HEILIGER ZORN/ detuned
Thomas Cornelius Desi (AT)
HEILIGER ZORN/ detuned
A music theatre about time and wrath: The saint against a king
Premiere
Anger and rage as metaphors of strong feeling fuel this play about the historical conflict between the angry King Henry II Plantagenet and his later canonised Chancellor and Archbishop Thomas Becket almost a thousand years ago. It is the story of a loss of control with tragic consequence.
For this year's opening piece, young people, author Thomas Ballhausen and composer Thomas Cornelius Desi have explored the theme of anger. An old French verse epic on Becket is juxtaposed with a new text, and medieval book illustrations appear as tableaux vivants. This "mystery play 2.0" is musically arranged by a slider chest organ, electric guitar, an 8-channel audio system, choir and two solo voices.
A production of the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN in cooperation with the Wiener Hofmusikkapelle. With the kind support of Sektkellerei Kattus
Languages: German, English, Old French, Latin. With German surtitles
Credits
Biographies
Credits
Composition, direction, overall lead: Thomas Cornelius Desi | Texts: Thomas Ballhausen, Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence | Youth Choir: Pupils of the AkG Beethovenplatz | Choir direction: Isabella Lang | With: Marie Annick Béliveau (alto), Andrew Golder (speaker), Kenji Herbert (electric guitar), Alexander Kaimbacher (tenor), Johannes Zeinler (organ) | Text projections: Peter Koger | Sound reinforcement, audio engineering, recording: Malte Haag, Georg Hühnerfuß | Costumes: Katharina Kappert | Assistant Director: Natascha Sulz | Production: MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN in cooperation with the Vienna Hofmusikkapelle | Composition funding: Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Public Service and Sport
Biographies
THOMAS CORNELIUS DESI
Thomas Cornelius Desi is an author, director and composer as well as the artistic director of MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN. In more than fifty of his own music theatre productions, Desi has developed a "music theatre of encounter" based on the social effect of aesthetics as a play arrangement and also using digital communication techniques. His music theatre works have been seen at the Bregenz Festival, the Thalia Symphony Space and the Center for Contemporary Opera New York, the Linz Landestheater, various theatres in Vienna and Germany, among others.
thomasdesi.com
THOMAS BALLHAUSEN
Thomas Ballhausen is a writer, literary and cultural scholar and senior artist at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. His research interests include mediality and text, media pedagogy and digitality, and technology in artistic contexts.
Prices
€ 25 Full / € 15 Reduced / € 10 CARE
Performances
Vienna Hofburgkapelle
Hofburg-Swiss Court, 1010 Vienna
