Chamber opera for amplified ensemble, four singers and electronics

In Ui-Kyung Lee's chamber opera Nachhall (Reverberation) premiered by the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll, an abandoned flat becomes a space of memory for what remains of a person. A corpse cleaner enters this seemingly dead place, beneath whose surface everything lives on: memories, sounds, fragments of an existence.

The space constantly reveals new perspectives. Figures and objects emerge as if from the hidden memories of a consciousness: grotesque, tender, uncanny.

The protagonist's journey unfolds between reality and dream, between documentary precision and surreal fragments - a slow identification with the forgotten and a poetic reflection on what remains when everything else has passed.

Libretto: Jasmin Schädler
Musical direction: Claire Levacher
Production: Lars Marcel Braun
Stage and costume design: Elisa Weiß (stage design student)

With KUG vocal students from the Music Theatre and PPCM Vocal departments and KUG students from the PPCM Instrumental department in particular. With Martin Simonovski, Fangyong Liang (Corpse Cleaner); Beatriz Gaudêncio Ramos, Gabriela Šipek (Mrs K from Bank B | Fly 1); Mikayla Jensen-Large, Katie Richardson McCrea (Ghost | Former Lover); Camilo Olguín, HoJang Baek (Postman | Fly 2).