The Box

by Fritz Hauser with Boa Baumann (Switzerland)

presented by Chamber Made Opera
in association with Speak Percussion, Aphids
and the New Music Network

Season:
Saturday 17 March – Sunday 18 March @ 6.30pm
Wednesday 21 March – Saturday 24 March @ 6.30pm

Venue:
A private living room in Kew (address provided upon booking)

Please note that The Box is completely sold out. To guarantee your place at our next performance or event, consider becoming a Keyholder - it's like a subscription 'with benefits'.

Ray Edgar writes about The Box in The Age: ‘More house party than grand opera, Chamber Made Opera inverts the scale of traditionally large productions and invites audiences to experience ''terrifying experiments'' in Melbourne's private living rooms.’ READ MORE

The Box from Peter Humble on Vimeo.

A new living room opera composed by Fritz Hauser (Switzerland), who is renowned for his explorations of sound and space, in collaboration with architect Boa Baumann.

Featuring soprano soloist Deborah Kayser, a trio of Speak percussionists, and a box.
Concept, Music, Space, Object: Fritz Hauser with Boa Baumann
Libretto: Willoh S. Weiland
Soprano: Deborah Kayser
Percussion: Eugene Ughetti, Matthias Schack-Arnott & Leah Scholes

Three of Australia’s most innovative arts companies come together to present a new chamber opera by Switzerland’s Fritz Hauser in collaboration with architect Boa Baumann. With a libretto by Aphids Artistic Director Willoh S Weiland, THE BOX starts its life as a Living Room Opera in a 1955 Grounds, Romberg & Boyd House overlooking the steep banks of the Yarra River.

Hauser and Baumann’s collaborative partnership spans more than 20 years, during which time they have worked together on both performance and architectural projects. These have included SCHALLMACHINE with Aphids and Speak Percussion which took audiences literally underneath Federation Square for the 2006 Melbourne Festival; going on to perform in Basel’s Kaserne in 2007. They have designed houses, vineyards and even castles – Castel Burio in the Piedmont in Italy has been the subject of their architectural experiments since the 1970s. This extraordinary relationship is currently subject of a major retrospective at the Zug Kunsthaus in Switzerland, and is chronicled in an 80 page full colour publication.

THE BOX begins its life in Melbourne and will undoubtedly travel to many other places in the world.

Supported by Pro Helvetia and the Swiss Consulate.

Chamber Made Opera’s Living Room Opera series began in 2010, with contemporary opera lovers donating their living rooms and in many cases the commission fee that enables these new works to come into existence.

Bookings: www.trybooking.com/19668

www.fritzhauser.ch
www.boabaumann.ch
www.speakpercussion.com
www.aphids.net