The Flying Dutchman

Weshalb-Forellen-Quartett und Gäste

Company
In addition to their solo and chamber music performances, the Weshalb-Forellen-Quartett has worked predominantly in the areas of contemporary music and music theatre since 1994. They regularly collaborate with director and musician Ruedi Häusermann.

Performance
Who is stealing the show from whom? Five musicians and a narrator battle with and against the gigantism and pathos of opera in the tradition of the grand master Richard Wagner. Even on the small scale witnessed here, the ocean roars, the ship groans, and the captain, forever damned to travel the seas, can only be saved by a faithful woman. The most comical complications and clumsiness arise as a result, alongside all manner of musical forms, citations and parodies: the classical lied performed as an absurd duet, drinking songs rendered a capella, popular tunes and operatic arias, not to mention the blues ... Here, with elegant simplicity and a lightness of touch, we see the staging of a grand failure and the performance of a chamber concert about home, infinite solitude, curses, eternal love and redemption.

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Director: Nils Torpus
Weshalb-Forellen-Quartett: Monika Camenzind (Violine), Christian Strässle (Violine), Daniel Thomas (Viola), Martin Birnstiel, (Violioncello)
Hammond Organ: Peter Scheidegger,
Narrator: Herwig Ursin

When: Friday, October 28th ; 9.00 pm; T-Werk, Schiffbauergasse 1
Duration: 70 min.