Info
Music by Philip Glass.
Libretto based on the work by Peter Handke adapted by Rainer Mennicken.
Sung in German.
Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers.
Commission
Cast
B – Female Dancer
C – Tenor
D – Soprano
E – Soprano
F – Baritone
G – Mezzo Soprano
H – Character Tenor
J – Bass
K – Soubrette
Third Person – Mezzo Soprano or Countertenor
Protagonist – Actor
Spectator – Actor
Passerby – Chorus, Male and Female dancers.
Instrumentation
Premiere
Synopsis
Scene by scene the number of people on stage grows. They end up in a kind of mass migration which has to cope with questions of leadership, war and helplessness. Some of them seem to be taken from a street around the corner, some of them are mysterious, several are obviously connected with ancient myths and fairy tales. Everybody is looking for a chance to survive and to find a place to live in peace but something is missing: communication becomes difficult, the fellow man, the opposite partner is vanishing and time is dissolving
(Spuren der Verirrten)The Lost, written as a kind of novel play by Peter Handke (one of the most important poets of our time with Austrian roots) is a philosophical stocktaking of the estate of our civilization. At the same time it asks for celebrating the theatre as a place for the playful examination of basic questions for our existence.