DER SIMMERRING
Premiere
DER SIMMERRING
ERRORTHEATER / Alexander Chernyshkov (IT/RU), Philipp Lossau (DE)
18:30 Meeting point
U3 station Simmering, at Simmeringer Platz >>
Exit Hasenleitengasse / at the bus station
A music-theatrical search for inspiration in Vienna's least beloved castle
The composer is in crisis. He lacked the inspiration to create a work of art for the Musiktheatertage in and out of the city of Vienna. So he went out of the city and into himself in search of inspiration. But instead of the high-altitude spa town of Semmering, he ended up in the suburb of Simmering, where inspiration not only found him, but haunted him in images and sounds.
Der Simmerring is an opera that stages and composes the artistic process and its aberrations itself. The unimaginative composer wants to seek refuge in Semmering, where artists such as Adolf Loos and Gustav Mahler pursued their inner genius far away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Instead, however, he finds himself in the Mannerist Schloss Neugebäude in Vienna's Simmering district, where an audience is already waiting.
Loudly and quietly, he reflects on art outside and within society, the horror of the self, the loss of genius, loneliness in a council block and community in a pleasure palace and whether it wouldn't have been better not to come here in the first place. In the middle of Simmering, the birth of comedy from the spirits of music takes place to the disturbing sound of the Ensemble Platypus and the roar of the brass band.
"If we magnify the error instead of ignoring it, it reveals its most intimate knowledge to us. And if we then really listen to what the error reveals to us - its cunning, its humour, its shame and its regret - then, with a bit of luck, we can understand it for what it is: neither exposition nor recapitulation, but the development."
- Errortheater
Duration: 90 min from the start of the performance, ends at 20:30
Language: German, English
Note:: Partly outdoor event - please bring appropriate clothing for cold weather, not accessible for wheelchairs
Performances & tickets
Prices: Category 1
Full price € 27 | Reduced € 15
Meeting point: 18:30
Underground station U3 Simmering/ Exit Hasenleitengasse, at the bus station
Schloss Neugebäude
Otmar-Brix-Gasse 1, 1110 Vienna
Concept & artistic direction: ERRORTHEATER
Scenic composition: Alexander Chernyshkov
Stage & director: Philipp Lossau
Dramaturgy: Jim Igor Kallenberg
Production: Leonora Scheib
With: Marine Madelin (performance, voice), Katelyn Rose King (percussion, performance), Márton Kovács (performance, voice), Miki Sasakawa (performance, voice), Alexey Potapov (guitar), Franz Hautzinger (trumpet), Jason Pfiester (horn), Joachim Häfner (tuba), Leah Kouyoumdjian (trumpet)
& the Platypus Ensemble: Yilin Han (accordion), Anna Koch (clarinet), Loredana Apetrei (viola), Stefanie Prenn (cello), Jaime Wolfson (musical director and synthesiser)
A production by ERRORTHEATER in Co-production with Platypus Ensemble and MUSIC THEATRE DAYS VIENNA.
ERRORTHEATER
Errortheater is a musical-theatrical liberation action. Alexander Chernyshkov is a studied composer, his scores include sheet music as well as situations. In 2016 he founded Theatre of the earth. 2020 came Philipp Lossau He works in the areas of set design and directing, preferably somewhere in between. Jim Igor Kallenberg met Errortheater as a critic and fan and has been working for the company as a dramaturge since 2021. Leonora Scheib came at the same time and not only directs the production. Errortheater has already established itself with numerous productions and destructions at festivals such as Biennale di Venezia, Steirischer Herbst and venues such as Radiokulturhaus Wien and Elektrotheater Stanislawski Moscow. Recurring protagonists work in ever new and expanded constellations on productive and disruptive encounters. This time, familiar companions such as Márton Kovács or the Platypus ensemble meet new friends such as the Wiengas brass orchestra. After Trascrizione di un errore and No Distance Left to Sound, we are delighted to be performing Der Simmerring for a third time at the Musiktheatertage Wien.
