Toteis

Music by MANUELA KERER librettos by MARTIN PLATTNER Editor: Sessler Verlag 

Commissioned to Manuela Kerer, Toteis reconstructs the unusual story of Viktoria Savs. Born in 1899 in Merano, Viktoria grew up with her father, and followed him to the front in the Dolomites as Viktor. She lost a leg in combat, and this is where the legend begins. Celebrated as the 'heroine of the Three Peaks', her story was also taken up and exploited by National Socialist propaganda. To this day, Savs' biography is full of contradictions.

Starting with historical facts, librettist Martin Plattner recounts her life, always linking it to the present and offering the audience a mirror in which to reflect themselves.

Toteis refers to a piece of dead glacier detached from the active glacier, an allusion to the amputated leg that Viktoria Savs lost at the front in 1917, but also to her ideas, believed to be dead but in fact still alive. The commissioned opera is a co-production between the Haydn Foundation of Bolzano and Trento, the Neue Oper Wien and the Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen.

• MUSICAL DIRECTION WALTER KOBÉRA
• DIRECTION AND SET DESIGN MIRELLA WEINGARTEN
• COSTUME DESIGN JULIA MÜER
• LIGHTING DESIGN NORBERT CHMEL
• SOUND DESIGN CHRISTINA BAUER

• SOPRANO ISABEL SEEBACHER
• MEZZOSOPRANO VERENA GUNZ
• TENOR ALEXANDER KAIMBACHER
• COUNTER TENOR BERNHARD LANDAUER
• BARITONE KLEMENS SANDER
• CHOIR WIENER KAMMERCHOR
• ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA HAYDN DI BOLZANO E TRENTO