NESTERVALS GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Neue Staatsoper Wien, 13/12/2024 - 19/12/2024
Immersive Opera
Director: Martin Finnland
Stage Design: Andrea Konrad
Costume Design: Sophie Eidenberger
Text: Teresa Löfberg
Musical Direction: Hartmut Keil / Wiener Staatsoper
Dramaturgy: Tove Grün
Character Work & Technical Direction: Lorenz Tröbinger
Choreography: Jerôme Knols
With: Laura Athanasiadis, Rita Brandneulinger, Gellert Gerson Butter, Eva Deutsch, Martin Finnland, Julia Fuchs, Laura Hermann, Willy Mutzenpachner, Stefan Pauser, Johannes Scheutz, Claudia Six, Claudia Unterweger, Marius Valente, Alkis Vlassakakis, Martin Walkner, Anne Wieben, Christopher Wurmdobler; Mitglieder des Bühnenorchesters der Wiener Staatsoper
The Viennese theater ensemble “Nesterval” guides guests through the entire NEST in a fictional Austria of the future: the audience wanders from the cellar through the dressing rooms and the stage up to the workshop room and experiences the twilight of the gods like never before.
After the humans have snatched the threads of fate from the Norns, they now face a “human twilight”: they have no idea how to get out of their threatening situation. Even the gods cannot agree on how and whether the megalomaniac protégés can still be helped. After the fourth major blackout, it is clear that the world in its previous order is finally history.
After the humans have snatched the threads of fate from the Norns, they now face a “human twilight”: they have no idea how to get out of their threatening situation. Even the gods cannot agree on how and whether the megalomaniac protégés can still be helped. After the fourth major blackout, it is clear that the world in its previous order is finally history.
In the first Vienna Water War, the former federal states of Styria and Lower Austria fought over the water rights to the Hochquell aqueduct and the remains of the Danube. The world population has fallen below one billion due to climate catastrophes. Life without the internet, without globalization and almost without electricity has begun. Droughty winters were followed by hot summers. Water is the new gold. Who should rule over this precious resource? Erda and Wotan actually want people to decide their own fate. But even gods are only human, they get bored easily and prefer to push ahead with their own ideas.
