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Part of the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN 2023

Thomas Cornelius Desi (AT)

A music theatre about time and wrath: The saint against a king

Premiere

 

Anger and rage as metaphors of strong feeling fuel this play about the historical conflict between the angry King Henry II Plantagenet and his later canonised Chancellor and Archbishop Thomas Becket almost a thousand years ago. It is the story of a loss of control with tragic consequence.

For this year's opening piece, young people, author Thomas Ballhausen and composer Thomas Cornelius Desi have explored the theme of anger. An old French verse epic on Becket is juxtaposed with a new text, and medieval book illustrations appear as tableaux vivants. This "Mysterienspieles 2.0" is musically arranged by a slider chest organ, electric guitar, an 8-channel audio system, choir and two solo voices.

 

A production of the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN in cooperation with the WIENER HOFMUSIKKAPELLE.

More information at: https://mttw.at/en/programme/holy-wrath-3/ and https://mttw.at/en/holy-rage-detuned/

 

Prices:

€ 25 Full / € 15 Reduced / € 10 CARE

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Dates:

 

Language:

German, English, Old French, Latin. With German surtitles

 

Credits:

Composition, direction, overall direction: Thomas Cornelius Desi | Texts: Thomas Ballhausen, Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence | Youth Choir: Pupils of the AkG Beethovenplatz | Choir direction: Isabella Lang | With: Marie Annick Béliveau (alto), Andrew Golder (speaker), Kenji Herbert (electric guitar), Alexander Kaimbacher (tenor), Johannes Zeinler (organ) | Text projections: Peter Koger | Sound reinforcement, audio engineering, recording: Malte Haag, Georg Hühnerfuß | Costumes: Katharina Kappert | Assistant Director: Natascha Sulz, Thomas Neulichedl | Production: MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN in cooperation with the WIENER HOFMUSIKKAPELLE

 

THOMAS CORNELIUS DESI
Austrian author, director and composer and artistic director of the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN. Desi has developed a format of new music theatre as "théâtre d'auteur". "théâtre d'auteur". In his theatrical work he explores the individual individual human psychology as the main engine of action and interaction in action and interaction in politics and its consequences for society. society. Everything is "subjective" perception. His play texts often contain authentic quotations from historical persons.
Desi studied music theory, conducting and composition at the University of for Music and Performing Arts Vienna and was musical director of the orchestra of the Vienna Society of Friends of Music and the music theatre group Totales Theater Wien.

His opera project "Tarkovski. The Eighth Film" was nominated in 2018 for the the Fedora Opera Prize. The premiere of his opera "The Mistaken Identity" by the Sirene Opera Theatre (Vienna) was filmed during the pandemic restrictions in 2020 filmed. 2022 saw the premiere of Desi's string quartet for newly built instruments by master luthier Christoph Schachner with the ARTEL Quartet.

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