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David Fennessy's Sweat of the Sun at Theater Osnabrück

Jun. 01, 2017

David Fennessy's <em>Sweat of the Sun</em> at Theater Osnabrück

Following its premiere at the Munich Biennale in 2016, David Fennessy’s mesmerizing music theatre work Sweat of the Sun, based on Werner Herzog’s published diaries Eroberung des Nutzlosen (Conquest of the Useless), receives a production at Theater Osnabrück in Germany from June 2-7.

Though all of the images and ideas in Sweat of the Sun take their start from Herzog’s text, in the end, Fennessy writes, “the text has become only a part of a constellation of influences that includes the movie Fitzcarraldo, Les Blank’s documentary Burden of Dreams, Verdi’s Rigoletto, recordings of Peruvian conch-shell players, Greek myths, the Christian Passion, theories of monochords, Bavarian folk songs,” among others. 


(Sweat of the Sun at 2016 Munich Biennale)

Sweat of the Sun is Fennessy’s final installment in a trilogy of Herzog inspired works, following his 2013 orchestral work Prologue (Silver are the tears of the moon) and Caruso (Gold is the sweat of the sun) for four samplers and electric guitar from 2012.

Theater Osnabrück’s production, directed by Marco Štorman, is conducted by An-Hoon Song and features sopranos Susann Vent-Wunderlich and Gesche Geier, mezzo-soprano Katarina Morfa, baritone Marco Vassalli, bass José Gallisa, and actors Stephanie Schadeweg and Jan Friedrich Egger.

For more information on David Fennessy, visit universaledition.com.

David Fennessy
Sweat of the Sun (2015/2016)
after Eroberung des Nutzlosen by Werner Herzog
text by Werner Herzog, Marco Štorman and David Fennessy
for 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, baritone, bass, 2 actors and orchestra
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75’

Prologue (Silver are the tears of the moon) (2013)
for orchestra
3.3.3.3-4.2.3.1-table guitar (or baritone electric guitar).timp.3perc-pno-str
10'

Caruso (Gold is the sweat of the sun) (2012)
for four samplers and electric guitar
20'

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