FULL OLIVEROS’ SCHAFE (Oxana Omelchuk) A Short Opera Salzburg 2023 Sachika Ito
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Oliveros' Schafe
- Composer: Omelchuk Oxana
- Libretto: Oxana Omelchuk Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: SZENE Salzburg, Austria, Klang21 Taschenopernfestival Salzburg
- Recorded: November 18, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Sachika Ito
- Conductor: Rosina Flueckiger
- Orchestra: oenm oesterreichisches ensemble für neue musik
- Stage Director: Thierry Bruehl
- Costume Designer: Claudia Jung
- Lighting Designer: Hubert Schwaiger
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Klang21 Taschenopernfestival Salzburg
- Format: DVD
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, desubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Oxana Omelchuk
Born in Belarus, she studied composition and electronic music in Cologne, where she still lives and works today as a freelance composer and musician using an analog synthesizer. “One might think that musical progress is expressed through the use of the most advanced technical means, but perhaps there is more charm in a synthesizer cabinet like this, despite its limitations and inconvenience, than in some of the sound tinkering of sophisticated electronic studios.”
Oxana Omelchuk’s short opera OLIVEROS’ SHEEP for speaking voice, soprano, seven instruments, and playback consists of diary-like, autobiographical notes, compiled into a libretto by her and Thierry Bruehl. Childhood memories, aphoristic reflections, memorable quotations from important authors, exorbitant and banal stages in her own biography and in her role as a composer are documented musically and linguistically in a total of ten images.