Program

"The Idiot", composed from 1986-1989, was given its world premiere in Mannheim in 2013, and now comes to Vienna for its Austrian premiere in a production directed by Russian Vasily Barkhatov. World literature on the opera stage.

With "Il Polifemo" in 1735, Porpora threw down the gauntlet to his London rival Handel and, appropriately, the opera tells the story of a veritable clash of the titans: It centres on the battle between Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus and on the latter’s tragic love of the nymph Galatea.

When wild children, inspired by the sounds of the family opera "Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen", and lots of colours conquer the Mumok, things get really creative!

From made-up horns to colourful fur on the face to painted teeth, anything is possible during a visit to the make-up department. The main thing is that it's wild, cheeky & monstrous.

It squeaks, it whistles and it dances lightly - in the workshop "TaWhoop - Sing & Swing!" we become the monsters from the family opera "Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen" with our voices and body percussion.

For "Metamorphosis of a Living Room", six Japanese actors from Okada’s company and seven musicians of the Klangforum Wien share the stage. They tell the story of a family facing eviction.

Following her invitation to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s "Pierrot lunaire" at the Wiener Festwochen in 2021, the choreographer and dancer Marlene Monteiro Freitas, born in Cape Verde, finds an inspirational accomplice in Lulu.

Director Susanne Kennedy’s new production reflects on the pandemic situation in general and the vulnerability of the female body in particular. Constraint, isolation, unequal treatment – what does it mean to be alive?