Name: Voice Killer
Start: 2025-06-23
End: 2025-06-23
Location: Theater an der Wien

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MusikTheater an der Wien

Conductor

Finnegan Downie Dear

Stage director

Stefan Herheim

Set designer

Silke Bauer

Costume designer

Esther Bialas

Lighting designer

Franz Tscheck

Dramaturge

Kai Weßler

Singer

Bass-baritone

Seth Carico

Private

Tenor

Julian Hubbard

Gallo

Soprano

Caroline Wettergreen

McGuffie

Holly Flack

Pauline

Military Cop

Nadja Stefanoff

Gladys

Eddie's Lawyer

Klangforum Wien

English

Voice Killer

Vienna

Austria

Theater an der Wien

Public

Rahul Solomon

German

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Oper nach einer wahren Geschichte. Wie nahe kommen wir einem Menschen durch dessen Stimme? Ein wahrer Kriminalfall um einen Soldaten auf einem US-Stützpunkt in Australien während des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist der Ausgangspunkt der Oper Voice Killer, die der tschechische Komponist Miroslaw Srnka für das MusikTheater an der Wien komponiert. Besessen von der Stimme seiner Mutter, die ihm Kinderlieder vorsang, suchte dieser Soldat jene vergeblich bei Frauen, denen er zufällig begegnete. Drei Australierinnen fielen dem psychisch kranken Serienmörder zum Opfer, bevor er gefasst wurde.

Deutsch

How close does a person’s voice bring us to them? A real-life criminal case involving a soldier at a US army base in Australia during World War II is the starting point of the opera Voice Killer that the Czech composer Miroslaw Srnka is writing for the MusikTheater an der Wien. Obsessed by the voice of his mother who used to sing him nursery rhymes, the soldier vainly searched for it among women who happened to cross his path. 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 received their premieres at the Bayerische Staatsoper, are primarily interested in the women who attracted the murderer’s attention solely on account of their voices. They follow the main character’s schizophrenic stream of consciousness, turning the criminal case into a flow of events in which time periods and locations constantly shift. Each murder triggers a new level of escalation until events start to come thick and fast: arrest, trial and execution all become one and the murderer’s victims become his defence counsels.

Voice Killer by Srnka, Mon 23 Jun 2025, From (2025/2025), Directed by Stefan Herheim,, Conductor Finnegan Downie Dear, Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

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