Based on poems and letters by Georg Trakl

World premiere
October 21, 2005
Oper Stuttgart, Forum Neues Musiktheater
Duration: 80 minutes

Artistic team
Composition and concept: Hans Tutschku
Stage direction: Françoise Rivalland
Live electronics design: Carl Faia
Live video processing: Mark Coniglio
Musical direction: Alexander G. Adiarte

Performers
Sopranos: Anne-May Krüger, Sarah Maria Sun
Dance: Hans-Georg Lenhart
Spoken voice: Peter Rauch
Instrumental ensemble: ascolta

Poems and letters by Georg Trakl open a space of voices, instrumental sounds, movement, and video images. Childhood lies at its heart: the selected texts evoke Trakl’s youth and his close bond with his sister while also awakening personal memories. The audience sits within the performance space. Water, stones, leaves, and branches become images and sounds and reappear in the projections. Music, dance, and language approach Trakl’s poetry from different directions, without confining it to a single interpretation.