7th Johann Joseph Fux Competition for Opera Composition

Born in Kazakhstan in 1987, composer Sehyung Kim takes the audience into the late twenty-first century. War is raging. The poor are becoming poorer, and the population is decreasing. Recycling is important on different levels. A character who is looking for a lover who has disappeared discovers terrible things. People are being held to be used as spare parts for wounded soldiers. The work uses various elements familiar from science-fiction dystopias and converges into a short opera that matches the pulse of a precarious present. Director Olivier Tambosi has staged this premiere of the 7th Johann Joseph Fux Competition for Opera Composition, which is awarded by the Province of Styria and features students of the University for Music and Performing Arts Graz. The production takes place in cooperation with musikprotokoll and under the musical direction of Wolfgang Hattinger.