20.07.2011 Miss Fortune at the Bregenzer Festspiele

— A new exiting opera project with Chinese director Chen Shi-Zheng has just premiered at the Bregenzer Festspiele 2011 and will later show at the Royal Opera House in London in early 2012.

Achterbahn (Miss Fortune) is a tale about fate, a kind of parable about the ups and downs of life – and about how we are often incapable of judging the various trials of life in the moment they happen. Judith Weir is one of the most interesting composers to have come out of Great Britain in recent years. Her great interest in folklore and folk music — of Scotland, where her parents come from, but also such places as Iceland, India and China — has decisively influenced her very personal and original style. Many of Weir’s stage works are based on fantastical and dreamlike folk tales, reflecting her fascination and passion for storytelling.