Salz

Loosely based on "Kali – eine Vorwintergeschichte" by Peter Handke

Paschen (a rhythmic clapping tradition in the Salzkammergut region), a former salt mine and a novel by Peter Handke: the mobile chamber opera by Gerhard Stäbler is the mythic journey of a woman into the land of her childhood.

Subject to change
Marktgemeinde Hallstatt
© Marktgemeinde Hallstatt / Bürgermeister Alexander Scheutz
Programline
Contributors

Gerhard Stäbler (composition)
Kunsu Shim (performer), Christa Ratzenböck (vocals, Landestheater Linz)
Filip Erakovic (accordion), Luna Quartet (string quartet, Amsterdam, NLD), Graz University Orchestra (action group)
Hermann Schneider (narrator, Libretto, OÖ. Theater und Orchester GmbH)
Florian Parbs (set design)
Gregor Hafner (Altes Salzamt Hallstatt, Gitone Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH)
Roman Widmann (technical direction)
Suhrkamp Verlag AG (performance rights)

Thorsten Schwarz (Assistance Performing Arts)
Maria Neumayr-Wimmer (Head of Production)
Carla Ohler (Production)

A co-operation with OÖ. Theatre and Orchestra GmbH.

When
September 2024

About the project

The past and culture upheavals in the biography and contemporary history are treated as topics. The central motif is a mine and mining. The production attempts to make modern music theater able to be experienced in a historic mine in the history of salt. The literary world is combined with the historic and the intimacy of the event underscored by the fact that it can only accommodate a maximum of 70 audience members.