Christmas concert • Marian oratorio

Yui Futaeda, soprano
René Staar, conductor

Christina Constanze Polzer, stage design
Sara Zimmermann, dramaturgy

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