Amsterdam: Das Jagdgewehr – Thomas Larcher

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Time: March 17, 2020 20:00
Location: Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Großer Saal Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Event Type: concerts
Organized By: Opera Forward Festival der "De Nationale Opera", Piet Heinkade 1, Amsterdam
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Thomas Larcher: Das Jagdgewehr – Oper nach einer Novelle von Yasushi Inoue (2018)
Dutch premiere

Conductor: Michael Boder
Sarah Aristidou (Sopran), Giulia Peri (Sopran), Olivia Vermeulen (Mezzosopran), Ilker Arcayürek (Tenor), Andrè Schuen (Bariton), SCHOLA HEIDELBERG (Vokalensemble, Einstudierung Walter Nußbaum), Norbert Ommer (Klangregie), Karl Markovics (Inszenierung), Katharina Wöppermann (Bühne & Kostüme), Bernd Purkrabek (Licht Designer), Benedikt Marte (CoLichtdesigner), Friederike Gösweiner (Libretto), Olaf A. Schmitt (Dramaturgie)

Eine Produktion der Bregenzer Festspiele in Kooperation mit dem Ensemble Modern – Ein Auftragswerk der Bregenzer Festspiele

A poet observes a solitary hunter walk through faraway mountains. Touched by his loneliness and forsakenness, he writes the poem ›The Hunting Gun‹. The hunter Josuke reads the poem in his ›Hunter’s Gazette‹, recognizes himself in the verses and entrusts the poet with the farewell letters of three women who have dominated his life: his wife Midori, his lover Saiko and her daughter Shoko. From three perspectives, these letters tell the story of his life, full of conflicting emotions and hidden secrets, a tale of forbidden love. Published in 1949, the short novel ›The Hunting Gun‹ by Yasushi Inoue is one of the classics of Japanese modernism. The Tyrolean composer and pianist Thomas Larcher (b. 1963) has based his first opera on this bestseller. »Beneath the apparently calm action, the music’s role is to reveal the tempests raging within the protagonists; it illuminates their feelings like a microscope. Like so many Japanese texts, ›The Hunting Gun‹ also has a ritual aspect, and I follow this in my opera by using a structure reminiscent of the Passions. The sound of the soloistic instruments is expanded in space by the seven choristers,« explains Thomas Larcher.