Stuttgart is a city of contemporary music theatre. Therefore, the music theatre is a main focus of the ISCM World New Music Festival.

photo: MdJ	The German premier of Julio Estrada’s first opera Murmullos del páramo in Stuttgart will be one of the hightlights on 16 and 17 July. The music theatre detects the indigenous sensitivities of the Latin-American people, tensions between the indigenous culture and the Spanish immigrant culture and the myths which emerge from it. Julio Estrada conjures up situations with suggestive sounds between fiction and reality, swaying between imagination of reminisces and presence. [>>go to the event] [>>more about Murmullos del páramo]
photo: Roberto Bulgrin	The music theatre by Hamed Taheri and Dror Feiler Avenir! Avenir! is about the uniqueness of each individual. It centres around the issues of cultural identity and cultural memory. The work is directed towards a single auditor. It consists of 30 music-theatrical fragments, each of it played for an individual auditor. [>>go to the event] [>>more about Avenir! Avenir!]
photo: Paolo Pachini	On 15th July, the Forum Neues Musiktheater will be staging the German premier of Fausto Romitelli’s video opera An Index of Metals. With the fusion of sound and light, the piece aims to excite a bodily experience - a contemporary counterpart to the rave party phenomenon. [>>go to the event] [>>more about An Index of Metals]
photo: Shabbi Nuncar	One composer, two artists for the implementation of the stage settings, three musicians – that is the starting situation for the NewMediaPocketOpera staged at the Forum Neues Musiktheater during the Festival. The reduced technological effort corresponds to the limitation of personnel: two laptops, manageable sound and video equipment, consisting of eight speakers, two beamers and a camera, are all that is available. [>>more about the NewMediaPocketOpera]
photo: Ricordi	The opera Moon shadows by Younghi Pagh-Paan is about refusal, love and death. The connection between European and Far Eastern culture which belongs to the character of her music is also expressed by the Libretto. It combines Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus at Colonos” with verses by Byung-Chul Han and displays the end of the former ruler of Thebes who gains peace after his odysseys in the copse of the Erinyen before the gods appeal him. [>>go to the event] [>>more about Moon shadows]