How does the content and sound of different languages affect the music?
Six composers and authors from seven different countries worked together on a Pocket Opera – and dealt with the essence of “encounter”. In each opera miniature, a man and a woman meet on stage. What happens next is always unpredictable.
Six music theatre premieres in French, German and Italian. Young authors, composers and directors jointly open a laboratory for contemporary music theatre and launch the Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival in the name of Klang21.
With the biennial Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival, Klang21 has made it its task since 2005 to present music theatre of the immediate present and thus put it up for discussion. Four to five composition commissions on a socio-politically topical theme are awarded to composers with explicitly different working methods in order to examine artistic, formal and content-related questions of contemporary music theatre in an exemplary and divergent manner.
Boita à musique sous la neige
For a chamber ensemble and two actors
Commissioned work for the 2005 Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival
Text Fabrice Melquiot
Composition Christian Ofenbauer
Director Thierry Bruehl
Das Ende der Isolation
For a chamber ensemble and two actors
Commissioned work for the 2005 Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival
Text Nicolas Marchand
Music Hüseyin Evirgen
Director Christian Kuchenbuch
La canzone del re
For a chamber ensemble, one singer and one performer
Commissioned work for the 2005 Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival
Text Francesca Tuscano
Music Fausto Tuscano
Director Reinhold Lay
Frida – Un sogno
For a chamber ensemble and two actors
Commissioned work for the 2005 Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival
Text Arturo Larcati & Reinhard Febel
Music Reinhard Febel
Director Reinhold Lay
Ein Mysterienspiel
For a chamber ensemble and two actors
Commissioned work for the 2005 Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival
Text Juan Luis Cordero
Music Anna Malek
Director Christian Kuchenbuch
9+1 un couple = un mort
For a chamber ensemble and two actors
Commissioned work for the 2005 Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival
Text Christophe Pellet
Music Jean-Baptiste Marchand
Director Thierry Bruehl
Hüseyin Evirgen, Fausto Tuscano, Reinhard Febel, Anna Malek, Christian Ofenbauer and Jean-Baptiste Marchand compose. Nicolas Marchand, Francesca Tuscano, Fabrice Melquiot, Christophe Pellet, Arturo Larcati und Juan Luis Cordero write. Thierry Bruehl. Reinhold Lay und Christian Kuchenbuch stage.
Musical director Juan García Rodríguez.
Gallery Pocket Opera Festival 2005