


L’Opra Fatale—an Intervention (2020)
Performance
Oper Graz
26.9., 17:00 and 20:00
Oper Graz
Kaiser-Josef-Platz 10, 8010 Graz ♿
Duration: 60 min.
In multiple languages
Single tickets 16/12 Euro
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Credits
Concept, performance: Lulu Obermayer
Composition, performance: Alexandra Holtsch
Singing, performance: Margareta Klobučar, Corina Koller, Tetiana Miyus
Costumes: Marlene Haase (suit) / Isabel Toccafondi (Graz)
Technical direction: Gretchen Blegen
Model construction: Filipe Serro
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20
Developed within the framework of Forecast-Skills e.V.
With the kind support of Tanzhaus Zurich
Be it in life, on stage, or in the classical opera repertoire: when a woman thirsts for revenge or power, this is perceived as disturbing, mysterious, or perhaps even as a cause for scandal, while male violence is ubiquitous and seems downright banal. This autumn, artist and singer Lulu Obermayer exacts at least some mild revenge in her artistic intervention for Oper Graz (the title quotes Verdi’s Lady Macbeth). Building on her practice of critically deconstructing gender roles, she occupies the opera building together with an ensemble of female singers to temporarily recast the canonic role of the woman in the opera. She herself appears as Mistress of Ceremony, decoding the symbolic order of the stage and reexamining its clichés of female violence.
Bio
Lulu Obermayer (1989, Munich, Germany) is an artist whose practice is situated between opera, theatre, performance art, and dance. Her recent choreographic work deals with the representation of femininity and solitude on stage, whose instances she isolates and extends. She lives in Munich and Berlin.
Credits
Concept, performance: Lulu Obermayer
Composition, performance: Alexandra Holtsch
Singing, performance: Margareta Klobučar, Corina Koller, Tetiana Miyus
Costumes: Marlene Haase (suit) / Isabel Toccafondi (Graz)
Technical direction: Gretchen Blegen
Model construction: Filipe Serro
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20
Developed within the framework of Forecast-Skills e.V.
With the kind support of Tanzhaus Zurich