The Flying Dutchman

Weshalb-Forellen-Quartett und Gäste

Zurich/Switzerland
An evening at the theatre with a string quartett, a Hammond Organ and an actor after Richard Wagner

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.

2005


(love story) Superman
Numero 23 Prod. – Lausanne/Switzerland
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – rearranged
Christian Bochdansky und Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel – Wien/Austria; Stuttgart/Germany
Dias de las Noches
Teatr Novogo Fronta – Prague/Czech Republic
Donne in tempo di Guerra (Women in War Time)
Cia. Vicolo Corto/Coop. Teatrale Dioniso/Circo Amalassunta – Italy
Kilka Blyskotliwych Spostrzezen (Several Amusing Observations)
Teatr Dada von Bzdülöw – Gdansk/Poland
Life style dances from the 70s & 80s
Cie Two in One – Budapest/Hungary, Vienna/Austria
Mary Stuart: A Deadly Casting Call
TART Produktion – Stuttgart/Germany
Oranges and Lemons
T-Werk – Potsdam
Passing away
Scena Plastyczna KUL – Lublin/Poland
Sclavi – The Song of an Emigrant
Farm in the Cave – Prague, Czech Republic
The Flying Dutchman
Weshalb-Forellen-Quartett und Gäste – Zurich/Switzerland

Contact

Address

T-Werk, Internationales Theater- und Theaterpädagogikzentrum
Schiffbauergasse 4 E, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

Telefon

Phone: +49 331 73042626
Fax: +49 331 73042633