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☰ Music for Theatre & Dance

Works for Theatre & Dance

  • Der Chrüzwäg vom Castellan (The Way of Castellan)
  • Open air theatre, premiered in 2024
  • Drama by Johann Jakob Romang, "Niklas Baumer, der Castellan von Saanen"
  • Adapted by Ruth Domke, Joelle Matti, Hanspeter Hefti
  • Directors: Ruth Domke, Joelle Matti, Hanspeter Hefti
  • Music by Reto Stadelmann

  • Performed from 3 August – 30 August 2024 in Gstaad

  • Opportunity
  • An interactive music dance production, premiered in 2013
  • Live music, electronic music¹, Dance
  • Audience participation
  • (¹Multichannel setup with tapes and 3-D sound-dome Klangdom)

  • Composition and musical direction: Reto Stadelmann
  • Choreography: Stephen Wynne
  • Dance Students from the Cologne Hochschule für Musik und Tanz
  • Music ensemble Die Kartei
  • Audience
  • Sebastian Schottke sound director

  • Promoter: ACHTBRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln
  • In collaboration with: Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz, the Cologne Hochschule für Musik und Tanz
    The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

  • Premiere: 9 May 2013, Theater am Tanzbrunnen, Cologne

  • Heidi
  • Children's play adapted by Catharina Fillers and Ensemble from the book by Johanna Spyri, premiered in 2007
  • Director: Catharina Fillers
  • With Eva Horstmann, Charles Ripley, Marco Sepe
  • Set: Una Sörgel
  • Music: Markus Reyhani and Reto Stadelmann

  • Premiere: 6 October 2007, Commedia Theater, Cologne

  • Menetekel
  • A theatrical procession in the surroundings of Hergiswald, premiered in 2006
  • Based on La cena del Rey Baltasar [Beschazzar's Feast],
  • an auto sacramental [Corpus Christi play] by Don Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1632)

  • Translated into dialect and combined with Hergiswald tales and modern hymns, reflecting the local church's symbolic ceiling paintings by author Heinz Stalder.
  • Stage version and production: Louis Naef
  • Music: Reto Stadelmann

  • Performed from 7 June – 15 July 2006 in Hergiswald, Lucerne

  • Bauernkrieg 1653 (The Peasant's War 1653)
  • Open air performance, premiered in 2003
  • Play by Hansjörg Schneider
  • Director: Louis Naef
  • Music: Reto Stadelmann

  • Performed from 5 July – 23 August 2003 in Escholzmatt

  • Memory Of The Future
  • Tragic Symphony, premiered in 2002
  • Advanced Composition Project, London College of Music
  • Libretto: Nikos Lygeros
  • Music: Reto Stadelmann

  • Premiere: 14 May 2002, Vestry Hall, Ealing, London

  • Der Wiedergänger (The Phantom)
  • Musical collage of Entlebuch tales, premiered in 2000
  • Production: Gregor Bucher
  • Libretto: Stefan Moser
  • Music: Reto Stadelmann

  • Premiere: 21 October 2000, Theatersaal Kollegium, Stans