Wien Modern festival [ENA] From the moment the audience enters the semi-darkened halls of the SOHO Studios, there is a sense of embarking on a mediated journey through time. Ruth Cerha’s piece presents itself as a “musical station-theatre” (“Stationentheater”) spanning five stations, in which two sopranos, two dancers, a pianist and a clarinettist guide us backwards through life, death and the threshold between them.   [Full story...]

Jugendstil Theater [ENA] In Abendsonne (lit. “Evening Sun”), we are invited into a melancholic, ironically tinted chamber-opera world set in a retirement residence named Residenz Abendsonne. Here, aging, mortality, rebirth and the fraught intersections between generations play out in a setting at once mundane and metaphysical. The production opens with a group of elderly residents at the final stop of their lives.   [Full story...]