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Larcher: Das Jagdgewehr (The Hunting Gun)

“A clear, powerful text, some striking imagery and a luminous score of great beauty and originality ensure this opera’s success.” (The Observer)

“Great moments: world premiere of Thomas Larcher's opera ‘Das Jagdgewehr’ at the Bregenz Festival.” (Wiener Zeitung)
Thomas Larcher has adapted Yasushi Inoue’s best-seller The Hunting Gun for his first opera, with a libretto by Austrian Book Prize winner Friederike Gösweiner. Austrian actor and film director Karl Markovics made his debut as stage director for an opera. The story tells of three women, who speak in three letters addressed to the same man, a hunter – his wife, his lover and his lover’s daughter. As the women react to the revelation of illicit love, the hunter’s life is laid bare. “The Austrian composer’s first opera is inventive” (The Times).

Larcher: Das Jagdgewehr (The Hunting Gun)
Genre Opera
Recording location Bregenz Festival
Duration 103 mins
Production Company A production of ORF III Kultur und Information and UNITEL in cooperation with ORF Landesstudio Vorarlberg and Bregenz Festival
Composer Thomas Larcher
Orchestra / Band Ensemble Modern
Conductor Michael Boder
Choir Schola Heidelberg
Chorus Master Walter Nussbaum
Stage Director Robin Tritschler, Andrè Schuen, Sarah Aristidou, Giulia Peri, Olivia Vermeulen
Original Text Yasushi Inoue’s best-seller novel The Hunting Gun