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Iris ter Schiphorst: Goose Girl staged in Vienna and Berlin

(May 2010)

Iris ter Schiphorst: Goose Girl premiere staging in Vienna and Berlin

Iris ter Schiphorst’s new opera for young audiences, Die Gänsemagd (The Goose Girl), was premiered in February by Vienna Pocket Opera, touring to Berlin’s new Radialsystem V arts venue.

Based on a Grimm fairy tale with a libretto by Helga Utz, the hour-long opera has a ‘pocket-size’ cast of four singers and an actor/dancer and was praised in Die Tageszeitung for the “wit of the text, music and staging. Though the goose girl is one of the most poetic and sad of Grimms’ fairy stories, it was a real eye-opener that so many humorous sparks fly… The children showed their appreciation at the end with enthusiastic foot stamping.”

“The secret of The Goose Girl’s success is – honestly – new music. Although Iris ter Schiphorst composes on the borders of tonality, she has mastered the genial trick of ensuring accessibility and recognition through the repetition of individually skewed and oblique arioso phrases.”
Kulturradio

“Scored for keyboard, cello, bass clarinet and accordion, the fairy tale is related by the ‘false’ goose girl in fine and merry fashion... All the characters are convincingly portrayed: the innocently trusting princess, her caring mother, the overbearing lady’s maid who pays the price for her social climbing, the clumsy bridegroom, his fat-bellied father and, naturally, the faithful horse.”
Berliner Zeitung

Schiphorst has recently completed a score for seven instrumentalists to accompany Bunuel’s surrealist short film Un chien andalou, premiered at the Berlin Konzerthaus in January with Ensemble Ascolta.

Photo: Die Wiener Taschenoper

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