“Michael Beil is a master at exploring the compositional process live. Together with the performing musicians, he condenses sounds, videos, actions and allusions into an idiosyncratic didactic concert experience.” (Jury for the German Music Authors’ Prize 2023 in the category Composition Experimental Music/Electronics
The Annunciation from the Bible, staging by Thierry Bruehl, a video by Michael Beil monumentalised by Philippe Bruehl, instrumentation by Brigitta Muntendorf, electronic music by Michael Beil based on a famous opera duet, that is “What now?”
A musical idea as source , which various artists expand, modify, instrumentalise and finally execute. The pre-existing meanings of these individual components offer the audience easy access, but disappear in “What now”?
What now?
Music theatre for ensemble, two actors, video and feed.
Text based on the Gospel of Luke
Commissioned work for the 2011 Pocket Opera Festival Salzburg
Music Michael Beil
Director Thierry Bruehl
Maria Milena Schedle
Angel Thomas Hupfer
