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Gottfried Helnwein :
Festival de Sydney
Palacio de Opera de Sydney
Australia
CIERRA TUS OJITOS
Premier Mundial, la comisión del festival presenta
Poemas y novelas, cine y fotografia, pintura y performances, monumentos y reliquias, inclusive tiras comicas son las formas culturales que nos involucran en la catastrofica y traumatica historia.
A traves de estos ojos tenemos que conocer eventos que retan la posibilidad de ser representados. Nos hemos vuelto testigos de la hitoria.

Four Play, Sydney Children's Choir and Melissa Madden Gray
A new work by Max Lyandvert.

Gottfried Helnwein : Child 1
Child 1 1988
370 cm x 250 cm
photograph
Part of the Installation
Selektion - Neunter November Nacht ( Ninth of November Night )
First presentation Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1988

Installation "Selektion - Neunter November Nacht ", between Museum Ludwig and the Dome of Cologne
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, 09.Nov.1988


The simple melody of the lullaby Close your Little Eyes from the Vilnius ghetto inspired acclaimed Australian composer Max Lyandvert to create a work for string quartet, children's choir and soloist, a work that pays homage to the suffering of innocent children in time of war. All children, all war.
Four Play with soloist Melissa Maden Gray and members of the Sydney Children's Choir premiere this work for Sydney Festival within the intimate space of The Studio at the Sydney Opera House.
Poems and novels, films and photographs, monuments and memorials, even comics are the cultural forms that engage us with catastrophic and traumatic history. Through these eyes we have come to know events which defy the possibility of representation. We have come to bear witness to history.
The resonance of this powerfully staged music-installation builds as ritual-like formations and ceremonies interact with wrap-around projections.
Simple objects - books, copper piano wires, a siren - become powerful metaphors. White light recedes into darkness. The audience too becomes part of the piece, invited to move in and around the performance space, experiencing the work from many viewpoints.
Close your Little Eyes is a work for 16 children (choir), string quartet and female soloist. It is in five movements.
Max Lyandvert is leading theatre composer and a director. He has scored numerous productions for all the major theatre companies in Australia as well as New York and Germany.

WHERE:
The Studio, Sydney Opera House
WHEN:
8pm, January 20th -25th
DURATION:
1 hour, no interval
PRICE:
Full $35, Conc $28
Under 30 price - $30
Booking fees apply
BOOKINGS:
Festival Ticketek - 02 9266 4826
Sydney Opera House 02 9250 7777
Online: www.sydneyfestival.org.au


HOLOCAUST, THROUGH A CHILD'S EYES A dark new stage production mixes images of innocence and brutality
20. January 2003
The Sydney Morning Herald
SYDNEY FESTIVAL
Harriet Cunningha
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The child stares out from the publicity photos, skin white with dust and eyes expressionless. In a society fluent in the language of news media it's almost impossible not to interpret the blank face of Gottfried Helnwein's photo Child1:
it becomes a symbol of lost innocence and silent accusation.
The show this image promotes, Close Your Little Eyes, is a music theatre-installation devised by composer and director Max Lyandvert. Taking as its starting point a lullaby from the Vilnius Ghetto, it juxtaposes visual and sound images with music scored for 16-voice children's choir, string quartet and soprano soloist.
Gottfried Helnwein : Close your little eyes
Close your little eyes 2002
Sydney Festival
The Sydney Opera House


Sydney Opera House





20. enero 2003 Festival de Sydney Australia



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