staged performance, based on an idea by Birgit Hutter and Martin Haselböck

Wiener Akademie
Conductor/musical Concept : Martin Haselböck
Stage director/writer : Michael Sturminger
Actor: John Malkovich
Soprano: Bernarda Bobro
Soprano: Marie Arnet
Custome designer: Birgit Hutter

17 & 18.6.2011 (18.6.2011)

appox. 1h, no internal

Malkovich plays Jack Unterweger (with a kind of Austrian Accent) who presents excerpts from his book to an imaginary audience. His narration is interwoven with scenes with his mother and prostitutes, epitomised by sopranos, singing loosely related songs:

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787): Don Juan (1761): Chaconne, 'L'enfer'
Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805): Symphony in D minor, G506, 'La casa del Diavolo' (pub. 1713) - Chaconne
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741): Ottone in Villa (1713) / Sposa son disprezzata
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 91): Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio, K418 (1783)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787): Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) - Ballo grazioso
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Ah! perfido, Op.65 (1795 - 6)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Berenice che fai, HobXXIVa/10 (1795)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826): Ah, se Edmondo fosse l'uccisor! (1815) (insertion aria for Méhul's Helena)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 91): Ah, lo previdi, K272 (1777)