Mozart. Schwarzenegger. Hitler.

In the organizer's words:

Opera

Music performance by Isabella Sedlak
In German language

"Mozart. Schwarzenegger. Hitler." - Three names with which Austria is associated abroad. But what do these three names say about national attributions, cultural heritage and identitarian violence? In this musical-scenic performance, Mozart and his music meet today's realities: Between TikTok and Rococo, viral videos and chocolate balls, a Mozart emerges who is simultaneously genius, pop star and exploited. Together with the Israeli-Brazilian musician Thomas Moked Blum, the Austrian author and director Isabella Sedlak develops a tragicomic performance of our time around a narcissistic, hedonistic figure - who oscillates between nationalism, cosmopolitan desire for freedom and delusions of grandeur. Blum brings Mozart's melodies with violin, guitar and electronics into resonance with Jewish, Arabic and Latin American musical traditions. The result is a direct dialog between acting and music, which drive and rub against each other. Mozart's melodies are articulated in new languages or with an accent. - A grotesquely humorous, musically dense and at the same time highly political examination of origins - and a declaration of love to Mozart as a transcultural artist in permanent remix. This content has been machine translated.