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Wastories spotlights a key figure in the European art scene: the Viennese composer Eva Reiter, who explores one of her favorite themes here—climate issues and recycling.
This musical theater production, initiated by the Brussels-based ensemble HYOID voices and based on a libretto by Berlin-based author Hannah Dübgen, brings together four voices, an electronic score, and video work by Antwerp-based photographer and videographer Koen Broos.
Fascinated by the issue of waste, the composer sees it not only as a cause for civic activism but also as the perfect material for bringing the concept of reuse to life on stage. By incorporating recycling into her compositional technique, she collects, processes, and reimagines the ideas contributed by her fellow students. The result of this remarkable collective effort is a multifaceted and poetic work.
Mentions
Co-production
, RIF, formerly Walpurgis (Mortsel, BE)
Supported by
Tax Shelter – Perpodium; Flemish Community; Cohort Productions; Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels; Austrian Cultural Forum Paris; Maison de la Musique Contemporaine (MMC)
Partners
Muziekcentrum de Bijloke (Ghent, BE); CEREGE (Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (Aix-Marseille); BERLIN, documentary theater company (Antwerp); Forum Culturel Autrichien (Paris); Théâtre Silvia Monfort (Paris)
Acknowledgements
Livret & Recherche: Lucie Taïeb, for inspiring us to explore the theme of waste; Marie Phillips, for our brief but rewarding collaboration; To CEREGE & CIRENE: Alain Veron, Vladimir Vidal, and Yves Noack for the quality and generosity of their mediation; Eric Landot, for his insight into legal issues; Nicolas Ferrand de La Conté, for his perspective on current biodiversity-related policies; Victor Beeldens, for sharing his Cradle to Cradle experience
Video: the BERLIN company (Antwerp), for allowing us to use images from their play IQALUIT (capital of the Inuits), as part of their YOUTURN project
Creation: Coline Vandenberghe and the team at the Musique(s) Rive Gauche festival and the Théâtre Silvia Monfort for making this Paris premiere possible.
Biography(s)
Eva Reiter
Composer
Eva Reiter was born . Vienna. She studied recorder and viola da gamba at the University of Vienna and continued her studies at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Musician, composer, teacher, artistic advisor and curator, Eva Reiter performs as a soloist and with various early and contemporary music ensembles. Since 2015, she has been a permanent member of the ensemble Ictus. In 2019 and 2020, Eva Reiter was artist-in-residence at Hamburg's Elbphiharmonie and, jointly, at Vienna's Konzerthaus. Since the start of the 2025 academic year, she has been an associate composer in the composition program at IRCAM in Paris.
Hannah Dübgen
Librettist
Hannah Dübgen, born in Germany in 1977, is a writer and playwright. She has published award-winning novels such as *Strom* (2013) and *Über Land* (2017), as well as plays and the librettos for several internationally acclaimed operas, including *Matsukaze* (2011), a collaboration with composer Toshio Hosokawa and choreographer Sasha Waltz, and Oryx and Crake (2023), set to music by Søren Nils Eichberg and nominated for the International Opera Award. She recently won the 2026 OPER AWARD in Regensburg in the “Best World Premiere” category for her collaboration with Francesco Filidei, Il nome della rosa.
HYOID
Vocal ensemble
HYOID is a Brussels-based group of classically trained solo singers specializing in contemporary repertoire and cross-disciplinary performance. The group, with a flexible lineup, strives to challenge and expand traditional concert formats while fostering close partnerships with composers and artists of its generation. HYOID takes its name from the hyoid bone, a U-shaped bone that aids in speech, swallowing, and breathing; it is the only free-floating bone in the human body. Among other projects for the coming seasons, HYOID will premiere a new chamber opera by Georges Aperghis with director and choreographer Johanne Saunier and a queer song cycle with Eloain Hübner and the ensemble ZEFIRO TORNA.
Koen Broos
Videographer, set designer
Born in 1972, Koen Broos lives in Antwerp. He creates autonomous photographic works grouped into numbered series. Specializing in theater and dance photography, he has helped define the visual identity of numerous cultural institutions. Koen Broos' work extends from photography to video: he creates photos for theater and dance in collaboration with artists in Belgium and abroad. He has created musical theater shows with filmic scenography in collaboration with Graindelavoix, Inne Goris (Music Theater LOD & Opera Ballet Vlaanderen), HYOID, among others.
Location
13003
Marseille
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
Wastories
Eva Reiter, Hannah Dübgen, Koen Broos, Collectif HYOID
Modulation
Musical theater
Tue. April 21, 2026 | 7:00 pm
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
Duration
approx. 1h00
Prices per concert
Full price: €8
Reduced price: €6*
*Young people aged 12-25, students, job seekers, recipients of minimum social benefits, intermittent workers, seniors aged 65 and over — proof required.
Free for Modulations loyalty card holders (reservation required)
Practical information
Performance in English with subtitles.
Recommended for ages 12 and up.
Latecomers will not be admitted to the auditorium, as some shows do not allow late entry at the request of the artistic teams.
Ticket office
Online: gmem-cncm.mapado.com
By email:billetterie@gmem.org
As part of Modulations
What is Modulations?
They are concerts, performances, regular events...
In other words, a season organized by the GMEM.
Dates for the second semester:
01/20/26— 02/17 — 03/17 — 03/22 — 04/21 — 05/10
Distribution
Eva Reiter
composition, co-dramaturgy, co-set design
Hannah Dübgen
libretto, co-dramaturgy
Koen Broos
video
Collectif HYOID
composed of
Naomi Beeldens
Fabienne Seveillac
Andreas Halling
Gunther Vandeven
singers
Oli Bonzom
co-set design, lighting, stage management
Center Henri Pousseur
sound
Harriet Wouters
costumes
Fabienne Seveillac
concept, artistic coordination
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