opera in 3 acts after the novel by Yasushi Inoue
Michael Boder (music director), Ensemble Modern, Schola Heidelberg, Karl Markovics (director), Katharina Woeppermann (stage & costume design), Bernd Purkrabek (light director), Walter Nußbaum (choir director) | cast: Poet (Robin Tritschler), Josuke Misugi (Andrè Schuen), Shoko (Sarah Aristidou), Midori (Giulia Peri), Saiko (Olivia Vermeulen)
Reviews
Wiener Zeitung
Great moments: world premiere of Thomas Larcher’s opera Das Jagdgewehr at the Bregenz Festival.
The Times
Thomas Larcher has adapted Yasushi Inoues best-seller The Hunting Gun for his first opera, with a libretto by Austrian Book Prize winner Friederike Gösweiner. Austrian actor and film director Karl Markovics made his debut as stage director for an opera. The story tells of three women, who speak in three letters addressed to the same man, a hunter his wife, his lover and his lovers daughter. As the women react to the revelation of illicit love, the hunters life is laid bare. The Austrian composers first opera is inventive.
The Observer
A clear, powerful text, some striking imagery and a luminous score of great beauty and originality ensure this operas success.