Handel Furioso - devised and directed by Max Hoehn, photo Robert Workman |
Vosek's opera Biedermann und die Brandstifter (Biedermann and the Arsonists) is based on Max Frisch's play of the same name and was written in 2005-2007. The opera was premiered in 2013 by Neue Oper Wien (see a review on I Care If You Listen). Frisch's 1950's play describes the decompositional process of a supposedly perfect world faced with real evil. Vosek's reflects this in the opera, as the music starts by adhering to classical rules but gradually more and more rules are lost until at the end the performers are rendered speechless reflecting the innate evil which invades Biedermann's world.
Max Hoehn translated Khovanshchina/Khovanskygate: A National Enquiry for Graham Vick's recent Birmingham Opera production on which he worked as Assistant Director. Max Hoehn has directed at the Tête à Tête and Grimeborn Festivals, including Handel Furioso, a newly devised piece based on Handel and presented by his own opera company Isle of Noise (see my review). As an Assistant Director, Max has worked at Opernhaus Zürich and Theater an der Wien, as well as at Grange Park Opera, Glyndebourne and the Edinburgh International Festival.
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