Start of the international music theater project “n[o]ice!” at the HMTMH: Within three years, students from the fields of singing/opera and composition want to give contemporary music a new [o]per. As a prelude, “Pierrot Lunaire - Mondsüchtig" will be created in collaboration with the Scenography - Costume - Experimental Design course at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts. With three times seven songs, Arnold Schönberg's melodrama Pierrot Lunaire takes us into the night life of the dangerous and endangered who cannot sleep in the pale light of the moon. Seven new compositions intervene moonstruck in the events, reflecting, commenting and interpreting. Six voices and five instruments are scenically interwoven, from “melancholy, gloomy waltzes” to the sound of “wild pleasure chords”.

Premiere 30.06.23, further performances on 01, 03, 04.07.23 in Studio D / E 30

Compositions “Moonstruck”: James Anderson, Tom Bañados, Emanuele Grossi, Julia Janiak, Hana Lim, Zampia Betty Mavropoulou, Eftichios Vittorakis

Musical direction: Martin Brauß. Scenic direction: Mascha Pörzgen. Stage: Antonia Scheffka-Rakitina, Kim Surkus. Costume: Veera Failla, Martine Mairhofer. Stage manager: Eberhard Wienecke. Lighting/technology: Wilfried Heitmüller. Project assistance: Christiana Rudolph. Production management: Grit Sommer. Assistant directors: Negin Razzaghi, Janice van Rooy. Répétiteurs: Yiwen Chen, Dror Schweid, Yewon Shin

Ensemble: Chiara Ducomble, Neima Fischer, Mathilde Matzeit, Emilia Mitskevych, Zahra Sebnat, Jin Qiuyaxu / Annemarie Pfahler, Antonia Schnaidt, Maximilian Schwarzacher, Sannah Raemisch, Barbara Walach, Ting-Chi Wang

Orchestra: Yewon Shin, Florian Albrecht (piano), Itay Shamir (flute and piccolo), Ayda Kadkhoda (alto flute), Elija La Bonté (violin and viola), Stefaniia Yasnohorodska (violoncello), Carlo Righetti (clarinet and bass clarinet)

Supervision of the composition work: Gordon Williams. Supervision of the singers: Gudrun Pelker, Claudia Barainsky. Coordination and conceptual collaboration: Rainer O. Brinkmann. Project and study organization: Karsten Barth