Two female figures, in truth one and the same person, at odds with themselves in their constant struggle with the ring, and yet full of passion and devotion for the one goal: the stage that is life.

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Bernhard Lang/Michael Sturminger Brünnhilde Burns: A Game with Fire

Bayreuth Festival Theatre

A major third rings out from the loading hatch of a garbage truck – Gerhard Stäbler perceives it as Morse code of an acoustic journey. Endless loops, which imperceptibly alter our stream of consciousness, cause the acoustic landscape in Bernhard Lang’s piece to implode. A fragmentary nucleus, dissected by Laure M. Hiendl into minuscule particles, oscillates between a sonic still life and animated stasis, hinting at a third possibility. Instead of dogmatic assertions of absoluteness, Luxa M. Schüttler envisions an archipelagic diversity which, ultimately, is not bound to a single focal point. A concert that takes you into the infinite expanses of minuscule dimensions.

Archipelagic Sounds

Wiener Konzerthaus

Dora is in her mid-twenties and stuck in the sheltered surroundings of her family. Though she still has her whole life ahead of her, she suspects that the future has only the same old worn and well-known ideas to offer than before. Dora, the 21st century’s new heroine of opera, meets her present with total rejection and finds herself in aimless search for something different. Bernhard Lang's rhythm-driven music becomes Dora’s accomplice. In his opera about a longing for something radically new, Lang and librettist Frank Witzel playfully mix varying sounds from different musical epochs whilst laying tracks to centuries old characters, myths and stories.

Bernhard Lang

Events

Past events

2 - 6 Aug, 2026

Bernhard Lang/Michael Sturminger Brünnhilde Burns: A Game with Fire · Bayreuther Festspiele

Mar 24, 2026

Archipelagic Sounds · Klangforum Wien

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