Mozart: Requiem

In the organizer's words:

Ballet evening by Steffen Fuchs - music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Xaver Süßmayr and Udo Zimmermann

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's last, myth-enshrouded composition, which remained unfinished due to the composer's death, has long since emancipated itself from its original purpose as a requiem mass and found its way into concert halls and onto the theater stage.

In Koblenz, the Requiem will be heard in the traditional completion by Franz Xaver Süßmayr. Even if source research can now reliably separate which sections were written by Mozart and which by his pupil, this well-prepared fragment does not reveal its final secrets.

This work, whose "Dies irae" still sounds so full of raging anger and whose "Lacrimosa" makes the listener shudder in deep emotion, throws them back on themselves and yet does not leave them alone. As in Mozart's other works, life pulsates beneath the musically celebrated impotent grief and transfiguration in his Requiem. In contrast, Udo Zimmermann's "Songs from an Island" already seem to sound from another time and another dimension and have found a peace within themselves that is beyond religious transfiguration.

It is only logical that this ballet evening will have its world premiere on the grounds of Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, the second largest surviving fortress in Europe and a symbol of war and therefore death and suffering.

Venue

Theater tent
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress

In principle, either the cable car or the specially arranged shuttle bus runs to and from every performance in the theater tent. Use is included in the price of every theater ticket. Which means of transport will be used will be precisely indicated in good time on the website for each performance. Of course, as usual, the use of all public transport in the VRM is also included in the ticket price.