HK Gruber's Tales from the Vienna Wood: Theater an der Wien

About the Event

HK Gruber brings a scathing 1930's play back to life.

Austrian composer Gruber conducts his own new opera, setting Ödön von Horváth's "folk tale" to music. The original play mocked the prejudices and narrow‐mindedness of the Viennese bourgeoisie, but Gruber and his director and librettist Michael Sturminger know that people like those are still around and the new opera pulls few punches.

Cast:
Marianne: Ilse Eerens
Alfred: Daniel Schmutzhard
Oskar: Jörg Schneider
Valerie: Angelika Kirchschlager
Magic King: Albert Pesendorfer
Mother: Anke Vondung
Grandmother: Anja Silja
Erich: Michael Laurenz
Cavalry captain / Confessor: Markus Butter
Mister: David Pittman‐Jennings
The Pimp Ferdinand: Alexander Kaimbacher
Havlitschek: Robert Maszl
Emma: Susanne Grosssteiner

Wiener Symphoniker
Ensemble NOVA

Conductor: HK Gruber

Sung in German with German surtitles