First for "My Silent Night"

The audience of the Salzburg Felsenreitschule celebrated the musical piece as a highlight of the anniversary year program.

Hallwang (OTS) – Saturday night, "My Silent Night" celebrated the world premiere at the Salzburg Felsenreitschule. Until shortly before Christmas, the musical play directed by the Salzburg National Theater creates a Broadway atmosphere in Salzburg.

One of the great programmatic moments of the jubilee year of Silent night! Holy night! was the first of My silent night waited impatiently. The audience at the first night might be convinced. A sold-out Salzburger Felsenreitschule was the subject of several minutes of applause and shouting "Bravo!". And the critics in the media turned out to be generally positive the next day.

Musical direction of composer John Debney

In order to do justice to the global significance of the song and to the big radiation of the birthday, the organizers have creatively implemented My silent night consciously in the hands of an international creative team. It is directed by the film composer John Debney, multiple Emmy Award and Oscar nominated for The pbadion of ChristHis team is completed by Hannah Friedman. Michael Weiner. Alan Zachary and Siedah Garrettwho also worked closely with Michael Jackson. The production was done by the German director Andreas Gergenwho is already in Salzburg with the musical The sound of music celebrated great successes.

Exciting history between convention and modernity

My silent night thematizes the shock of over-commercialization of the period before Christmas, on the one hand, contemplation and intimacy, which we badociate with this famous Christmas carol, as well as the juxtaposition of tradition and tradition. Innovation, traditional order and modern family and life styles. The play recounts this Christmas approach from eight different perspectives of the protagonists. The closer it gets, the more the fates of the people involved are nested.

Above all, the main actors managed to convince during the first evening Dominik Hees and Milica JovanovicThe crowd's favorites were members of the five-member children's group, which plays a central role in the play.

All dates and tickets under www.meinestillenacht.at

statements:

Carl Philip from Maldeghem, Intendant Salzburg State Theater: "With the musical piece" My Silent Night ", the program of historical events around the famous Christmas carol will be enriched with a modern facet. In doing so, we live the eternal scope of tension between innovation. and tradition, as it is present in Salzburg and in many other places of the world.With John Debney, we won an outstanding composer, Hannah Friedman and Siedah Garrett contributed to first clbad lyrics, we hired some of the best German-speaking performers and with Andreas Gergen, Kim Duddy and fettFilm, a dream team for production.

Leo Bauernberger, General manager SalzburgerLand Tourism: "Two and a half billion people around the world are singing "Silent Night!" The Christmas night! "Christmas Eve: No other song brings such personal significance to the individual with a global message of peace and social coexistence." On the occasion of the 200th anniversary, musicians around the world are following in the footsteps from this song on the original places in Salzburgerland.Far from the traditional programs of the year anniversary, they discover here, with "My Silent Night" in the Felsenreitschule, a work of extraordinary ambition and of exceptional artistic quality.This piece moves, dares new perspectives, has an international appeal and finally finds its place where the song has its home: in the city and the country of Salzburg – and in our hearts. to the whole Salzburg Landestheater team and its first clbad ensemble! "

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SalzburgerLand Tourism
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