angel

Alban’s Berg Violin Concerto was his last completed musical work. The composer dedicated it to the tragic fate of Manon Gropius, the daughter of Alma Mahler, who was then marrie to the architect Walter Gropius. Manon died of polio at the age of eighteen. Oddly enough, this homage to the unfortunate girl was Berg’s last completed musical work, as he also passed away shortly after he wrote it.

(To the Memory of an Angel)

It is enough!

Therefore, Lord, take my spirit

from here to the spirits of Zions;

undo the ties, that gradually are tearing me apart;

set me free this mind

that yearns laments and nightly weeps:

It is enough!

Franz Joachim Burmeister

• Angel was created and staged for SNG Ljubljana Theater under the production of the tripple bill Strune

• concept & choreography by Eno Peçi

• set & Costume design Diego Andrés Rojas Ortiz

• assistant Choreographer Mateja Zeleznik

• light design Jasmin Šehič

• video designer Jordan Fallas

• music Alban Berg - Violin Concerto

• solo Violinist Vasilij Meljnikov

• conductor Ernst Theis

• pictures (c) Darja Štravs Tisu