TOF 2023 · Short Story „I like Max Beckmann“
Short Story “I like Max Beckmann” Five new short operas in 152 seconds. Who am I, and if so – who? The Salzburg 2023 Pocket Opera Festival in Fast Forward…
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11.11. – 16.11.2025
Premieres by Nikolaus Brass, Bernd-Richard Deutsch, Elena Mendoza und Vito Žuraj
for the SWR Vokalensemble
as a “sound space
as a mass
as a vibrating echo
in the play of five protagonists
between leadership and seduction
manipulation and resistance
Power and powerlessness
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TOF 2023 · Premiere “I like Max Beckmann … Sophie Calle and others”
Premiere Pocket Opera Festival 2023 On November 18, we celebrated the premiere of this years Pocket Opera Festival „I like Max Beckmann … Sophie Calle and others“ Further Performances: November…
TOF 2023 · 3rd International Young Conductors Academy: Rosina Flückiger and Etienne Haan
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TOF 2023 · Premiere on November 18, 2023 · Rehearsals at the SZENE Salzburg
I like Max Beckmann… … Sophie Calle and others The Pocket Opera Festival 2023 will celebrate its premiere on November 18, 2023 at SZENE Salzburg. Further performances on November 19,…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Soprano Annalena Huber and Alisa Sofia Rotthaler in the play “Zumutung”
Annalena Huber and Alisa Sofia Rotthaler Annalena Huber and Alisa Sofia Rotthaler sing in Stephan Winkler’s “Zumutung” in a double role as childlike sopranos. Together they have been visiting the…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Tenor Christian Sturm in the plays “Zumutung” and “SOURIS A true faker is a great faker is a mystery maker!”
Christian Sturm Christian Sturm, this year in the plays “Zumutung” by Stephan Winkler and in “SOURIS A true faker is a great faker is a mystery maker!” by Julia Mihály. He…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Mezzo soprano and actress Hasti Molavian in the play “SOURIS A true faker is a great faker is a mystery maker!”
Hasti Molavian Hasti Molavian, this year in the pocket opera “Souris – A true faker is a great faker is a mystery maker!” by Julia Mihály. As a classically trained…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Soprano Mimi Doulton in the play “Ich habe ihn nie getroffen”
Mimi Doulton this year in the Pocket Opera “Ich habe ihn nie getroffen” by Bernhard Gander. In 2023, the British-Pakistani soprano Mimi Doulton will make her debut with the Birmingham…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Actor Klaus Nicola Holderbaum in the play “Oliveros’ Schafe”
Klaus Nicola Holderbaum this year in Oxana Omelchuk’s play “Oliveros’ Schafe”. Thierry Bruehl cast Klaus Nicola Holderbaum as Tartuffe in Tartuffe, their first collaboration. He already appeared at the Taschenopernfestival…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Soprano Sachika Ito in the play “Oliveros’ Schafe”
Sachika Ito, this year in Oxana Omelchuk’s play “Oliveros’ Schafe”. Japanese soprano of classical-Belcanto training with an international career. Since 2014, she has also specialized in modern and contemporary repertoire.…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Actor Michael Günther in the play “Spiegelungen”
Michael Günther this year in the Pocket Opera “Spiegelungen” by Alvaro Carlevaro. This is Michael Günther’s second time at the Pocket Opera Festival; in 2013 he appeared at the Pocket…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Actor Daniel Sträßer in the play “Spiegelungen”
Daniel Sträßer this year in the Pocket Opera “Spiegelungen” by Alvaro Carlevaro. In 2009, Daniel Sträßer already took part in the Pocket Opera Festival “Meal”. Daniel Sträßer was born in…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Stephan Winkler and “Zumutung”
Stephan Winkler Stephan Winkler studied composition and violoncello, also conducted later in Berlin and elsewhere. His composing can be described as an act of transformation: He translates spoken language, such…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Bernhard Gander and “Ich habe ihn nie getroffen”
Bernhard Gander The Austrian composer defies any genre categorization. He breaks genre boundaries and combines new music with heavy metal and rap, whereby rhythm plays a leading role in his…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Alvaro Carlevaro and “Spiegelungen”
Alvaro Carlevaro Born in Uruguay, he studied composition in Montevideo and with Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart, where he has since lived as a freelance composer. With practically “classical” means of…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Oxana Omelchuk and “Oliveros Schafe”
Oxana Omelchuk Born in Belarus, she studied composition and electronic music in Cologne, where she still lives and works as a freelance composer and musician on the analog synthesizer. “You…
TOF 2023 · Introducing: Julia Mihály and “Souris”
Julia Mihály Moves as a composer at the intersections of new music, performance art and electroacoustic music. She studied classical singing and electronic composition in Hannover, Germany, and initially worked…
Narraciones extraordinarias
Narraciones extraordinarias Festival de ópera de bolsillo de Salzburgo en Sevilla Espacio Turina, Sala Silvio, 1st December 2021 A portrait by Edward Hopper and a story by Edgar Allan…
I. Me. You?
The Pocket Opera Festival Salzburg 2023 looks behind the scenes of self-presentation. And it covers an intense century in the process. From Max Beckmann to Sophie Calle to the TikTok…
