- Manos Tsangaris
Arnold Elevators (2024)
(Stationentheater-Trilogie)- Henry Litolff’s Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (World)
Programme Note
At a total of four Viennese locations around Karlsplatz, Arnold Elevators will become a festival within a festival between 13 and 21 November 2024 with PHACE, Studio Dan and numerous soloists and objects: Blicke (13-15 November) invites you to explore six venues from the basement to the roof, from the goods lift to the conference room on an individual tour in the Secession. Schönberg's fascination with views leads step by step to a polyphony of musical-theatrical visual axes. Schönes Wetter in Gmunden (19-21 November), a series of six ‘public private performances’ in different parts of the Brahms Hall, each for nine listeners, leads into one of the most dramatic and momentous episodes in Schönberg's biography at the Musikverein. At the Double Portrait with Arnold in the New Salon of the Wiener Konzerthaus (19-21 November), the audience swaps places during the interval. And on three evenings, the Arnold Schönberg Centre will become a Metabolic Salon with a wide variety of discussion partners.
Commissioned by Wien Modern
with the kind support of Stadt Wien Kultur as part of Schönberg 150
and by Gabriela und Burkhard Gantenbein
Coproduction of Wien Modern and Wiener Musikverein
in cooperation with the Arnold Schönberg Center
Stations:
Blicke
Station theatre for voices, performers, ensemble, light and a freely wandering audience.
An individual parcours with six venues and a bar.
Duration: 60 – 90 minutes
Double Portrait with Arnold
For two performers with violin, percussion (horizontal guitar, Waldteufel, Gran Cassa on wheels), voices, objects, discrete thread organ, audio files, light, projections - for a divided audience that changes places during the interval.
Duration: 30 – 40 minutes (2x 15 – 20 minutes)
Schönes Wetter in Gmunden
Six public private performances for voices, performers, ensemble, light, video and - in the order of the six stations in the same room - a wandering audience.
Duration: 60 minutes
More Info
- Manos Tsangaris with a world premiere at Wien Modern
- 6th November 2024
- On the occasion of Arnold Schönberg’s 150th anniversary (September 13), Wien Modern has commissioned Manos Tsangaris to write a trilogy about his dialogue with Arnold Schönberg.