Milo Rau . Hèctor Parra . Tonkünstler-Orchester

Congo, 2019: A tanker truck loaded with sulphuric acid rams into a bus on a village road. The roads in the region are in a miserable state; at the same time, highly toxic acids are transported daily for the mining industry. Milo Rau chooses this event, in which a Swiss company is involved, and develops it into a choral and elegiac work about the fate of a village. In JUSTICE, the award-winning director and designated artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen stages the theater as a political space where global discourses are collectively negotiated. The voices of ghosts and victims, the guilty and the supposedly guilty mix with the myths of the region, which is not only rich in natural resources. Congolese author Fiston Mwanza Mujila, who lives in Graz, has been recruited as co-librettist and the music is by Catalan composer Hèctor Parra. With the Tonkunstler and a top-class ensemble, this multi-layered work can be experienced for the first time in Austria.

PROGRAM

* Hèctor Parra: JUSTICE Opera in five acts for soloists, mixed choir and large orchestra, libretto by Milo Rau and Fiston Mwanza Mujila

CAST

Milo Rau director, Anton Lukas stage, Cedric Mpaka costumes, Jürgen Kolb lighting design, Titus Engel musical director, Cyrielle Ndjiki Nya, Lauren Michelle soprano, Katarina Bradić, Idunnu Münch mezzo-soprano, Serge Kakudji countertenor, Peter Tantsits tenor, Simon Shibambu, Willard White bass-baritone, Tonkünstler Orchestra

A production of the Grand Théâtre de Genève in co-production with Festspielhaus St. Pölten and Tangente St. Pölten -– Festival for Contemporary Culture.