Voice Killer - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Voice Killer
Opera based on a true story
Libretto by Tom Holloway
Commissioned by the Music Theater in Vienna
How close do we get to a person through their voice? A true crime story about 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 Music Theater in Vienna. Obsessed with the voice of his mother, who sang 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 were premiered at the Bavarian State Opera, are particularly interested in the women who become the focus of the perpetrator's attention solely because of their voice. They follow the main character's schizophrenic stream of consciousness and transform the criminal case into a flow of events in which time levels and places are constantly changing. Each murder sets off a new escalation until events escalate, arrest, trial and execution coincide and the perpetrator's victims become his defenders.
In English with German and English subtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
Subject to change.
Libretto by Tom Holloway
Commissioned by the Music Theater in Vienna
How close do we get to a person through their voice? A true crime story about 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 Music Theater in Vienna. Obsessed with the voice of his mother, who sang 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 were premiered at the Bavarian State Opera, are particularly interested in the women who become the focus of the perpetrator's attention solely because of their voice. They follow the main character's schizophrenic stream of consciousness and transform the criminal case into a flow of events in which time levels and places are constantly changing. Each murder sets off a new escalation until events escalate, arrest, trial and execution coincide and the perpetrator's victims become his defenders.
In English with German and English subtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
Subject to change.