The confrontation with the comprehensive alienation, emptiness, isolation, atemporality and -historicality, with the nearness of death, forms the dramatic concept of Beat Furrer’s sixth piece of music theater, Wüstenbuch (2009). The desert as the place of nothingness is, at the same time, a projection screen, full of history. In Wüstenbuch, Beat Furrer approaches the vision of a drama without plot, a setting of pure, conditional being. (Marie Luise Maintz)

Beat Furrer`s new opera is based on several texts from ancient egypt writings to contemporary authors. The desert (german: Wüste) is for Furrer a base where he can place his drama without a plot. The music and texts create an rich and complex atmosphere full of history and poetry. In addition to opera there are 3 pieces of the composer on the second disc - giving more detailed insights into his music.