FULL Der automatische Teufel (Pabst&Everhartz) Vienna 2000 sirene Operntheater
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Der automatische Teufel
- Composer: Daniel Pabst, Jury Everhartz
- Libretto: Kristine Tornquist Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: dietheater Künstlerhaus Wien, Austria
- Recorded: September 2000
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Gerlinde Illich. Bernd Oliver Fröhlich. Julia Höfler. Bernhard Kuderer
- Conductor: Bernhard Ott
- Orchestra: Das rote Orchester
- Stage Director: Kristine Tornquist
- Stage Designer: Jakob Scheid
- Costume Designer: Susanne Matsché
- Lighting Designer: Edgar Aichinger
Information about the Recording
- Published by: sirene
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: yessubs, desubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
An absurd dialogue by Kristine Tornquist with music by Daniel Pabst and Jury Everhartz
September 25, 27, 28 and 30, 2000 | siren opera theater in the Dietheater Künstlerhaus Vienna
00:00 overture
05:04 prologue. House maid and family
06:25 Scene 1. Ahoy. The language of the mind
10:05 Scene 2. Goodbye. The language of the body
1:46 pm Scene 3. Ahoy & Adieu. The encounter
20:35 Scene 4. Goodbye & Ahoy. Approximations
29:26 Scene 5. Ahoy & Adieu. misunderstandings
35:47 Scene 6. Adieu & Ahoy. The sad ending
41:22 Scene 7. Ahoy & Adieu. The happy ending
48:18 applause
Two strange guests live in a shabby hotel – an allegory of the body, stubborn, speechless and energetic, an allegory of the spirit, fantastic, idiosyncratic and unreal. The confrontation that follows the appearance of the automatic devil is ominous. The body’s attempt to drag its head into its room like prey fails because of resistance; the subsequent speech lessons that the head would like to teach the speechless confuse the body so that it ravages the room and flees. In a first final, both of them, alone in their rooms, complain about the losses and the unrest that the encounter has left, until the maid, the soul of the hotel, who has observed everything, asks them to behave appropriately according to the hotel. Then head and body attempt a truce in a second finale, which, however, already betrays the further wars … an open ending. The host, his son and his father sit on a sideline and comment on the scene