Koma — Klangforum Wien · Wiegers by Haas, on. 24 juli 2024, Fra (2024/2024), Dirigent Bas Wiegers, Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria

Ouverture Spirituelle · Et exspecto Koma — Klangforum Wien · Wiegers Opera with a text by Händl Klaus (definitive version, 2015–2018, premiered in 2019) Part of the performance takes place in complete darkness. Concert Performance Wed 24 July Programme Georg Friedrich Haas Koma Artists Bas Wiegers Conductor Sarah Aristidou Michaela Sarah Brady Jasmin Andrew Watts Alexander / Mother Peter Schöne Michael Susanne Gritschneder Dr. Auer Henriette Gödde Dr. Schönbühl Karl Huml Nurse Janos Benjamin Chamandy Nurse Nikos Raphael Sigling Nurse Zdravko Klangforum Wien Georg Friedrich Haas’s opera Koma, which received its world premiere in Schwetzingen in 2016, explores the condition of a patient caught between life and death. Michaela has suffered a traumatic brain injury and remains in a vegetative state. She is here – and at the same time unbelievably far away, trapped in a limbo of light and darkness. Through Haas’s evocative music, composed to a libretto by Händl Klaus, this shadowland is made palpable. More than half the scenes depicting Michaela’s dream state through sound are played in absolute darkness. The hospital staff go about their daily business in a kind of twilight, while Michaela’s relatives are confronted with another shadowland: the horrors of memory.