The music theater project by the German composer Michael Obst is called “Unter dem Gletscher”, director Hermann Schneider contributed the libretto, as reported. The premiere received loud applause!
The surprising project is based on the novel by the Icelandic Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness. Michael Obst’s music is profound and draws richly from Icelandic folk music with sonorous male choirs and offbeat figures. But echoes of church hymns, drinking songs, dances or jazz are also interwoven. The Bruckner Orchestra, conducted by Ingmar Beck, leads 13 highly motivated singers through the evening with a lively tempo and precise contact.Lost and MysticalThe moderate plot with banal human backgrounds takes place in a village below a glacier. This is where Vebi, a young representative of the bishop, ends up to check whether the pastor is fulfilling his duties. But the church is boarded up… Seductive voices In the main role, Anna Alàs i Jove convinces with both acting and singing charisma. Gotho Griesmeier is the priest’s wife with a seductive voice. Other convincing roles include Dominik Nekel, Martin Achrainer, Vaida Raginskyte and Matthäus Schmidlechner. Hermann Schneider proves to be an experienced directing practitioner. Falko Herold supports him with a realistic stage design. Applause for the music and the praiseworthy singers! In the flower bed of vanities At the same time, the Nestroy farce “Love Stories and Marriage Matters” premiered at the Schauspielhaus. The staging by Dominique Schnizer digs into emotional slag, peaks at the peak of meanness and pulls out many stops in terms of coarseness. Butcher’s French and Viennese Heart Nestroy created with his farce a great cabinet of horrors of human vanities and Schnizer knows how to use it skilfully with his directing. He sends Christian Higer as a coarse, super-rich with butcher’s French into the musty flowering bed of Nestroy types, in which Eva-Maria Aichner as a lady and Lorena Emmi Mayer as a daughter also thrive wonderfully. Jan Nikolaus Cerha believes that he has everything under control as a slick fog. A mockery that will never lose its meaningfulness through a great wisdom: First the money, then morality!Fred Dorfer, Elisabeth Rathenböck
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