April 2012

Portlet Media
4-2010

Javier de Frutos/Pet Shop Boys: The Most Incredible Thing
Fri 13 (Family performance) and Sat 14 April
For the very first time, the Pet Shop Boys – Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant – have composed music for dance theatre! "It’s like a Tchaikovsky ballet", Tennant commented on his ambitions – but of course with pop appeal. Sadler’s Wells Theatre has brought together the titans of electronic pop and the unexcelled imaginary talent of the expressive choreographer Javier de Frutos, who is always on the lookout for new challenges...

Georg Friedrich Händel: Joshua
Sun 1 April
Together with the L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra under the baton of Otto Kargl the Cappella Nova Graz and the Choir of St Pölten Cathedral team up to make divine storms, the sound of victory, the joy and grief of the Hebrew people as well as the fall of Jericho resound.

Franz Kafka: Amerika
Tue 10 April
In this musical reading, Chris Pichler, selected actress of 2008 by the ORF radio-play jury, and the exceptional violinist Ernst Kovacic dive into the world of Kafka’s novel "America", about which Max Brod wrote that it already contains many gentle elements of Chaplinesque humour. Additional: Cinema Breakfast

School performances
Mon 16 April: Vienna Music High School from age 14