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Sarabande - Chamber Opera
(pr.: Vienna, Former Bread Factory, sirene Operntheater)
The music is very impressive from the first bars onwards.
(Der neue Merker, 29.6.2009)
Sometimes the music transports the holy athmosphere, when the low tones are dominant and a spoken chorus of prayers goes through the singers and the orchestra.
(Die Kulturwoche, 17.6.2009)
Wolfram Wagner composed a partly tender, partly strongly illustrative music.
(inszenierung.at, 14.6.2009)
ENDLICH SCHLUSS (FINISHED AT LAST) Chamber Opera
(pr. Vienna, Semper Depot, Neue Oper Wien):
Fast, rhythmic, up to dancing motion; as it were an "Allegro for th Death"?
(Die Presse, 16.9.2003)
Wagner´s music convinces using swinging and jazzy elements, melodic wit and concrete rhythm.
(Kurier, 15.9.2003)
Partysound and quotations, lightness and expressivity form a tight net of sounds.
(Kronenzeitung, 15.9.2003)
Wagner wrote a compact piece, well balanced between comicality and tragedy; colourful, effectivly orchestrated;
This is a music, that discloses psychological situations.
(Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, 11-12/03)
A cheerfully acclaimed premiere; with alienated jazz-sounds between avantgarde and bar, straight introspection and medley contemporaryly prepared quotations Wagner sets this suidical horror of a party into music.
(ORF ON, 15.9.2003)
A distracting fascination for banality.
(Süddeutsche Nachrichten, 19.9.2003)
Counting for life and death: Wagner developes this theme with compositorical superiority and strong suggestive power. Thrilling rhythm and a plenty of emphatic music.
(Der Landbote, Winterthur/Schweiz, 6.3.2004)
Dotted with bits of Third Stream Jazz, Wagner´s sly, masterfully orchestrated score, is eminently tonal and accessablel, suggesting the pungency of Kurt Weill, the rhythmic acuity of Igor Stravinsky, and the post-avantgarde lyricism of John Adams. It makes for an evening of great theatre.
(Financial Times, 18.8.2003)
ÖDIPUS - Chamber Opera
(Wien, Messepalast, Neue Oper Austria):
Wagner, a composer with sound imagination, wrote a piece full of intensity. A psychodrama that gets under the skin.
(Die Furche, 20.10.1994)
Discover an opera-composer! Wagner´s music is clear, iridescent and concentrates the action.
(Kronenzeitung, 15.10.1994)
Courage for wholehearted emotionality, strict formal processes and consequent thematic work.
(Wiener Zeitung, 15.10.1994)
Formal devices such as passacaglia and fugue, congently dramatic whole effect and well placed leitmotives.
(Opera, Jänner 1995)
WENN DER TEUFEL TANZT (WHEN THE DEVIL IS DANCING) - Comic Opera
(pr. Carinthischer Sommer 96, Villach):
A jewel, fascinating in its naturalness and openness.
(Die Presse, 19.7.1996)
Melodious, atmospheric music, elegantly accentuated.
(Kurier, 19.7.1996)
Devilish good music.
(Kronenzeitung, 17.9.1996)
DIE UNVOLLENDETE... (THE UNFINISHED...) Ballet
(Donaufestival 1997, St. Pölten):
With his rhythmical polyphony Wagner composed a racy birthday-serenade for Schubert.
( Die Presse, 7.7.1997)
Wagner fits his powerfull dramatic, suggestive music to Schubert. A well danceable work.
( Kronenzeitung, 7.7.1997)
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