Lulu Obermayer
Agoraphobia (2023)
Performance / Commissioned work

Lulu Obermayer, Agoraphobia (2023), performance, photo: steirischer herbst / Johanna Lamprecht
Dates
21.9.2023
Location
Uhrturm, Schloßberg
Graz
Production specifics
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23
In cooperation with Oper Graz
With the kind support of the German Embassy in Vienna and Gessnerallee Zürich
Lulu Obermayer’s performance for the opening of steirischer herbst addresses the masculinity that underwrites much of the opera tradition. The gendering of opera is Obermayer’s long-time concern, but never before has she worked with male singers and their voices, as she does in this performance. It confronts a haunting monument from the interwar period by Wilhelm Gösser, which celebrates the anniversary of a by-then defunct infantry regiment that fought in Galicia and Italy during World War I.
Performers: Ivan Oreščanin, Wilfried Zelinka, Lulu Obermayer
Choir: Kapellknaben Graz
Hair, makeup, styling: Marlena Fink
Garments: Nicholas x Daniel Hanson
Sound design: Çağdaş Onaran
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