Wiener Festwochen, 8 May – 14 June 2009
Since 1951, Wiener Festwochen, one of the oldest, largest and best European international theatre and music festivals, invariably held at the most beautiful time of the year (in Vienna, May and June arrive with an explosion of roses in bloom), has been serving as a reaffirmation of the Austrian capital's status as a vital city of top-class art. Every night the city opens its venues to opera, theatre and dance performances, concerts and exhibitions, bringing together the greatest names from worldwide.
Krzysztof Warlikowski, one of the most prominent contemporary directors of the Polish theatre, is presenting (A)pollonia, his latest production: a montage of texts by Aeschylus, Euripides, Rabindranath Tagore, Hanna Krall and other authors - a fundamental attempt to review and revise the views on the subject of sacrifice, accumulated through the experience of mankind.
Do not miss the opportunity to see The Andersen Project by the great alchemist of the Canadian theatre Robert Lepage, a rare guest on this side of the Atlantic. Shukshin's Stories (Rasskazy Shukshina), the result of the collaboration between the Latvian director Alvis Hermanis and the Moscow Theatre of Nations, is also promoted by the organisers as one of the most exciting events of the Wiener Festwochen programme.
Those interested in radical experimental theatre should take note of the latest work of the German director Heiner Goebbels, one of the most poetic groundbreakers of the contemporary theatre - a „staged concert in three tableaux" under the intriguing title I Went to the House but Did Not Enter, a collaboration with the Hilliard Ensemble. Festival-goers keen for an outstanding production of a classical piece should definitely plump for Onkel Wanja, a most excellent minimalist take on Chekhov's Uncle Vanya by Jürgen Gosch, brought to the festival by Berlin Deutsches Theater.
Look out for what promises to become one of the most interesting events of the festival's musical programme - this winter's production of Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne (Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy), an opera by the Belgian contemporary composer Philippe Boesmans, at Opéra National de Paris; the production team includes one of the most controversial European conductors Sylvain Cambreling, the same musician who, working with the brilliant Swiss director Christoph Marthaler created a slowed-down version of La Traviata, splitting the public into two factions: the strict deniers and intrigued sympathisers.
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