Bielefeld´s Darling
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Bielefeld, Germany, has a new darling: Erwin, the natural talent, Mike Svoboda's "family-opera", written for the Junge Oper Stuttgart in 2005, had a new premiere in January 2008 in a new and enlarge version. The resonace with the audience and press was tremendous thanks to the stage direction of Michael Heicks, the musical direction of Leo Siberski, and especiallly the choir of 50 singers consisting of high school and college students. The Neue Westfälische paper wrote: "...And then you have Mike Svoboda's effervescent music, whose stilistic spectrum ranges from classic, pop, jazz to avant garde avoiding catagorisation - at one moment inviting you to swing along and the in the next tickling your ear with exotic sounds. A fresh and original sound cosmos, unexpected but direct. First conceived as chamber music and now in an orchestral version with 35 members, the Bielefelder Philharmonic under the direction of Leo Siberski performed the lightning fast and complicated score intensity and expression." Erwin, the natural talent, along with another collaboration with the writer Manfred Weiss, the chamber opera "The Incredible Spotz" which was premiered at the Opera Freiburg in December 2007, exhibits Svoboda's special interest in and talent for writing effectfully for the stage.
http://www.theater-bielefeld.de
Bielefeld, Germany, has a new darling: Erwin, the natural talent, Mike Svoboda's "family-opera", written for the Junge Oper Stuttgart in 2005, had a new premiere in January 2008 in a new and enlarge version. The resonace with the audience and press was tremendous thanks to the stage direction of Michael Heicks, the musical direction of Leo Siberski, and especiallly the choir of 50 singers consisting of high school and college students. The Neue Westfälische paper wrote: "...And then you have Mike Svoboda's effervescent music, whose stilistic spectrum ranges from classic, pop, jazz to avant garde avoiding catagorisation - at one moment inviting you to swing along and the in the next tickling your ear with exotic sounds. A fresh and original sound cosmos, unexpected but direct. First conceived as chamber music and now in an orchestral version with 35 members, the Bielefelder Philharmonic under the direction of Leo Siberski performed the lightning fast and complicated score intensity and expression." Erwin, the natural talent, along with another collaboration with the writer Manfred Weiss, the chamber opera "The Incredible Spotz" which was premiered at the Opera Freiburg in December 2007, exhibits Svoboda's special interest in and talent for writing effectfully for the stage.
http://www.theater-bielefeld.de