Friday, 12/13/2024
at 7:30 PM


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What is truth? What is the one truth for which they have crossed the sea, from Ireland to Cornwall, over the stormy Celtic Sea? The one truth of a queen and a knight, for which they call upon the whole world to witness! The truth, this impossible, fleeting event, after which nothing is as it was before! No one can simply continue as before without becoming a traitor!
This truth is love, the love between Tristan and Isolde. An ancient legend, a courtly romance of the High Middle Ages, an opera, the opera that marked a turning point in Richard Wagner's work, without which neither “Siegfried” nor “Parzival” would have been possible: musically unfolding love as something heroic and cosmic, that transcends the logic of conventions and identity.

Between the world of legends and Wagner's composition, Guido Markowitz creates a modern dance piece that aims to explore the significance of truth and love for today's humanity. Just as truth and betrayal hold all fields of science, politics, art, and indeed love in breathless conflict, choreographer Guido Markowitz, together with a soprano and a tenor, the Badische Philharmonie Pforzheim, and his dance ensemble, dares to set the heroic story of love in motion with all its facets.

CHOREOGRAPHY GUIDO MARKOWITZ
MUSICAL DIRECTION MICHAEL PICHLER
SET DESIGN NORA JOHANNA GROMER
DRAMATURGY ANNA MOHRDIEK

Introduction to the work by the dramaturgy 20 minutes before the performance begins in the foyer.

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