Name: 7 Lieder aus letzter Zeit
Start: 2024-05-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater Casino Zug

Organization

Conductor

Mathias Weibel

Stage director

Thom Luz

Costume designer

Tina Bleuler

Lighting designer

Jens Seiler

Sound designer

Martin Hofstetter

Singer

Mara Miribung

Soloist

Daniele Pintaudi

Samuel Streiff

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7 Lieder aus letzter Zeit

Switzerland

Theatersaal

Public

Rückert-Lieder

Approved

Bass

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

Oboist

hornist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Harper

Saxophonist

Trombonist

Harpsichordist

Accordionist

Bassist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Librettist

Set designer

Choreographer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Orchestra

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Countertenor

Tenor

Baritone

Soprano

Bass-baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Gustav Mahler’s «Songs after Rückert» are the starting point for the new musical theatre creation of Swiss theatrical artist Thom Luz and his ensemble of actors and musicians. As is the case with Mahler’s lieder, Luz’s musical theatre evening deals with the universe of decline, despondency, decay and the fatigue of the world – and yet they are never without hope. On the contrary, they are brimming with quiet humour and beautiful, magic images of the theatre. Or as the Berliner Theatertreffen described it recently: «Thom Luz is a master of the subtle difference, making his hazy evenings the equivalent of musical air mail. They somehow send their wonderful news with nothing, through nothing and to nothing – or at least nothing tangible. And that is his new, shimmering definition of comedy. The figures on his stage are experts in the strange, resistants to definitions, dissidents to reason and its machine of values made up of goods and figures. Their role model is the smoke machine since it creates images, atmospheres and magic, through which the sound of the music can penetrate without obstacle.»

Gustav Mahler’s setting to music of the texts of Friedrich Rückert (composed between 1899 and 1902) came about during the change in eras from late romantic to early modern, and are redolent of the melancholy and overburdening of the rapidly changing worlds as it went from one century to another. Given here the title «Lieder aus letzter Zeit», the compositions are not connected in terms of content but nevertheless united in a loose song cycle. «Letzte Zeit» here means «recent», but obviously it also resonates of the last days and the prevailing mood of fin de siècle. The title was chosen by Luz and his ensemble for their musical game of hide and seek since, as well as Mahler’s amazing and oblivious song compositions, it also features chansons, madrigals, canons and variety, all of which tell of our strange life between two eternities. They have been arranged for five voices, with radiators as instruments, hidden pianos and invisible strings, since attitudes to life are similar to how they were back then in Mahler’s music room, a good 120 years on:

«I have got lost from the world – in which I had already wasted much time – for so long, it has taken nothing from me – it may well believe that I am dead!»

English

7 Lieder aus letzter Zeit by Mahler, ons. 22 maj 2024, Fra (2024/2024), Instrueret af Thom Luz,, Dirigent Mathias Weibel, Theater Casino Zug, Zug, Switzerland

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