Jacob’s Room
Morton Subotnick

A Chamber Opera in One Act
Libretto by Morton Subotnick (EN)
inspired by Phaedrus by Plato, Eleni by Nicholas Gage, The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival  by Alicia Partnoy and The Holocaust Kingdom: A Memoir by Alexander Donat and Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf. 

produced  by Art of our Times, Bregenz Festival, in coproduction with soniq performing arts, Berlin and Hellerau – European Center for the Arts, Dresden, in co-operation with American Academy, Berlin, supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin

commissioned by Art of our Times, Bregenz Festival and soniq performing arts, Berlin.

 “[…] a grasping and touching voyage to the depth of a sore soul. Phenomenal, how the four English […] singing soloists […] act on the surface of the moving stage that pans and tilts in every direction. Brilliant, how they explore the nuances of the human voice composed by Subotnick.”
FJ, Austria Presse Agentur, 6.8.2010