Violetter Schnee

In the organizer's words:

The world in a state of emergency. Five people are trapped in an incessant snowdrift. Time seems to stand still. Jacques keeps to himself in the midst of the group, he affirms the snowfall like the nothingness to which he consecrates himself. Peter and Silvia, on the other hand, are depressed, anxious, pessimistic. Jan and Natasha try to keep the overview, to continue to hope and to remain active.

All of them find it increasingly difficult to communicate. What happens there without a name alienates everyone; they have no language for it. When a stranger appears and speaks - Tanja, who walks through the landscape as if in a painting - she initially triggers euphoria, followed by deep loneliness. She appears like a projection body, like a memory space; Jacques thinks he meets his deceased wife in her - he touches the membrane between life and death. But nothing is stronger than the sun. In the violet glow of the snow, the group experiences its extinction. Based on a model by the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin, the Swiss composer and Ernst von Siemens Music Prize winner Beat Furrer and the Austrian librettist Händl Klaus reflect on the existential experiences of becoming a stranger and losing one's language in the face of an impending catastrophe and translate them into a suggestive musical-linguistic structure. This content has been machine translated.

Price information:

16.00 - 130.00€