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HAPPY HAPPY

by Mathis Nitschke

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1.
Tribunal 11:54
lyrics
Solo: Ich will nicht sterben. Chorus: Du hast Dein Leben gehabt. Du hast das Deine getan. Wir anderen hoffen, Du bist zufrieden. Auf alle Fälle vielen Dank. Solo: Ich will nicht sterben. Chorus: Deine vorbildliche Ernährung und Dein konsequentes Training sorgen für einwandfreie Rohstoffe. Dafür danken wir Dir. Solo: Ich bin kein Acker, der Ertrag bringt. Ich bin ein Mensch. Chorus: Du solltest der Gesellschaft danken für das, was sie für Dich getan hat. Was kannst nun Du für die Gesellschaft tun? Solo: Ich lebe. Chorus: Wie alt bist Du jetzt? Solo: … Chorus: Sieh, Du hast Dein Leben doch gehabt. Solo: Ihr denkt, ich werde daliegen wie ein Wrack, ein unappetitliches Paket, angeschlossen an Apparate, Sonden, Infusionen und Respiratoren. Chorus: Deine Organe, Deine Knochen, Dein Fett. Solo: Wenn ich doch ein blühendes Geschöpf war mit schönen und gesunden Gliedern? Und gewohnt war, in Büchern zu blättern, gute Gedanken zu haben und dazwischen ein bißchen zu singen? Chorus: Deine Organe, Deine Knochen, Dein Fett. Solo: Ja, mein Körper ist in bester Qualität. Chorus: Einen fröhlichen Geber hat Gott lieb. Solo: Wenn die Gerechtigkeit untergeht, dann hat es keinen Wert mehr, daß Menschen leben auf Erden. Chorus: Red keinen Quatsch, wir machen nur unseren Job. Solo: Wir brauchen wieder den natürlichen Tod! Chorus: Es gibt keine Alternative. Solo: Ich bin so jung. Ich möchte jedem Klange, der mir vorüberrauscht, mich schaudernd schenken, … Chorus: Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz.
2.
Ignorance is Bliss 02:52
lyrics
Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their Paradise. No more;—where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
3.
Park 02:26
4.
Manger 05:11
lyrics
Je mange et mange et mange et mange et mange et mange et mange et mange. Et meurs. De faim.
5.
Happy Happy reprise 03:09
lyrics
Happy, happy, happy. Happy, happy, happy. Happy, happy, happy, happy. Happy, happy. Happy, happy, happy. Happy, happy. Happy, happy, happy, happy. Happy, happy, happy. Happy, happy, happy, happy. Happy, happy. Happy, happy, happy. Happy. Happy, happy, happy. Happy. Happy, happy.
6.
In the wild woods 06:12
lyrics
In the wild woods, among the mountains lone, Where waterfalls around it leap forever, Where woods and winds contend, and a vast river Over its rocks ceaselessly bursts and raves.

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an operatic song cycle with party by Mathis Nitschke

Libretto developed by Mathis Nitschke, with excerpts from texts by Joseph von Eichendorf, Rainer Maria Rilke, Michel Houellebecq, Bruno Latour, Thomas Gray, Jean Giraudoux, Percy Shelley and others

for soprano and chorus, chamber orchestra, electronics

There is no alternative. The public debate is under the seal of fatalism. There is no other objective than that of universal restrictions. The economy, the climate, overpopulation – the next catastrophe lies in wait at every bend. Minute by minute, the modern media feed us bad news. We know we should act but we feel powerless. We reduce our sphere of activity. We cease asking for anything whatsoever. We retreat into our shells. The link that would constitute values other than economic ones is missing. What might we do?

Happy Happy shows us a society in which efficacity has become the determining value. It is a matter of favouring the formation of synapses as early as possible. Schooling is shortened, studies must be useful, work better organized. Music and the muses have lost their freedom of mind as well as their playful innocence and find themselves reduced to the simple functions to fulfil: they serve for learning more efficiently, communicating more efficiently, relaxing more efficiently, and procuring a real life more efficiently. Music has lost its self-worth. Life, too, perhaps.

Happy Happy brings together, in a sort of cabinet of wonders, impressions, quotations and scenes to become the plea for autonomy and co-humanity. Going back to the origins of Greek theatre, the play, written for a singer and a chorus, explores, in so doing, the connection between individual and crowd. It turns out that the person’s singing gets lost in the hot-tempered aspiration of the multitude at the celebration. And life goes on, ‘Happy Happy’.

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released January 1, 2016

Live recording November 19-22, 2014, National Opera Montpellier
Soprano: Karen Vourc’h
Conductor: Arno Waschk
Director: Urs Schönebaum

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Mathis Nitschke Munich, Germany

Mathis Nitschke is an artist who combines different disciplines. Already during his studies of classical guitar, visual arts and music composition, Mathis began to experiment with film and sound and since then has combined these elements with live theatre and opera.
His music compositions and productions are often grounded in acoustic performances, yet he likes going experimental. ... more

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