KILL KRIEG | EINE GALA

A horse, texts, musicians, performers, a libretto, clever thoughts, the war.

In 8 waltz variations, with beguilingly beautiful singing, a grand piano, a player piano, a string quartet, a large orchestra and a poisonously poetic libretto, the opera-theatrical performance undertakes the impossible in our realities: To "kill the war."

Everything begins in beauty and escalates piece by piece to a final duel between an accuser and the accused. Necessarily overdrawn, yet close to reality, our socially helpless relationship to war is negotiated. For only one breath lies between the confession to life or to death.

It is about forgotten responsibility, about contempt that drives us into wars, the blood we shed for and against war, the hope of redemption, human hubris, unbridled intoxication and the order that protects man from himself. The singer Jelena Kuljić as the accuser and David Bennent as the war drive each other, with and against the libretto of the Austrian author Lydia Haider. On this evening, people settle accounts with themselves, their worst enemy, as inexorably as mercilessly.

Beauty meets horror, fiction meets reality, and war, whoever it may be, is alive, dead or alive.

KILL KRIEG is the musical and theatrical climax of the seven-part European anti-war performance KRIEGSWEIHE. The 60 min. musical tour de force is framed by three sound installations, two performances in the urban space and a duel between two 50-piece amateur wind ensembles and fits into the concept of a performative parcours / urban landscape concert by Marc Sinan, which embraces visitors and residents alike.