"To make the presence of the absent painful..." - Adriana Hölzsky: Tragedy - invisible space Cover Image

"Die Anwesenheit des Abwesenden schmerzlich zu machen..." – Adriana Hölzsky: Tragödia – unsichtbarer Raum
"To make the presence of the absent painful..." - Adriana Hölzsky: Tragedy - invisible space

Author(s): Maria Kostakeva
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Music, Sociology of Art
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: Adriana Hölzsky; Jean Genet; opera; postmodern music;

Summary/Abstract: Adriana Hölzsky's stage work Tragedy - Invisible Space (1997), that has no plot, no singing and no stage characters, it can be used as one radical experiment, a strange meta-opera. Instead of Real actors are given sound figures and props, feelings, gestures and gesture produced. The composer's intention was "the complexity and "To try out the expressiveness of an opera without semantics". The work appears as a totality of heterogeneous layers in which times and spaces, The real and the fantastic, the poetic and the surreal merge.

  • Issue Year: 1/2003
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 187-197
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: German