Micro Oper München: Gryphius Landschafft

In the organizer's words:

Staged music, poems and texts by Andreas Gryphius, H. J. Christoffel von
Grimmelshausen, Samuel Beckett and others.

The baroque poet Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664) was a witness to the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). In eloquent sonnets, he describes the devastating destruction that the war caused to the country and its people. He describes their fragility and the futility of their efforts, and sometimes his language soars into the visionary and otherworldly. Against the backdrop of the wars in Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere, his harrowing texts take on a new topicality.
"Gryphius Landschafft" sends the listener on a journey through a destroyed country. The
The voice of singer Cornelia Melián, the compositions of Ernst Bechert and the sounds and improvisations of Gunnar Geisse lead the audience into a world in which nothing is certain anymore. The music ranges from semi-familiar, yet strangely twisted baroque motifs further and further into the unknown to violent noise thunderstorms. And back again, into the lap of an old song. Everything seems fine again.

Cornelia Melián (voice, bass recorder, shruti box)
Ernst Bechert (compositions, keyboard, speaker)
Gunnar Geisse (laptop, live electronics, electric guitar)
Anton Kaun aka Rumpeln (live video)

A production by Micro Oper München in collaboration with scope - Spielraum für aktuelle Musik
Supported by: Cultural Department of the City of Munich, OKLAHOMA Foundation.

Price information:

Discounts for pupils, students, pensioners aged 67 and over, people with disabilities.