Bregenz Festival
Austria
http://www.bregenzerfestspiele.comMusic director Dirk Kaftan
Stage director Johannes Erath
Set & costume designer Katrin Connan
Lighting Desinger Markus Holdermann
Dramaturg Olaf A. Schmitt
Sound director Norbert Ommer
Hanna Measha Brueggergosman
Joseph Holger Falk
Inge Annika Schlicht
Arbeiter/Simon Taylan Reinhard
Boss/Martin Maciej Idziorek
Ensemble Modern
Chamber opera (2011) – libretto by Tom Holloway
after The Secret Life of Words by Isabel Coixet
First performance in Austria
Sung in English with German surtitles
Two people meet on a disused oil rig. They don't know each other; he can't see her and she doesn't want to listen to him. She looks after the injured man in a dispassionate way; he begins to desire the woman that helps him. Both harbour a dark secret that shapes their lives traumatically. In their inability to open up to another person, they both find a possibility for tentative trust. Isabel Coixet's film The Secret Life of Words has been adapted for the stage and the Czech composer Miroslav Srnka has produced a score of great sensitivity. It's only in singing that the two main characters Hanna and Joseph find a means of expressing themselves. They dampen down the noise of the outside world by the music that comes from inside them. Musicians acclaimed in the 2015 season – soprano Measha Brueggergosman, baritone Holger Falk and Ensemble Modern – will be returning to the Bregenz Festival this coming summer to give the work its first performance in Austria.
Miroslav Srnka : Make No Noise
