☰ 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