{"id":15244,"date":"2025-03-03T10:13:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T09:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/unkategorisiert\/history-of-alienation-and-colonial-violence\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:52:49","slug":"history-of-alienation-and-colonial-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/en\/baerenreiter-on-stage-en\/history-of-alienation-and-colonial-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"History of alienation and colonial violence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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History of alienation and colonial violence
\nBeat Furrer’s new opera \u201cDAS GROSSE FEUER\u201d will be premiered in Zurich<\/span><\/h1>
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Beat Furrer\u2019s latest opera \u201cDAS GROSSE FEUER\u201d, which will be premiered on 23 March 2025 at the Opernhaus Z\u00fcrich, draws on the novel \u201cEisejuaz\u201d by the Argentinian writer Sara Gallardo (1931\u201388). In 1960 she researched the living conditions of an indigenous tribe in northern Argentina and turned her conversations with the Indian Lisandro Vega, known as Eisejuaz, into the basis of a magnificent linguistic work of art. The Austrian writer Thomas Stangl has based his libretto on the novel, which was published in 1971.<\/p>\n

In the opera, Eisejuaz\u2019s story is told in an inner monologue, in time jumps, overlapping levels of reality and dreams.. After his family flees from the forests into the city of white men to escape famine, he is brought up in a Christian mission. He works there as an overseer and later \u2013 of all things \u2013 in a sawmill, thus destroying his natural habitat. After the early death of his wife he leaves the mission and the sawmill. In the realisation that \u201cel monte\u201d is destroyed, that the inhabitants are dying of hunger or from the diseases of the white man, or are defencelessly at the mercy of white interests, \u201cEisejuaz\u201d is the story of an alienation, and colonial violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cEisejuaz\u201d is a novel of inner voices and linguistic sounds. Beat Furrer develops his musical structure out of the narrative style of multiple voices. In his opera, instrumental and vocal sounds combine almost completely: \u201cThe orchestra is the resonating space of the parts or blends with a web of voices in the tutti scenes: it sings, screams or whispers, as in the chorus of workers in the sawmill.\u201d The whole opera is developed from a choral principle: the twelve-voice vocal ensemble is the starting point of the composition. \u201cThere are choral moments which are overlaid by the solo protagonists, but there are also very widely spaced polyphonic structures: whispering, calling, shouting, which are added by the orchestra.\u201c<\/p>\n

Beat Furrer will be conducting the premiere himself. Members of the Philharmonia Z\u00fcrich will be joined by the Austrian vocal ensemble Cantando Admont. The opera house was able to secure the director Tatjana G\u00fcrbaca for the production. (photo. Manu Theobald)<\/p>\n

Beat Furrer: DAS GROSSE FEUER. Oper nach dem Roman Eisejuaz von Sara Gallardo. Libretto von Thomas Stangl. Auftragswerk des Opernhauses Z\u00fcrich
\nWorld Premiere: 23.3.2025, Cantando Admont, Philharmonia Z\u00fcrich, Conductor: Beat Furrer, Director: Tatjana G\u00fcrbaca, further performances: 25., 28., 30.3., 4., 6., 11.4.2025
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