Cold Sweat

home opera #1

Michael Maierhof, Steffen Pohl and Isabel Osthues

13.04.2024

17:00 – 17:45

Meeting point: Eigelstein-Torburg

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45 minutes including walking distances. There is a limited number of tickets available.

13.04.2024

20:00 – 20:45

Meeting point: Eigelstein-Torburg

SOLD OUT

45 minutes including walking distances. There is a limited number of tickets available.

13.04.2024

22:00 – 22:45

Meeting point: Eigelstein-Torburg

€ 15,- / 10,- / 5,- *Pay what you can

45 minutes including walking distances. There is a limited number of tickets available.

14.04.2024

18:00 – 18:45

Meeting point: Eigelstein-Torburg

SOLD OUT

45 minutes including walking distances. There is a limited number of tickets available.

14.04.2024

20:15 – 21:00

Meeting point: Eigelstein-Torburg

€ 15,- / 10,- / 5,- *Pay what you can

45 minutes including walking distances. There is a limited number of tickets available.

home opera #1

The dying baritone sings into a prepared pistol and induces a kind of “noise singing”. The audience is taken right to the scene of the crime. The narrative background is set by a scene from Terence Young‘s 1970 gangster film “Cold Sweat”, in which a gangster (James Mason), whilst dying, threatens another gangster, who in turn threatens Liv Ullmann and her daughter. An almost absurd operatic theme. The few film scenes are cut up vertically, reversed and mirrored. “Kalter Schweiß” is the first instalment of “home operas”, a series of installative short opera works based on film scenes from B-movies, which premiered in private flats and urban spaces in Hamburg.

For baritone, 4-channel feed and video playback.

The short installative home operas are conceived with one opera singer and four percussionists (or playback). So far, the following have been premiered:

#1: “Cold Sweat” (2019, Hamburg St. Pauli)

#2: “Sodom and Gomorrah” (2020, Hamburg Altona-Altstadt)

#3: “Demon Seed” (2020, Hamburg Hafencity)

#4: “The Beautician” (2022, Hamburg Hafencity)

The premiere was supported by the blurred edges Festival Hamburg and the Musikfonds.

Daniel Gloger

Bariton
Michael Maierhof

Composer and Sounddirector
Steffen Pohl

Installation and Stage
Isabel Osthues

Installation and Make-Up
Tristan Gloger

Crime Photographer