VR MozART

25.05.2021
Spot On MozART
© Michael Gebendorfer

VR MozART takes the audience on a journey through space and time, using virtual reality glasses to immerse us in the emotional world of experience that W. A. Mozart's music opens up in all of us. In the English reading, the title VR MozART refers to the cultural adaptation that Mozart's work has experienced in European and also worldwide reception.

Geme la tortorella, KV 196

A VR film by
Michael Gebendorfer / Beyond Frames

Musical interpretation
Regula Mühlemann (vocals),
Gernot Sahler (musical direction
) and Students of the Mozarteum University (orchestra) 

We all have our very own relationship to Mozart, and so the 360° film enables viewers to experience the intense impressions in a very personal way. Hangar-7 was chosen as the filming location for the aria "Geme la tortorella" (KV 196) because, as a place of movement and encounter, it enables the transformation of Mozart's music from classical Salzburg into the 21st century and, precisely through this contrast, offers viewers a visual approach to reinterpreting the music.  

  • Idea, concept and realization: Michael Gebendorfer / Beyond Frames
  • Musical interpretation: Regula Mühlemann (vocals), Gernot Sahler (musical direction) and students of the Mozarteum University Salzburg (orchestra)
  • Dramaturgical advice: Silke Zimmermann / SZ Consulting
  • Sound engineer: Sebastian Kienel

Orchestra

  • Violin: Franco Garrido, Theresa Giehl, Eva Primec, Kaori Geovana Terrones Salazar, Ana Sešek and Nathalia Sousa Oliveira
  • Viola: Branka Sec and Jiliang Shi
  • Cello: Jean-François Carrière and Lucas Ryoji Muramoto
  • Double bass: Rumo Jiang

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