All screenings of THE END OF THE WORLD have been postponed to 2024 due to health reasons.
Carmen C. Kruse (DE/AT) / Patricia Martínez (AR) / Giuliana Kiersz (AR/DE)
THE END of THE WORLD
An AR opera walk about personal endings of the world
Premiere
In a two-year development process, the team around Argentine composer Patricia Martinez, librettist Giuliana Kiersz and director Carmen C. Kruse conducted dialogues with women of different generations, cultures and backgrounds in Vienna and Buenos Aires. The collected stories provide insights into historically overlooked perspectives and experiences - diagnoses of illness, the struggle to become and be a mother, loss of home, dying, social upheavals and much more.
With the help of augmented reality glasses and holograms, an immersive, scenic and acoustic work is created in which narratives of incisive female experiences come to life before the eyes of the strolling audience.
A co-production of Civic Opera Creations, SWR Experimental Studio Freiburg, Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires) and MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN.
Languages: German, Spanish, English
Information: Outdoor, Augmented Reality
Composition: Patricia Martinéz | Participation Composition: Hannah Eisendle, Golfam Khayam, Netta Shahar, Diana Syrse, Lina Tonia | Libretto: Giuliana Kiersz | Directed by: Carmen C. Kruse | With: Clara
Maria Kastenholz (hologram), Sofia Pavone (hologram), Anna Schors
(Hologram), Ensemble Experimental (ENEX), SWR Experimentalstudio | Costumes: Clara Strasser | Augmented Reality: Alisa Kherson, Yunnai Zhang | Dramaturgy and project management: Marie Steiner | Production: Civic
Opera Creations, SWR Experimental Studio Freiburg, Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN | Funded by: MA 7 Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Sport & Public Service
CARMEN C. KRUSE, DIRECTOR
Carmen
C. Kruse is an award-winning opera director and collaborator.
As co-artistic director of the Vienna-based Civic Opera
Creations, she is an active advocate for New Opera. Her work is
is characterised by a profound, psychological exploration of broad social
social issues and their impact on the individual, and is
and is informed by first-hand accounts and community input.
fed. Kruse creates immersive live experiences that change the
relationship between the orchestra and the dramatic action, presenting
present archaic worlds that inspire and empower. Kruse
won the Baden-Baden directing competition and the CROSS Prize in Italy.
Productions and scholarships have taken her to prestigious venues such as the
Baden-Baden Easter Festival, the Ensemble Modern and the Lincoln
Centre's Directors Lab in Europe, Australia and North America.
PATRICIA MARTÍNEZ, COMPOSER
Patricia
Martínez was an Argentinian-Spanish composer, interdisciplinary artist and performer.
artist and performer. Her creative and scholarly
interests focused on the composition of new music and interdisciplinary
interdisciplinary projects, especially contemporary music theatre,
new opera, musical composition and performance, the meaningful use of
technology (electroacoustic and video art), improvisation and
choreography-composition. She studied in Buenos Aires, Quilmes, IRCAM
and Stanford University and has won several prizes and awards.
awards.
GIULIANA KIERSZ, LIBRETTIST
The
Argentinean word artist, writer and playwright
Giuliana Kiersz bases her work on a combination of personal and
personal and regional research, with a strong interest in the relationship
relationship to language, the specific local context, collective writing, the
writing, the political dimension of the word and the broadening of social and
social and political horizons. She completed her training as a
dramaturg in Buenos Aires and was a fellow of the International
Playwrights Programme of the Royal Court Theatre Programme for playwrights. El
fin was awarded the Germán Rozenmacher Prize and produced by the Buenos
Aires International Festival in 2019. In 2015, she won the third prize in the Instituto
third prize in the Instituto Nacional del Teatro competition with Isabel I.
published her work in 2016. Her work has since been performed in Argentina,
Germany, France and Mexico.
Prices
€ 25 full price / € 15 reduced / € 10 CARE
Available with the ODEON Combiticket
Performances
Spitzer at the Odeon Theatre
Taborstraße 10, courtyard left, 1020 Vienna