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Opening Holland Festival 2011

Mea Culpa

Christoph Schlingensief, Burgtheater Wien

The Holland Festival 2011 opens with Mea Culpa by German director Christoph Schlingensief. Mea Culpa is the last work in which the German director stages ‘a social sculpture of his own disease’. Here, Schlingensief rises above his own pain and creates a readymade opera about life, death and mortality, containing a multitude of layers andperspectives. The music ranges from Wagner to Roy Orbison. The references extend from Joseph Beuys to Friedrich Nietzsche. The anger and rebellion of Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir, part of the 2009 Holland Festival, has made way for reconciliation with the finite nature of life.

dates

Thu June 2 2011 10:00 PM

information

  • German

  • Duration of performance unknown (inclusief een pauze)

  • © Georg Soulek

  • © Georg Soulek

  • © Georg Soulek

  • © Georg Soulek

  • © Georg Soulek

  • © Georg Soulek

  • © Georg Soulek

  • © Georg Soulek

credits

direction Christoph Schlingensief opera composition Arno Waschk set Janina Audick costumes Aino Laberenz lighting design Voxi Bärenklau film composition Meika Dresenkamp dramaturgy Henning Nass, Joachim Lux, Carl Hegemann, Laura Schmidt choir rehearsal director Toni Gisler, Georg Wagner cast Guido Radschiner, Joachim Meyerhoff, Peter Leussink, Walter Kogler, Michael Gempart, Joseph Damian Ortiz Garcia, Abdul Candao, Mieczyslav Antoniak, Irm Hermann, Karin Witt, Susanne Spahn, Elfriede Rezabek, Margit Carstensen, Arno Waschk, Chor der Universität Wien, ElisabethWies-Campagner, Hermann Scheidleder, Thomas Weinhappel, Toni Gisler, Carina-Roxana Isima, Mira Partecke, Gerda Cerne, Fritzi Haberlandt, Sachiko Hara, Friederike Harmsen, Lynne Kieran, Myorah B. Middleton, Agnes Palmisano production Burgtheater Wien

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