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Miroslav Srnka’s Voice Killer: a harrowing descent into madness and musical extremity

Holly Flack (Pauline) and Seth Carico (Private)
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Holly Flack (Pauline), Seth Carico (Private) and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor
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Jacqueline Macaulay (Momma) and Caroline Wettergreen (Ivy)
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Seth Carico (Private) and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor
© Karl Forster
Seth Carico (Private) and Julian Hubbard (Gallo)
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“a hallucinatory aural space in which time and reality bend and fray”
Reviewed at Theater an der Wien, Vienna on 16 June 2025
Srnka, Voice Killer
MusikTheater an der Wien
Finnegan Downie Dear, Conductor
Cordula Däuper, Director
Friedrich Eggert, Set Designer
Sophie du Vinage, Costume Designer
Franz Tscheck, Lighting Designer
Klangforum Wien
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Kai Weßler, Dramaturgy
Seth Carico, Private
Julian Hubbard, Gallo
Caroline Wettergreen, Ivy, McGuffie
Holly Flack, Pauline, Military Cop
Nadja Stefanoff, Gladys, Eddie's Lawyer
Stephan Loges, Provost/Pappa
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