Ein (musikalischer) Sommernachtstraum - Open-Air-Theater im Schlossgraben
A play based on Shakespeare's |
Comedy to the music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy |
In a musical adaptation by Andreas N. Tarkmann |
Five couples are at the center of this fantastic-erotic nightmare, which deals with the changeability of feelings and how quickly love can turn into disgust or even hatred - with the corresponding consequences. Theseus, the Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons, wish to marry. For their wedding, to which Mendelssohn's famous wedding march will resound, craftsmen prepare a play centered around the tragic ancient love couple Pyramus and Thisbe. The drama is rehearsed by craftsmen in the woods near Athens, where, however, things do not always go as they should, as Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of the fairies, reign here. Especially when the royal couple is at odds and the troll Puck is acting mischievously, it becomes downright dangerous to linger in these woods. This is something Hermia and Lysander learn, who flee from Athens to the woods for the sake of their love, followed by Demetrius and Helena - also in search of romantic happiness ...
Felix Mendelssohn's music for the "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was created in two stages. Even in the overture of 1826, the world of the fairies surrounding Oberon, Titania, and Puck is laid out, as well as that of the craftsmen and the loving couples, about which Robert Schumann wrote: "The bloom of youth is poured out as hardly over any other work of the composer." The incidental music by Mendelssohn, created 17 years later, seamlessly connects to the youthful composition.
Subject to changes!
Supported by the Cultural Region Meißen - Saxon Switzerland - Ore Mountains
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