Bregenz Festival 2018: The Hunting Gun

Synopsis

A world premiere at Bregenz Festival: 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. It tells the story 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. Award-winning Austrian actor and film director Karl Markovics gives his debut as stage director for an opera.

Additional Info

• No: A04050102
• Composer: Thomas Larcher
• Conductor: Michael Boder​
• Orchestra: Ensemble Modern; Schola Heidelberg
• Artists: Robin Tritschler​, Andrè Schuen​, Sarah Aristidou​, Giulia Peri​, Olivia Vermeulen​
• Production year: 2018
• Run time: 01:46:00
• Director: Stage Director: Karl Markovics​
• Producers: ORF III Kultur und Information and UNITEL in cooperation with Landesstudio Vorarlberg and Bregenz Festival
• Format: HDTV 16:9