XX.Deviant from Bernhard Lang.
The Cold Trip II(2014/2015)
For voice, piano and Laptop.
Voice. Johanna Vargas (LAB51)
Piano and Laptop. Magdalena Cerezo (LAB51)
Sound editor. Matthias Schneider (Digitalmasters)

XX.Deviant from Bernhard Lang (LAB51)

XV.The Crow from Bernhard Lang.
The Cold Trip II(2014/2015)
For voice, piano and Laptop.
Voice. Johanna Vargas (LAB51)
Piano and Laptop. Magdalena Cerezo (LAB51)
Sound editor. Matthias Schneider (Digitalmasters)

"XV.The Crow" from Bernhard Lang (LAB51)

XVIII.Stormy Monday from Bernhard Lang.
The Cold Trip II(2014/2015)
For voice, piano and Laptop.
Voice. Johanna Vargas (LAB51)
Piano and Laptop. Magdalena Cerezo (LAB51)
Sound editor. Matthias Schneider (Digitalmasters)

XVIII.Stormy Monday from Bernhard Lang (LAB51)

Live Auffnahme (Wettbewerb der Hanns Eisler Aufführungspreis für Neue Musik, Mai 2015)
Johanna Vargas, sopran
Daniel Strahilevitz, piano
Robert Traksmann, violin
Antonio Rivero, percussion

Menagerie Ensemble-Deux Poèmes De Nadia Tuéni von Michaela Catranis (Live)

"Amor"  Op.68 von Richard Strauss
Sopran. Johanna Vargas
Klavier, Robert Bärwald
2016

Johanna Vargas. Amor Op. 68 von Richard Strauss

Mysteries of the Macabre von György Ligeti (1974-77/1992)
Sopran. Johanna Vargas. 
Klavier.Magdalena Cerezo. 
Regie. Anika Rutkofsky
Kostüm. Isabella Koeters
Kamera. Korinna Herzig

LAB51 performs Mysteries of the Macabre from György Ligeti (1974-77/1992)

Ophelia sings by Wolfgang Rihm
1. How should I your true love 
2. Tomorrow is Saint Valentine´s day
3. They bored him bare-faced on the bier

Sopran. Johanna Vargas / Klavier. Magdalena Cerezo
2020

LAB51 - Ophelia sings from Wolfgang Rihm

The Cold Trip II(2014/2015) from Bernhard Lang - For voice, piano and Laptop
* The Crow
* Stormy monday
* Deviant 

LAB51 (Voice. Johanna Vargas / Piano and Laptop. Magdalena Cerezo) 
Sound editor. Matthias Schneider (Digitalmasters)
2020

LAB51 plays The Cold Trip II (The Crow, Stormy monday and Deviant)

From "Canti di vita e d´amore": Djamila Boupacha (1962) by Luigi Nono.
Sopran. Johanna Vargas

Recorded by Digital Masters in Stuttgart (4.04.2021) at Musik der Jahrhundert

Johanna Vargas sings Djamila Boupacha by Luigi Nono

LA FEMME 100 TÊTES (2016)- Vito Žuraj
Johanna Vargas – soprano, Gašper Livk – double bass
Libretto by Patrick HahnLike their earlier SCHUB’RDY G’RDY, This second collaboration between Žuraj and the dramatist Patrick Hahn is a musical and literary deconstruction of an existing part of the musical canon; this time the focus is the many literary, artistic and musical treatments of Salomé, especially the play by Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss’s operatic setting of its German translation. LA FEMME 100 TÊTES focusses especially on Salomé’s encounter with John the Baptist, an improbable pairing that is mirrored in the work’s scoring for soprano and double bass.

The work proceeds from a single musical idea, a series of high-pitched and anguished tones produced by pinching a double bass string between thumb and forefinger, a technique was employed by Strauss to symbolise Salomé’s fevered anticipation when awaiting the severed head of John the Baptist, which king Herod has promised to have delivered to her in a silver charger; LA FEMME 100 TÊTES stretches out this moment moment of delayed gratification over six minutes. The rather gruesome subject invited a disturbing parallel to videos of decapitations, the online publication of which had scandalised the world in the recent past.

Alwyn Tomas Westbrooke

LA FEMME 100 TÊTES - Vito Žuraj (Excerpt)

Soprano - Artist - Performer Contemporary Classical Music
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