Dr. Andreas Leopold Dick

Between conversation and primordial sounds

This project investigates strategies of musicalization of language and speech in the progressive music theatre of the last 50 years and discusses thereby the role and function of the author, the interpreter...

Das Stiefkind des Gesangs. Die Rezitativpraxis im 19. Jahrhundert

performing speech

This project intended to investigate music theatre productions that had their world premieres at the Munich Biennale in 2016, including the HKB production The Navidson Records by the director Till Wyler von...

Opera mediatrix

Advanced Music Theatre and collective identity building in Switzerland since 1945

«Das Schloss Dürande» by Othmar Schoeck

This research project analyses and contextualises Othmar Schoeck's biggest opera, «Das Schloss Dürande» («Dürande Castle»), with regard to its Nazi-influenced libretto, the history of its gestation and its...