The "Everyman" retreaded: new costumes, new music

"Everyman" retreaded: new costumes, new music

From Sunday, the production of Michael Sturminger will experience its second festival summer

Tobias Moretti is the "Everyman" for the second time. Image: APA

The summer of 2017 may not have been a great season for director Michael Sturminger. Critics for Viennese production of Vienna "Jedermann" ranged from "not quite finished" to "strangely lifeless". It was not until April that Sturminger was hired as a firefighter, after Tobias Moretti, new and highly anticipated "Everyman", worked with the directors duo until 2016, Julian Crouch and Brian Mertes in the hair. This year Sturminger has had more time, this year she is applying. As of Sunday, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Game of the death of the rich man" gives life to the festival city. The current festival will be officially opened on July 27th.

What changed Sturminger this year? During the last rehearsals, it appeared that many figurines will wear new costumes. It is thus that Feeling Stefanie Reinsperger appears more elegantly. After the pink-sugar disguise last year, she now wears dark red silk and a black badtail ensemble. In addition to visual impressions, Wolfgang Mitterer from East Tyrol was commissioned with a new composition. Last year Matthias Rüegg delivered the stage music. In addition to this, the table society has been redesigned, which will affect the following scenes. Overall, the language is close to the original text of Hofmannsthal. Martina Stilp takes over the role of "the wife of the debtor" of Eva Herzig

Discover the set for free

Anyone who has not yet received a ticket can still enjoy from the ensemble "Everyman" Experience, and even today: The general rehearsal of the room on the cathedral square is part of the opening of the "Festival Festspiele" in the city of Salzburg, because the 10,000 free cards have been issued (the dress rehearsal is unfortunately already complete). Tobias Moretti reads "A Fiddler's Tale" by Wynton Marsalis with a set at the Haus für Mozart (15h) – an approach to "The Soldier's Story" by Igor Stravinsky, written there at 100 years old. "Death" Peter Lohmeyer recites in Edmundsburg (16 hours) his favorite book "Sunday, where I became world champion" by Friedrich Christian Delius. "Faith" Johannes Silberschneider shows his musical side in a concert with the quintet ZINQ at the farm Wolf Dietrichsruh (14:00)

Infos: www.salzburgerfestspiele.at

"Jedermann" by Hugo von Hofmannsthal [19659008] Hugo von Hofmannsthal was premiered on December 1, 1911, under the direction of Max Reinhardt, in Berlin's "Circus Schumann". The mysterious English play "Everyman" (printed in London around 1630) was the model of Hofmannsthal. He also picked up elements from Hans Sachs 'Comedi of Dying Rich People' and medieval minstrelsy songs. The play has been performed at the Salzburg Festival since it was founded in 1920.

Salzburg Festival Tipps

Actors: The director Frank Castorf (photo) not only stages Knight Hamsun's novel "Hunger" by Perner Insel from 1890. L & # 39; former head of the Berliner Volksbühne is also originally the text version. The first will take place on August 10th.

Magic Flute: From July 27, Constantinos Carydis conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a new "Magic Flute". Klaus Maria Brandauer (photo) jumps into the narrative role of the grandfather for the sick Bruno Ganz

Concert: Martin Grubinger will play with pianist Yuja Wang, his father Martin Grubinger sen. his teachers Leonhard Schmidinger and Alexander Georgiev play works by Bartók and Stravinsky

Salome: Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on 28 July at the new Salomé production of Romeo Castellucci. This will be the 79th premiere of opera in the career of Richard Strauss' orchestral conductor and admirer.

The Persians: Ulrich Rasche staged "The Persians" of Aeschylus at the Salzburg National Theater and asked what unites the victors and the vanquished. Valery Tscheplanowa (photo), with Katja Bürkle, represents the choir of the council of elders.

Concert: Khatia Buniatishvili performs works by Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Liszt on August 25 (Haus für Mozart). The famous Georgian pianist made his Festival debut two years ago and has since become a world star.

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