Angst

This is music theatre composed solely for choir, soloists and orchestra. It deals with the basic human experience of fear on various levels: angst. Where does it come from? What are the reasons for it? The choir embodies ’singing mind games’: psychodynamics. Individual thoughts emerge from the whole and fade back into it. Specially made films can be shown, extending the sphere of angst to the visual realm. A real tragedy triggers a ‘singing mind game’: an experienced mountain climber cuts the rope that ties him to his injured friend, so that he can save himself. In five epi-sodes with the speaking titles ‘Fallen’, ‘Hölderlin’, ‘Kalt’, ‘Amok’ and ‘Ab’ the piece circles around the innumerable facets of an emotion which torments victim and abuser, and cuts through to the innermost motives of our feelings.