Wollte ich Liebe singen – Ein Franz Schubert-Konzert

In the organizer's words:

We would like to cordially invite you to a very special recital:

The singer Elena Patsalidou and the pianist Olga Bille, together with the actor and director Johannes Gärtner, present a brilliant and touching performance of Franz Schubert, the composer and the man.

The idea: Schubert must appear. A concert program becomes "concerttheater" - a genuine CERCA DIO production: the composer is on everyone's lips - whether devoutly breathed or boldly whistled. But what kind of person is Franz Schubert that interests us today?

The attempt to encircle Schubert, to surround the blank spots of his life and longing with his songs and texts. The result is a collaboration with the actor, who first has to learn to listen, who gets to know Schubert's songs through his letters.

An evening about the female characters in Schubert's songs developed into a scenic song recital with his letters and diary entries. A portrait of Franz Schubert the man, which should enable us to look into the rich emotional world of his songs.

"If I wanted to sing love, it became pain for me, if I wanted to sing pain, it became love for me" - many of the almost 600 songs may seem incomprehensible to us, even sentimental, but in the context of his texts they take on a whole new face.

Research has shown that no other composer's words and tone harmonize as well as Franz Schubert's. And hardly anyone is as moving - as a composer and as a person.