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Electric Dreams

Event

Electric Dreams

  • Date: Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 7:30pm
  • Venue: Das MUMUTH — Lichtenfelsgasse 14, Graz, Austria
  • Tickets: Adults: €19 — Tickets can be purchased online

Event Details

A hotel room. An unknown person cannot sleep and switches on the TV zapping between documentaries, consumer TV, sports reports and quiz shows – a remote-controlled medley of arias, recitar cantado, and background choirs. Questions arise: Are we in the eighties of the last century or in a postmodern dream about a postmodern time? Or is this in fact a member of Generation X holidaying in an Opera-80s-TV concept hotel? “Electric Dreams” by Australian composer Matthew Shlomowitz is obviously a journey in time. But does it take us into the future or into the past?

Director Philipp M. Krenn stages the premiere with students of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in cooperation with musikprotokoll, with Wolfgang Hattinger as conductor. The eighties, here that means big hair and shoulder pads, yachts and shopping malls, saccharine synthesisers, impeccable power chords, and resounding drum rhythms, but also souped-up cars, flannel shirts and seventies rock music. And then there is the eighties of self-reflective, but lowbrow art, celebrated by some as historically and politically aware, dismissed by others as false and vapid. “Electric Dreams” combines all these variations of the good old days to create a dream-like contemporary opera event.

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to info@steirischerherbst.at

Featured Australian Works

Electric Dreams : opera by Matthew Shlomowitz
— performed by Wolfgang Hattinger

Featured artists

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