Christmas concert • Marian oratorio

Ensemble Wiener Collage
   Bojidara Kouzmanova violin
   Miaoyu Luginbühl violin
   Manuel Schager violoncello
   Julia Zulus oboe, oboe d'amore
   Alfred Melichar accordion
   Milica Zakić piano
Yui Futaeda soprano
Christina Constanze Polzer stage design
Sara Zimmermann dramaturgy
René Staar conductor

Arnold SCHÖNBERG Weihnachtsmusik
Uraufführungen von Marius BINDER, Christian FLURY, Nava HEMYARI, Berthold CVACH, Jean-Baptiste MARCHAND, Simon ÖGGL, Matthias Maria REISSNER, Katharina ROTH

The Ensemble Wiener Collage presents its eleventh Christmas concert as a new oratorio by eight composers, culminating in Schönberg’s “Christmas Music.” The literary basis is the Protoevangelium of James, a non-biblical text that places Mary as a human being at its centre: a young woman caught between hope and social pressure, her pregnancy not of her own choosing, and an existence shaped by external expectations. The semi-staged concert re-examines the miracle of Christmas from a fresh perspective, intertwining themes of seeking shelter, precariousness, femininity, and motherhood.

Cooperation with Ensemble Wiener Collage
With the support of AKM