chamber opera/ music theater

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"no significant change" - A music theatre
16./17.4.2011, 20.00, Staatsoper Hamburg-opera stabile
composition, live-electronics: Burkhard Friedrich
video: Timo Schierhorn

director: Peter Ender
actor: Michael Moritz
Duration: 64 Minuten
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"Lancelot's Spiegel" chamber opera 1996-2000*
soprano, mezzosoprano, countertenor, tenor; picc-flute, flute/altoflute, oboe/oboe d’amore/french horn, soprano-/altosaxophone, clarinet in e flat, bass clarinet, horn; 2 trumpets in C/picc.-trumpets, 2 trombones; harp, guitar, celesta, piano, akkordeon, 2 violins, viola, 2 violoncelli, 2 percussionists

Imitation of Life
Music theatre project in co-operation with "Hamburgische Staatsoper" 2004/5
after motives by Bret Easton Ellis and David Lynch
libretto: Torsten Beyer
director: Julia Hübner
music: Burkhard Friedrich, Felix Kubin
audio design: Marko Ciciliani
ensemble Intégrales
WP and 5 more performances in May 2005, opera stabile, Hamburg
1.-16.8.2005 guest performance at the Bregenzer Festspiele

"no significant change" music theater 2002/03
(oboe, bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, 2 percussionists, keyboard, mute actors, speech quartet (male/female), video, electro-accustic sound installation)

"metrostation" music theatre 2005
after motives by Haruki Murakami
Instrumentation: electric (tabletop) guitar, video and CD
WP "Eclat"-festival Stuttgart, 29.1.05

A station means a permanent threat to the public order. Not only has it many entrances and exits to the surface, but also into a multiple branched network of tunnels of the underground. Next to travelers such locations also attract homeless, rootless inhabitants of the cities: bums, drug addicts and derelicts. Since they disturb the image and business of shops, at Hamburg main station there is used a special means to drive those people away: The station's fore court as well as in the tube system of the underground is treated with classical music. Studies investigated that such music makes it unbearable to drug addicts to linger at these places - classical music as a weapon for social hygene.

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