Winterreise – Premiere

In the organizer's words:

Small house

Song cycle by Franz Schubert
Text by Wilhelm Müller
In an arrangement by Thomas Kürstner/Sebastian Vogel
In German language
Directed by Armin Petras

In 1827, just one year before his death, Franz Schubert set his Winterreise to music and left the world the testimony of a soul shattered by world-weariness. Director Armin Petras and musicians Sebastian Vogel and Thomas Kürstner headline this journey through a lonely winter landscape. "You will soon hear and understand" - Schubert announced his "Kreis schauriger Lieder" with equal parts mystery and meaning. What followed went beyond the depiction of a mere season: it is the search of a homeless soul that is exposed to its own weather in a free fall between life and love, death and transfiguration.

With music, scene and song, the team embarks on a journey to find the "self" between powerlessness and empowerment in the face of the loneliness of longing and searching for one's own feelings. The path? The destination. The goal? Uncertain.