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Voice Killer Theater an der Wien Fri 13.Jun 2025 19:00 replace me !Voice Killer Theater an der Wien Mon 16.Jun 2025 19:00 replace me !Voice Killer Theater an der Wien Wed 18.Jun 2025 19:00 replace me !Voice Killer Theater an der Wien Fri 20.Jun 2025 19:00 replace me !Voice Killer Theater an der Wien Mon 23.Jun 2025 19:00 replace me !Opera based on a true story
Libretto by Tom Holloway
Commissioned by the MusikTheater an der Wien
How close do we get to a person through their voice? A true criminal case involving a soldier on a US base in Australia during the Second World War is the starting point of the opera Voice Killer, which the Czech composer Miroslaw Srnka composed for the MusikTheater an der Wien. Obsessed with the voice of his mother singing children's songs to him, this soldier searched in vain for it in women he met by chance. Three Australian women fell victim to the mentally ill serial killer before he was caught. Srnka and his librettist Tom Holloway, whose operas South Pole, Singularity and Make No Noise premiered at the Bavarian State Opera, are particularly interested in women who become the perpetrator's focus simply because of their voice. Here they follow the schizophrenic stream of consciousness of the main character and transform the criminal case into a flow of events in which time levels and places are constantly changing. Each murder triggers a new level of escalation until events escalate, arrest, trial and execution coincide, and the victims become the perpetrator's defenders.
In English with German and English surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
(Source: theater-wien.at)
