SANCTA (Choir)
June 15, 2024, 7:30 pm
Wiener Festwochen
On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.
Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger
Halle E im Museumsquartier, Wien
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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