What you’ll hear and see
The artists
- Emma Schoepe acting
- Musiker*innen des Black Page Orchestra
- Alessandro Baticci flutes
- Teresa Doblinger clarinets
- Maiken Beer cello
- Igor Gross percussion
- Thierry Tidrow composition
- Friederike Karig libretto
- Wolfgang Nägele directing
- Tine Becker stage design, costume design
Staged Concert
Oscar the Elephant, Alois the Lion and Geraldine the Giraffe find humans horrible. Apart from revolutions, ecological disasters and famines, they haven’t accomplished anything. This must change – after all, it’s about their children! And so the animals of the world call their first and only conference. In order to make heads of state change their minds, however, the animals have to use all kinds of daring tricks…
Commission (music, libretto) and production Philharmonie and Musikverein Wien