Event

The SCHOLA HEIDELBERG is making its debut at the Bregenz Festival with this world premiere of a contemporary opera.

“Let’s be criminals!” says the hunter Josuke to his lover Saiko on the beach. His wife Midori watches them and realizes the nature of the relationship between her husband and her best friend. For more than ten years, Midori will not reveal to the two that she knows about their relationship. Saiko keeps this knowledge hidden in her diary, which her daughter Shoko saves from the flames and thus learns of it. She can no longer speak to her mother about it; Saiko took the secret with her to the grave. This story is sent to a poet in the form of three letters from these three women. He had written a poem about a hunter whom he had seen only from behind during a hike. It was precisely this hunter who recognized himself in the poem.

Yasushi Inoue’s book, published in 1949, tells of conflicting emotions and hidden secrets. It reveals the loneliness of the hunter, whose hunting gun bears "the full weight deep in the soul and body of the lonely man" and radiates "a strange, bloodstained beauty." Based on this bestseller, the Tyrolean composer and pianist Thomas Larcher has written his first opera. His works are performed worldwide.

CAST:

Poet I Robin Tritschler
Josuke Misugi I Andrè Schuen​
Shoko I Sarah Aristidou​
Midori I Giulia Peri
Saiko I Olivia Vermeulen​

SCHOLA HEIDELBERG

Ensemble Modern

Musical Director I Michael Boder​
Stage Director I Karl Markovics​
Set & Costumes I Katharina Wöppermann​
Dramaturgy I Olaf A. Schmitt​
Rehearsal Director I SCHOLA HEIDELBERG I Walter Nußbaum