I Hate Mozart: Kalitzke / Klangforum Wien Vokalensemble Nova Etc

I hate Mozart (2006)
Music theater in two acts
Libretto: Michael Sturminger

SACD1 Act I [01:04:15]
SACD2 Act II [01:02:00]
DVD (PAL format) Acts I & II [02:06:15]

Florian Boesch
Dagmar Schellenberger
Andrea Lauren Brown
Salome Kammer
Mathias Zachariassen
David Pittman-Jennings
Rupert Bergmann
Klangforum Wien
Vokalensemble NOVA
Johannes Kalitzke, conductor
Dieter Kovacic, Wolfgang Fuchs, turntable soloists

Peter Bohm, sound director
Michael Sturminger, stage director
Renate Martin & Andreas Donhauser, set and costume design
Kurt Schony, lighting design
Hamid Reza Tavakoli, video

Recorded November 2006, Theater an der Wien (live)

I Hate Mozart, hit production of the Vienna Mozart Year 2006, superbly presented by the original ensemble, has now been released on SACD and DVD!

"Why do I have to sing Mozart all the time?", the tenor in Bernhard Lang's opera "I hate Mozart" cries out in despair. Well, why always listen to Mozart operas and not an opera of the early 21st century for a change? With their provocatively named contribution to the Viennese Mozart Year 2006, composer Bernhard Lang and librettist Michael Sturminger succeeded in creating a parody of the opera business that loses none of its sharp wit in the CD recording. The "backstage insights" supplied on DVD reveal the abysses of singerdom and the respective worlds of conductors, managers and agents. Lang shamelessly avails himself of the latest DJ and sampling techniques, employing loops of popular melodies and familiar communication patterns to chase the stressed-out artists through their personal neuroses. The result is music of exceptional brilliance, superbly presented by the original ensemble. ( Col Legno )