Name: The Blind
Start: 2015-01-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater am Fleischmarkt

Admin

Organization

Dirigat

Erwin Ortner

Jordi Casals

MusikTheater an der Wien

Englisch

The Blind -  (Die Blinden)

Wien

Österreich

Theater am Fleischmarkt

Die Blinden

Deutsch

Genehmigt

Accordionist

Instrument

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Andere

Bühnenbild

Chor

Chordirektion

Choreographie

Chorus Director

Dramaturgie

Extra

GesangslehrerIn

Haar

Illustrator

Komposition

Korrepetition

Kostümbild

Lehrer

Leitender Produzent

Libretto

Lichtgestaltung

Maske

Orchester

Orchestra Operations

Photographer

Poet

Regie

Rundfunk

Schauspiel

Stage Manager

Tongestaltung

Tänzer

Videogestaltung

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Übersetzung

Mezzosopran

Sänger

Tenor

Bass

Countertenor

Bass-Bariton

Bariton

Sopran

Alto

Continuo

Kinderstimme

Sprechrolle

Stumme Rolle

In 2011, Theater an der Wien presented the world premiere of Lera Auerbach's Gogol - a great opera with a choir, numerous soloists and an enormous orchestra. In the chamber opera we are now showing the filigree nucleus of Auerbach's work in the opera genre. The writer, pianist and composer Auerbach used an oppressive text by Maurice Maeterlinck, Les Aveugles (1890), as a template and implements it vividly: The Blind was created in 2001 as an a cappella opera for twelve singers. No orchestra, no instrument embeds the voices, there are only these twelve people, alone in the darkness.
(By wearing blindfolds, the audience experiences a special and extraordinary evening at the opera.)

In a lonely clearing in the forest, a group of blind people are waiting for the return of the priest who had led them there to enjoy the last rays of sunshine before winter sets in. The longer the waiting time drags on, the more restless the blind become: in their helplessness they are unable to move from the spot. Their fear grows to naked horror when they discover the priest's corpse. The blind circle the dead and begin to pray for forgiveness and salvation. Steps become audible during prayer. In the arms of his mother, the small child, the only person in the group with healthy eyesight, bursts into fearful weeping. What does the child see? Is it the near, so desperately hoped for salvation, or is it death?

English

Die Blinden by Auerbach, Lera, Ab (2015/2015), Dirigat Erwin Ortner, Jordi Casals, Theater am Fleischmarkt, Wien, Österreich

Aufführungskredite (Besetzung & Produktionsteam )

Programm, Über & Zusammenfassung

Weiterführende Literatur

Aufführungstermine & Spielstätten

Veranstaltungsorte