CIVIC OPERA CREATIONS (COCREATIONS) is a producer for new innovative music theater and opera created in dialogue and thought exchange between communities and artists. In connection with new technologies and impulses from interdisciplinary scenes,we expand the traditional opera space and its narratives. Founded in Vienna in 2020, COCREATIONS builds bridges between traditional and new structures and creates new methods of cooperation and reference to establish opera as a representative part of the 21st century and a place for repeated encounters.
NEWS
SATURDAY, MAY 21, & SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2022
8 PM, 11:30 AM & 4 PM
KULTURHAUS BROTFABRIK, CAPE 10 & KUNST HAUS WIEN
CIVIC NEWSROOM
THREE OPERAS IN THREE DAYS
COCREATIONS dares a seemingly impossible experiment:
Three operas on current discourses will be written within three days and premiered on the evening of the third day.
Like reporters, 21 composers, librettists, directors, singers and musicians from Germany, Great Britain, Iran, Italy, Russia, Sweden and Austria exchange ideas with them and create short opera reports that open up new perspectives.
performances are free!
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
European Kitchen Encounters
VR-BANIA
New music theater for Virtual Reality glasses. A collective search for a common culinary identity in the 21st Century.
P. Martinez, G. Kiersz & C. Kruse
THE END OF THE WORLD
Augmented Reality Opera Walk for Hololens II.
New Opera making the historical invisible visible.
M. Zwerger, C. Amann & C. Kruse
GREAT OPEN EYES
New Opera on the topic of grief and childloss for four singers, two conductors, and 35-musicians.
PAST PROJECTS
COCREATIONS presents
CIVIC NEWSROOM
Four-day, newsroom-inspired new works project that brings national and international artists together in collaborative, innovative forms to reflect on current civic issues artistically.
Workshop-Series
CREATIONS*3
Annual workshop presentation featuring our current works in process.
SUPPORT COCREATIONS!
Join our COCREATIONS family as a friend, supporter or funder
and help bring our projects to live!
FRIEND
Become a COCREATIONS friend and receive discounted tickets for all our events, a signed program book of your choice, and regular insights into our process.
FUNDER
onetime donation
Find your name on our website and the production of your choice!
With a production donation over €500 you will find your logo/name in the program booklet, and receive special behind-the-scenes insights, such as a dinner with the composers or a special souvenir of the production.
SUPPORTER
Beecome a COCREATIONS supporter and receive reserved seats, signed program books of your choice, invitations to general rehearsals, and find your name on our website.
€125/year
€75/year
Bank details:
Account holder: Civic Opera Creations - Verein, Bank: Erste Bank Wien,
IBAN: AT 04 2011 1844 1661 3400, BIC/SWIFT: GIBAATWWXXX, BLZ: 20111.
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Thank you so much for your support!
THE TEAM
CARMEN C. KRUSE, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
ckruse(at)cocreations.eu
Opera stage director and new works collaborator, Carmen C. Kruse, grew up in Carinthia and Hamburg. She now lives in Vienna. Fed by first-hand accounts, her directing work is shaped by an in-depth, psychological exploration of broad societal themes and their effects on individuals. For these she creates immersive, live experiences that change the relationship between orchestra and dramatic action, and present archaic worlds that inspire and empower. She gave her directing debut with Cavalli's L’Egisto at the Halifax Summer Opera Festival in 2017. Further productions brought Kruse to a.o. the Osterfestspielen Baden-Baden, Staatstheater Mainz, Staatsoper Stuttgart, and the Ensemble Modern Frankfurt. Kruse won the CROSS Award in Italy (2019), the Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden Directing Competition (2018), and was a finalist of the Fondazione Haydn Stiftung OPER.A 20.21 Competition (2019) as well as the NOperas! Competition (2021). She is an Alumna of the Akademie Musiktheater heute of the Deutsche Bank Stiftung (Directing Scholarship, 2017-19), the Women Opera Makers Workshop with Katie Mitchell at L’Académie du Festival d’Aix (2020), the BMP: Producers Academy in New York (2020) and the Lincoln Center Theaters Directors Lab in New York (2018). She collected first opera experiences in Australia, the US, and Canada, before studying music and media management with a focus on opera and innovation in Munich and San Diego. Currently, she is enrolled in the Executive Master in Arts Administration program in Zurich.
SCHEDULE
17. + 18.09.22
MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN
Vienna, Austria
13.05.23
THEATER MÜNSTER
Münster, Germany
09. - 11.09.23
FESTIVAL MAIA
Wien, Austria
Buenos Aires, Argentina
CIVIC OPERA CREATIONS
Verein für Kunst, Kultur & Soziales
ZVR: 1792837722, Wien, Austria
CONTACT
Carmen C. Kruse, Artistic Director
ckruse(at)cocreations.eu
Leonora Scheib, Creative Producer
lscheib(at)cocreations.eu
Elisabeth Katzensteiner, Press Coordinator
elisabeth(at)wolkenlos-agentur.at
Magdalena Pawlisz, Project Coordinator
mpawlisz(at)cocreations.eu
Gesa Maria Kruse, Project Coordinator
gkruse(at)cocreations.eu
(c) 2022 Civic Opera Creations, Verein für Kunst, Kultur & Soziales, ZVR: 1792837722, Austria