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Cortez arrives in Mexico intending to conquer it, while Montezuma foresees disaster. Their attempts to communicate fail, and Montezuma becomes increasingly disturbed. After Montezuma dies, Cortez dreams before his statue; the funeral sparks a massacre between Aztecs and Spaniards. When everyone is dead, Cortez and Montezuma sing together for the first time.
A five-part music-theatre work for actors, singers, speaking voices, choir and orchestra, based on Heiner Müller’s play Die Hamletmaschine. The work uses spatial sound and ritualistic, nonnarrative drama.
The central figure N. represents both Nietzsche and Dionysos. Scenes draw on Nietzsche’s life and the Dionysos myth, presenting different views on life rather than a linear narrative.
A one-act chamber opera about poet Jakob Lenz, based on Georg Büchner’s novella, which itself draws on an incident in Lenz’s life.
Oedipus solves the Sphinx’s riddle and becomes king of Thebes, where a plague leads him to investigate the unsolved murder of the former king, Laius. The seer Tiresias identifies Oedipus as the killer. Oedipus gradually learns that Laius and Jocasta were his parents and that he killed his father and married his mother, as foretold. Jocasta dies by suicide; Oedipus blinds himself and is banished by Creon, leaving his children behind. Rihm fragments and reframes the myth across scenes drawing on Sophocles, Nietzsche and Heiner Müller.
Cortez arrives in Mexico intending to conquer it, while Montezuma foresees disaster. Their attempts to communicate fail, and Montezuma becomes increasingly disturbed. After Montezuma dies, Cortez dreams before his statue; the funeral sparks a massacre between Aztecs and Spaniards. When everyone is dead, Cortez and Montezuma sing together for the first time.
A five-part music-theatre work for actors, singers, speaking voices, choir and orchestra, based on Heiner Müller’s play Die Hamletmaschine. The work uses spatial sound and ritualistic, nonnarrative drama.
The central figure N. represents both Nietzsche and Dionysos. Scenes draw on Nietzsche’s life and the Dionysos myth, presenting different views on life rather than a linear narrative.
A one-act chamber opera about poet Jakob Lenz, based on Georg Büchner’s novella, which itself draws on an incident in Lenz’s life.
Oedipus solves the Sphinx’s riddle and becomes king of Thebes, where a plague leads him to investigate the unsolved murder of the former king, Laius. The seer Tiresias identifies Oedipus as the killer. Oedipus gradually learns that Laius and Jocasta were his parents and that he killed his father and married his mother, as foretold. Jocasta dies by suicide; Oedipus blinds himself and is banished by Creon, leaving his children behind. Rihm fragments and reframes the myth across scenes drawing on Sophocles, Nietzsche and Heiner Müller.