Gottfried von Einem’s opera Der Prozess was first performed in 1953 when the popularity of Kafka’s work had reached its first peak. His music uses pulsing rhythms, recurring structures and echoes of jazz and twelve-tone music to describe the subtle terror of the novel, without losing sight of the grotesque humour of the source material. Today, 100 years after Kafka’s death and in a world of digital overindulgence and constant surveillance, we look at this trial in a radically different light. This performance, arranged by Tobias Leppert as a chamber opera, is a co-production with the Neue Oper Wien whose artistic director Walter Kobéra stages it together with Stefan Herheim.

This production is part of the CAMPUS co-operation with the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna (Leo Mignonneau, Lukas Karzel) and the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Valentino Blasina, Klangforum PPCM Academy).

The premiere is on 5 December at the Kammeroper, further information about the production and tickets can be found here.