Salome Kammer interprets Brice Pauset’s Theorie der Tränen: Louise in Arsenal Metz

Brice Pauset wrote his piece Theorie der Tränen: Louise especially for the voice artist Salome Kammer. On 18 May 2022, she will be interpreting it in Salle de l’Esplanade im Arsenal Metz with the Ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin led by Remy Durupt. Salome Kammer premièred the work back in 2009 with the Ensemble Lucilin at the Théâtre National du Luxembourg. With Pauset’s Exercises du Silence – a first version of Theorie der Tränen with electronics – Salome Kammer was a guest at the Opéra Bastille and at IRCAM Paris as well as in a scenic interpretation at the Staatsoper Berlin (directed by Reinhild Hoffmann).
The Neue Musik Zeitung praised her performance back then with the following words: When “the chamber” enters the podium, true theatre inevitably always comes to light at the same time. A matter of presence.

(published on 10 May 2022)

Eva Resch returns to the Munich Biennale with the world première of Malin Bång

On 15th May 2022, soprano Eva Resch will be bringing her performance of Malin Bång’s The damned and the saved to the Muffathalle Munich as part of the Münchener Biennale. Further performance dates are set for 17/18/19 May 2022 in Munich along with on 16/21/26 June 2022 and 3 July 2022 at the NTM Nationaltheater Mannheim (theatre), which co-produces the work with the Biennale.

Conductor Rei Munakata leads orchestra members of the Nationaltheater Mannheim, while the director is Sandra Strunz. Other soloists include Johanna Greulich (soprano), Matthias Breitenbach (data collector), Ilya Lapich (dream interpreter), Maria Munkert and Jessica Higgins.

Eva Resch has already been a guest at the Munich Biennale in 2004 with Johannes Maria Staud’s opera Berenice.

In The Damned and the Saved, composer Malin Bång and author Pat To Yan focus on the friendship between two women: in a nameless repressive system, the machine is king. Friends Dana and Sara attempt to assert themselves against this totalitarian violence. But as the two of them take different paths in the resistance, their relationship is mercilessly put to the test. Swedish composer Malin Bång’s music creates a cosmos full of surprising and contrasting sounds, ranging from restrained intimacy to stubborn poignancy. Her composition carries on the rhythm and melody of Pat To Yan’s libretto and creates both connections and boundaries between the worlds of experience undergone by the two protagonists. (Source: Münchener Biennale)

(published on 26 April 2022)