 
Invisible Woman
Così fan tutte
Don Carlo, Falstaff
Die Fledermaus
Concert 2001
Narrated Music
Shir Ha Shirim
Notes
Paumgartner
Musically insured
who am i...?
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Christoph Ransmayr
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
A woman prompt, an enthusiastic cinema-goer, loses her textbook during a catastrophic performance and after the final curtain she begins to curse the theatre. She is the one who is always whispering and always invisibly has to breathe continuation into the faltering play on the stage. Now she herself becomes the principal figure against the nocturnal background of three seascapes.
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| Kikuji Kawada, Self-portrait on Water Reflection, Tokyo, 1979-1989. By courtesy of the artist and Photo Gallery International, Tokyo |
Between wooden icebergs along the west coast of Greenland she chastises actors with poor memories; under coconut palms made of paper maché she recalls a bitter love story on the Gulf of Bengal and the beginning of her own odyssey to the stage. Finally, in the sets of an ancient tragedy on the Thessalian Aegean she is transformed into a film star. And in her anger, her disappointments and all her enthusiasm for the cinema it is after all only a show.
Christoph Ransmayr
The Invisible Woman
Tirade on three beaches
Director Claus Peymann
Sets Karl-Ernst Herrmann
Dramaturgy Hermann Beil
With Kirsten Dene, Ursula Höpfner, Hans Kremer, Otto Sander and others
Landestheater
World premiere: 24 July 2001
Further performances on 26,
28, 30 July, 1, 3, 4, 6, 9 and
11 August 2001
Performances start at 7.30 p.m.
Tickets are available for the performances on 26 and 30 July, on 1, 4,
6, 9 and 11 August for ATS 200, 350, 500, 700, 1,000, 1,300 and 1,600
from the Ticket Office of the Salzburg Festival,
Tel.: 0043 662 8045 579,
Fax: 0043 662 8045 760,
e-mail: info@salzburgfestival.at
From July 1 the Advanced Booking Office in the Schüttkasten is open
from Monday to Saturday from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 22 July daily
from 9.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.