What are the words to us by Various, jeu. 08 déc. 2022, Du (2022/2022), Dirigé par Sophiemarie Won, Chef d'orchestre William Green, Luzerner Theater, Lucerne, Suisse

In her compositions, the Norwegian composer and performer Maja SK Ratkje not only deals with different approaches and experiments to sound and sound, but is often herself a performer in her projects. The evening in the box begins with Ratkje's work "Revelations". This composition for string quartet and mezzo-soprano consists of nine parts and deals with the Indo-European primordial words - the first 23 words that could be reconstructed as the primordial source of the language up to the present day. What kind of semantics do these primal words carry? How do we see them today and what do we associate them with? What can words tell us about our civilization and who we are? In «Revelations» Ratkje asks how people and language are related then and now and what this relationship means for us. In the second part of the evening, the space between sound and language will be illuminated by Ratkje's works "Breaking the News" and "ET OS". Ratkje herself is the performer on stage. For her, every performance is a unique process that she gets involved in again and again. In the 2020/21 season, director Sophiemarie Won created a production for young audiences with «Schellen-Ursli». Now she can follow her roots as a former violinist and make chamber music theatrically visible. With Maja SK Ratkje, the Lucerne Theater welcomes its next composer-in-residence, whom you can get to know better in December 2022 in a portrait of the composer in the box.