Frans Winther is a composer and musician.
He was born in 1947 in Støvring, Denmark. Frans Winther studied at
the Nordjysk Music Conservatory and has composed music for various
theatre groups and orchestras. He joined Odin Teatret in 1987
where he performs as musician and composes/arranges music for its
performances and other activities such as Holstebro Festuge
(Festive Week), ISTA,
Theatrum Mundi, barters and he also directs transformances
(theatricalisation of a specific social milieu) around the world.
He has created two operas: Shakuntala (his own libretto
based on Kalidasa's play) and EZRA (directed by him, with
libretto by Peter Laugesen based on Ezra Pound's life and poems).
Frans Winther has initiated the monthly poetry evenings in
Holstebro, The Omar Kayyám Evenings.
He has put poems by Thomas Boberg to music on the CD The
Tide, the Day, and the Light of Parting, and by Ib Michael on
the CD The Breath.
Performances
Memoria
Kaosmos
Fathers and Sons
Inside the Skeleton of the
Whale
Ode to Progress
Mythos
The Great Cities under the
Moon
Andersen's Dream
Don Giovanni
all'Inferno
Theatrum Mundi
performances
Ur-Hamlet
Four Poems for Sanjukta
Ego Faust
The Island of Labyrinths
Performance Demonstrations
The Whispering Winds
Odin performances for children
Dennis, the Woolf
Music on CD
The Tide, the Day, and the
Light of Parting (Music by Frans Winther and poems by Thomas
Boberg)
The Breath (Music by Frans
Winther and poems by Ib Michael)
Ur-Hamlet (Music by Frans Winther and words by Saxo
Grammaticus)
Performances directed
by Frans Winther for other companies
The Tide (Holstebro Festuge
2002, Denmark)
The Breath (Rinkjøbing Amts
Festival Vinden 2003, Denmark)
Songs from Times Past (Århus
Rådhus 2007)
Lo Splendore dell'Età
(Turin University, Italy)
The Lightning Darkness of Love
(Holstebro Festuge 2008, Denmark)
Wings over Vemb (Inteferens Holstebro 2009, Denmark)
