EINFÜHRUNG UND GESPRÄCH: ORATORIUM

Program

• Bernhard Günther im Gespräch mit den Künstler*Innen des Abends

Cast

• Bernhard Günther: Gespräch

God forbid they actually come: all the invisible gods and spirits who are called by their names here, implored, conjured up: Manitu, Ra, Odin, Ishtar, Apollo, Adona. And at least another seventy deities who were (and are) invoked for help at some point in time and in the world. The Bernese poet Lukas Bärfuss has carved the despair and pleas of the people into verse. Succinct, edgy, razor-sharp. And the composer Thomas Kessler has given the words form and expression with hybrid sounds that live somewhere between the here and now and another world. [...] The audience sits right in the eye of the sounding storm – thoughtful, curious and in the end, enthusiastic. (Marianne Mühlemann in Der Bund on the premiere in September 2021)