arbos_music_theatre

„Gentle Rage or The Ear Engineer“ A theatre sonata by Gert Jonke about the deafness of the composer Beethoven. Directed by: Herbert Gantschacher / Stage and costumes designed by: Sanzaba Dimna / Light design by: Bidpai / Translated into Austrian Sign Language by: Werner Mössler / Sign Language-Superviser: Horst Dittrich / Cast: Werner Mössler (Ludwig van Beethoven), Klaus Seewald (Anton Schindler, his secretary) and Alexander Mitterer (Ferdinand Waldmüller, Painter and the voice of Beethoven) In the first m

This video-clip shows some pictures from the exhibition “Viktor Ullmann, Witness and Victim of the Apocalypse”. It is the result of research work done by Herbert Gantschacher. The years of the composer Viktor Ullmann in World War I are the focus of the exhibition. This years in the Austrian-Hungarian Army and at the front of the Isonzo in 1917 and 1918 influenced the artistic work of the composer Viktor Ullmann for his life. Especially in his opera “The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disbobey of Death” Ullmann

During World War I in Austria-Hungary soldier's songs were collected (some recorded) in commission of the War-Ministry by musicians and composers like Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and Bernhard Paumgartner. This video-clip presents one example of these songs "Warrior's Farewell - Kriegers Abschied" in a performance of ARBOS-Company for Music & Theatre by Rupert Bergmann (Bass Baritone) at the former frontline of World War I at the Valentinalm near the Plöckenpass in Austria: "KRIEGERS ABSCHIED: Lebet wohl es r

This video-clips shows two scenes from the productions of ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre: the theatre play "Snow and Death" by Dževad Karahasan and the deaf theatre workshop "Speaking Hands" done by Horst Dittrich, Werner Mössler and Herbert Gantschacher at the festival "Theatre without Borders" in Szczecin (Poland).

This video clip shows the essentials of the performance of the text "The Theatre of Marionettes" by Heinrich von Kleist. In 1810 the German poet published his famous essay about “The Theatre of Marionettes”. The author is in a dialogue with a dancer. They are talking about gestures and mimes reflecting it on the examples of a marionette, the famous sculpture of “The Thorn Remover”, the fight of two fencers and the fight of a fencer with a bear. An exceptional evening of theatre in Sign Language combining vi

This video clip shows the opening of the 10th European & International Deaf Theatre Festival in Vienna (Austria) presented by ARBOS-Company for Music and Theatre. You can see some short scenes of the opening performance "Wilhelm Jerusalem - Helen Keller - Letters". In the centre of this documentary theatre are letters of the deaf blind writer and fighter for human rights Helen Keller and the Viennese-Jewish philosopher Wilhelm Jerusalem, who made the prophecy of the career of Helen Keller in 1889. In 1913 J