iris ter schiphorst

Hilfe! Der Homolu kommt! (Help! The Homolu is coming!) (2024/2025) – 45'

for speaker, children's and youth choirs + instrumental ensemble
Text: Helga Utz

WP: 18.10.2025, Heilbronn, Kilianskirche

“… und weiße Lakritze aus Lammfell” - Ein Musiktheater über Kindheit ("... and white liquorice made from lambskin" - A musical theatre about childhood) (2022/2023) – 50'

for a staged girls' choir, clarinet, keyboard, additional music and video projections

WP: 08.07.2023, Berlin, St. Elisabeth Church

Undine geht! (Undine leaves!) (2020/2021) – 35'

A kind of monodrama based on Ingeborg Bachmann
for an actress, a singing cellist, a singer, mixed ensemble and additional parts

WP: 28/09/2021 SZENE Salzburg, Salzburg

VOLK UNTER VERDACHT (PEOPLE UNDER SUSPICION) (2016/2017) – 90'

Documentary music theatre for a staged choir, interludes and video projections

WP: 14.12.2017, Berlin, Radialsystem

DR. FAUSTUS LIGHTS THE LIGHTS (2016) – 70'

Music theatre after Gertrude Stein for 5 actors* making music and interludes

WP: 17.06.2016, ETA Hoffmann Theatre/City of Bamberg

STILLE WASSER - ein Stück Untergang (STILL WATERS- a piece of doom) (2015) – 55'

for narrator, singer, performers, brass ensemble and samples
Libretto: Helga Utz

WP: 29.08.2015, pool house roof at the cable factory Oswaldgasse 35A, A-1120 Vienna

SOS - Odysseus (2012/2013) (with Uroš Rojko) – 50'

for orchestra, 2 actors and staged children's choirs
Libretto Helga Utz

WP: 8. 5. 2013, Philharmonie Köln

AUNG (2010/2011) – 25'

for staged singer/performer, ensemble and live electronics
Text: Helga Utz

WP: 01.10.2011, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Studio Hall, Kopenhagen

Der Grüffelo/Grüffelokind (The Gruffalo/Gruffelo child) (2010/2011) (with Stefan Lienenkämper) – 45'

based on the children's book of the same name by Julia Donaldson
for narrator and ensemble

WP: 19 June 2011, Philharmonie Berlin

Die Gänsemagd (The Goose Girl) (2009) – 60'

Children's opera based on the Brothers Grimm (Libretto: Helga Utz)
for 1 soprano, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 1 bass, 1 actor, Bb clarinet (also double bass clar.), violoncello, accordion, sample keybaord

WP: 18. 02. 2010, Dschungel Vienna, Museumsquartier

Erlaube, Fremdling, dass ich dich berühre II (Allow me, stranger, to touch you II) (2004) – 55'

Music-theatrical suite for 2 instrumental ensembles, 1 actress, 1 singing performance artist, Cd-scores, live-electronics

for Franco Evangelisti

WP: 2005, Berlin, Kesselhaus der Kulturbrauerei

Erlaube, Fremdling, dass ich dich berühre (Allow me, stranger, to touch you) (2003) – 55'

A musical-theatrical ACTION in 4 parts by Iris ter Schiphorst
for 1 mime, 2 instrumental ensembles, video projections and Cd-playback
(freely adapted from the anagram of the same name by Unica Zürn from 1963)

WP: October 2004, Dresden, Festspielhaus Hellerau

Euridice – Szenen aus der Unterwelt (2001/2002) – 55'

for 1 dancing vocalist, 3 singers/narrators, dancers, bass flute, double bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, double bass, piano/keyboard, percussion and electronics

Text: Karin Spielhofer

WP: 20.09.2002, Theatre Bielefeld

Effi Briest (2000) (with Helmut Oehring) – 90'

Music theatre psychogram in 4 acts
for 2 voices, 1 male soprano, 1 deaf performer, 18 instruments, live electronics
Libretto: Iris ter Schiphorst + Helmut Oehring

WP: 2001, Bonn

Als ob: SUITE (As if: SUITE) (2000) (with Helmut Oehring) – 60'

Music and dance project for sub-bass flute, bass clarinet, accordion, sample keyboard/piano,
2 drums, electric guitar, playback CD, 7 dancers, video projection and live electronics

WP: 01.10.2000, Dresden, Schauspielhaus, Dresdner Tage für zeitgenössische Musik

Bernada Albas Haus (1999) (with Helmut Oehring) – 90'

for 7 dancers, 1 deaf performer, 1 soprano, prep. piano/sample keyboard, 1 electric guitar, 1 double bass and live electronics
Music for dance theatre after F. Garcia Lorca

WP: 11.11.1999, Theater Basel

Silence moves (1997) (with Helmut Oehring) – 60'

a kind of chamber opera for voice, violin, cello, electric bass, prep. piano/sampler, tapes, video installation and live electronics

WP: 12 October 1997 Dresden, small theatre

Anna’s Wake (1992) – 55'

3-D opera for tape, live singer and 16mm film
Text, idea, direction: Iris ter Schiphorst and Christine Daum

WP: 29.01.1993, Berlin, Ballhaus Naunynstraße