The Lighthouse - Schedule, Program & Tickets
The Lighthouse
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28.10.2021 , Thursday
19:30
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Kammeroper, Fleischmarkt 24, 1010 Wien
Chamber opera in a prologue and an act (1980)
Music and libretto by Peter Maxwell Davies
In English with German surtitles
New production of the Theater an der Wien in the chamber opera
A strange incident is under judicial investigation: When a supply ship reached a lonely lighthouse, the three officers found the lighthouse abandoned except for a flock of rats. There was no trace of the three lighthouse keepers. Despite the stormy weather, there were no signs of a fight or a flood disaster, everything looked as if the three had only just left the tower: the table was set, dinner was ready. In court, the three officers are now suspected of having something to do with the guards' disappearance. Your statements do not illuminate the circumstances, everything just becomes more mysterious, as they perceived the situation differently, but unanimously describe the atmosphere as spooky. The negotiation becomes a vision of what happened: the three guards who had been lonely there for months were very different: Arthur was evidently a self-righteous religious zealot, while Blazes and Sandy had a morally dubious past. But all three hid from their past on the island. Playing cards was her only pastime. One evening the atmosphere became aggressive. They tried to calm themselves down by singing a song that meant something to them - it soon turned out that it was a glimpse into their own fate: Blazes told how he slew an old woman for her money, his father became for it hanged. He didn't seem to have any remorse. A fateful love story was reflected in Sandy's song, and Arthur let his obsessive fantasies about the golden calf and the killing around it run free. With the rising fog, the ghosts of the past crawled out of the sea and grabbed the three of them until they - now completely insane - saw a punishing beast with shining eyes emerge from the storm that wanted to fetch them. The judicial investigation ends with an acquittal for the three officers. The fate of the guards remains an unexplained accident. One learns that no new guards have been found for this lighthouse and that everything is now automated there.
Subject to changes.
Music and libretto by Peter Maxwell Davies
In English with German surtitles
New production of the Theater an der Wien in the chamber opera
A strange incident is under judicial investigation: When a supply ship reached a lonely lighthouse, the three officers found the lighthouse abandoned except for a flock of rats. There was no trace of the three lighthouse keepers. Despite the stormy weather, there were no signs of a fight or a flood disaster, everything looked as if the three had only just left the tower: the table was set, dinner was ready. In court, the three officers are now suspected of having something to do with the guards' disappearance. Your statements do not illuminate the circumstances, everything just becomes more mysterious, as they perceived the situation differently, but unanimously describe the atmosphere as spooky. The negotiation becomes a vision of what happened: the three guards who had been lonely there for months were very different: Arthur was evidently a self-righteous religious zealot, while Blazes and Sandy had a morally dubious past. But all three hid from their past on the island. Playing cards was her only pastime. One evening the atmosphere became aggressive. They tried to calm themselves down by singing a song that meant something to them - it soon turned out that it was a glimpse into their own fate: Blazes told how he slew an old woman for her money, his father became for it hanged. He didn't seem to have any remorse. A fateful love story was reflected in Sandy's song, and Arthur let his obsessive fantasies about the golden calf and the killing around it run free. With the rising fog, the ghosts of the past crawled out of the sea and grabbed the three of them until they - now completely insane - saw a punishing beast with shining eyes emerge from the storm that wanted to fetch them. The judicial investigation ends with an acquittal for the three officers. The fate of the guards remains an unexplained accident. One learns that no new guards have been found for this lighthouse and that everything is now automated there.
Subject to changes.