Chamber opera for amplified ensemble, four singers and electronics

In Ui-Kyung Lee’s chamber opera Nachhall, whose world premiere is presented by the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll, an abandoned apartment becomes a space of remembrance for what remains of a person. A crime scene cleaner enters this seemingly dead place, where everything lives on beneath the surface: memories, sounds, fragments of existence.

The space constantly reveals new perspectives. Figures and objects emerge as though from the hidden memories of a consciousness: grotesque, tender, uncanny. Between reality and dream, between documentary precision and surreal fragments, the protagonist’s journey unfolds—a slow identification with the forgotten and a poetic reflection about 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 (Postman | Fly 2).