VON GLÄSERNEN HIMMELSSCHERBEN
Tanja Elisa Glinsner (AT) / Barbara Maria Neu (AT) / Azelia Opak (AT)
VON GLÄSERNEN HIMMELSSCHERBEN
A scenic meditation for clarinet in Bb solo about hope and destruction - by Tanja Elisa Glinsner
Premiere
The Vienna's WUK becomes the setting for the story of a working-class woman who embarks on a surreal journey via the discovery of a clarinet in Glinsner's VON GLÄSERNEN HIMMELSSCHERBEN. Maria searches for a higher purpose, for a way to escape her reality - moved by the music, she decides to build a ladder that reaches to the heavens.
The factory is abandoned and time seems to stand still. Railway tracks were once built on this site. The rails are now damaged, the machines destroyed, and the factory worker Maria is the last survivor. Although everything around her is in ruins, she continues to work tirelessly.
In this factory, clarinet sounds are welded with poetic words. All vocal expressions - from every sigh to every scream - are based on the poem "Man is Dead" by Claire Goll. It becomes Mary's only way to express herself, as well as to perceive and "explore" her own oppressive existence. In this post-apocalyptic world, where repair work never ends, the question arises as to how and whether we humans still have time for spiritual experiences and to what extent these can find a place in our future.
Sunday, 17 September, 7 pm: LISTENING TALK to "VON GLÄSERNEN HIMMELSSCHERBEN" with Tanja Elisa Glinsner and Azelia Opak in conversation with Annemarie Mitterbäck in the project space WUK.
A production of the Verein für interdisziplinäre Künste in co-production with MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN and WUK performing arts.
Language: German
Composition: Tanja Elisa Glinsner | Directed by: Azelia Opak | Stage and costume design: Felix Huber | Project management: Julia Neuwirth | Performance, Clarinet: Barbara Maria New | Voice: Vallant Guild | Mask: Zoë Mavie |
Funded by: MA7 Department of Culture of the City of Vienna, Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Public Service and Sport; National Fund of the Republic of Austria, SKE austromechana
TANJA ELISA GLINSNER
Tanja Elisa Glinsner took lessons in violin, piano and saxophone at a young age. She subsequently also made her first attempts at composing. During her school years, she studied violin with Wolfram Wincor and composition with Erland M. Freudenthaler as a member of the Academy for the Promotion of the Gifted at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz. From 2014 to 2016 she studied composition with Wolfgang Suppan and also conducting with Ingo Ingesand with a focus on piano with Andreas Thaller. With Michael Jarrell at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, she passed the master's examination. At the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna she also studied voice pedagogy and concert voice with Rannveig Braga-Postl and since 2018 with Regine Köbler.
BARBARA MARIA NEW
Barbara Maria Neu studied clarinet at the Anton-Brucker-Privatuniversität Linz and went on to study classical clarinet in the class of Gerald Pachinger at the KUG Graz and at the MDW Vienna. Since 2018 she has been studying Performing Arts with Carola Dertnig at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In addition to her work as a classical clarinettist in chamber music and as a substitute with the Vienna RSO, Barbara Maria Neu seeks in her own artistic work to integrate music and instrumental playing in a performative and scenic presentation, as well as a connection between music and the visual arts. In 2020 Barbara Maria Neu received the Startstipendium für Musik und darstellende Kunst from the Federal Chancellery of Austria. In spring 2021, she was invited by the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC in collaboration with the gallery Undercurrent in Brooklyn to an interdisciplinary online residency in the course of the project un/mute-10002.
AZELIA OPAK
Azelia Opak graduated in theatre, film and media studies at the Universität Vienna and directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. In 2021 she showed her opera debuẗt "Jorinde". She then staged "Ritter, Dene, Voss" by Thomas Bernhard, Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" and her self-written "Greta", a theatrical research. Her artistic activity also extends to documentary films and theatre projects in Europe, Turkey and the USA.
azeliaopak.com
Prices
€ 25 Full / € 15 Reduced / € 10 CARE / Available in the "WUK" Combi-Ticket
Performances
WUK Project Space
Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna
