FULL Das Totenschiff (Aichinger) Vienna 2018 sirene Operntheater
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Das Totenschiff
- Composer: Aichinger Oskar
- Libretto: Kristine Tornquist based on the novel by B. Traven (1926) Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: REAKTOR Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Recorded: November 24, 2018
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Gernot Heinrich, Romana Amerling, Johann Leutgeb, Bernhard Landauer, Richard Klein, Clemens Kölbl Horst Lamnek
- Conductor: Jury Everhartz
- Orchestra: ensemble sirene
- Stage Director: Kristine Tornquist
- Stage Designer: Mirjam Mercedes Salzer
- Costume Designer: Nora Scheidl
- Lighting Designer: Edgar Aichinger
Information about the Recording
- Published by: sirene Operntheater
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, desubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Money and law make common cause in B. Traven’s death ship. If you do not have the first, the second is not on his side. And those who do not have the law on their side are betrayed and sold for money as having no rights. After losing his papers, Gale, the hero of the death ship, suddenly ends up on the side of those who no longer have rights. No longer tolerated by the international society on land without papers and a residence permit, all he has to do is go to sea. But even at sea he has to hire the so-called death ships, floating hells like the Yorikke, which move weapons as contraband in the unlawful area of the oceans or – like the Lucona and in the novel the Empress of Madagascar – only serve as an insurance claim due to their sinking. (Text: siren opera theater)