Organization

Admin

Salzburger Festspiele

Mozarteum Salzburg

Others

Klangforum Wien

Conductor

Bas Wiegers

Singer

Soprano

Sarah Aristidou

Michaela

Sarah Brady

Jasmin

Countertenor

Andrew Watts

Alexander

Mutter

Baritone

Peter Schöne

Michael

Bass

Karl Huml

Pfleger Janos

Bass-baritone

Raphael Sigling

Pfleger Zdravko

Contralto

Henriette Gödde

Frau Dr. Schönbühl

Mezzo-soprano

Susanne Gritschneder

Frau Dr. Auer

Koma — Klangforum Wien · Wiegers

Salzburg

Austria

Mozarteum

Großer Saal

Public

Koma

Sharan Allad

Approved

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.

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Cast