Larcher: Das Jagdgewehr (The Hunting Gun) [Blu-ray]

Das Jagdgewehr (Охотничье ружье) is a German-language opera in three acts by Thomas Larcher to a libretto by Friederike Gösweiner after the 1949 short novel Ryōjū (猟銃, The Hunting Gun) by Yasushi Inoue.

Great moments: world premiere of Thomas Larcher's opera Das Jagdgewehr at the Bregenz Festival. (Wiener Zeitung) Thomas Larcher has adapted Yasushi Inoues best-seller The Hunting Gun for his first opera, with a libretto by Austrian Book Prize winner Friederike Gösweiner. Austrian actor and film director Karl Markovics made his debut as stage director for an opera. The story tells of three women, who speak in three letters addressed to the same man, a hunter his wife, his lover and his lovers daughter. As the women react to the revelation of illicit love, the hunters life is laid bare. The Austrian composers first opera is inventive (The Times), a clear, powerful text, some striking imagery and a luminous score of great beauty and originality ensure this operas success. (The Observer)

Recorded live at Bregenz Festival, 15 August 2018