Orpheus Moments
[seriamente un’opera buffa]
Multilingual music theater in German, English, French and Italian
for four performers, soprano, countertenor, tenor, bass-baritone, flute (doubling piccolo, bass flute), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), trombone, keyboard, percussion, violin, viola and cello (2017)
30 minutes
concept, dramaturgy, composition, texts, scenography, staging:
Friederike Blum, Jakob Boeckh, Eloain Lovis Hübner, Tassilo Tesche
soprano (Eurydice): Julia Mihály
countertenor (The Composer): Michael Taylor
tenor (The Actor Playing Orpheus): Pablo Bottinelli
bass-baritone (The Technician): Timotheus Maas
performance: Friederike Blum, Jakob Boeckh, Eloain Lovis Hübner, Tassilo Tesche
Ex Novo Ensemble (Filippo Perocco, conductor)
performance: October 6, 2017, La Biennale di Venezia / 61st International Festival of Contemporary Music, Teatro Piccolo Arsenale Venice